THE ONL Y EIGHT-PAGE" ONECENI [chirp-‘Ifiii‘fie WORW'ALKS.
Vol. VI. Whole No.1451
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N orwalk Conn, Menday Evening, September 21,1896.
Price One Cent, . 1‘
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A TERRIFIO STORM.
A Saturday Evening Battle of
the Elements Over
Norwalk.
Many Trees Blown Down,
Norwalk was visited by a severe
storm early Saturday morning, but it
was trifling as compared with the one
that broke over the town about six
o’clock in the afternoon.
The skies began to darken before 5
0 ’,clock and the clouds were black and
threatening. People buried to their
several homes and indoors.
Lightnmg flashed In every direction,
and finally the storm broke with
frightening impetuosity. The air was
filled with wind, rain, hailstones and
electricity, the whole intermingled with
loud claps of thunder.
The rain fell in torrents and the
lightning flashes were the most vived
that have been seen in town in a long
time.
There were seemingly at first, three
storms, all of which met, and the force
of the meeting was simply terrific.
The wind swept everything in its way
and despoiled fruit trees, laid low shade
trees, and altogether did much damage.
The streets were flooded by the rain,
and the hailstones out no ‘small swath
of damage. 2 The lightning while se-
vere, seems to have done but little
harm in town.
It was a storm that wrecked business
for the evening and one that will not
soon be forgotten by those who were
Witnesses of the same. , I
The cyclone part Of the storm seemed
to cut a swath of perhaps 500 feet wide
from the top of the n0rth part of Pros-
pect Hill directly east to the Hyatt
. 'place Where it seemingly became dis-
couraged and veered off down the bay.
'.STOBM NOTES ~
Mrs. John White, of Ward street,
”received a shock from the llghtning
Which threw. .her .to athe 11111013,: at her
home. She was somewhat dazed for an
'hour or more. . .' 3
A large tree at Congressman Hill’s
residence, on West avenue, wrs laid
low, as was one at the residence of Dr.
Walter Hitchcock. The top of a tree
in W. F DeKlyn’ s dooryard was blown
ofi‘ and onto a flower bed in the yard
next. door.
The lightning struck a tree. in front
of the Gregory store at Cranbury, and
jumping from the tree, ripped off a few
shingles en the building, and then
spent its fury in the ground nearby.
A. tree near the Bradley 8. Keith
place on Main street, was blown down.
Thei “Nine: in front of} Hoyt’ s shoe
store on Wall street was ripped from
its framework as if it were nothing but
gauze.
Hailstones as large as marbles fell by
the bushels.
A large tree near the Pine Island
cemetery was torn down like a twig.
During the storm the incandescent
lights were extinguished but we're burn-
ing as- brightly as ever in a few minutes.
The well house ar >231 m .. paroch-
ial reSIdence was tumbled over on the
lawn by the force of the storm.
Nearly a dozen trees were blown
down on Chapel street. . One of them
fell on an'electric wire and 'was .soon
after ablaze.
A large and aged cherry tree in front
of Dr. W. J. Tracey’ s residence was
blown over and. fell-on the roof of the
piazza causing considerable damage. ‘
Several fences were blown down' in
different parts of the town. '
Decayed limbs on trees in several
parts of the town were broken off like
pipe-stems and scattered en the streets
and In dooryards.
A large maple tree in front of James
Merritt’s house in- Dublin so called was
ruined and an outbuilding was carried
twenty-five feet from its foundation and
dumped over. ,
A large willow tree in the ysrd of
- Mrs. W. J. Moody 0n_East avenue was
despoilad of many, of its branches which
were scattered over the.yard and out
into the street. . , . . I
A' maple tree at the residence of
Charles F. Osborne on West avenue .'
was split in twain.
A large elm tree in front of the
George W Cram residence Was blown '
down and delayed traflic on the Tram-
way line for some time. .. J
The trees at the Dasksm residence
received breezy attention but escaped
with the loss of a few limbs. .-:~ ~.
A house near the Sangstuck school
. hon'se occupied by an Italian family .
was struck by hghtnlng and badly
damaged. _ .
[conrmunn‘I 0N race 5]
1 he proprietor .
settle the claim 6f Shoeban Without a"
'3 lawsuit, the claim is a small one.
MAY BE____ PROMOTEO.
Gen. Haven Will Probably be
the Next Adjutant
General. ,
Russell Frost the Senior Colonel.
It is currently rumored that Briga-
dier General George .Haven, of New
London, commanding the brigade Con-
necticut National Guard, will be ap-
pointed adjutant general if Lieutenant
Governor Lorrin A. Cooke is elected
Governor, which it is assumed will be
the case.-
This would be following the Massa-
chusetts rule of promotion to the Gov-
ernor’s staff from the brigade itself, a
rule which, if carefully observed,
would silence much of that criticism
which is heard to-day when civilians are
made generalsand celonels merely be-
cause of some political pull.
The appointment of the General to be
chief of the Governor’s military family
will make a vacancy at Brigade Head-
quarters. It has become almost a rule
that the senior colonel in the brigade
ba' made brigadier general, but, asin
the army, there can be exceptions.
order of seniority to—day, the colonels
are Russell Frost, of the Fourth, South
Norwalk; Charles L. Burdett. of. the
First, Hartford; Augustus C. Tyler, of
the Third, New London, and Lucien F.
Barbee, 0f the Second, Waterbury.
Colonel Frost is Colonel Burdett’s
senior by only ten days. He has proved
a. tireless worker, and has raised the
standard of the regiment to what it was
before thdIfamous p010 fight,a few years
ago. His friends will urge many rea—
sons Why he should be made brigadier
general.
If Colonel Frost gets the ofilce Major
James Sheridan of Bridgeport, will
without doubt become regimental com-
mander 0f the Fourth, and Major C.
W. Hendria of Stamford, senior Major
in place of Sheridan. I . ~
. ' CBITUARY.
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JUS’I‘US FITCH HOYT.
Justus Fitch Hoyt died at his home
in Winnipauk on Sunday morning aged
about 71 years. The deceased was a
native of New Canaan and resided there
until about fifteen years ago. In 1875
Mr. Hoyt represented the town of New
Canaan in the Legislature. He will be
remembered as an assistant of City
Engineer Wood. The funeral will be
held Tuesday morning The inter-
ment will take place in Lakeview Cem-
etery, New Canaan. Harmony Lodge,
F. 8:. A. M. of which the deceased was
a member will attend" 111' a body. He
was also a member of Washington Chap-
ter, R. A. M. of this city and Past Noble
Grand of Wooster Lodge, I. O. O. F.
of New Canaan.
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Selectman Merrill’s New Pond
Contractor Bach expects to have the
dam for Merrill’s new ice’pond at Broad
RE ver completed to- merrow. The pond
which will cover an area of over six
acres is fed by, springs and Mr. errill
expects to harvest the finest ice he has
ever offered for sale in town. A large
ice-house will be built near by'and
fitted with all of the modern improve-
ments for the handling of “frozen
water.” The dam is about 200 feet in
length, nearly ten feet high and alto-
gether a substantial piece of work.
The contractor has a gang of twenty-
five pen at work, and not a one of them
an Italian or a' Hungarian, in fact they.
are all Irishmeh. =
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A Fruitful Ho‘use. .
Afew days ago the im'poiftant item
was 'exclusively’ reported by the GA-
znr'rn, that Mrs. JoeI G. Reed, 11 daugh-
ter of James Maginn 01.110. 5 Union
Place, had given birth to twins. This
morning, in the same house, Mr. Ed-
ward F. Maginn, a brother of the abdve
happy mother, became the exultant
father of another pair 'of twins, one the
sweetest of little girls, and the other a
bouncing boy. So infant twins to-day,
bless both stories of the elder Maginn’ s
fruitful residence on Union Place.
Now scofi‘ers let your scofling cease,
Here’s a family bound to increase,
’ 1dI for McKinley’ s triumph high,
The cherubs four, will loudly cry.
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The Palm Attached.
Constable Hunt served an sttachment
"on the proprietor of “The Palm” saloon
on Main street, this morning, for a
claim sworn out by John T. Shoeban,
the cigar maker‘. - The Officer took a
.‘cssh register as security and the saloon:
was not closed.
,“Mickey” Murray the
bation artist at the place has resigned.
' ~t.I-’I.i' 111;: understood will
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nouns NEGK.
Harry Mead Meets Instant
Death At New Canaan. f
Thrown From The Bear of 3. Wagon. I
Yesterday afternoon Harry Mead,
aged. 11 years, son of Henry H. Mead
of New 01111111111, 11. fireman on the Con-
solidated 'railroad’s' Stamford branch,
was. out. in the woods. with Freddie Bird,
about the same age, setting “figure-.
four” traps.
On returning home they were over-
taken by a team driven by Herbert
Whitney.
.boys ran and climbed into the wagon
sitting with their feetoyer the tail-__
board.
Suddenly the horéebecame frightened
at an object in the road and gave a
spring, throwing young Mead out be-
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"tween the wheels breaking his neck.
The wheels also passed over him break-
ing several ribs.
Whitney stopped the horse as quickly
as possible and went to young Mead,
but the latter was dead; His body was
picked up and placed in the wagon and
driven home. »
Young Bird was also thrown out but
escaped with a bad cut Over one of his
eyes.
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WEBSTER FIGHTS A D's/1w.
Twenty- one Exciting and Scientific Bounds
Fought on Long Island Yesterday.
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Lewis Webster, of South Nerwalk,
and Jack Lynch, of Brooklyn, feught
21 rounds to a draw, over onthe Long
Island‘shore, yesterday ‘afte'rnoo'n. A
party of Bridgeport and NorWalk sports
were met at South Norwalk by the
Ousko Athletic club, of New York,
under whose auspices the match was
pulled off, and started across the sound
at noon, on a big sloop ~
Upon Albeit arrival, no time w'as lost
in preparing for the battle. Lynch was
seconded by his brother and Dan Daly.
Webster’s seconds were Marty McCu'e
and Dan Leary. Tom Mack, of Bridge-
port.wh0 is matched to fight Australian
Paddy Gorham, acted as referee, and
Jack Begley was time keeper.
The men weighed in at about. 132 .
pounds, and fought with five- -oi_1n"ce
gloves. At the end of 21 rounds when
darkness Intervened neither man had
the advantage, and the fight was de-
clared a draw. The fighting was clean
and scientific, and neither man was
severely punished.
The party arrived in South Norwalk
this morning just Intime to catch the '
12:40 train for home. » It‘ is probable
that the men will be brought together
again in the near future.
It is reported that Webster was put
out in the third, and again in the ninth
round, butthat the referee gave him
sufficient time in which to recover
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That. Circulation. 5.
IsaacStIeeter—“Havb you made out
the weekly claim of the circulation of
the ‘Horror? ’ ”
Isaacstreetson-" Yes sir.
is 947. "
Isaacstreeter—Wbat! only 947. 9 Have
you got 1n the afternoon editions and
the extras and the bills and theIunused
manuscripts and the reporters’ notes,
and everything else circulating in the
office. 9 ”
Isaacstie'etsOn—eYes, W0 hipnt sire,
they are all in—but stay, .
about the returned choice and those
given away; when they are added the
total" 1s 2,479.”
Isaacstreeter—“Ah! that’s. : better!
But never make such a blunder again
or the advertisers will ‘catch on.’ ”
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Brave Miss Adams.
Yesterday, Miss Carrie Adams who
lives on Plymouth avenue, had occasIOn
to go into the cellar at her home. She
went from the outside way, and had just
started down the 'SIOpB‘WhéIn the rith
of way was disputed by 'a-1arge and
poisonous adder. She, retreated and
securing a hoe bravely returned and
did battle with the snake which she
licosededin killing. It measur dnear-
1y four feet 1n length and was fou d to be
one of the most poisonous of its species. ‘I
Frank I Jones Better. ‘ '
A letter was received from Mr.
Frank I. Jones this morning, who is" so-
journing in the Adirondacks w ich
states that he has gained a pound a day
for all the time he has been there and
is feeling much better of his acute
bronchitis malady. This will be most
gratifying news to his many friends.
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General Couch continues to improve
1
and is now able to receive his fronds. =
When the wagon passed the
forgot all
OUT INTO PIEOES.
Richard Wilson’s Head, Arm,
and Foot Severed From
His Body.
Another Fatality at the Bridgeport Depot.
says that, Richard Wilson, a man
about thirty years of age,while attempt-
ing to board a freight t‘raln at the depot
shorty after 5 o 'clock Saturday even-
ing, fell between the cars and was killed.
'His body Was removed to the morgnet
where it was identified by Charles
Elzea of South Norwalk as that of Wil-
son' and his residence given as Norwalk.
tiWilson was ab0ut Bridgeport satur-
day during the entire day calling upon
0.131 acquaintances. Shortly after 4
o’clock he left; a party of friends to
catch In train to Norwalk. He was seen
toiicross the tracks and attempt to board
aireight train at the north: end of . the
debut near the watering tank. The
train started and the” man 5 disappeared
b'étv'veen the cars. When picked up it
severed, he had almost been beheaded
and his brains dashed out.
Itures were unrecognizable. The am
was found to be dead and the body was
sent to Bishop’ s Im'orgue Medical
Examiner Downs was notified and upon
searching the remains $6 15 was found
in the pockets, as well as a letter, but
nothing 1nd1cat1ng his name could be
seen. "
The letter was s gned “\Ifinnie C.”
and its recipient was addressed as
.‘Diok. ’-’ The tone of it was as of a
woman to her crring sweetheart, be-
seeching him to quit drinking and re-
turnto her. Terms of affection were
freely used by the writer. The body
was dressed in grey trousers, dark/coat,
soft- hat and an Outing shirt.
Corbner Dotcn has investigated the
case and decided that the railroad com-
paf'iy’was in 110.. who to blame ”for the.
fatality. I, He said last night that Wil-
son had no right to. be on the preperty
freight- train; -He said that he could
not see how the rallroad company could
in any way be held accountab.le10rthe
accident. . .
Wilson resided On Water street, South
Nor-walk,- and was a. carpenter by trade.
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MISSED HIS AIM
A Chanticleer Event of Saturday Night’s
Storm.
Frank Foster, the. carman, tells the
following good story upon himself. “I
had forgotten to provide any fresh
meat for our Sunday" dinner, Of which
I was reminded on reaching home Sat-
urday night. It was raining too hard
for me to return to the store and I de4
cided to kill a rooster. .
“I secured a lantern which I lighted
and then an umbrella which I raised
nabbed a rooster which had showed
. fi’hliflz proclivities. ~ - .
The total '
“I then walked to the ~ chopping
‘.block‘, placed the chanticleer’. s neck on
the block, picked up the axe and dealt
a blow that would have severed the
head of an ostrich.
“Not eating to have the blood sport
on me, I threw the bird out in the
grass. to flop it's life away, and went into
the house.. . ~
“Giving the rooster plenty of time to
die, I picked up the lantern and went
.out after: the dead bird I searched
and I searched, but could not find it
anywhere, and returned to the house,
thinking to wait until morning to renew
the search.
. “The next morningI went out into
the yard,- but never a dead chicken
and cabbage and puddings and pies that
we all would have to be content with.
“And we were! In the evening as I
was feeding the chickens the rooster
that I had attempted toIkill jumped on
the fence and crowed. It made me as
mad as St. Peter and at first thought I
'Iwas tempted to .end its life, but to- day
: you can’t buy that rooster for $1. 50.
Bridgeport Rum vs. Stamford Sea DoI.g
. Captain C. W. Mead of Stamford,
with a big load of intoxicants aboard,
attempted to reach his sloop by' Way of
a 'small'3 heat from the foot Of State
street, Bridgeport, saturday morning.
He had proceeded only a short distance
when he Ierll overboard but was res-
cued by‘a‘ number of boatmen'.
Surgeon Hair
took him to the emergency hospital,
where he recovered. .
A press dispatch from Bridgeport
was found that his right arm had been.
His fea-‘
bulance was summoned, but the man'
of the company, and particularly on a
' of Southp'ort.
.'oIf “America" by the audience. I
.' quartet sang
conldIfind, and went back with my ~ -'
mind fully made up that it Was pork I
They .
rolled him lustily on a barrel and sent
'for the ambulance}
,soon produced respiration and then
Fine Celebration
By the Local Chapter.
. Many Notables Attend the Meeting.
ford, entertained 20I0 sister Daughters
of Connecticut, I Saturday-I- _ afternoon!
Carriages met the'gnests on arrival of
trains from the north and south and
drives 'were taken about the tent be-
fore going to the church for the exer-I
cise.'
Chapter as Well as. the generous re'zent,
Mrs
their private equipages at the disposal
of the. visitors. From .I-every.‘ public
building and from the majority 'of- also
houses and stores, floated. flags and pat-
riotic bunting. proving that the interest
in the celebration was by no means
church.
On either side of the chancel were
the numerals 1796-1896. Over the organ
green on a white blackboard, .while de-
white immortels were the letters D. A.
B'- Yellow, blue and white bunting were
draped above, while in the center of the
space below, in the midst of a bank of
golden rod, was. a marble best (If. the-
immortal George, draped 1n the nation-
al colorsII The platfdrm where sat the
speakers of the :day was. handsomely
decorated and set with antique. furni-
ture.. . Ab1.ut'the sides .of the church,
the drapings of the blue and-white eon-
tinned, caught here and there by a flag
and a picture of George and Martha
Washington and by Lincoln, the. pat-
riot of the latter. war. The room be-
yond the body of the church where the
reception was held, was filled with rare
relics artistically arranged, and 'pro-
fusely decorated with flags and hunt-
ing and fl users. Among the relics
.ng -11 as. belonging to Elbridge
Gerry, and a carved chair made by one
David. Miles who lay dead In Milford ._at
the same time. Washington lay dead at
Mt. Vernon. , .
A conspicuous bit of decoration in
this. rotim was a cleverly wrought badge
of the society; fashioned by one or the
Milford chapter, the Spinning wheel
being of Golden rod and the distsif of
life everlasting. It was placed Over
the 'doOr leading to an auto room 'where
Bradley, of New Haven, served a deli-
IcIate lunch. The Sons of the American
Revolution and of the. Colonial Wars,
as well as the G. A. R. and the Woman’ s
V ’ Relief corps of Milford, were specially
bidIden‘ gues‘ s, and the Milford popu-
'lace was admitted to the galaries.
opened by an Organ prelude by Mrs.
Smith. Prayer by the state chaplain
of the society, Mrs Henry T. Bulkley,
Mrs. IMary— Hepburn
Smith, the regent, made a delightful-
address of welcome, to which Mrs. Sara
IT. Kinney, the state regent responded.
and went out to my chicken coop. and "I Mrs. Henry H. Morse, of Milford; read
an admirable tribute to Washington,
.the man and the statesmsn, and his
Ifamo‘us address, in henor of which the-
affair was given, was well read by Mrs.
George -.W.‘. 'f‘ibbals, the vice regent,
iwho prefaced the reqii‘ng by a few well-I
iIntersp'ersed' with the I
chosen -wo1ds.=
addresses were delightful musical selec-
3tions by the (111.112.12.ch were com-
pelled t6 respond to a hearty: encore.
The exercises. closed. with the singing
Dur.‘
ing the hours of the afternoon a beauti-
-fu1chart'er..of't-he chapter framed in
the wood taken from: the old Freelovo
:Baldwin Stow house, was presented the
:chapter- by the regent, the Rev. Dr.
.Anderson of Waterpury. making the
.presentatiOn speech. Mrs. Noble of
Norwalk, also spoke, and the .13
AInI Illuminated Tree.
,a decayed tree fell on an elec-
the electricity. The flames made a
'very' pretty sight but there were not'
many who Ventured out in the rain to
witness it. About 8 o’clock there was
a crash and down came the electric Wire
to the ground. Dr. W. J. Tracey saw
that the wire was a menace-I to pests.-.
trians, and stood at the corner and
warned passers-by; of the danger, and
in the meantime sent word :to' the Elec-
tric' Light statibn, and a man was sent
down to get the wire out of the way of
doing 'any further damage. I ..' j ‘
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Hull Case Discontinued
Justice R. M. Rose has been notified
by the Connecticut Humane Society
that it is desired to discontinue the
case now pending against George Hull,
horse. '--\"". ~ .r:‘.._
2.11. IR. WELCOMEDI
__ in Milford,
The members of the Freelove Bald?
win Stow Chapter, D_. A. 3., of Milo .0
Many of the members of the _.3
Mary Hepburn Smith; placed ~1-
wholly confined to the daughters at the
was the word “welcome” in letter of "
pended from :it,_ in yellow, blue and
The brief exercises of the day were "
.During the heavy storm Saturday ';
'evening
tric light wire on Chapel street, and "-
soon after, the tre'e was set on fire by
of Wilton, charged. with abusing his "
nom- MISS THEM
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N ORWALK OPERA HOUSE.
ILW. MITCHELL, MANAGERV .
JUST ONE NIGHT,
The Napoleon of Necrom'ancers. :
HERRMAN N ,
THE GREAT
In his New. Marvelous Entertainment of
Aided Iby
In her Bew1lder1n g Sp ectacuIlar Dances,
'fL’Elollo do Iluit,". I . .’ .
“Les Ilayon do IS'olle'l, ” " ~ "
' ‘ I “L's Dense do Yesp'vius, ”
‘I‘The Lily of the CrIenI."
PRICES: 50c, 75c, and $1.. 2
Seats now on sale at; .Weed’s and Tom-
lIinson’s. _-
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MCKINLEY 81 HOBART
A meeting will be held in the office
of Hurlbutt &. Gregor-v, Tuesday even-
ing, September 22,1866,-for the pur-
pose of organizmg a club to work for. the
election of McKINLEY and H0 BART.
All persons desiring to accomplish-
that purpose are invited to attend.
By order of COmIrnittIee,
J. BELDEN Hnn‘LBUr'r.
MISS BAIRD’S
INSTITUTE
Norwalk Conn.
25 TH YEAR.
15th Year in Norwalk.‘
BOAIIOINIi AND DAY SOIIOOL
Primary, intermediate, academic and college
preparatory classes. Specialists employed for
physical-culture, elocution, music, art. and the
languages. '. .Caret’ulxattention to morals and
manners. -.-‘A limited number of day pupils
and special students admittedu Send for ‘cir-
oulai'. Early application desirable. - . i
- Miss Baird” 1s at home to visitors on Thurs-
day and Friday of each week until 5 p. m, I
111 Fal odWImerterm of 1111118ch
9115.5 11 Thursday the 24th inst. . '
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MAOADANIZEO ROAD
Bids for Macadamizing about 500 feet
0f the Connecticut Turnpike at South-
.portI. Conn.; also or Mac'adam'izing. or
Telfordizmg a pertion of the I'Tampeo
Hill road, in the Town of Fairfield,
Conn. ._, will be received ’by the Select-
men a't' the Town Hall,
12 m. of the 28th day of September,
Plans and specifications may be seen
at the office of ~the Selectmen, Fairfield.
All bids "must be accompanied with
Fai'rfiel‘d, until ~-
thusnu SEPTEMBER 23. .
the bidder’ s bond in the sum of one:
thousand dollars.
The right is reserved to reject any or ,
'81le bids.
3.11101: 0. BRADLEY,
Bur-Us B. Jnnmc‘s, .3 . . 0
Emmy Bonn, -. l :Fanfield. I-
{September 12111218964! ' .
I Selectmen I.
Norwalk Chronicler