The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-11

The addition to the Sanford school gym designed to provide a new and comm odious stage, is nearing compIe- ton and will have it's first public use on Thursday evening of next week when the pupils are to give a. drama tic entertainment fo11awed by a dance. They. have been very enthusiastic in helping along the building project, a number of them giving advice assis-- ance to the two carpenters who are doing the job.
 While on a visit to her friend, Miss Rushton, at Scarsda1e, N. r., on Thanksgiving day, Miss Belle Sanford was suddenly prostrated by an indis- position which the doctor who was called pronounced a case Of inc1p1ent pneumonia. She was able to make immediate return to her home on the Ridge where the malady rapidly de- velopeda to an acute stage. There have been no especially unfavorab1e conditions and her early conva1dscence is expected
 The negotiations on the part of Miss DeWoEfe for the purchase from the town of the Patrick Sweeney place at the Center may fall through because she insists upon a warranty deed and the selectInen are unwilling to give any except a quit claim form of con Weyance. As they understand the law applying to the case the guaran- 
 would make them personally responsi- ble. Miss DeWolfe has until Decem- Der IT in which to exercise her op- ton.
 Charles Sanford of Pleasant Valley, for several years first selectman and chairman of the Democratic town committee, had the i'll luck to sustain a fracture of the leg on Monday while endeavoring to, adjust his gasoline engine. The lever he was using whirled loose from his grasp and struck him in the leg, breaking it. the fact that about three years ago the bone was fractured in the same place.
 David Reed Bryant, one of Con- gressman Donovan's recent appointees to West Point cadetship, now lives with his father in Boston and two or three years ago was pupil at the Sanford school. The family formerly resided in Danbury and the young mans mother is now living with Miss Belle Sanford on the Ridge.
 The job of transporting milk from this locality and Easton to Bridge port which was recently undertaken by Clinton Sanford and Ferris Read has been given up by the former. MT. Read continues the service, going with a single team to Pleasant Valley and with a, double team the rest of the way.
 The state board of education has designated the Center public school as a ''ModeI' school to be used as an auxiliary in the training of Normal pupils, thus establishing as fact what was recently forecast in this correspondence as aprobabiIity The designation is of course an attesta- tion of merit very gratifying to the teachers of the Center school and all who feel an interest in the towns educational system.
 While Edward Ryan of hometown was getting out of his wagon last Friday he received a bad rall as a consequence of his foot slipping on the wheel and a result two of his ribs were fractured.
 Several parties have been negotiat- ing with LemueI Sanford recently for the rental or purchase of the smaller of the two houses which he acquired in the purchase of the former Moses Platt property about 8 year ago.
 The contractors wound up operations on the hometown state road this week, everything being completed except some finishing touches in connection