Republican farmer., 1920-01-09
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elle's endorsement on two notes ag- l gregating $5.5o0 and given by the Hesseltine Motor Corporation of New Charles E. Foester of New York is the ground for suits recently brought against her with attendant attach ments of two parcels of property at Bedding Center. One of these Is the former Thomas Sanford place which she bought several years ago Tor about $6,000, and has since made her summer home. The other is the lies property in the same locality, a more recent purchase. Both pieces or
 property were transferred by her last fall to Charles Paul of New York'
 her brother-in-law. The pladntlns will endeavor to have this transfer set aside on the ground that the pur- ported sale was not bona fde trans action, but & device to avoid fulfill ment of obligations to her creditors A Bridgeport officer came here last week with a writ of attachment in l still another suit. but forbore to serve | 1t on finding records of the transfer and the previous attachments. Miss ! Rochelle was formerly an actress.
 The farm superintendent's house on the L. O. Peck estate at Sunset | Hill was the scene of a threatening
 fire last Saturday morning. A gaso- 1 line torch which Maurice Hickey, the
 superintendent carried to the cellar | to thaw out frozen water pipes. burst into flame through a leak near the | handle and when he hastily dropped l 1t the tube burst and scattered the ! blazing liquid all about. His appH- cation of water only made matters i worse and the floor timbers were on fire and the entire building densely | filled with smoke when some of the
 neghbors arrived. Fortunately one
 of them had a chemical hand exdA- guisher and by means of it the hamea
 were extinguished. No call had been
 sent out for the fire department and
 but for the timely use of the little hand apparatus the house would probably have been destroyed. A veal or so ago Fire Co. No. strongly
 urged househ olders to provide thena'
 selves with these extinguishefs, but
 the advice was followed by very few l Although the assessors will not com plete their laibors until next week the! estimate that the coming grand Ns
 will not vary materially from that O.
 last year. They have given heed il { numerous instances to long etand4n&
 complaints from Georgetown tha.
 houses in that section were assessed
 at a higher figure than dwellings of {
 corresponding class in other parts o
 the town and made reductions ac cordingly in cases where comparison
 after personal inspection caused sucl
 reductions to be warranted. The req f son given for the higher Georgetown 3 valuations in the past was the fac , that houses in the village yielded
 h iO.h0 foI than those l where in town and also. were nor readily saleable at better prices Tn = present board finds this argument un l lconvtnedng in all cases. On one hous
 a reduction of 31,0oo was made. I'm . year as last the board followed tn = general rule of listing meadow land g = $50 per acre and lower grade land g f s15. Cows have gone in at a unifor, q valuation of $50 each as against ' = last year.
 Howard Luther and Miss Miria, k Day, daughter of Captain Charlt |. Day, were married at the bride s home in the Center at. o'clock Ia! d Saturday afternoon by Rev. Raymon '- Cunningham. It was a strictly pr ,- vate wedding, only near relatives l. the couple being present. The bride d father, although in the house, "; y too i'll to leave his bed to witness u l. ceremony and illness also preventt e the presence of the groom's fathe Le Upon returning from a brief hone o moon trip Mir and Mrs. Luther " make their home in the Center for
 time. The groom is an employe
 the government Ordnance departme at Bridgeport. '. The summer residents of Pfeasa L Lt Valley celebrated New Years eve wi ,n dancing and other pastf1nes on t 'n ice, which covered Aspetuck riv 1, near the Thompson place. All t IL families of the colony, ,Hosgson. W ss bridge, Stetson, Driggs and We III were participants in the sport. o- victro1a produced the music for t .' dancing. At midnight the party , l'- paired to the Hoggson home whe pe a supper was served.
 m At a meeting of No. 1. Fire { h held on Monday evening with ," members present, President McC 'e lam announced the appointment HI an entertainment committee consi al ing of Milo Osborn. Alex McCoNa sn' J. B. Sanford, Jr., and Charles R. ltn holds. A membership committee to composed of Marcus H. Burr, Jan ne Tucker and Joseph Sullivan. Jose
 Kratky was added to the list of act an members The treasurer repor'
 lndl OIliy CiSIl Ol IAlc Sz ass5OCli oi members had paid their dues.
 ch Three Polacks who have worked oe several years at the Gilbert & Benn nd Go. shop quit their jobs this week
 return to Poland. During their 8, ion in Georgetown they kept bachelc cid hall together, being unmarried, and of they saved most of their earnings u aer go back to their native land, which Co now in Q very distressed condition, rol a state of comparative affluence.
 by Under the auspices of the woma of Auxiliary of the Episcopal church N ew Ida M. TarbeT will deliver an addr en- at the Sanford school on Satur ter evening of this week on the work The the Peace Conference. The occas aid will be open to the public with an pls mission fee of 25 cents. The repu ,or. ton of Miss TarbeN as a wri ,nv speaker and publicist Is expected
 attract large audience, incFtd
 many from neighboring towns.
 The gathering of the ice crop kept a good part of the populat
 busy during the past week. All
 store houses in the Pleasant Va ~ section are filled and George snl M Banks, who supplies ice to the Ri