The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-25
Bedding Grange
 Building To Be
 Ready Next Fall
PUBLIC SPIRITED MEMBERS DO- NATE IMPORTANT FACTORS
 OF CONSTRUCTION.
Town Aroused by Disclosure of Young
 Thief's Suicidal Threat.

Bedding, April 25-The location def initely settled upon last Saturday as
 building site for Bedding grange is neither of the two previously under consideration, final choice being made
 of plot on the west side of the New
 town turnpike a short distance below
 Milo Osborn's large barn which is situated at the intersection of the
 turnpike and the highway leading
 from the Ridge to the Center. Mir.
 Osborn owns the land offered it at nominal figure. A lot 120 by 75 feet l was staked out by the committee and | it is intended to start work at once. The plans call for building of one story and a basement with ground dimensions of 60 by 26 feet The cost is estimated at from $1,500 to $2.00O. allowance being made for labor and material which the Grange members will contribute to the undertaking. For one thing they expect to do the excavation and stone work for the
 Der for the frame. Timber has been donated by Stephen Sanford and Fred Wood and George o. Sanford and oth- CTS will assist in getting it out. It | is designed to have the building ready for occupancy by early fall.
 
 dead in which the Episcopal and Con-
 gregational churches joined was held 1 Sunday afternoon at the Center Methodist church before a large as- semblage The pastors of the three 1 churches each made impressive ad- Methodist church sang finely bass solo, his wife playing the accompani- ment. Complaint of the condition of the hometown road below Adams Corner has been made to the county com missioners by Mail Carrier Ward. The spring break up and washouts made deep ruts which remain thrilled. A + few days ago Inspector Brush of Dan- bury came down in an auto to look over the State built portion of the highway and became stalled in one of these town road holes.
 A G. Barnett, who has a large herd of cows, has decided to switch from milk selling to butter making and will build a dairy house to contain com, plete modern equipment for that purs pose including an engine for running the separator and butter worker. 1 The sheds and barn which were part of the former hotel property in West Bedding and later passed to the ownership of J. Fl. Jennings were des- unknown origin. Four horses. the property of F.. German, 8 Danbury l truckman, perished in the fire. They were fully insured, while the loss on the buildings is about one-third cov- cred by, insurance. | An attractive circular announces | that Ridgewold Inn will reopen for I the summer season on June IS. The addition now building will largely in- crease the hotels capacity. In its descriptive reference to the town the | circular says: 'To most visitors 1t Is a matter of surprise that so much of | rural beauty still unspoiled and 10 | typical New England community should exist so near New York City" An auction to dispose of his farm
 and household personal property will | be held next week by Julius Rifkin, and will go to New York. His wife I and two sons. however, will board dur ] ing the summer at Easton Center, the
 boys being employed at the Locomo- bile factory. l.. O. Peck's stone crusher has late | ly been in operation getting out sev- eral hundred loads of material for
 use on the place of the owner and | the Luttgen place.
 l Miss Fanny Gorham of the Center l has taken a position in a day nursery connected with a New York hospi- | tal | The Messrs. Waugh and Blanchard have returned from a winter stay in New Jersey to their summer home on | the Ridge.
 l Tuesdays wind storm caused general l demorelizatfon of the local telephone l service, the worst known in a long l time.