The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-17
BARTRAM PLACE IS
 SOLD TO WILLIAMS
Bsa Godfrey Anst Fave Finger Amputat. c Following Iniury Inflicted by Neighbsf's Shet 6an = Other News Of ReddiaG.

Bedding, June 17.-John c. Read has sold his upper farm in hometown, for merIy known as the Bartram place, to George williams, brother of the owner of the former Aaron TreadweH place near by. The property comprises 90 acres. a house and extensive barns The price is not stated and conveyance has not been made, but the purchaser has made a payment and expects to complete the transaction and take pos session soon He is now located on a large farm in Massachusetts.
 lBen Godfrey was taken to the Dan 0ory Hospit1l last Friday suffering from bloof poisoning as a result of the shot gun wounds he received from James Smith who is now under $500 bonds for the shooting. The hospital dottorw decided on Tuesday that ann putation of one of the patients fingers would be necessary.
 An fntersSting episode of the Sanford school reception last Friday evening Was~the formal announcement of the eneaGement of Frederick D. Maybrey, chief assistant instructor in the school. to Miss Helen Barnes also one of the Ford. th6 proprietor. MT. Maybrey is a native of Waterbury and a graduate of the University, of Chicago. Miss Barnes is now in Europe but will probably return the latter part of next monthy The marriage will take place the latter part of the summer.
 The Board of Education, at their meeting on Tuesday. voted a slight further increase in the appropriation for teacherB' salaries. two of the dis tricts having been unable last year to secure teachers for the amounts al- Ictted them. The compensation now provided for is at the rate of $10 and D1z per week. It was voted to leave fba xna<<or If rpepipo fbo T1pe+ov-rs school this fall to the school visitors district committee, as the removal of Andrew BerQuist from the district has reduced the number of children there by six | Last Friday. the closing day of the Sanford school, was a busy one for those connected with the institution. In the morning there were foot races afternoon program included a debate Dn the subject of woman suffrage The decision was in the negative. The re- ception and dance at the gymnasium In the evening was attended by quite a number of guests from out of town. Six of the schools pupils will take col lege examinations.
 No one aware Of the mental condi- ton of Mrs Andrew Steitzel at the time of her arrest here for disturbing Umpawaug school was surprised at the conclusion reached by the Bridgeport Sail authorities that the proper place for her was the State Hospital for the Insane. First Selectman Banks ef- fected her removal to Middletown last week through the help of the Bridge port Charities department. The town will have to bear the entire cost of her present term in the hospital as the expei.se of her two previous terms has left her husband practically without means
 The bug scientists probably knew all Rbout ft before. but the fact that the lady bug is a destructive foe of the potato beetle will probably be news to the man with the hoe or at least to the great majority Of him. One of our local farmers noticed the other day while cultivating a patch of potatoes that<a great number Of the lady bugs were busy about the young plants. He investigated and found that they were feasting, not upon the vegetation, but upon the potato beetle eggs stick lng to the leaves. Here is indeed a field of usefulness for the lady bug and may she rise sufficiently to the occasion to make unnecessary the re- sort to paris green spraying which has hitherto been the farmers weapon in the war against the Colorado beetle.
 The two-egg-a~day gunea hen of Mrs Charles Bradley must be of shrink lngIy shy disposition, for on the Every