The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-21
OUR BEDDING LETTER
Interesting News Happenings Told by The Farmers
 Correspondent.

l Brothers of White Plains are about 1 to commence the building of a private ] roadway west from the Shaw place 1 to the Ridge road and also to carry out considerable other improvement | work about the grounds. The length of the roadway Is about one third of 8. mile- All the rocks in the nine acre lot in which the house stands are to
 be removed by the contractors and the holes filled in. The pond on the line of the road will be crossed by a stone bridge and the pond itself will
 be deepened and enlarged. To provide
 quarters for the IS horses and 35 men to be placed on the job the contracting
 firm has hired barn room of Milo Os- born and has also rented the house
 and barn of Mrs. Margaret Reefe at
 the Center.
 And now hometown steps forward
 in the attitude of petitioner for the
 appropriation money. There has al-
 ready been State construction of the
 road leading from the Center to
 Bethel for g. short distance above the
 Center and also for a. considerable dis
 tance from the Bethel line southward.
 There remains gap of about a mile
 makes almost impossible, and it is
 this stretch which appeals for i'm provement. To build it will take about
 one third of the sum now available. First Selectman Sanford has so far re-
 ceived no reply to the letter he sent Highway Com. Macdonald asking that ne give attention so soon as pOSS1O10 to local State road interests and espe cially to the project of getting under way the building of the, Ridge road south from the Episcopal church cor which was left in an unfinished con- dition last fall, Goodwin 6 Trumbull, the contractors, resumed work this week.
 The Probate court has issued an or der for & final hearing on the settle ment of the estate of Thomas Good sell who is described hot as deceased or insolvent, but as having disappear ed'' His disappearance occurred near 1y eight years ago when he lived in the Rock House district with his children. The supposition is that he ran away to get rid of supporting them but as the law regards person mis- sing for seven years as legally defunct the nominal estate he left Is being ad-
 nin1Stered upon as if he had actually departed this life. Of course he is at liberty, in the event of his still being alive, to ask the court to- re- open the case with a view to obtain ing legal status as persona vita. The other members of the family now live in Bridgeport.
 Albert Bigelow Paine has sold eleven acres on the west side to Herbert Bou- Company of Brooklyn, who will imme- diately erect a, large bungalow for a summer residence.
 Judge and Mrs. J. N. Ntckerson fol- lowed their annual custom by having on Saturday last, a little celebration of their respective and contemporan- eous birthdays. Each vas born on of their children able to attend the dinner they gave Saturday in recogni- tion of the event was Mrs. Robert Up- son of Southington who was present with her husband.
 A New York man named Graent has purchased from Kate E.. Hill 26 acres in the Georgetown section and will build a residence upon it.
 Henry T. Rogers, who bought the Beardsley place at the foot of the remained of the zalmon Pillow farm on Dimond Hill, a tract of es acres, | the price was about s2,ooo.
 Herman Smith, of the Center ex- perimented in chicken raising last year with such satisfactory results | that this spring he launched out, and | has now about 400 chicks. He uses the l Phi1e system.
 B. M Brad1ey's collie dog has one l leg and shoulder enclosed in plaster | cast which was applied by a Danbury |
 Mrs. Catherine Tauley of hometown l gave a party last Friday evening. in the barn.
 Bedding Grange was visited on Wed | nesday evening by State Inspector, Frank Blakenaan.
 Klein, is the happy father of ten pound boy born last Sunday at the home of the mothers mother in 
 Mrs. Stephen Sanford has returned home after a stay of several weeks in Bridgeport somewhat improved in health.
 Frank R. Chambers, who represents Rogers, Peet & Go, in the ownership of the recreation ranch adjoining Put nam Park, is negotiating with the es- tate of Joseph Hill for an adjacent tract of about 40 acres situated above Putnam Park.
 James B. -Treadwel expects to com plete this week the building of the new piece of roadway laid out by the town below Putnam Park across land donated by Frank R. Chambers.
 The matter of the tax collection shortage remains in abeyance, the se- ectmen not yet having found the time to go over the town treasurers books in connection with the case.
 E1bert M. Sanford and w. H. Hill are serving jurors this week in the Civil Superior Court at Danbury
 John Muennich, of the Ridge store, announces as a special feature a sale r every Saturday of a large variety of first class can goods at actual cost | prices. These goods will not be de- ivered but their high quality and low cost will make them worth coming for.
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