A Local Department. 



Pure Water from Nature's Well. 



Far away from the maddening 

 crowds of the city, far from its dust 

 and smoke, to a field of daisies, by the 

 tall deciduous trees in close association 

 with beautiful evergreens, is a bub- 

 bling spring of superlatively pure 

 water. The Indians knew it and came 

 from afar to drink of it and had many 

 names to describe the excellence of 

 that water. Then came the early white 

 settlers and spoke to their grandchil- 

 dren and great-grandchildren of the 

 beauties of their wells, but it was us- 

 ually admitted that it was not fair 

 thus to compare the Indians' famous 

 spring. Uncle Jeremiah was once 



known to remark, "I bet not one of us 

 has a well that quite comes up to that 

 old Indian spring. It is just the clear- 

 est and purest of any water on earth-" 

 Uncle Dan admitted that he stopped 

 there on his way home from town to 

 fill his jug, for it was better than any 

 that he could get in town or on his 

 farm. Uncle Josiah said, "Tell that 

 boy of mine to hitch up the old nag 

 twice a day, in the morning and in the 

 afternoon, and go down and fill all the 

 jugs with that water known all over 

 Fairfield County." 



Then came the modern business man 

 and saw that with the combined com- 

 munities of Stamford, Greenwich and 



THE HOME OF PURE WATER. 



