The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-02
NEW SCHOOL MAY SOON BE
 REDDINC'S
Ben Hampton Makes Offer For Considerable Tract of Land MRS. DORR BUYS RESIDENCE Deputy Sheriff Banks GueSseS Nearest Right Number of
 Beans in the Jar
Especial to the Farmer.)


 town has a five years option on part of the Hill Academy building for school purposes use of the rooms will probably be made if needed for not more than a year owing to their in adequate size. Of course the alter native will be the erection of a new
 school building at the Center and this was one of the matters which the town school committee discussed at their regular meeting on Saturday. It was decided to discontinue the
 Dimond Hill school the coming year and to transfer the pupils to the Gen. ter which will make @ further pres sure on the existing accommo odations. It was also decided that next years school term should consist of forty. l weeks instead of thirty-six weeks as has been the custom in recent years. Through the school supervisor the committee has engaged two new teachers from out of town, one for
 the Center and one for the Boston school at Georgetown. Miss Carson has been re-engaged for Umpawaug Ridge.
 Report has it that Winthrop Perry of Southport, who last fall bought tracts aggregating 1,500 acres in Wes-
 
 | intersect the territory with twelve I miles of roadway with the purpose of making it availa ble for bungalow and other building sites. Nearly all the tract is mild land, a good deal of it
 the very mildest
 Ben Hampton, proprietor of Hamp- tons Magazine, has made offers for several pieces of property on Rock House Hill, the parcels he is nego- | tiating for including the Paul Trop
 place, part of E. S. Williams farm, the Adelaide Lyon property and some land belonging to Charles Sanford. Readings literary colony is to re- ceive an addition in the person of | Mrs. Rita Child Dorr, a popular mag azine writer who has at present a series of contributions running in Hamptons Mrs. Dorr has bought the former George Keeler property in Pleasant Valley and will build a resi- dence there. The sale was effected ] through the Sanford real estate agency.
 A son-in-law of Dr. W. c. Deming has purchased from Mrs. William Banks eighteen acres adjoining Dr. Demings place on the west side and will build.
 which with the large bungalow and other improvements represents an outlay of nearly S20,000 is offered for sale.
 The Bridgeport Hydraulic Go. has bought the former Moses Ogden prop Banks property just below with the l intention of damming the stream
 which runs through that territory. Word was received here on Tues
 day of the death of silass Driggs earlier in the day at his home in
 Brooklyn. The deceased was we'll known here, being a frequent visitor,
 and Fred Driggs, his son, has a log cabin summer home in Pleasant Val ley.
 | Miss Florence, daughter of MT. and | Mrs. Albert A. Gorham, to William Grouse of Danbury. MT. Grouse was | last winter in the employ of B. P. Sanford.
 John Ward Stimson, art professor in an Indiana college, is occupying with his wife the latter's house at the Center. They will remain for the l summer.
 The Ridge Inn, which has been re-
 named Ridgewold Inn, will open for 1 the season on June 15. The proprie- | tor is D. s. Sanford and Mrs. Flor
 ence Crane will be the managing land lady.
 MT. Sweeney of Danbury, who built
 the vault in the town hall has been engaged by the selectmen to supply 1 an additional covering for the floor
 and make such other changes as will
 render the vault damp proof On ac- | count of the moisture which comes l upward through the five feet of con- | crete foundation the vault has always
 been useless for the purposes design ed.
 1 A spraying outfit from Danbury has been busy for several days spreying
 orchards and the roadside elms on l the Ridge. The canker worms are
 making sad havoc with the apple
 trees in this locality. l The regular monthly meeting of | the Putnam Park commission was
 held last Thursday. In the absence | of President Burr Commissioner Bar
 tram occupied the chair. Only rou- | tine business was transacted. A bill of $30 for the sheep recently | killed by dogs on the State Gilbert
 farm was presented to the selectmen | on Saturday.
 1 A new touring car has been order
 ed by Emory P. Sanford Deputy Sheriff Banks was the near
 est guesser to the number of beans in ! a jar offered for competition by Proprietor Muenrich of the Ridge l store and received the prize, a large and handsome American flag One of the finest of the many ten | his courts in the town has just been
 finished by D. s. Sanford for the use of the pupils of his school. Memorial Day brought with it two vexatious circumstances in this To- l cality. For one thing there was no
 rural mail delivery and for another an electric storm put all the tele-
 phones out of commission