The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-24
BEDDING NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST
 TO OUR READERS

| be held on June IS, the date on which the founder came to Bedding to live. | At the first annual meeting held last | Friday officers were elected as fol- lows: President, Samuel l.. Clemens; 1st vice president, Dr. E. H. Smith 2d vice president, Miss Jean Clemens; 3d vice president, Dan Beard; sec l retary, Mrs. Zalmon Read; treasurer, Mrs. Harry Lounsbury; librarian, Ed gar E. Grumman. Various commit tees were also appointed and that on | ries of events for the increase of the building fund. The first of these will be a lawn party to be given on the afternoon of Thursday of next week Lounsbury's residence. Ice cream, cake and other refreshments will be
 served for participation fee of 25 cents. The association has 26 charter mains open. The charge is 25 cents for admission and the same sum for
 annual dues. Some anxiety has been
 felt in regard to $500 of the building
 fund which was in the keeping of Mrs.
 Ashcroft, Mark Twain's former social
 secretary. There will be no loss, how
 ever, the money having recently been
 turned over to Vice President Smith.
 Dan Beard, the author and artist,
 accompanied by a professor of ornith-
 ology from Amherst College, strolled
 over MT. Beard's farm and the neigh
 boring territory last Sunday to inves-
 llgate the IeatnereQ Iau1d DuTluS
 the day they spotted and snap shotted
 42 species of bird life. The score was
 somewhere in the teens when they
 chanced upon a discovery quite for
 eign to the object of their quest. This
 was the Ginding among some bushes 1n
 a swamp owned by MT. Beard of a pile
 of new harness. Deputy Sheriff Banks
 was at once called up by phone and
 went to the scene. He had read in
 some newspaper a para graph report
 ing the recent theft from Leonard
 Gault of westDort of $500 worth of
 harness and surmised that this was the lot the bird hunters had stumb bled upon. On being communicated with over the phone MT. Gault gave a de- scription of the stolen harness which proved that the sheriff had guessed right During the day the owner came up in an auto and took home his prop erty. The supposition is that the thieves. fearing pursuit, concealed their booty in the swamp intending to recover it later, but in attempting to do so were unable to fix the location Wheel tracks in a cleared field adjoin- ing the swamp are supposed to have been made by their team during a sec ond visit to the locality.
 On Monday Sheriff Banks went to Pennington and placed an attachment on a house owned by Mrs. Isabelle Ashcroft in the suit to recover $3,050 brought against her by Mark Twain, her former employer. The property
 
 she came to Bedding and received as gift from MT. Clemens the other house which was attached last week in the same suit. It is said that a hunt has been made in New York to find other property which it was thought the dis charged secretaries might have ac- euired there, but as far as can be learned here the search was unsuccess- full. The people of Bedding feel gen. timely sorry that their distinguished fellow townsman should have been subjected to the unpleasant experiences brought to light by the recent legal His friends say that he feels less keenly the money loss he may have suffered than the betrayal of his confidence by persons whom he trusted implicitly and had treated with the utmost kindliness and considera- ton. As regards Mrs. Ashcroft the revelations produced something like shock also from the fact that her vi vaciouS and engaging manners had greatly prepossessed all with whom she came in contact. Her charm and brightness were admitted the other day by a Bedding lady who followed her tribute to these qualities with cr1t1- cism somewhat as follows: what never did like about her was the To- quacious freedom with which she dis: cussed MT. Clemens and the affairs of his household. Not that she said any thing derogatory. of her employer, but these outpouringS about domestic af- fairs, big and little, on very short ac- quaintance always seemed to me In rather bad taste"
 The Charles H. Bradley place, for merly the Charles Woodruff place, in Pleasant Valley has been sold through the Sanford Real Estate agency to D. V. B. Hegeman, cashier of the Nassau National Bank of Brooklyn, who will probably occupy it during the present summer The price is not given, but rumor places it at about s3,OOG While has not yet been made the will undoubtedly be com | pleted.
 Edward M Bradley has purchased an motor car of 40 h. D., which | was to be delivered this week. The ear ordered by Emory P. Sanford for | use in the delivery trips of his meat business is also expected daily. It IS of IS h. D.
 Civil Engineer D. c. Sanford is em- barking extensively in the chicken raising business. He has built one chicken house 40 feet long and planned | the erection of two others, one 60 feet ong with two wings of 40 feet each, and the other 200 feet long,. The rals- ng of broilers will be the principal fea- ure of the industry.
 Application has been made to the Probate court for letters of admins ration on the estate of the late Pat -ick Mcdonald, who left no will
 An invitation whist will be given by Bedding Grange at their hall next evening.
 George Williams has moved into the 3artram place in hometown, which he ecently bought from John c. Read.
 A well attended dance was held last Friday evening at the Ridge gymna- ium.
 At the annual meeting of the Ridge school district last Friday evening Tohn M. Sullivan was reelected dis rict committee.
 Mrs. Isaac Treadwell and children Of St. Augustine, Fla, are summer1ng with George Treadwen in Sanford own.
 A handsome monument for the late -oel Perry was erected in Sanfordtown cemetery this week.
 Robert Ferry is about to move from he Ridge to the house of Morris Perry n Weston.
 Clayton Elwood and Miss Bulkeley f Greenfield Hill. were guests of E. }. Sanford last Sunday.