The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-07
HAL SANFORD
 HOME FROM
 TRIP ABROAD
Brings Back Cow That Ac- companied Party to Ensure
 Pure Milk For Baby
REODINC'S REAL ESTATE
 FINDING READY MARKET
Highway Commissioner Inspects State Road on Ridge-Fire
 Chemical Engine to r be Procured

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 I Bedding, Oct 6.-Within the past few
 days real estate matters have taker
 on renewed activity. The 130 acre !. farm of Edward J. Miller at the Gen.
 ter is practically sold to a Greenwich man whose name for the present i:
 withheld. MT. Miller's price was $S,.
 900 and figure very close to that sum will be the consideration. Dr. R
 Warmers lease of the property does not | terminate until April. Another tran saction which is considered as good al closed is the sale by Harry A. Louns. 1 bury of about forty acres of his owT
 farm to a New York party who has
 extensive building plans. The land | which will change ownership by the 1 transaction comprises tile greater part | of MT. Lounsbury's farm. Commo- dore Isuttgen has added to his realty I possessions by the purchase of ten 1 acres located near the Bethel line from
 Laura Morgan. N | An inspection of the State road on the Ridge was made last Saturday by
 Commissioner Macdonald who directed l what additional work should be done 1 to render the job to his acceptance. He | ordered the application of more gravel in places and some changes in the gut Iters according to grades which his l surveyors fixed on Monday. The<road
 is also to have it's inequalities of sur face corrected and re-rolled. When that is done he will apply a top dress I ing of trap rock splinters according to
 the promise he made in a letter to l Miss Glider last summer. The ma | terial is to be brought to, Bethel by rail and thence carted. It is believ- | ed that the stone top dressing will give l firm surface to the dirt sections of l the road and prevent a repetition of | it's conversion into slough as was the result of soaking rains just after the jobs completion. A further, improve ment ordered by the commissioner was the building of a second retaining wall at the south fork of the connecting cross highway below the Klein Bros store. Mr. Macdonald also promised
 First Selectman Sanford that he would nam Park road in order that con- struction work there might be got
 under way in the spring. sy Reference was made last spring to movement for the purpose of a chem ical fire engine to afford protection to property on the Ridge and vicinity. Since then John Muennich has been working in quiet way in furtherance of the scheme and it's success is now practically assured. Several hundred dollars are already pledged and it is thought there will be little difficulty in raising the additional sum needed Part. of the plan is the organization of volunteer company to handle the apparatus and the erection of a build ing to house it. There is contemplated the purchase. of a two tank engine not too heavy to be hauled readily by a single pair of horses. The terri tory to be covered will be divided into districts, each having an apparatus to sound an alarm and indicate the local ity. The radius of protection is de- signed to include the Center as we'll as the Ridge.
 As one result of the movement in- ftiated by the Bedding Protective Lea que the land in this town is being quite generally posted for the hunting and. fishing season which began this week Thousands of acres are thus marked and more land is being simi- larly protected each day with the signs furnished by the League and sold at 20 cents each. The Leagues officers say that while they are al- ways glad to welcome the stranger within our gates and show him hospi- talfty so much damage has been done in the past by fires started by care less hunters and through the destruc- tion of fences and other property by thoughtless and indifferent sportsmen that it has been found necessary by our townspeople to come together for the mutual protection of their inter- ests. The League is backed by the strong progressive element of the town and has the heartiest favor of every one interested in the towns welfare At last Saturdays meeting the consti- tuition and bylaws reported by a com mittee was adopted. The present membership is upwards of 50 and many applications are to be acted upon at the meeting to be held on Saturday of this week at the Mark Twain library.
 Henry (HaD Sanford arrived in New York last Thursday after an absence of about half a year spent in Europe, Northern Africa fand Palestine. His land travels were mostly by motor car, his equipment including two autos and two chauffeurS. The two weeks preceding his sailing for home he spent in shooting in England as the guest of a landed proprietor having large game preserves. MT. Sanford's arri- val here was preceded by that of the COW which he took abroad in order that his infant son might be assured of supply of the right kind of milk. |
 A. G. Barnett has joined the alfal- ia band, having seeded three acres with the plant about the middle of
 
 tons of lime to the al De and inoculat- ed the soil for bacteria with com preparation The crop has made an excellent start.
 The west roadside on the Ridge from the residence of John Muennich to the Episcopal church has been ploughed to grading so that the l grass from the reseeding can be clip ped with a horse lawn mower
 The young daughter of George Will | Hams of Hometown suffered broken | leg on Monday by falling while alight- l ing from a wagon. Rufus Gould also | broke a leg recently from a fall while l getting over a stone fence.
 MT. and Mrs. Ralph Ashcroft, for | mer secretaries of Mark Twain, spent | Sunday in town as the guests of Miss J. H. Sanford. MT. Ashcroft is now | manager of a milk business in Wiscon- l sin which employs about 75 men, Homer Smith, son of Dr. E. H. | Smith, has entered Amherst college. |
 A Republican, jocosely explains his | party's defeat Eon Monday by saving