The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-04
Bedding Chemical
 Again Makes Good
Quickly Quenches a Chimney
 Blaze At the Ridge.
Son of Center Resident Meets Accidental Death-ThankS- giving Dinner Cooked in Old Fashioned Brick OVen-SO- ciaI Happenings of Interest.
Especial to The Farmer )

Sanford H. O5born's residence on the | Ridge took fire last Friday evening 1 and sent forth a lively blaze greatly
 to the fright of the women members
 of the family who were at the time | the only occupants of the house. It
 had been arranged by the Ridge fire 1 department that fire calls should first | be sent to the central telephone office
 which in turn would promptly spread d 1 the alarm, but in this instance only i the Ridge store was notified. Propr1- ' etor Muennich, Joe Bu6ser and Hop i son Archer happened to be the only i persons on hand and they quickly
 manned one of the departments chem 1 ica1 engines and hurried it to the scene, making the run in f1VeAninptes. Some of the other neighbors had mean while unsucceSsfully tried to extin- guish the blazeaby dropping salt down the chimney. A stream from the chem ica1 soon Quenched the fire which had not comm unicated to the woodwork, although the roof near the chimney seemed very near ignition. Two men
 on the roof who derided the capacity
 Of the machine to throw a stream any
 distance received a. wetting from the
 hose as a playful argument to con
 vince them of their mistake. Ordinarily
 the Sanford school would have provid-
 ed a force of volunteers to handle the engine, but all the pupils were away
 4OI tAS1T 1nd1nS61N4A5 t0OdL4OAA MI.
 Osborn arrived home just as the fire
 was out. He was one of the original subscribers to the departnnents fund
 and from the service rendered Friday
 night has the satisfaction of knowing
 that the investment was a good one-
 The Thanksgiving dinner partaken
 of by a family gathering of twenty
 five at the home of Town Clerk San
 ford last Thursday was cooked in the
 old-fashioned way in an e4old-fashioned
 oven. All the old houses have these
 ovens, which are a brick lined com
 partment adjoining the chimney, and
 MT. Sanford'S house has two, althougA
 this was the first time either of them
 has been used by the present ~occu-
 pants. A plentiful supply of wood is
 first burned in the oven and when re-
 duced to coals the latter are raked
 out, the chimney opening closed and
 the dishes to be cooked placed inside.
 the cooking being done by secondary
 heat radiating from the inner sur faces. Meats cooked in this way are said to be especially savor3 and such
 was the opinion of MT. Sanford's guests. Among them were Engineer Albert Hill and Mrs. Rand1e of New Haven, Miss GoodselI of New York and Sam RandIe of Philadelphia.
 One of the complaints which used to 1 be urged against former Commissioner Macdonald was the lack of attention l he gave to keeping state roads in re- | pair after they were built, a neglect 1 which resulted in rapid deterioration. AS far as this town is concerned there is no occasion for such criticism in the case Of Commissioner Bennett. He had all our state roads oiled with reason able promptneEs and all have under gone repairs since spring with a thor oughness previously unknown. The last job of the kind is the gravel1ing of the Little York road now being done in a first class manner by W. T. Wood l in of Danbury. The work of top dress ing with crushed stone that part of the Center-Bethel highway built several years ago will be carried out in the | spring. All Of the new hometown road 1 is completed as regards the stone fill 1 ing and top dressing and with good i weather all the other details will be | finished up in another week or 90.
 MT and Mrs. Elbert M Sanford were 1 at their evening meal last Friday when l an interruption occurred from the un- 1 expected incoming of a party ofrrela- 1 tives and friends numbering about l twenty-five. The invaders soon made | 1t known that their purpose was to | emphasize the fact and honor and 1 make joyous the occasion that the date l marked the 18th or silver anniversary of MT. and Mrs Sanford's marriage. 1 This purpose was very happily accom- l pIished A taE'c was bountifully | spread with the refreshments brought 1 by the visitors and during the evening 1 they presented to the host and hostess l a large combination silver dish. $. c. 1 Shaw made appropriate presentation 1 remarks while his wife softly played 1 the Lohengrin wedding march on the i piano. Among the other gifts was a 1 cut glass set from Miss Emma Reid.
 Edward SchaH, a son of Alexander SchaH of the Center, was accidentally led ndTn y7eaTy hxyf O17aT of a. revolver which he carried on his 1 person. The young man, whose age was only 23, held a responsible clerical l position with a business firm in New Rochelle, N. Y. He wore an artificial leg to replace one lost in an accident several years ago and this disability to have contributed to the fa- tality which occurred in the bath room Of his boarding house The circum- stances indicate that after detaching the cork leg he lost his balance and fell against the bath tub in such a way hat the revolver was discharged The bullet entered his heart and when found he was dead. rra
 While D. w. Green was driving homeward from Danbury at a late hour last Friday night his team ran against the watering tank in Bethel. causing an upset in which MT. Green and Joseph Hill, his companion, were thrown out. The latter was so badly injured that he is still laid 1p in a seriously crippled condition at ] his home at Pine Tree corner Green escaped physical injury, but became | SO inhamed mentally that he respond ed abusively when Night Watchnan | lack Hines came up and profered his friendly services. As a consequence l Green was arrested and upon arraign- nent the next morning before Justice 1 zilbert was fined $5 and costs which he paid.
 Last Thursday evening MT. and Mrs. 5. c. Shaw gave an elaborate dinner It their summer home the Ridge with representatives of the Aaron San ord family as the guests Those pres mt were MT. and Mrs. D. s. Sanford, dr and Mrs John $. Sanford MT and