The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-04
BEDDING NEWS OF
 GENERAL INTEREST
 TO OUR READERS

Bedding, March 4.-Rev. Rufus Cn- derMood of New York has accepted a call from the Congregational church at the Center, which has been without a settled pastor for about three years The present engagement is for only two months but will probably be made permanent the society appear to be afnaninous in approving of the new in cunnbent. MT. Underwood is of mid dle age, has a family, and will occupy the church parsonage. A good part of his previous 1abors has been in the evangelistdc+ field.
 Decided dissatisfaction was express ed by the Selectmen at their meeting on Saturday over the slow progress made with the survey for locating the town boundary line. It was estimated that the cost of the job would be per haps;t S200.- So far, less than two sides have been. gone over and the bills foot 1tp about $250. The board endeavored to impress upon the surveyor in charge the need of expediting matters.
 Operations have been suspended at Arthur J. TodPs lime kiln on the west side owing to a large accumulation of manufactured stock and a mlshap which occurred a few days ago at the quarry. The raw, limestone is secured from a. ledge located in a hlH and the rock deposit being under a. considerable depth of overlying matter it was nee eSSarv to bui-row into the hillside. A mass of earth and stones above the opening thus made became loosened and slid into the opening. smashing a platform on which the driHers stood while at work. Fortunately the cave in shappened at the noon hour when there was no one in the tunnel. The kiln will probably be started up again 4April L.
 It has been suspected that Mark Twain harbored some slight resent ment against Robert J. Collier for the thick the latter played upon him last Christmas in sending to Innocence-at- Home the. stuffed, miniature sem ,f<>rrc- ly and expensively fostering the ex- pecta tion that the gift was to be hEe, adult elephant Not that the counterfeit was not more acceptable than. the real article would have been but the elaiborately worked out details of the scheme of deception which pur ported to herald the real elephants threatened visitation had a narrowing effect which abided although Mark Twain -professed to regard the affair as an excellent joke. Now, however, he says that this outbreak of fantas- tic gaiety on the part of the proprie- tor of Golfers Weekly will cost MT. Collier y$1O0 which sum is assessed up- ocl him for the benefit of the Mark Twain library How collection is to be made, MT Clemens does not say but he may be relied upon to attend to- that. The twelve bales of hay which Mr. Collier shipped to West Bedding as provender for the. mythical elephant Mark Twain sent to a charitable in sstitution in Norwalk.
 An effort to accelerate the collection of- the taxes due for the years from 1903 to. 1906, inclusive. is to be made by the selectmen who will also take steps to clear the books of dead ac- counts. There are two small tracts which have more than eaten up their value in the cost of liens placed up- on them year after year and these the town will sell or take title to. There is still another entry the books of IT years and neither the land nor the supposed owner can be locat- ed-,r
 .s Frederick Mckenzie of Bethel and Miss Ade1Ia Bahret of West Bedding were married in Poughkeepsie on Sun day. The groom is eonected with E. ]. Ailler's hardware store in Bethel and the bride recently resigned as teacher of the Umpawaug school. This is MT. McKenzfe's third matrimonial wives by death The newly welded couple will occupy a place in West Bedding owned by the bride.
 A debate was held by the merbers of Bedding Grange Wednesday even ing on the advantages and disadvant- aEes of the Tomlinson land scheme There are no new developments re- garding the scheme. Word has been expected from the Chicago man who was expected to act the capitalist packer of the enterprise and the delay in hearing from him is attributed to his having been suddenly called to South Dakota owing to the SerlouS Ill., ness of his son. I
 Albert Bigelow Paine has gone to 4taIy accompanied by his eldest daugh- ter. His itinery will cover the points in Europe which Mark Twain de- sscrfbes in tfInnocents Abroad. and MT. PHine's observations are to furnish a1im with inspiration for a. series Of articles to be published in the Outing magazine.
 A. G. Barnett and E. J. Miller say there is no truth in the published re- mort that they have arranged to lay o,It a road through their farms in or der to open up the tract for building sites The tract referred to is the ridge at the east of hometown ana IS