The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-14
THE FARMER: NOVEMBER IA, 1912
BENEFIT PERFORMANCE FOR
 RIDGE FIRE DEPARTMEN1

 RIDGE FIRE DEPARTMENT New Road Supervisor Has Taken Hold In Manner That Convinces l Observers He Is Right Man
 1 For the Job.
 1 Redding, Nov. IA concert, a dra- 1 matic performance and a. dance will comprise an entertainment to be giv- en at the Sanford gym on the even ing of Friday, Nov. 22, for the benefit of the Bedding Ridge fire department.
 Instrumental music and singing by a
 male quartet are to make up the first section of the program and then comes the presentation of a humorous p1aylet entitled '@The Troublesome Tramp with dancing as the closing diversion.
 In the cast for the stage performance
 are Prof. Dippei and Herr Schock of the teaching staff of the Sanford school, ntative-e1ect E. P. San- E. P. Sanford and Miss Ruth Reid. The admission charge is only 25c and with so many attractions there will doubtless be crowded house. Herr Schock is to personate an Irish police man and this feature alone ought to be worth several times tho price of admis- sion.
 Not only disappointed but dazed were the local Republican leaders at the To- cal results of last weeks election. They had made a very complete preliminary canvass which convinced them that they would be comfortably in the lead when the votes were counted. The fig ures showed that with all the doubt full votes conceded to the opposing forces they were ahead in the First district which comprises the Ridge and
 Center sections while the Second or relied upon for Q Republican majority. It did give a Republican plurality of in former years, but the forecast as to the First district proved all wrong as its Democratic plurality more than overcome the opposing plurality in the other districts One of the disappoint- ed leaders declared that 1t seemed as if the outcome must have been brought he owned that this idea was of course ridiculous. The real causes were the unexpectedly large Bull Moose vote and the tendency of voters clasSed as doubtful or surely Republican to vote the Democratic ticket One of the Re- publican representative candidates was so sure of success that he engaged quarters for himself and wife at Hart ford during the winter in advance of election day. It is an unpleasant re- f1ectton for the losers that their autos those who voted the other way.
 The towns new road supervisor. Thomas Bloorner,- is actively on the eral tour of inspection in an auto to ascertain what pieces of road were most in need of immediate attention.
 short stretches in Georgetown and next, with six men and. two teams, turned to the GalIowss Kziu road .4V hich he has not been able to hire nearly as many men as he would like al- though he is offering g for day before a freeze up stops operations to fix up the worst spots and to clean out the clogged gutters and sluice in the spring it is probable that he will organize a permanent working force. Apparently he has an under and this fact and the energy with which he has started in gives reason to hope that aL real reform in road repair methods has at last been inaugurateTa. as,1F T nent along the east side of the chan neI of the Aspetuck river from the further down the stream has been com- pleted by N. F. Hoggson. It is his in ten<ion to eventually build similar wall at the opposite side of the chan along for two on three hundred feet further by MT. ThoMpson. whose prop erIy The ad50e IoWer Ridse store which was recently vacated by the Klein Broth CTS, has been reopened by J. M. Sulli- van of Bridgeport, the owner of the
 
 John Weyser has completed the building of neat little cottage just below Pine Tree corner on a lot which he bought several years ago.. Moses Baker Is also putting up for his own occupancy small frame dwelling in the lower part of Pleasant Valley
 Norman Farr, 8 carpenter who has been living in the Merchant stone house at Umpawaug, is moving to Perth Anboy. N. J.
 The ladies of the Center Methodist church will give pFogressive social on Friday evening, Nov 15, at the resi- |
 The town school committee will con- 1 slider at their next meeting proposi- l ton to sell the school property of the Diamond Hill district This is the sec ond season the property has been un- 1 used and Albert Bigelow Paine has made known his readiness to buy it. search of the land records fails to l show win the town derived owner i ship of the school house lot with the 1 exception of a, small strip which was a few years since Tor the enlargement of the original site.
 None of the grand jurors chosen at l the October election has qualified ana by the law having elapsed. J. H. l Duncan is acting grand Juror as hold-over and will probably be ap- l pointed to the position by the select 1 men.
 George Williams is sinking an arte- 1 sian well at his place in Lonetown-
 Senator-elect L. O. Peck closed his 1 home on Sunset hill last F'r1- | house in West End avenue. New York
 A. steam heating plant is being in 1 stalled in the main buildings Of the Sanford school. MIR. sCHLEICHERT IS
 DOING THE PARK WORK