The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-31
would break the wires insulating en.

would break the wires insulating en- ve1op
 Not the least of the damage from the recent ice storm was that suffered by the orchards. In. the renovation processes of the last few years most of the fruit trees had been we'll re- duced by trimming and the destruc- ton of many Of the remaining limbs form ice breakage gives many of them truly forIorn appearances and will have the effect of leesening their bear ing capacity.} K The previous estimate of $500 as the cost of this winters Improvement works on the Putnam Park road proves to be not far out of the way The bills of s. H. Osborn amount to $435 and the further outlay for grav- cling is about $50. The cost of the new bridge in Pleasant Valley is h7 little under s250. of which s110 was for the iron girders and the balance for plank. cement, gravel and labor.
 The harvesting of ice about a foot thick began at the Pleasant Valley pond on Monday Miss J. IT. Sanford has finished putting in her supply and Charles Sanford Is filling the Hoggson. Stetson and Driggs store by Ferris Read with his auto truck. This is probably the ponds final chap ter as public ice supply field as on April 1t passes to the ownership of the Bridgeport Water company.
 The selectmen. at helr meeting last Saturday. appointed T. Duncan agent to make the personal tax emu meration and also agent to collect the tax D. R. Warner was reappointed llfirs warden for the coming year.
 James Reynolds and Simon Lovely returned last week fron Edmonton in 1 Western Canada where they have been for about two years The boom | ] generally which was on when they went there sabsided with the out break Of the European war and times are now quite dull.
 Mrs. Roswell Glover, a native of
 this town. died at her home in Dan- bury on Sunday morning. Her maiden I name was Polly Ann Robinson and she was the grand daughter of Jacob l Patchen who was 3 Colonial soldier in the Revolutionary war.
 The Sanford school sent out this i year an attractive Christmas card de- I teaching staff. Its background is a miniature representation of The San | Jordan. 7 the schools monthly pubIi- cation and part of the reading mat ter consists of verses original with l the designer.
 Mrs. s. H. osborn gave party on Saturday evening for Samuel Osborn,
 
 I the younger set attended and dancing l was one of the diversions.
 Albert BigeIow Paine and family ar rived last week from Switzerland and
 for the present are guests Of HarrE ALounsbury. They will go to New York \ in few days for the rest Of the win
 ter. returning to their home on the west side in the spring.
 The Ladies Aid society of the Epis- soopal church are having the interior 1 Of the rectory newly papered and
 painted in preparation for it's occu- l nancy by Rev. Raymond Cunning ghan. t the new rector
 Scarlet fever recently invaded the home Of Selectna1 zaImon Read the l victims being his wife and their young
 son. Both eases were of mild form and Mrs. Read is now convalescent. l The Center school will reopen next | Tuesday with Miss Bessie Hatch of
 Danbury as principal. the third the l school has had during the present l term Miss Hatch is a Normal school \ graduate has lately been teaching in
 Wiatertown and comes very highly recommended.
 l Mrs. Elnora Whitehead, who spent l several months in a hospital fn conse- I uuence of a broken hip and is now I living in Bridgeport with her son
 John, has so far recovered as to be l able to walk a ltytie.
 fl The assessors are nearing ene com pletion Of their 1abors. although the
 law allows them until Jan. Is for the
 work Assessor Burr consistently re- mains absent from their meetings. his
 first experience of half day service
 having been all that he cared for II Mrs. D. R. Warner Is recovering .l from an attack of pleurisy.
 William Gorhan and family have re- .f moved from Sunset Hill to PawIing Il N. r., where they are occupying 2 ii fine residence as caretakers