The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-29
OUR BEDDING LETTER

Bedding. Oct. 28.-Three or four years ago it was told in the Farmer how two ladies, from reading at their home In North Carolina. about Mark Twain's choice of this town as a place of resi- dence. were minded to come here on a prospecting trip and how their visit resulted in their also becoming and remaining residents. These ladies were the Misses Coker. They bought tract in the Glen near the Mark Twain estate and made over an old house there into comfortable habita- tion- Now Brooklyn man who spent part of the past summer in Bedding gays thAt quite a number of his ac- quaint tances appear to be animated sby the Same yearnings as that which in- ffuLhced the North Carolina ladies. Whether the attractive force is the Authors personality and fame or a be- lief that his judgment fin selecting place for a country home is safe guide to follow, the Brooklyn gentle- not know. He expects. however. that within the next year or two half a, dOxen or more bungalows will be built in or near the Glen section as an out. come of the aspiration referred to-, There is involved. of course. the ques- the deHfre for propinuuity to Mark, Twain Is so pronounced that 1t is be- lieved that almost any old site will fill the bill. AS Mr. Clemens owns up wards df 300 acres just west of the Glen he can probably do a lively bus. mess in the real estate9 line provided. he wants the other parties for neigh bors as much as they want him for a neixhbor. And about this there is doubt as 1t is understood he came to. Foedc4nE partly to get away from folks or rather the folks whose society he did not crave. However there IS plenty of land in that vicinity for a populous summer colony even if MT. Clemens ie not in a site selling mood.
 An effort will be made by the Select nnsn to secure the construction this fall of the road, over a new layout, be- low Putnam Park. survey and plans are to be furnished by MT; ChambeTs who donates the land, and as soon, aS these are submitted and ap-S proved bids will be Advertised for. It is one of the 2conditions named by MT. ChambSE1 tflak the road be finished by tho nrst 1T Juno next and hence the; way aS soon as poasible in order that at least q part Of 1t be done this fall.
 A tract Of 72 acres located in the soufhw61keen part of the town and known. as Egypt" has been sold by B1ftsen hcree of: the tract are in EsaLs- ton and nacst of 1t 1s rough and grown
 A 4he4Ez4 ana p1ltoW CaSerpaIIy TOT the banefit Of the Mark Twain Library wdn savsn last evening at the house Of Theodore Adams near Library cor ner. Attendance was by Invitation and the company comprised most of those present at the recent barn dance.
 A new fence is being built by the 6elsctmen at the east and north of Hal Sanfcrd,u lot on the Ridge to re-, place the one put up by the Selectmen' two yeaxs ago and which proved un-. satisfactory to MT. Sanford.
 sanford Osborn has been in Massa--- chusettp for a week or two coaching the Au1herst College football team. The team encounters Yale at New Ha- ven on Saturday Of this week and a party from this town will go over to witness the combat.
 Nothing has been seen hereabouts the past week of John Bahar, the es- capped jail bird who for about ten days previously had been 1oafing around here undBr foot of about everybody ex- cept the officers intent on his capture.
 The sanford School met the Bethel Highs at football last week for the second lime this season, and lost by g score of 2 to 5; The Mohegans ss ss. sof t,f fords on the Ridge last Saturday but did not show up. 54~
 Mrs. Van zandt has been i'll with pneumonia. for about g. week at the home ofkJ. B. Sanford, where she is boarding this winter. 5-
 The Aseeasors will be in session on Saturday of this week at the town house to receive tax lists.
 Edward A. Pinkuey, chairn1an of the Town School committee, and one of ths newly elected Selectmen, was se- verely injured last Saturday by a fall of about S16 feet from an apple tree. Two ribs and a shoulder blade were fractured and his spine was severely wrenched from the fall. He was un- conscious when picked up and is still confined to his bed at his home in Georgetown.
 Arthur ]. Todd has sold to the New. England wire company all the per sona1 property Of his lime kiln plant This incladssg the manufacturing plant, tools and wood. {: Mir. Todd has not operated his plant since last June and will go mt Of the business. One req son for the discontinuance was that the raw material in his quarry was nppeoachinG exhaustion.