The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-17
OUR BEDDING LETTER
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
Robbery-Twain Library Land Sold Hens Are on Vacation.


 Hens Are on Vacation. Bedding. Oct 17-T1le greater part ot the lot of fourteen acres which the Mark Twain Library Association re.
 gently purchased from the Theodore Adams estate was sold this week to Albert Bigelow Paine and Harry
 Lounsbury, two of the library trus-
 tees. Two and three quarters acres has
 been conveyed to MT. Paine for $15G
 as consideration and eight acres Ivent to MT Iounsbury for $75. The re- n1aining three acres will, it is thou gIlt, ture needs of the library. The price
 was s425.
 The two footpads who made James Reynolds the victim of a highway rob bery on Wednesday night of last week vanished as mysteriously as they ap- ever to their identity their detection is highly improbable. The robbery oc- cured about Il o'clock on the hill above the residence of Charles More house. Mr. Reynolds being at the time on the way to his home a short distance further on. CIoudiness, the trees bordering the roadside and a carpeting of damp leaves made com bination of conditions favorable for job. Before MT. Reynolds realized that anyone was near he found himself While he was thus held helpless an- other man went through his pockets and removed his gold watch and be- tween s8 and S9 MT Reynolds made not outcry, feeling that he might fare worse if he did so, and the robbers also maintained entire silence. It was too dark for him to plainly see their features even had they stood in front of him and this they were careful not to do. On reaching home he telephon ed alarm to police Headquarters at Bridgeport and Danbury, but he could give no description of his SaiIants nothing came of it. It is sur rnised that the robbers were some of the lawless drtfters who had been talk ing in the Danbury fair.
 Like the proverbia1 scarcity of hen teeth is the current local production of hen fruit. There is indeed virtu- ally a famine of the newly laid arti- cle. and if present conditions last much longer the stores in town will have to use storage eggs to meet the few days farmers with fair sized flocks Of fowls have teIephoned neighbors for few eggs only to find that their neighbors are in the same egg1ess fix. The price is 45 cents a dozen with practically none to be had. The noulting season always causes a. great blight seems more complete and sweeping this season than usual Fl. $. Barnes, the poultry magnate of the Ridge, when asked how his hens were doing said they were on about a ten per cent basis of a full output. That is the comb bined energies Of ten hens resulted in one egg daily. His 1,200 bullets are just coming into bearing, SO to speak, while his 25O adults are taking well earned but aggra~ating rest.
 Tuesday, conferring with contractors m reference to the building of the pro- posed concrete bridge over the Aspe- l tuck river just west of his residence i cost of the structure is s75O and it has not yet been positively determined whether anyone will tage the job at that figure Before the end of the week MT. Hoggson will meet the se- ectmen for a review of the situation. | The present plans provide for a widen l ng the channel beneath the bridge by moving back the east abutement ten | eet which would bring it in line with | he retaining wall MT. Hoggson is | building from that point to a point | Such widening is desirable as under l present. conditions heavy rainfalls | ,auses an overflow of the bridge. The 1 -etaining wall in question is to ex- ended by Mrs. Thompson for several .ods along the bank of the stream on he east side of the road near her | 'esidence.
 The constables elected at the recent i own election were: Arthur w Stowe, | -ames Delaney and Thomas J. Dar- | -agh, Democrats, and D. R. Warner | rand jurors are M. Joseph Sullivan, 1ichael Flood and F. M. Stocking, | Democrats, and J. H. Duncan, $. D. Barrett and John Todd, Republicans. The Republican nominees for justices f the peace to be chosen at the No 'ember election are F.. A. Pinkney, G. }. Banks, Seth Sanford, s. c. Shaw nd Dr. E. H. Smith.
 A round up of the avowed BuM NIoos- rs in the town has at last been eff ected, the canvass showing a total Of nineteen. Among them is Dan Beard, he author and artist, who is a pion- CT and leader in the Boy Scout move aent in which Col. Roosevelt is also rominent Another is William Klink f the west side who has been ap- oi1ted on one of the party's campaign committees.
 q on Tuesday evening from a three avs auto trip to Poughkeepsie and ther points along the Hudson. They ere accompanied by MT and Mrs rthur Sherwood of Easton.
 The committee appointed by the 'wn meeting to hire a road super ,nce of MT Peck took no definite etion. Another meeting has been ap- l : ointed for next Monday John H. Jennings, the West Bedding lg of an artesian well and will fur ssh his residence with a supply of ot and cold water. He was fortunate tough to strike an abundant flow water at a depth of g feet
 John Olley, express agent at Bedding ation, has started the building of a , sidence on the road lea ding from the I ation to Topstone. F At the meeting of the registrars last onday 30 names were placed on the # to be made. Mrs. William Crouch of hometown turned to her home last week from E e Danbury hospital where she was eated for. tIInnor Mrs. Seth Todd has closed her . use for the winter and is boarding Y
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