The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-10
BEDDING

the public comfort and convenience
 building at Putnam Park is being laid I under the direction of Caretaker De- 1 fancy. The ground dimensions of the | structure are A by 16 feet and it will
 wide. Its outer covering will be shin 1 gles after the style of the pavilion i Bedding Grange has it's new build 1 ing the Newtown turpike just be- 1 low Milo Osborn's corner well under 1 way. The sides are enclosed and the
 roof will be on by. the end of the
 cellar and laying of the Foundation walls was done by members of the Grange and members are also doing most of the carpenter work.
 l On Saturday evening, Oct 12, there | will be given at the Mark Twain li brary for the. benefit of the Protective Collins Walsh. secretary of the Ex-
 plorers' club, on Morocco and It's
 People. MT. Walsh spent several 1 months in travel with his own caravan 1 through little known section of Moroc- | co and has complete and first hand l information regarding this interesting | region. Refreshments and dancing will | follow the lecture.
 MT. and Mrs. William A. Grouse 1 returned last week from their wedding
 trip to the South and on Friday ev- ening a welcome home party was giv en in their honor by MT. and Mrs. All | bert A. Gorham. the brides parents. Some fifty invited guests, all of them l members of Bedding Grange, attended l the function Refreshments were serv-
 
 ] session of dancing.
 1 The Margaret O'Donnell place near l Branchville sold this week to Val | entine Britton of New York who hae 1 also summer home in Litchfeld, | The property comprises house and ] 27 acres.
 I of the mail route between the Ridge 1 and West Bedding there has been i marked improvement in the service. A l two horse team is used, giving ample | facilities for passengers and baggage: 1 and connections are made with mail | trains according. to schedule. | Up to the present time Town Clerk I Sanford has issued 56 hunters licenses,
 all residents of this state. The law
 went off quail partridge and wooqcocK Tuesday Last Friday evening Henry Drucker and Carl Klein sallied forth l on a coon hunt with a borrowed dog and before morning succeeded in bag l had some lnisgivings as to whether l they were not taking chances of prose l dog but accepted the assurances of ez- l pert advisers that no real harm could | result because a genuine coon dog 1 once loosed on the trail became too 1 much absorbed in the job to do mis- 1 chief
 A volunteer party of the new mem 1 turned out Tuesday to help in put
 ting down a new cement floor in the l church basement.
 | has been severely i'll with alteration Of
 the stomach, but is improving
 An unmuzzled dog which was pick 1 ed up and turned over to Warden 1 Warner proved to be a stray one, own 1 ed in Bethel and was returned to the | owner
 I Hugh C. McCo11am on Tuesday. The | mother had previously been seriously 1 ill with complications which led the at- | tending physician to advise her remov- l al to a hospital for treatment | At the monthly meeting of the Pro-
 tective league last saturday atternoon 1a | them being the employment of game | warden whose particular province
 should be the destruction of vern1n | slppIementary to the work of The | State Warden. Another was an appl-
 sociation for cooperation in posting | signs indicating danger points of tray l el such as exist on the Glen road, Put nam road and other localities An | other was the enlargement of the La dies Entertainment committee With l view to better arranging course or l ter which should be instructive ana 1 entertaining and also heIp out the
 League,s finances ApproYal "a % was ar,nes7 nes7 | for the renewal of, membership ana payment of the small membership Tee the secretary says: The larger mem tleIn> 1 ence Of the league for the common good, and the quicker we will be able l l town to live in in the State or Connec- | ticut''
 What has been accomplished in the
 administration of the pubic schools H
 mana cement is described by SuperF'- | sor Parker in the committees annual
 report as follows:
 "AIl school buildings have been put
 in first class condition; new black 1 boards have been placed in each l cups have been provided; a complete set of maps of first quality has been 1 placed in each school to replace old
 maps dating back to 1s7S; the Center l building which is provided with an excellent heating and ventilating sys- l tenn: at the Center is now a graded | for two years in addition to the usual eight grades; supplementary readers | have been purchased for each school | more such readers will however, De
 needed during the next yeart; $66 has 1 been expended for library books for the Center and Ridge schools; the 1 schools are now all approved by the state board of education as being good schools; all the teachers now hold state certificates: one teacher is a college
 graduate, two are graduates of the | Danbury Normal school, and the re- naining two teachers have taken cor irespondence and summer courses at
 the Normal school and so secured training in approved methods of teach 1 ing; the schools are all organized and the pupils so graded that they should l be able to enter corresponding grades
 io other towns: the state course of | study has been adopted and used in l each school; pupils from the Bedding
 schools are now admitted to the Dan bury High school upon certificate. in stead of being required to take exam. nations as heretofore; by means of | teachers meetings and frequent con ferences your supervisor has been able to be of much assistance to the teach CTS in planning and directing the work