The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-01

' Vi The picnic season at Putnam Park opened last Saturday with a visit by party of about 50 young people from Danbury. On Monday the hat finishers of the Judd & Andrews shop of Danbury had an outing at reunions will be held at the same place by the Morgan and the Colley families.
 June 21 and not May 31 as slated last week is the date fixed for the appearance of the Elmwood Min streis at the Sanford school gym. The troupe will have new scenery, new costumes and a new program and should attract capacity audience, Twelve hundred white pine seedlings were recently planted in Putnam Park and a space of 24 feet wide has been cleared around the tract they oc- cupy for the purposes of lessening the danger from fires.
 In addition to the fruit trees many of the elms on the east side of the town were this week subjected to spraying. The apple trees, which have been so seriously ravaged by the canker worm for several years are almost wholly free from them this season.
 An elevator, electric light wires and fire escapes are among the equipment of the large, four story addition to the Sanford school. now nearing comple- tion. Probably no use will be made of the wires until a public electric service is established and no one knows when that will happen
 P. M. Brotherton. who recently sold his property at the Centre, is about to move to Bethel where he has bought a house and two or three acres.
 ''The Choirmaster," was presented at the gym on Wednesday evening of last week by the choir of St. Thomas, church, Bethel, for the benefit of Bedding Grange which netted about $15 from the entertainment
 James Delaney recently lost a brood SOW and all her litter of young pigs from hog cholera. a disease which has not before appeared in this To- cality for several years.
 i'll with pneumonia at the home of her daughter, Mrs. w. s. Downs. on the Ridge. Mrs Henry Shaw of the Ridge is also seriously ill.-
 Miss J. L.. Glider will not occupy her summer place on the Ridge. this season, having rented it to New York family.
 Patrick Dyer, who with John Ma loney so inhumanly maltreated Fred Cole on the 9th of this month, was arraigned before Justice J. L.. Black man at west Bedding last Friday. On
 
 peace and drunkenness the court found Dyer guilty and imposed fines of $17 and costs and a jail sentence of 30 days. On the charge of inde- cent assault the accused was granted parole for one year. This feature of the decision did not at all suit Grand Juror Duncan who conducted the prosecution, he maintaining that the court had authority only to ac- quit or bind the prisoner over for trial by the higher court as the offence charged was a felony punishable by ten years imprisonment. The justice insisted. however. and probably Dyer will not again be called upon to an- swer to the aggravated assault charge Attendance in Bedding schools for past four weeks. Bedding Ridge, M. Jennie Mcdonald, teacher; Hobson Archer, Katherine Archer, Cleora Burr. Arthur Burr, Althea Marsh, liar riet Ferry, Clarence Johnson, Center school. room 1, Florence M. Yutzler teacher; Hilda Bergquist, Kate Nickerson, Evelyn Nickerson, Elizabeth Duncan, Kennedy Duncan, Ada Williams, George Williams, Myr- tie Warner, Elizabeth Sanford. Center school, Room il. A. Florence Nichols, teacher; Andrew Hingle, No- ble Warner, Claus Bergquist, Dayton Sanford, Rutha Gorham. Grace Banks.