The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-22
BEDDING NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST
 TO OUR READERS

Bedding, April 22.-Mrs. Susan I. Wells of Long Island City, recently rented the house below the Center just | east of Floods blacksmith shop, and | set about having the interior renovat- ed in expectation of the arrival of rel atives. Last Friday morning Albert | Gorham, who was doing the painting, | went to the house and as no one an- In the afternoon he called again and l finding no sign of life about the place looked into the woodshed adjoining the
 kitchen. The lifeless body of Mrs. Wells lay there upon the floor. Dr. Smith decided that it was a case of apoplexy and judged from the fndica- | tions that Mrs. Wells had been stricken
 Thursday evening. Her age was about Island for burial.
 Last week Andrew Steitzel reached the late conclusion that it was better
 to pay the judgment obtained against him by the town and the accompany ing costs rather than lose possession of his home or take the chance of bid | ding it in at sheriff's sale. The total
 claim against him was something over $200, less than half of which represent
 ed the original bill which he owed the town for the care of his wife at the State Hospital for the Insane. The
 selectmen on being apprised of Steit- claim deed to the property and the payment of the sum due closed the transaction.
 During the thunder storm of Mon day evening lightning struck the barn
 of Misses Ducy and Annie Wilson in
 Sanfordtown, and there being consider
 able hay in the building it was almost
 immediately in flames. A COW and a calf inside were burned to death. The loss is about $500 and the insurance $250.
 Skeleton towers of steel were erected on the Ridge this week to support big <5S &.-sl systems of D. S. Sanford and S. c.
 Shaw. Each is about 40 feet high and
 that of MT. Shaw will be surmounted
 by a windmill. The trench for the pipes leading to the new Shaw house 2.5OO feet away is being excavated. The well will also supply John Muennich's s house.
 While the Ezequel1e boys, Charles and Ray, were spearing suckers in Little river a few nights since they observed what appeared to be a gill net stretched across the stream. The use of such a. device being contrary to and walked a mile or so to the home of D. R. Warner in the Center to re- port the case, the latter being a deputy game and fish warden. On returning with them to the scene MT. Warner found that the supposed net was only a piece of mesh wire. It turned out that Luther Seeley had placed it there
 to keep his ducks from straying up stream.
 Miss Maud, daughter of Charles F. Bronson, the merchant and station agent at West Bedding, was married on Wednesday of last week to Emil Ardine of New Milford. A large com pany of relatives and friends attended the ceremony and the bride was the recipient of many presents. The cou- pie will live in New Milford
 The Has Beens-the term is used provisionally because the members don't know yet whether it really fits were to play the Sanford School this afternoon. Among the H. B.'s are such old fellows as Ames Merritt, Ford Osborn, Ed Bradley, Dr. Smith, Harold Frey and others who in the remote past exemplified a very good article of baseball. If they are beaten today they will feel that they have indeed lapsed to the back number class indi- cated by the designation applied to them. The same teams will encounter on Memorial Day.
 The first of a series of debates was held by the pupils of the Sanford School last Thursday evening, the topic discussed being the advantages offer ed by small schools as compared with small school received the decision. This evening the argument will be on whether this country owes most to the printing press or the railroads.
 Stephen Sanford and Reuben Wheel CT have been appointed appraisers on the estate of the late George keeler. The shanty in which Keeler lived and which has long been a neighborhood eyesore will be disposed of by burn ing.
 Hal Sanford, who expected to occupy E. M. Sanfords residence about May 1, has changed his plans about spend ing the early part of the summer in Bedding, and hired a house in Ridge field for the season. Prof. Sanford, his father, continues to slowly improve in health.
 The improvements to be made by Robert Walbridge at his place in Pleasant Valley comprise the building of a garage. A. H. Senior has the contract.
 Greenbaum & Klein, the lessees of the former Sullivan store, have rented from J. M. Sullivan the second floor