The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-16
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former Dld was al S4l4. Ine terms of the contract require MT Treadwell to furnish bond of $500 and to have the road completed by the first of May next.
 With the exception of railing at the sides of the deep fill at the low CT and the reconstruction of Jump Hill under State contract was complet- ed last Saturday Owing to the work in progress the hill has been closed to travel for upwards of three months but no one objected to the inconveni- ence in view of the highly desirable nature of the improvement which was being effected
 The town has taken charge of the family of William Godfrey of the west side who were in a sad plight The mother is in an advanced stage of consumption and the father has little earning capacity. Two of the children were sent to the county home and Nell lie, girl of 13. and the baby have been placed with Miss Nellie Doran to board.
 The funeral of Mrs. Henry warton. wife of a respected colored resident of Pleasant Valley, was held from the day of last week. Rev. Mir Jepson of- ficiating. Interment was in the Ridge cemetery. Mrs. Warton died in the Danbury hospital after long illness
 1t is the belief of Dr. Smith that Miss Collins, the trained nurse who was attacked with diphtheria while attending a pneumonia case at the infection from the telephone after it had been used by MT. Sanford in whom the disease was at the time de- veloped. This is in fact the only the ory open in the case.
 Henry Platt, a we'll known resident. died at his home near the Glen last Saturday. He was bout 70 years of age and had been in failing health for some time with kidney trouble. Thomas Delaney. caretaker at Put fracture of the leg. caused by a fall upon the ice.
 A. G. Barnett and stephen Sanford were summoned by Deputy Sheriff in the Bissonnette murder case at Bridgeport
 The Rowland brothers of Weston have set up their steam sawmill in a tract of woods bought by Anthony Kolosky.
 A son was born to MT. and Mrs. J. B. Sanford on Monday evening"
 Bright, original. tuneful and mirth provoking was the entertainment giv-- en by the pupils of the Sanford school at Grange Hall. Tuesday evening un- der the title. ''The Follies of Bedding Ridge.'' The hall was crowded. All the dramatis personsle were we'll known residents whose characteristics formed the subject of good natured pleasantly devoid of offensiveness Apprehensive of something less innoc- uous and fearing that he was to be made the subject of ridicule Dan Green went to Principal Sanford on Tues day and in very tobasco language threatened to have the offenders ar rested in case his dignity was af- fronted. A lawyer. he said, had ad- vised him that he could do this. As MT. Greens toes were not trodden up- on. however, no arrests are likely All the dialogue and the many descriptive songs of the sketch were the produc-- tion of the boys who showed com mendable cleverness in this line as well as in personation and make up. In the later particular Jack Ten Eyck as John Muenrich and T. F'urness as Mark Twain were realistically close copies. and hardly less happy was William Kelchner as Mrs. Clara Ga- briowitsch. The latter gave complete nses to the personation by rendering a contralto solo in excellent style One act of the skit was based on the re- cent balcony burglary at the Ridge. In | this Sheriff Banks with Joe Hawley as secretary followed up a foot print clue as he did in the Mark Twain burglary and by a Sherlock Holmes burglar had red hair and false teeth and wore green socks. The sleuths were worried Test the burglar escape in Rev. MT Jepson's auto. A fea- ture of the second act was the intro- duction by Mark Twain of famous in ventors.. each of whom sang a descrip- tive ditty. "I saw Ben Banks and Louis Rumsey in New Haven the 9th CT Day" remarked one of the charac- ters. Indeed. and what were they doing so far from homer" asked an other. "Inquiring the way to Hart ford" was the response. Another of the cast who impersonated Dora Read Goodale, the authoress and teacher of English in the Sanford school sang a song mostly about love and tainted upon It's conclusion. The audience was liberal with laughter and applause and all voted the show about the best ever seen in the hall.