The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-08
BEDDING NEWS OF 2 GENERAL INTEREST
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Bedding, April S.-A. H. Senior. of S3ethel has taken the contract to build Herbert Barnes house on the Ridge and is now hauling material for the fob. The dimensions of the building are 24 by A feet. The cellar walls are to be carried to height of four feet above the surface of the ground as the foundation for the first floor tim-' bers. The material will be wood and plumbing will be put in for water supply and heating by furnace.
 StfI another addition has been made by A.. L. Livermore to his domain in bought. through G. Burr Tucker Thomas Browns property near the paper mill pond in Easton. consisting of a house and other buildings and the Aspetuck river. The price was about g. 400. This acquisition increases Mr. Livermore's holding 70 about 450 acres. The various parcels form one contiguous tract on which there are eight houses.
 Mondays session of the Umpawaug district school was broken up by the incursfon Of Mrs. Andrew SteitZel. who for no apparent reason made her ap- pearance there and behaved in such a violent and threatening manner that teacher and pupils became panic strick- en and fled. The woman has been several times committed to the State hospital for the insane and terminated each period of her confinement there through being discharged as cured. Her husband gave bonds to the town as security for payment of her hos pital expenses and as he failed to meet fhe bills thus incurred the selectmen brought a foreclosure suit and obtain ed title to the little house he had built on the west side from his earnings. This weeks proceedings were begun by the town for the evictment of the Steitzels from the property and these proceedings are supposed to be the cause of Mrs. SteitzePs outbreak. She has several young children.
 The $5,000 damage suit of Richard Emslie against the Danbury and Bethel trolley company having resulted in mistrial in the superior court at Dan bury last week the -iction will be pressed for another hearing. The jury stood ten to two for the defendant. The evidence regarding the assault on the plaintiff through which he suffer- ed a compound fracture of the ankle was very contradictory.
 very large gathering of neighbors and friends attended the funeral ser vices for John Todd which were held at noon last Sunday at his late resi- were conducted by Rev. W. T. Hill of New Haven. Rev. MT. Wing of the Long Ridge Methodist church and Rev. MT. Judd of the Center Methodist church. MT Hill made short ad- dress in which he dwelt upon the probity of character and the clean and upright life of the deceased and MT. Judd spoke in the same vein. There were a number of floral tributes. In torment was in the Ridge cemetery.
 In the probate court on Tuesday an order was issued for the commitment of Mrs. Arthur Stowe of Sunset Hill to the State hospital for the insane. this action being taken in accordance with the advice of the patients physi- clans Her insanity is not of the yio- lent type and she will be placed in one of the hospital pavilions instead of among the more serious cases in the main building.
 row of shrubs and rose bushes has been planted along the north wall of the Ridge cemetery. The old hedge at the front wall is to be removed and ivy planted in it's place.
 First Selectman Banks with the road machine and force of helpers is re- pairing the roads in the Ridge section. He violetes traditions by yanking out the rocks that rear their obstructive heads in the highway instead of ap- plying the usual treatment of dirt veneer.
 The driveways on the grounds of the Luttgen place on Sunset HiE are be- ing finished off with crushed stone.
 There will be a game of ball at the zRi1ge Saturday afternoon between the Saufords and the Stamford High
 Myrou R. Sanford, professor of Greek in the Middlebury (Tt.) college. was in town this week. ths guest of