The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-04
BEDDING

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 Bedding, Sept. 4Iron gratings hay ing been placed over the rear win dows of the Ridge store, which were previously unprotected, the next bur glarious visitors will not obtain en- trance as easily as did those of last Thursday night. The raiders broke one of the large panes of glass evil dently expecting to turn a catch and lift the window, but the sash being fast they removed the entire pane by cutting out the putty This gave them access to the new addition which is used as grain room, but they failed to get intosthe main store and in fact there appeared no indications that they tried to do so. MT Muennich thinks, although he is not certain, that The callers drank three bottles of a special brand of sarsaparilla and car ried off several bottles more. A search warrant was issued against parties on whom suspicion fell and ConstabIes Warner and Downs made a search of their premises on Saturday, their main hope being to find the stolen bever- age bottles. The search was unpro- ductive of results and the guilty par ties still remain unknown.
 Consid erable other thieving has been going on lately in the Ridge section.
 w NIIn1n two WGShS HUU QOunQS U WnlIS lead and some rope and fixtures of painters scafo1ding outfit were stolen from the premises of H. s. Barnes. Hose has been taken from the barn of Mrs. Kate Favereauj lumber from the barn of A. L. Livermore, potatoes from Marcus Burr's field and grapes and apples from the yard of the Jones brothers at Pine Tree Corner. As a consequence of these offerings a good many citizens have got their firearms in readiness and are trying to sleep light.
 More damage was done to the high ways by the downpours of last Friday night than by all the previous storms of the season, and the selectmen are considering the matter of calling a special town meeting in order to pro- vide an appropriation for proceeding at once with the necessary repairs Either this must be done or the work deferred until after the annual meet ing in October when 1t must be car ried on under disadvantageous condi- tions. It would be good economy to get at the job as soon as possible as further storms with the roads in their present frayed state would seriously aggravate present conditions and call for a disproportfonate1y large outlay. If such a meeting is held action will probably be taken by it on an appro- priation for state road building dur ing the next two years. First Select man Sanford will endeavor to see Com missioner Bennett within a few days in regard to the proper time for such action. ~-"e~5-. -=.- T F
 The public schools : reopened on Tuesday. The contract for the trans. portation of pupils from the hometown district has been awarded to Howard Platt at $1.3 .35 per day. Last year he trict contract again goes to D. R. Warner at $1.8o. For the contract J.. H. Duncan's bid was g. The contract for the Couch Hill district has not been awarded. There are only two children to be carried from this 1o- ca1ity against about d dozen last year. The town school committee has voted to extend the privileges of the gram mar school at the Center to the sew enth and eighth grade pupils of the to take advantage of the privilege whereas last year there were only three.
 On Monday afternoon two autos, both driven by elderly men. met near the foot of the hill above Putnam park. The machine descending the grade was skidding in an alarming fashion and to avoid a collision the driver of the other turned so sharply that his car went down the bank and brought up against a fence. A team was required to get it. back upon the road. No harm resulted to either car or their occupants.
 The two nights fair held at the Mark Twain Library last week for the n- brary's benefit was well patronized and realized a. net profit of about S2o0 Few of those who attended on Friday night managed to get home without a wetting from the succession of storms which began about 10 o'clock.
 The guests at the Ridgewo1d Inn are thinning out and most of them will have departed by the end of the present week. Those of the summer colony who have homes here will re- main several weeks longer, The Corn wall house in Sanfordtown was vacat- ed last Saturday by the Brown family and immediately re-occupied by the family of Noble Vincent of Bridge port.
 The attempt by the town last Sat urday to sell two pieces of real estate for taxes was a failure for the sec ond time, there being no bidders.
 A man who tried to. keep count of the number of autos which passed over the Ridge road on Monday de- c1ares that there were at least 15o and that the horse drawn vehicles passing during the same period did not exceed a dozen.
 Lightning struck the residence of Marcus Burr last Friday night, tearing a board from the siding and severfng A----==---