The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-06
BEDDING FARMERS . CRITICALLY SCORE
 HUSKING MACHINE
Speed Is There and Also the
 Question of Cost.
Mir. Bennett of Georgetown Thinks There Was Malice In His Sons Prosecution-Herr SchOch's Notable Success As a Peace Diplomat.
BEDDING

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 Bedding, Nov. 6-Farmers in the with interest during the last few days the operations of a mechanical corn husker, owned by Henry s. Osborn. The invention is not so very new, but this is the rst machine of the kind which has been brought to Bedding. As 8 device for speedy shucking the implement is certainly success, hav- ing capacity of sixty bushels per minute. Whether in respect to the cost of the work it possesses any par t1cuIar advantage over the hand meth cd of huskng is a matter of some doubt. The stalks have to be carted to the machine and one team is hardly sufficient to keep up the supply. Feed ing requires one man, the binding of the stalks two men and the handling Of the husked corn at least one man besides a team to transfer it to the place of storage. It costs seven or eight cents a bushel for hand husk- ing and probably very nearly as much for doing the work with the machine under the most favorable conditions. John Reynolds, who used the machine last week did not find it a money saw ing device because he had only an OK team to keep up the supply of stalks.
 
 idle so much of the time that the days output was only 111 bushels
 The case of Lansing Bennett, a IT year old Georgetown youth arrested last Monday for taking without per mission a horse belonging to Horace Hazen. made stir in the village out of proportion to it's seeming import ance. Robert Bennett, the defend ants father, is a leading member of the Methodist church and took an ac- fra +1> crusade against Sunday ball playing. He expresses the opinion that but for this and his zeal for the laws enforce ment on other occasions a prosecution would not have been brought against his soon when the opportunity offered. However this may be it is doubtful if an arrest would have been asked had not MT. Hazen's horse been tam pered with a second time, with the re- suit that it became tangled by its hitching rope and was badly injured in it's struggles to free itself. There was no evidence that young Bennett had anything to do with the later tampertng and he denies having any part in it. The complainant in the case was for several months in the employ of Mark Twain as butler. When arraigned before justice at the town house last Monday Benett plead ed guilty and said he took the team because some of his chums dared him to do so.
 He, made use of it to give a ride of two or three miles to one of his girl friends and returned it to the shed unharmed. A share in the taking of other teams in the same fashion was also admitted by the accused who is pupil in the Danbury High school Most of the witnesses against him were his classmates. A fine of s and costs was imposed, the whole amount ing to $32. IT, which Bennett paid with money he had himself earned. To Grand Juror Duncan, who prosecuted, an unpleasant incident of the trial was the disappearance of his copy of the Cohnecticut Civil Officer, a volume costing $5. He had placed the book on a, desk in the court room whence it was '1ifted'' by some person unknown during the progress of the trial. How the purloiner could have done the job without being observed is a mys- tery.
 Following is the cast for Valley Farm the four act comedy which Bedding Grange will present at their hall on the evenings of November 12 and 13: Hal Rutledge, a young New Yorker, Frank Mehan; Perigene Dean, a farmer, Hermann Smith; David Hill dreth, a New York lawyer, Benjamin Parker; Silas Holcomb, owner of Val ley Farm, B. P. Sanford; Hazariah Keep, a clock tinker, L. s. Warner; jennings IIk0 OuL10Es O0OES0 O Hoo111- ford; Hettie HoHcomb, daughter of Silas, Mrs. Frank Mehan; Isabel Car ney, a New York girl, Mrs. P. Sam ford; Almirah Holcomb. sister of Si- las, Miss Myrtle Beck; Lizah Ann Tucker, a ne1ghbor, Mrs. Henry Ken mel; Verbena, hired girl on the farm, Miss Esther Beck. Between the acts there will be special features, inc1ud- ing character songs by Robert Marsh of Sport Hill, songs by Miss Della Carson and piano solos by Mrs. Lemuel Sanford.
 William Hazard, a small colored man, and "Joe," large colored man, connected with the commissary depart ment of the Sanford School, engaged on Monday evening in a heated argu- ment over some religious question and from a war of words proceeded to phy sical combat. The large man kicked the small one down flight of stairs, but in a renewal of hostilities on the floor below the small man evened up matters by smiting the other'sN head with a pitcher. Both combatants were bruised and bleeding when sep arated. Hazard promptly made coTn-- plaint to Grand Juror Duncan for Joe's arrest, but withdrew the com p1aint the next morning. This pacific