The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21
OUR BEDDING.
 NEWS LETTER


 deeds'' policy as distinguished from merely the medication of ideas design ed to ultimately produce deeds. has gressive League, at least in respect to the Ridge district. Commodore Lutt- gen and Attorney Shaw, representing this district, had a conference the other day and mapped out part of a program to be carried out immediate ly, having received the approval of the selectmen. The plan includes the placing of new guide signs at the points on the highway marking the boundary line of Bethel on the north and Easton on the south, and also a set of now signs for the Five Points The little triangular plot near the Episcopal church is to be graded and turfed or reseeded, and the flag pole standing there removed as it is in danger of falling and doing some harm. The banner of the ''freeman's 8 heart and hope" has not for long time been displayed from the pole, the planting of which about twenty years ago was made the occasion of big celebration. The Wheeler & Wilson band and a parade were features of ! the event which failed of entire suc- cess on account of rain. H. s. Oe- born contributed the lower section of 1 the pole. and Charles Sanford went all
 
 suitable for the topmast. The pole I has been a landmark which will be | missed. Tho Ridge having started the movement towards concrete results ! In the way of useful and ornamental i improvements, the other sections of ! the town wdiA probably follow the ex- ample.
 Such betterment in local telephone | facilities and service as may be mo- ticeable, and there really does appear to be some change for the better, can be attributed to the recent stirring Sanford Two Of them motored from Waterbury last Saturday and went ! over the situation with him thor 1 oughly. MT. Sanford fortified his general statement of grievances with specific instances which made up ceived assurances that steps would be taken to make conditions more satis- factory. The officials advanced the theory that much of the trouble came from the failure to replace the re- ceiver by those having desk phones, but Mr. Sanford replied that this idea was wrong because there were only one or two desk phones in this part of the town. A very essential step to- wards improvement would be the stringin of more wires, thus reliev- ing the present over-pressure. There has been started a general inspection and overhauling of the present equip ment with a view of correcting defects and some good from this process is already apparent.
 Contractors Osborn & Barnes are getting the Ridge State road in shape to receive its final dressing of two or three inches of trap rock splinters. Another tile drain will be put in near the residence of R. HI. Nichols. The connecting road at the Ridge school , house has been graded to an easy slope at the intersection point and a railing Is being put up at the cross highway below. It is expected that Bethel next week.
 A flock of wild geese passed south i ward across the Ridge on Monday morning. Their early migration and low flight are taken to presage an early and hard winter. Other signs of like import are the thickness of the l corn husks, the abundance of nuts and ! the coating of a species of caterpillar on which the old-time weather proph- cts place reliance as winter fore caster.
 The boys are securing the woods for big hickory nuts under the stimulus of the prize competition offered by Cornell University and made known by printed placards. For the biggest 1 and best one dozen nuts a reward of S2 is offered, and for the second best ] S1. Dr. Smith will receive and for ward offerings in the competition,
 Commodore Luttgen is now installed in the office of town treasurer, his first official act being to receive the taxes collected by Collector Duncan during the month of September. His ! bondsman is August Belmont, his partner. As the amount of the bond is only $10.000 the surety is undoubt- 9 millions been required it could have been obtained quite as readily.
 The only son of the late Richard Mansfield, Americas leading actor at the time of his death two or three years ago, is a pupil at the Sanford school The lad is 13, and for the past two years has been at school in France. He is the life and leader of the Sanford school dramatic circle and if heredity and marked early taI- ent count for anything has before him d great dramatic career. His mother. known on the stage as Beatrice Cam eron, was visitor to the school last Saturday.
 An artesian we'll is being sunk on the lot near the Center Methodist church, recently bought by Mrs Will liam Hill. A fine residence will be erected there in the spring, Eugene Adams doing the building.
 Nearly all the candidates at the re- cent election have filed their returns with the town clerk as required by law, Monday having been the last day