The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-20
CONCRETE FOR WOOD REDDING'S
 NEW MOVE
SeIectmen Make a Progressive
 New Departure.
A Case Where Doctors Dis
 agreed to the Patients Sal vation-High Compliment in
 Prospect for Bedding School.

Reddine. Nev. 20-still another mark to the credit of the Center school In the fact that it is being considered by the State Board of Education for desienatfon as a 'fModel' school TWO visits have recently been paid It py the state supervisor and 1t is under such designation. A Model scnooi is one to which Normal Rchooi stu dents after one years study. are sent to gain, from observation ana through acting as assistants, praclca1 knowIedze of teaching, and schools are selected for that purpose by req son of their superiority as to methods and results, Consequently the deslg- nation is high compliment and 1t also carries a slight increase in the compensation of the teachers, this in crease being paid by the state
 White the selectmen have disap- pointed the public by their failure to enter upon a comprehensive campaign of road repairs, they are not wholly inactive in this respect. A new Dr1oge of concrete is being constructed over the brook on the Little York road above the residenc of J. L.. Blackman. In Pleasant Valley 8 new railing is being placed at the east side of the road from the Heggaman place to point below the residence of w. C- Sanford. Oposite the residence of Stephen Sanford two conduits are be- comes from the slope on the west with much resulting damage to the roadway in the past
 An audience of 25O on Wednesday evening of last week and one of 200 on the following evening witnessed the performance of Valley Farm by Redding Grange at Grange hall Without exception the members of the cast acquitted themselves very cred itably and the result was smooth and satisfactory entertainment Mrs. E. P Sanford, who had one of the leading characters, could not appear on account of illness and her role was assumed on the first evening by Miss George of Newtown and on the second by Miss Della Carson Of the west side. The latter. although hav- ing only one day for preparation act ed the part without a hitch.
 The state road across the Ridge. Is being gone over for the third time this season, the present work consis t.. ing of filling in the depressions. w. T. @Woodin of Danbury is doing the job which might as well be left ~SIn- done because loam is being applied instead of gravel. The Highway De pertinent has planned to give the old state road in hometown a top dress ing of trap rock screenings, but re- J6cIGQ sLnS D1Q or the B. U. Fierce 10. for doing the work on account of the figure being considered too high The Pierce Co. has the new hometown job well advanced towards completion and Is now excavating for the addi- tionaI stretch of 400 feet which will probably be finished in about a week.
 Mrs. Frederick Mabrey, whose hus- band is the principal of the Benning- ton, Vt, High School, recently be- came i'll and Bennington physicians decided that her ailment was appen- dicitis! They advised an immediate operation and the patient hastened to the Danibury hospital to have it per- formed. The hospital staff made an other examination on their own ac- count and reached the conclusion that Mrs. Mabrey was not suffering from appendicitis or any other ailment upon she went to the home of her aunt, Miss Belle Sanford, on the Ridge and is rapidly recovering.
 The new concrete bridge on the west side is. the first structure of the kind undertaken wholly by the town-the partly private enterprise prob ably means the adoption of that style of construction for the future. Dan bury contra ctors have been erecting a concrete building for J. H. Jennings and at his suggestion they submitted
 
 approval of First Se1ectman Read. In dimensions the bridge is IS feet one way, the width of the road is feet. It will also have 8 stout iron feet. It will alsohave a stout iron railing and the cost of the entire sidering cost and durability the ar- gumentss in favor of the concrete as against the wood type of bridge are very convincing. An equal degree of advantage would doubtless be ob- tained by substituting concrete for the present plank covered s1uiceways serving as drains across the roads.
 During the discussion at the Protec- tive League meeting last Saturday some one disparaged the Leagues ac- tual achievements by saying that all it had accomplished was the posting 0f~a considerable part of the towns territory against trespassers- To this Chairman Pinkney took exception, de- cIaring that ftN was through the Leagues activities that he had been Jed to spray his fruit trees and there by save them from destruction. As matter of fact the local campaign to save the orchards was begun sev- .erali months before the Protective League was thought of, Ridge section residents having organized for this particular purpose and provided an equipment of two power sprayers. Nevertheless, the posting process was of no little benefit because, to quote Dan Beard, author, artist, naturalist and president of the League, the local game supply was at about that time becoming very nearly reduced to woodchucks and angle worms.
 To provide a water supply for the Mark Twain Library an artesian we'll is being sunk near the library huild- ing Pipes will be laid to conduct the water inside and thus supply much needed accommodation.
 pr. W. c. Deming, who several years ago bought a place on the west side for a summer home, has now become a year around resident of this town having disposed of his property in- terests in -Westchester county and giv- en up the professional practice. Last summer he devoted his energies most ly to growing vegetables with such