The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-12

Of individual bravery Green never
boasted Of, but they were told with
deserved admiration by his associates.
One incident of his military career,
however, Green related with unfailing
relish. His regiment was cut off from
commissary supplies and badly pinch
ed for food. Nevertheless the rules
against pillage were strict and the
colonel was appealed to. He solemn
ly replied that hard necessity Justified
an infraction of these regulations Gut
that any violator of them, if caught,
and here is said to have winked--
would be punished just the same. This
was enough and afterwards the men
gobbled from the residents such pro-
visions as they could find. What
Green seemed to regard as another
humorous incident was his attack of
the curious usual ailment known as
moon blindness" the effect Of which
was to render everything utterly dark
to him at nightfall. While thus af-
fected he Joined in several night
marches with con1rade closely press
ed against him on each side to keep
him in the ranks, he being as he ex-
pressed it, like sandwich filler The
deceased was the son Of Darby Green
who died in this town many years ago
at the age of 105
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Center Congregational church was cut
by a boy Committee Of the society on
land belonging to Judge Winthrop
Perry OF Southport, who, during the
past year or two, has acquired extern
s1ve tracts in Weston. All this land
is posted against trespassers and Judge
Perry evidently intends that these
trespass signs shall be needed as he
promptly put in a damage claim to
the church for the cutting of the
tree. Judge J. B. Sanford, to whom
he presented his grievance and claim,
was willing to settle and when Judge
Perry named SIS as the amount the
money was promptly handed over.
Then, to- show that he was acting for
the principle of the thing and not
from gainful motives Judge Perry at
once handed back the SIS as a dona>
ton to the church.
e Putnam park is to have a new
roadway connection extending from
it's upper part northward to a back
road which intersects the hometown
road. At present the park is accessi-
BILE by teams only from the south.
The right of way for the projected
new approach is the gift of Albert
Bartram who has donated a strip so
feet wide and about half a mile in
length for that purpose. The sur
vey and layout has already been made
by Engineer d. c. Sanford and con-
struction work will be commenced in
the spring
One Of the propositions to be pre-
scented at the special town meeting to
be held about March 1 will be that
for the enlargement of the town
house by the addition Of another
story. The plan is to use the lower
floor for offices and the upper foo.
for a hall. and the cost of the inn
provement is estimated at from 81 200
to $1,000. It would be much more
desirable to secure q larger site and
erect new structure as there is not
a spare foot of space about the pres
ent building, but no land can be had
for another site except at q cost
which is regarded a proI1ibitive
The marriage Of Daniel O'Keefe Of
this town and Miss Bridget Diffney
of New York was solemnized in New
York this week and the couple will
soon return here to occupy the
groom's pleasant cottage in Sanford.
town. Mr.. O'Keefe was formerly a
member of the New York police force
and since his retirement on pension
several years ago has been a resident
of Redding. The bride was here dur,
ing the past season as cook for Miss
Glider and later for S. G. Shaw.
Stormfield, the Mark Twain villa,
was recently cleared Of its remaining
furniture. which was removed to New
York by auto trucks. Part of the
furniture had previously been taken
by, Mrs. Gabrilowitsch to Europe for
her new home in Berlin.
H. c. Mcclellan and Joseph Sulli-
van made a canvassing trip on Tues
day among the other members of the
Redding Catholic church and In a
short time had collected $50 towards
the purchase of a fur coat for presen-
tation to Rev. Father Herman of
Bethel, their pastor. The sum will
be considerably increased as many
m embers will yet have a chance to
contribute.
Henry Sanford and wife sailed from
New York on saturday their destina-
ton being Algiers. Mr.. Sanford took
along his auto with the intention of
doing a good deal of motoring in the
country bordering on the south shore
of the Mediterranean He will spend
the latter part Of the winter in Paris,
returning home early in the spring.
In the last few days there has been
A slow but steady gain in the condf-
ton of Thomas Delaney, who has had
only brief intervals of consciousness
for more than two months. The at
tending doctor now thinks he has
good chance of recovery
Besides W. G. Sanford of this town
Representative John Candee of East
on is candidate for appointment on
the state board of agriculture.
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