The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-28
BEDDING

Bedding, March 28-Within a, short
 time Bedding Grange will have adopt
 ed some definite plan for providing itself with a new home. The rental
 idea has been virtually abandoned in
 favor of building at one of three loca-
 tions on the Ridge. One prospective
 site is a half acre tract on the turn
 pike owned by Marshall Sanford, and
 another is a tract in the same neigh
 borhood owned by Henry Shaw. Filth CT can be had for $50. The third pros
 pective site is the southeast corner of
 the Episcopal rectory lot, and a spe-
 cial parish meeting has been called
 for next Monday at 8 o'clock to act
 upon a proposition for the leasing of
 that site. Should the church mem-
 bers act favorably upon the proposal, affirmative action on the part of the Grange will also be necessary. Should
 both parties reach an agreement on the main issue there will remain for adjustment the details, one proposition being to put up a building which shall serve both as a Grange hall and a parish house. The need of such a house has been felt by the church for long time, and sort of part nership arrangement with the Grange may be looked upon as an excellent opportunity for supplying the need. Should that project fall through and a lease of the church ground on any conditions be refused, the Grange will probably proceed to build on one of the other two sites. It is proposed to either a single story or one story and a basement A horse shed is also part of the program. The estimated cost of the whole is from $1, 200 to $1,- 800
 An adverse fate in the matter of fires seems to pursue J. Martin Wool sey who, about dozen years since, bought the large Somers farm in Hat tertown, near the Bedding line, and for a considerable period carried on the milk business there, meanwhile making improvements on a scale so extensive that it gave the impression that he possessed considerable means. Before long a fire swept away the barns on the place and these. had hardly been rebuilt when the house took fire in the owners absence and was also destroyed. Among the con- tents was, as Mr. Woolsey claimed. $500 in cash. He also rebuilt the house, but about four years ago solo the property and removed to Mt. Yer non, going subsequently, to Willow Grove near Philadelphia, where he bought a home. This house was burned last Sunday night, and as MT. Woolsey did not appear it was at first feared that ne nad peflSneu III the flames. While the ruins were being searched for his body, however, he showed up unharmed, having gone to New York the previous evening. When MT. Woolsey first came to this local ity he made it known that he had in a work on the Biblical Garden Of Eden, in the writing of which he had been engaged for sev- eral years This was published in 1a1o with the title of '"The Garden of Flden; or the Discovery anu r1..ai &-o- 1ution of the Mystery Of tiie --v>-n, the Tree and the Serpent" The book is mythological, theological and Scrip tural in it's conception, and is said to have brought the author, who was 80 years old at the time of its pubEca- tion, a prize of $10.000. He has since published '"The Discovery of Noah's Ark and ''The Ancient City,