The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-19
BEDDING


 Bedding, June 19-On Monday last, the day after the reaching of truce in the crusade against Sunday ball p1a ying in Georgetown, Nicholas San tinello .Snade formal appliction to First Selectman Sanford for a permit au- thorizfng Sunday games. MT. San ford replied that the se1ectmen would undertake to do nothing in the mat ter until they had a copy of the law pertaining to the subject. The enact ments of the last Legislature have not yet been printed, but the Georgetown ministers obtained a typed transcript of the new Sunday statute and MT. Santinel1o will try to make this avail able for the selectmen. He urged quick action on the petition because so many people of the village counted Each Sunday lost whose slow descend
 ing sun
 Had brought no ball game or some other fun.
 The next regular meeting of the se- lectmen occurs on the 18th, but the board will probably take earlier action if a copy of the statute is furnished them. In case they are disposed to grant a permit the question of the location named in it is likely to be an issue It is also conjectured that the ministers will vigorously oppose permit for the present grounds on Portland avenue or perhaps for any other location.
 The second going over of the town roads to apply the finishing repair touches is actively in progress and will take at least all the present month The east side force is now working upon the Putnam Park road, putting on gravel where it is most need ed. Supervisor B1oomer would like to gravel the entire length, but this would absorb all the money available and leave other sections uncared for. The work of oiling the state road across the Ridge was begun Monday, starting from the Five Points. Re pairs on the state road above the Cen ter are also in progress.
 The lynx shot by Marcus Burr last Friday is supposed to be the animal which so badly tore Robert Ferry's dog night last winter while he was on a coon hunt. MT. Ferry en- deavored to beat off with his gun the supposed coon that so savagely at tackled his dog when the animal grip ped the gun with it's teeth and drag ged it from his grasp. He was glad to escape from the adventure with a whole skin himself and to those who doubted the story he told of the af- fair showed the deep teeth dents on the stock of the gun as proof. He knew that the quarry which the dog brought to bay was an antagonist IQOT0 IIdn d CSOIs put JuSG what kind of an animal he didn't know. About the same time two val, iant coon dogs belonging to George Kicks were badly c1awed near a ledge in the upper part of Weston and could not afterwards be persuaded to ap7 the credit of the job but the lynx is now thought to be a. better guess.
 A report obtained circulation about the Center last week that William Deming since being lodged in the Dan bury jail had made confession to the started the fire which destroyed AL bert Williams barns and live stock on the night of May 2. Inquiry at the jail and of the Danbury police proved the report to be untrue. A man in the employ of MT. Williams at the time of the fire says that Dem ing admitted to him that he had set fire to the barn and this alleged ad- mission seems to have furnished the basis for the other report No effort has so efar been made to confront Deming with the accusation brought against him by MT. Williams em- ploye.
 A further enlargement of H. S. Barnes extensive poultry plant Is in progress by the building of several colony houses and in the fall another structure upwards of 8 hundred feet long will be erected. To the pro- duction of eggs which has so far been the main purpose of the enterprise, l MT. Barnes will add the raising of squab chickens or broilers. It is his plan to keep regularly 5000 hens for laying purposes. Of late he has lost considera ble number of hens from their becoming egg bound
 The contract for the house which John G. Fel1owes will build near the Saugatuck river short distance above Library Corner, has been awarded to a Bridgeport builder named More 1 house. The figures are understood i to be not far from $18,ooO and work lewill be commenced immediately. Ex- cavation for the foundation has al- ready been done by Harry Lounsbury l who has also contracted to build a bridge and dig a we'll.
 When Grand Juror Dernean and Constable Warner went to Georgetown last Sunday to help represent the majesty of the law for the overaW1ng of the offending ball players they were furnished transportation by auto. The overawing business concluded they ex- pected the auto to take them home it was hired had expired. No other means of conveyance being offered they had to wait until MT. Duncan's s own team came over in response to his telephone message.
 Closing exhibition exercises of the Center School were held Tuesday even ing before a crowded audience. The program consisted of recitations and the presenta ton of several dramatic sketches in which all the pupils had a share and which were very credita bly, performed.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred Judd, the latter being the daughter of the late George A. Sanford, have sold their home in Ontario, Canada, and will spend the summer at the Sanford homestead in Sanfordtowa.
 A lawn festival for the benefit of the Catholic church will be held at