The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-14
BEDDING
BATCH OF INTERESTING GOSSIP GATHERED BY THE FARMERS ;,
 CORRESPONDENT

Bedding. Dec. 1HDeputy Sheriff | ThomaS Bristol of the west side, re- i gently sold the property in HaWley-
 vile, which he purchased last spring. l in the expectation at the time of oc- | cupying it and has bought from the l New England Line Co. the former 1 Downs place. located near the Red I erty comprises between 40 and 50 acres in addition to the buildings The price obtained by MT. Bristol for the Hawleyville places was several hun l dred dollars in advance of what he | paid. 1 No more public meetings will be held by the Protective League until l Spring, one reason being that winter weather conditions are likely to dis /. courage satisfactory attendance and another that it is not deemed wise
 to take risks on the shaky town house 1 floor. This lessening of activities, l however, does not mean their entire I cessation. It has been planned to i of members at the Mark Twain libra ry on which occasion there will be | discussion on pertinent subjects l lunch and probably other features in l the way of entertainment. Later in
 the month a meeting. with a dinner i will be held in New York for the mem ] bers who winter in that city and sum- ! mer here. Before the time arrives i for beginning spring repairs on the ] roads the Leagues committee expect 1 to present a plan for better methods
 of highway maintenance and improve. ment
 ! Lloyd Blackman is associated with i number of Danbury capitalists in the recent purchase of the McArthur Paper manufactory, located a few l miles west of Danbury, and will have an active part in the management of | the esta bl1shment under it's new own
 ership For this reason he will soon | remove to- ~iDanbury from Umpawaug, l where he has been his fathers assis- tant in the management of the lat 1 ter's grain, coal and milk business. l Theodore Adams, a lifelong and | highly respected resident, died at his
 home at Library corner on Monday l evening, after short illness from l pneumonia His age was 8O When l Mark Twain was seeking a site for
 the free public library which he had l decided to provide for the town the 1 deceased donated for that purpose the l ground on which the library build- | ing was subsequently, erected. Less 1 than two years ago MT. Adams made 1 second marriage, his bride being l Miss Glover of Norwalk, compara- | lively young woman. The marriage was extensively noticed by the news 1 papers at the time
 There has been this season quite an | extensive local raising and marketing l of young pigs. To the total L. O. l Peck's farm contributed about 200.
 some 30 of which were slaughtered and l shipped off last week. Commodore l Luttgen has disposed of about 75; A. l G. Barnett 50 and D. S. Sanford 4. 1 The dressed weight of the pigs ranged l from 90 to 125 pounds and the price was g and 10 cents per pound. Last l year the price for the same grade of | pig meat was between 12 and 15 cents. The artesian well sunk for Mrs. William Hill at the Center is regard | ed as a somewhat dubious proposition. | It yielded at a depth of 90 feet, one l gallon perm mute. At 450 feet, which l was as far as the bore was carried,
 the yield was no more and hence the l conclusion that it represents only
 surface supply. If such is the case l it would be quickly exhausted in the summer and therefore the owner is l in some doubt about equipping it with l pumping apparatus.
 l No opposition to the appointment of l commissioners on the estate of the claim of Daniel w. Green was offer | ed at the hearing assigned before the | probate court, last Saturday, and
 Judge Sanford therefore decided upon | their appointment in accordance with l the administrators request. He nam l ed as the commissioners, Henry A. 1 Gilbert of Bethel and w. H. Hill of | this town.
 l MT. Terry the lumber manufacturer, ] has purchased -racts of woodland from l Randolph Bradley, Charles Gilbert l and Hannah Keeler and as soon as 1 his present operations in Pleasant Valley are completed will fell and saw | up the trees. The two jobs will fur | nish work for the rest of the winter. Thomas .Lahey. floral and land ! scape gardener for L. o. Peck, sail l ed for England on Tuesday, accom- ] panied by his wife The latter will 1 prolong her stay until Spring.
 l Fred Crouch has caught this season 1 g skunks, all of which yielded pelts i of. the finest quality. Trapping is the usual method of skunk catching, but MT. Crouch made most of his captures with only the aid of his dog
 Phillip Stark, chef in the family of l Attorney Barnes, informs his friends l that he is doing some real estate prospecting with the object of obtain
 ing piece of land on which to en- | gage in poultry raising and to make | a home for himself and his two chill | dren. The requisite capital for the enterprise will be furnished, he says, by wealthy friends in New York | The Ridge has a new public sign I board furnished by John Muennich,
 | who after a close examination of the
 | old one, became convinced that it
 lacked room for the insertion of even
 one more tack or nail.
 | Work on the foundations for the 1 large addition to the main building
 | of the Sanford school is progressing
 actively. The contract for the struc-
 ture has not been given out, as the 1 plans were recalled from prospective
 bidders to receive some alterations.
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