The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-08
BEDDING

HesseItine Motor Corporation of New 1 York in favor of Robert McLear and | Charles D. Foester of New York Is the 1 ground for suits recently brought against her with attendant attach l ments of two parcels of property at Bedding Center. One of these is the l former Thomas Sanford place which
 she bought several years ago for about $6,000, and has since made her l summer home. The other is the Hes property in the same locality, a more l recent purchase. Both pieces of l property were transferred by her last 1 fall to Charles Paul of New York, her brother-in-law. The plaintins l will endeavor to have this transfer I set aside on the ground that the pur- 1 ported sale was not a bona fde trans action, but a device to avoid fulfill 1 ment of obligations to her creditors. 1 A Bridgeport officer came here last week with a writ of attachment In still another suit. but forbore to serve l it on finding records of the transfer | and the previous attachments. Miss Rochelle was formerly an actress.
 The farm superintendent's house l on the l.. O. Peck estate at Sunset l Hill was the scene of threatening l fire last Saturday morning. A gaso- line torch which Maurice Hickey, the superintendent carried to the cellar 1 to thaw out frozen water pipes burst l into flame through a leak near the 1 handle and when he hastily dropped
 1t the tube burst and scattered the blazing liquid all about. His apph- | cation of water only made matters
 l worse and the floor timbers were on
 ire and the entire building densely ] filled with smoke when some of the l neighhors arrived. Fortunately one | of them had chemical hand extin-
 | guisher and by means of it the flames
 | were extinguished. No call had been
 l sent out for the fire department and
 but for the timely use of the little
 Il hand apparatus the house would
 II probably have been destroyed. A year
 or so ago Fire Go. No. 1 strongly
 II urged househoIders to provide them
 selves with these extnguisheks, but
 l the advice was followed by very few.
 Il Although the assessors will not conn II plete their 1aibors until next week they
 estimate that the coming grand list
 will not vary materially from that of
 last year. They have given heed in
 numerous instances to long standing
 complaints from Georgetown that
 houses in that section were assessed
 at a higher figure than dwellings of a tcOTreSpOnOlnS II the town and made reductions ac- cording1y i'll cases where comparisons after personal inspection caused such Il reductions to be warranted. The req son given for the higher Georgetown valuations in the past was the fact that houses in the village yielded a higher rental income than those else where in town and also were more readily saleable at better prices. The present board finds this argument un- convincing in all cases. On one house 8 reduction of s1 GOO was made. This year as last the board followed the ] l general rule of listing meadow land at $50 per acre and lower grade land al S15. Cows have gone in at a uniform valuation of $50 each as against S6t 5 last year.
 < Howard Luther and Miss Miriam Day, daughter of Captain Charles s Day, were married at the brides s home in the Center at 3 o'clock las q Saturday afternoon by Rev. Raymond s Cunningham. It was a strictly prf 5 vate wedding, only near relatives O. s the couple being present. The bride: a father, although in the house, wal s too ill to leave his bed to witness th' q l ceremony and illness also prevented s | the presence of the groom's father 1 Upon returning from a brief honey $ moon trip MT. and Mrs. Luther vii s make their home in the Center for $ time. The groom Is an employe o s the government Ordnance departme en 3 at Bridgeport.
 The summer residents of Pleasan a Valley celebrated New Years eve wit. 5 dancing and other pastirnes on tn a ice, which covered Aspetuck rive M near the Thompson place. All tn s3 families of the colony, Hoggson, VII # bridge, Stetson, Driggs and Weld S were participants in the sport. s victrola produced the music for tn ss dancing. At midnight the party re $ paired to the Hoggson home wher s2 a supper was served.
 AI At a meeting of No. 1. Fire C. B held on Monday evening with 1 $ members present, President McCol
 lam announced the appointment C @ an entertainment committee consist
 ing of Milo Osborn, Alex Mcclellan 5 J. B. Sanford, Jr., and Charles Key s4 holds. A membership committee # composed of Marcus H. Burr, Jame 2 Tucker and Joseph Sullivan. Josep H Kratky was added to the list of activ # members. The treasurer reporte
 that only eight of the 22 associat El members had paid their dues.
 E Three Polachs who have worked fc $a several years at the tIIHOSTL & BGnn01 E Go. shop quit their jobs this week t E return to Poland. During their sta E in Georgetown they kept bachelor R hall together, being unmarried, and z E they saved most of their earnings the E go back to their native land, which E now in g. very distressed condition, Z a state of comparative affluence. S Under the auspices of the Woman E Auxiliary of the Episcopal church Mi. M Ida NJ Tarbell will deliver an addre. E at the Sanford school on Saturda R evening of this week on the work E the Peace Conference. The occasio ES 1 will be open to the public with an ac fg mission fee of 25 cents. The reputs E ton of Miss TarbeH as a write E speaker and publicist is expected 1 E attract a large audience, includir E many from neighboring towns.
 M The gathering of the ice crop h. Ea kept a good part of the populate Es busy during the past week. All u Es store houses in the Pleasant Val1e
 A section are filled and George
 M Banks. who supplies ice to the Rids A4 and Center sections, began filling h