The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-06
OUR BEDDING
 NEWS LETTER
Auto and Buggy Collision Averted By MT. Muennich's Quick Action.
Crash Into Stone Wall Final Result-Redding People Di- rectly Affected by War Local Arrest Involving Pos sible Extradition.


 Bedding. Aug. 6-In Branchville 1 last Sunday morning near the resi- dence of Bradley Sanford John Muen- nich had to decide quickly between collision with a team in which were a woman and a young child and the taking of a chance that inperi1led himself alone. He was driving in his auto at a. moderate rate of speed and Approaching from the opposite direc- tfon came the team followed by a large touring car. Upon the sounding of the 1atter's horn the woman sveer- l ed to the left instead of keeping to the right side of the road, so that as MT. gMuennich reached the vehicles they were abreast and the way ahead blocked. The situation was further complicated by the antics of the horse which had become unru1y through fright A narrow side road afforded a possible way out of the difficulty and by quick action MT. Muennich barely made the turn. This brought his ma chine among a pile of large rocks bordering a sluice way where there was a, drop of about three feet to the ditch. A growth, of weeds hid the stones from him. The machine halted at the first impact with the obstruc- tion, But the application of full power carried it forward upon the roadway. Then it refused to obey the steering wheel and soon crashed head on against a stone wall. making wrecks of both front tires. An insp pection show ed that the forward axle had been badly bent from the conflict with the first stone pile, a fact accounting for l the machines subsequent gynations. 1 MT. Muennich was jolted from his seat l by the final crash and had one leg severely bruised. Se1ectmap Zalmon Read soon appeared with his auto in answer to a phone call and carried the stranded one back to the Ridge. A warrant issued by thet City Court l of New Rochelle and charging John Vernon c. Brown, a summer resident 1 of BranchVi1le, with wife abandon nent and non support was received last Thursday by Grand Juror Dun-5 can. On Saturday Constable Warner l took Moore into custody on 9. warrant
 issued ssby the grand juror. in which the defendant was charged with being a fugitive from justice MT. Duncan, l did not .act decisive1y in the matter Iunti1 he learned >on good authority lsthat Moores alleged offence had come l to be recognized by the authorities of New York and Connecticut as a cause 2 for extra dftfon- MR4 Brown accom- ltpapied his eTnp1oye when the latter Twas taken before al flocal justice and l furnished a. bond of $500 as a guaran-
 tee for the fulfi11ment of his promise i to sproduce Moore before the New I Rochelle court on Monday. This he did, and the accused was discharged Eafter arranging to pay his wife a I.stated. sum weekly.
 When the war trouble in Europe l broke olIt Fred Mabrey. the school i principal residing on the Ridge, was l ins South Germany and ca.b1ed his wife tfrorr. there. On Monday she received another cable announcing. his arrival in London and his intention to sail I for home. at the first opportunity. Mrs | ir%a- D. 70 I was in Switzerland at last accounts but unless detained there by force of k circumstances should now be in Scot I land Albert Bigelow Paine. the au- l thor has not lately been heard from by his Bedding friends, but is sup- l posed to be in Switzerland where his l oldest daughter is attending school. l For about three months of the spring l and early summer he journeyed isthrough France and Germany by auto, finishing these trips and returning to Switzerland about 8 month ago He
 had planned to refnain abroad until f the holidays, but the war is expected ! to hasten his return. Mrs. E. D. Mac 1 Luckie, formerly Elizabeth Read of this town, was also in Switzerland last | week, with her husband who is pro 1 prietor of 8, tourist agency. He has now two parties in Europe one of | which was scheduled to sail from Mar
 seilIes on Aug. IT for the return trip. I While the showers of Tuesday even l ing doubtless lessened the attendance at the Episcopal church bazaar the l gathering was Of fairly good propor- tions and made up in buying disposi- ton what it lacked in mum bers; so that financially, as in other respects, 1 the entertainment proved a, success. The entire receipts amount to $275 1 ands the net will be about $260. The Sanford gym had been very pretti1y | decorated for the occasion and the i large stage converted into a. veritab1e bazaar where merchandising went on I so briskly in the afternoon that the evening patrons found scanty stock 1 remaining. To the children the fish pond was most engrossing feature.
 So far only the pupils of the Center l school have made a, start in the work
 of beautifying their school grounds in
 accordance with the plans submitted l to the town school committee last spring by A. F. Brinckerhoff, a land
 scape architect having a summer home
 on the west side. At the suggestion of
 the board MT. Brinckerho off, who gives
 his services in this matter without
 compen sation, amended his first plans
 so that the space allotted to flowers
 and shrubs should not ecurtai1 that
 needed for basebal1.s The Center
 school pupils entered upon the task of
 carrying out of these plans with com
 mendable zeal and have made sub StanIlal progress Ine1rNN example VIII | probably be followed by the pupils of
 the three other schools In addition
 to this special work on the school
 grounds the Center children are de-
 voting time and energy to the raising l of flowers and vegetables, the rearing
 of chickens and other small live stock
 and the production of art and handi- I craft productions intended for exhibf-
 ton at the schools annual fair this
 fall
 Miss Regina KfddelI. an e1de1y1 lady
 of New York who has been a summer l,resident at the Center for several years. recently suffered a nervous
 breakdown to which worriment over
 financial matters is said to have beer
 a largely contributory cause. She is