The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-22
BEDDING CAUCUSES
 GO OVER; OCTOBER
Blacksmith Charles Workman Discovers a Thoroughbred Gentleman in Bridgeport
There is Delay in Getting Busy With the Bridgeport Danbury Trolley Line

1 will not be held by either party until I after the October election. The men | tion of Attorney Herbert Barnes in | connection with the probate judgeship
 as the Democratic nominee and dis l closure of the fact that he is not a | Democrat has had the effect of ca11- 1 ing attention to him as a desirable 1 candidate for the other party. Re | publicans generally view with favor 1 the suggestion that he be placed on | the caucus will be W. B. Hagen and 1 the contest between them will prob l ably be close. MT. Barnes is making l no effort to secure the nomination l but it is understood that he is in | a receptive mood as regards accept | ance. As to the probable Republican
 nominees for representatives the sit
 uation continues a good deal befog- ] ged. Among those mentioned are
 Louis c. Rumsey, Sanford Osborn, B. l B. Banks, B. A. Pinkney and Charles Burr Todd. Should MT. Pinkney come
 forward in the race he will be fought | by the same Georgetown faction which
 unsuccessfully tried to prevent his
 nomination for first selectman. In 1 the caucus this faction could muster l only twelve votes against him out of 1 70. Of the twelve only nine were fur l nished by Georgetown, a circumstance l which does not go to support the as- 1 sertion of his foes that Georgetown | Republicans will be almost a unit against him on election day.
 The burial of Marshall Driggo, pres ident of the Williamsburg City Fire | Insurance Co.,, took place here last
 laid at rest in. the Ridge cemetery beside those of his wife for whom he 1 erected lofty marble monument. | crowned by a sculptored figure Of
 Hope, upwards of forty years ago. A special car brought the funeral
 party to Betheh At the grave there was only a brief commitment service, the main services having been held tn eprevious afternoon at the home or
 the deceased in New Canaan. There were many beautiful floral tributes. among them being a large wreath of
 orchids and lilies from Henry san
 ford. So long and close had been the
 associations of MT. Driggo with Red
 ding that he was regarded as almost
 one of our townsmen. These assocla-
 tions began when he was a pupil Of
 the old Sanford Institute, the sister
 past there was hardly a week when
 he failed to visit Bedding as the guest of Miss J. H. Sanford, his sister-In-
 figure in the financial circles of Brook
 lyn, aside from his prominence in
 the insurance world having been one
 of the leading spirits in the fornna- tion of the Long Island Traction O., which later became the Brooklyn FSa- pid Transit Co., In the panic of 1907 Brooklyn's embarrassed banking insti- tutions and served temporarily as president of the City's leading trust company. A man of liberal 1n1nd and genial personality he had many friends here to whom his loss brought sincere grief.
 hands of the printer will show that during the past year the selectmen
 drew orders to the amount or about S15,OOO. Roads cost about $2,7OO TO inc reduction of the funded debt there has been applied $1,500 and there re-
 mains in the treasury a balance of over $1, GOO. . cIares that James J. Biron of Bridge port is a thoroughbred way up gen gen tlenan and emphasizes the declaration necessary to quote. The cause or the tribute is this: A few days ago MT; Nordman's shepherd dog disappeared and be 1nourned and sought her In vain until he received a phone mes sage from MT. Biron saying that she was in his keeping. From the tag, dog and her, owner When Noranan t an answered over the phone that he would send for the dog as soon as possible, MT. Biron replied: " ou neeo not: I will take a run up in my auto this evening and bring her." This he proceeded to do and upon deliver even to the extent of accepting Sl in return for what he had spent in telephone tolls. Not even a cigar would he take, ke.dan Hfn fo find words fo fitiy express his high opinion of MT, Biron. r,,, 4is residence by the building of a four room addition which will be occupied bv his son George. The latter is to be married this fall to Miss e VloIas daughter of Daniel Wooo oA '0uii0e'
 Acting for the town school com mittee w. c. Sanford has arrangea with Robert H. Nichols to transport inc children of the Couch Hlll d1strlcI to tho Ridge school and with Howard c. Platt to transport Lne nose sebooI | Transportation to the same school TOT inc Hull and Dimond Hill districts IS yet to be arranged for
 The families of Dewitt WeIo, Freu Driges and D. V. B. Heggeman, are this week moving back to New York from their summer homes m eaise P1easaHl Valley and the De Bruycker la4lr.y 9,-So1l7 returning from SanfordtoWn to Brook-
 Jesse B. Cornwall has sold his ten ement house in SanfordLo,WTn. a,T hot tn Any drew Berquist of the center.
 The Gabrilowitsches. daughter ana son-in-law of the late Marx iwaln' i1e packing up preparatory to Vacatins Stornfield and sailing for Europe Visiting auto parties continue 10 ask directions for reaching tne Hlarh n.a to be content with a sight or storm field from a distance as access 10 tPs private road leading to It IS parIeu by chains at the public highway. These chains were up during Marx Twain's last illness but were aIter- wards removed The inventory of the Mark Twain estate has not yet been returned to the probate court ana will not be until the return or @ Aloert Bigelow Paine, one of the appraisers, who is in Nova Scotia on fishing trip. = 4o7
 With much regret the fact is noted here that nothing has yet been done in the way of constructing the Brldg9- port-Stepney-Bethe trolley line al- though it's packers promised that the iob would be started last month. Our interest is that enterprise is keen though indirect, being founded on the belief that the building of the step