The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
BEDDING

Bedding, Aug. 15- When Peter Peter son complained to the authorities last Sunday that late the previous night he had been waylaid while walking from Bedding station to his home at the Center and that the waylayers had knocked him.. down and robbed him of the valise he was carrying he probably believed his tale to be, a true one. An explanation of it's es- Sential untruth Is to be found in the fact that the inventory he gave of the purchases he was taking home in- cluded five bottles of whiskey. Arm ed with search warrant Constable Warner found the missing valise on Monday morning at atheF home in Lone town of the colpred man whom Peter son accused. No attempt had been made to conceal it and the contents were intact with the exception of sew eral bottles. The ralise had evidently lain out in the rain the night before bearing out the story of the accused that he picked it up Sunday morning while retracing his course over the road to look for a watch he had lost. He said that he and his wife met Peterson on the road the night before names and ran off when threatened with retaliatory blow. The authori- ties accepted this version as the true one and did not further prosecute
 On Friday last Constable Warner shot one of the nine dogs which had been bitten several days before by Captain Days dog. What became of not having been seen after disappear ing from Topstone, 1t is. supposed to have died in some out of the way place as dogs survive an attack of rabies only a short time. The dog killed by the constable belonged to Peter Peterson It was snapping at it's chain when the officer responded to a call and went into convu1sions when he placed a pan of water before it. Three of the bitten dogs were owned about the Center and the otn- CTS on the west side By order of MT. Warner, who is also dog warden, all of them have been chained and are being closely watched.
 Through the American Security Co. Tax Collector Duncan has furnished a bond of $10,000 for the faithful per- formance of his duties. Heretofore collectors have furnished the required surety through private bondsfnen.
 largely attended dance took place at the Sanford gym last Friday even ing. James Reynolds, Denis Ryan and Simon Loveley were the committee of arrangements.
 Rev Ebert Miller and wife of Iowa have been the guests of Mrs. John s. Sanford, MT. Miler's sister, Mrs. Miller is the sister of Congressman Hill.
 The Republican caucus for the e1ec- ton of delegates to the State, Con- gressional and Senatorial conventions. will be held at the town house on Friday evening, Aug. 30.
 Mrs. John c. Read, accompanied by her daughter and Miss Ella Baldwin, is spending the present week at Port Jefferson.
 Charles E. Ives and wife of New York have bought from Elizabeth Sey-I mour, twelve acres in the UmpawaugI section and will build thereon resi- dence. The purchaser is a brother of Attorney Ives of Danbury.
 The school transportation contract for the hometown section has been awarded Howard c. Platt at $1.6O per day and the contract for Sanfordtown to D. R. Warner at $1.80. The bid ders for the Couch Hill contract were Robert Nichols and Milo Osborn, but the school committee thought their figures too high and invited new pro- posalS.
 The Ladies Aid society of the Gen. ter Methodist church will give sup per and sale of fancy articles on Thursday evening of next week A special booth for the children will be d ACdt01S . OI LICi dIIdIT.
 E. F. Sanford, John Muennich, L.. [. Rumsey, Milo L. Osborn and Will liam Behm went to Bridgeport, last Friday evening in MT. Sanford's car and had a shore dinner at Lehmann's.
 Louis Klein has rented J. M Sul- livan's barn and is fitting it up for a garage instead of putting up a. building for that purpose as he ori- ginally planned There is sufficient hiring patronage for his car to keep 1t in almost constant use.
 The Methodist and Congregational churches of the Center held a senior picnic at Putnam Park last week
 A masquerade party was given by, MT. and Mrs. Herbert Bouton last Fri day evening at their bungalow near Library Corner.
 The recently appointed good roads committee of the Protective League held their first meeting at the home of Commodore Luttgen last Saturday 
 Fresh Shore Haddock.
 fancy cocktail bluef1sh, fresh Eastern halibut, fresh butterfish fresh steak cod, fresh Long Island steamers, fresh round clans, fresh opened long clans, Eyac fn1spa l~xSr- Sr-a.E