The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-27
OUR BEDDING
 NEWS LETTER
Partial Forecast of the Action of Next Weeks Two
 CaucuSeS.
Senator Peck Only PassiveIy a Candidate For Place on State Tic k ct - Mrs. Mckinney Routs a Chicken Thief.


 evening of next week and the Demo cratic caucus for the Wednesday evening following. At both four deIe- gates are to be elected to each of the State, congressi ona1, county and sena- toria1 conventions. So far neither has l caused much preliminary stir. On the l Republican side about the only a,d- vance agent work done is that for w. ! F: Bailey of Bethel who seeks his party'S nomination for sheriff. Those best informed do not consider hSrn as strong candidate as simon Pease of Fairfield, but for all that the Bedding delegates will probably favor the Bethel man from locality grounds and a spirit of neighborliness As to gov ernor there is apparent mo particular sentiment for any one of the ca1di- dates mentioned Some. however. in cline towards Lake, believing that. he was wronged out Of the nomination fouF years ago. As to the congression- al candidate Bedding Republicans re main loyal to E. J. Hill although many of them regret that he is so hopelessly immersed in the dead past. No one has yet sought local support for the senatorial nomination, but St is under stood that pr. BisseH of Ridgeheld, the candidate two years ago, would like to run again. The caucus will select a new chairman of the town committee as John Muennich declines
 
 Barnes will be his successor
 Tn all probabaity the Democratic caucus will name a Tangier delegation to the State conventions For con gressman and sheriff the delegates will doubtless represent a, unanimous sentiment favorable. to Donovan and VO1lmer. The senatorial question ap- pears to be an entirely open one as yet There has been considerable talk of Senator IA O. Peck having : a place on the State ticket and if this should not occur he would be again available as a senatorial candidate. He was elected to the office two years ago by the largest majority given any Demo cratic member of the Senate sent from a Republican district and no member made a more creditabIe record. This year the Democratic nominee will not be aided by the running of a Progress sswe candidate. but the Progressives as individuals would naturally support a. man of MT. Pecl,s qualifications rather than one likely to be named by the Republicans. According to MT. Bailey however the Bethel Progress sives, who carried that town two years ago, have mostly returned to the Re- publican fold He declares that a re- cent house to house casnvass showed that only seven remained faithful to the cause. Probably George Shepherd would dispute the accuracy ofs that if ;
 when asked yesferday about his position in regard to a. place on the State ticket MT. Peck talked frankly. Friends in Danbury and Bridgeport '' said he. have advised me to come forward for such nomination and pledged support in case did. My reply invariably has been that would accept the nomination if it were tend cred but would not initiate nor push
 my candidacy in that direction If called upon I will serve,rny attitude in the matter being entirely passive y About the midnight hour a few evening since the squawkings of a fowl in distress punctured the repose of Mrs Mary Mckinney whose home is near the paper mill dam in Easton. Some one stealing a chicken, she sfeepiIy unused well if it's only that won't bother to get up.'' Presently there arose the sounds of a general commotion in the hen house and Mrs. Mckinney who is elderly but not lacking in grit concluded it was time to act. As She reached the fowl house a man bearing a bag of chickens was l emerging from one of the windows. -Drop that bag she shouted Cor I will chase you all the way to Bridge port. He did drop it and ran and a moment later she heard him driving northward. Inside the hen house she l found another bag filled with chickens Nal from Bridgeport with Major Fran k | Armstrong as commanding officer l spent three days of last week at the farm of Milo Osborne on the Ridge l They left Bridgeport on Tuesday l morning dragging two wagons on which were carried three tents and other equipment and reached the l Ridge Wednesday evening, having I biuovacxed the previous night near | the Easton reservoir. Their fare was | plain and their commissary depart l ment run on an economical basis the plan being to limit the per capita cost per meals to three cents A sample 1 meal consists of three ten cent cans I of tomato soup and three pounds o1 l crackers. Another consisted or two l baked potatoes each and bread. They left here on Saturday for Danbury anc Newtown carrying out their schedule for 8, ten days hike.
 l Miss Nichols, who has been princi T pal of the Center school since ths I merger with it of the Hill Academy surprised the town school committee last week by restgning her position
 ment for another year at an advanced salary and while she did not give al
 explanation of her retirement it is in I ferred that she had found a. bettel paying engagement elsewhere. He I conduct of the school has been re
 markedly successful and the commit
 tee will consider it very fortunate i
 they find another teacher as capable
 They hope to i'll the vacancy in tim
 for the reopening of the school o1
 Sept 8, the date appointed.
 Last weeks statement regardinj
 complaints about the poor condition
 of the roads on the west side shoult
 have been qualified so to refer onl,
 to the upper part of that section Il
 the Georgetown section the resident
 have only praise for the exceIlen | manner in which their roads hay
 been attended to this season by Firs
 Se1ectrnan Read. In fact they say tha
 the roads there are. now in bette
 shape than they have been in years
 Hard coal cinders from the Gilbert
 Bennett shops have been used to
 considerable extent for top dressin and prove to be first class material.