Show made costly bonfire mrs christian kabb of hartland hollow conn a farming village told her children to take their fathers old alt felt boots outdoors and burn them up i she was doing her spring house clenn clean ing and could not bear the tha sight of 0 them the children did as directed and the high wind blew a spark from the bonfire into a dry meadow near by igniting the grass A calf grazing in the lot caught fire ran into the barn and set some hay bay ablaze in a jiffy the building was in flames the barn with six head of stock was de st royed also a tobacco warehouse the tire fire spread to woodland and burned over 60 50 acres before villagers conquered it |