The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-15
BEDDING NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST
 TO OUR READERS

1aeddins. July 15.-A wealthy New
 xork man named Josef has bought
 kract of forty acres lying mostly Tn
 The northwestern section of this town
 md partly ip Ridgefleld with tne m tention of erecting thereon an eNpen-
 dve residence. The land was former (y part of the Moses B. Platt farm Ind passed from his estate to the ownership of Mrs Hun E. Stiles, ms hauRhter, from whom MT. loser made The purchase The house will De built on the Bedding side of the line.
 Many invitations have been sent out Tor the marriage of Freder1ck Onii Mabrey and Miss Helen Seymour in Christ Episcopal church on the RidEe at 12 o'clock noon on Thurs nay. July 5z
 To the list of local motorists has been added Rev w. H. Jepson. rector esi on the Ridge 4ast saturday and both himself and his son Herbert have attained a fair degree of proficiency h running it. The auto is a second hand Cadillac.
 Some person or persons, evidently Ictuatad by malice, played dastard- 5ly trick last Saturday night on Frank Favarau, the blacksmith. On quitting his work of hay getting that day he left his moving machine on an eleva- Hon alongside the Saugatuck river. The rnarauders took it in hand dur ing the night and ran 1t down the hlil into the river. On the way 1t struck s rock and was broken so as to be Worthless The miscreants also took a xtheel from MT. Favarau,s horse rake and threw it into the river and hung d set of his harness on the top of tree They wound up their perfor- nance by pulling up two or three sets of bar posts on the farm of Rufus Gould for whom Favarau was work ing.
 &. smiths livery stable in George town. and Miss Helena, l.. Hill, ,daugh- fer of Nathaniel B. Hill and a teach CT in one of Wilton's public schools, went to, Danbury on Thursday of last week and were united in marriage by Judge Booth. They first went to the Methodist parsonage to have the cer- emony performed but the minister be- ing absent they had recourse to Judge Booth who suspended an argument he was making in court to perform the desired service.
 The long continued rainless spell has been favorable for hay getting and the end of this week will probably see most of the local crop harvested. Probably the record achievement in this line was made by Charles Sanford who put in his crop of 78 loads last week The yield this season is gen. erally light, about equal to that of fast year. The drouth has caused serious shortage of pasture and made very dubious the outlook for potatoes and apples.
 While about the store at the Center last Saturday night Michael Flood, the Blacksmith. missed from his rear trousers pocket a bag containing $23. After fruitless search it occurred to him that the bag might have worked out while he was sitting in James E. wagon. He jalrried to and after waiting awhile at TreadwelIs home the latter appear ed. The lost bag with contents in- tact was found in the wagon seat. Treadweu had been sitting on the treasure without knowing it.
 James Sweeney of the Center was taken to the Bridgeport hospital yes- ferday by First Selectman Banks. Last spring Sweeney suffered a par alytic shock which has incapacitated him for work and Dr. Smith thought that he might be cured or greatly inn proved by hospital treatment.
 The estate of the late Elizabeth Merchant was closed up in the pro- bate court last week. Its value was about $20,000 and all goes to Mrs. An