The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-05
BEDDING
6speeial Id the Farmer. ,,

Bedding, June 5-Sprfng road work ing Is practically finished throughout the town. the selectnen having fol- lowed the example set last year by Su- perv1sor Boomer in keeping contin- ously at the job. On thes east side of the town where Se1ectman Barnes dd- rected operations the work has been well down. being an improvement even on last years work particularly as re- gards the pryinE up and blasting out of large rocks from the road bed. As much cannot be said for conditions on the west side, the surface in many places having been left in a rough and ridgey state through failure to properly spread the materials.
 The New York Times of Monday publishes a. long letter of complaint from Norwichtown in the eastern part of the state regarding the non delivery of mail last Saturday by the mail car riers. It was one of the four holi- days of the year when the carriers lay off and as Sunday was of course an other day of rest there resulted an in terva1 of 72 hours between mails. The comp LAinant truly says that these hCl1- day breaks constitute the weak spot in the mail service and adds: Nobody would begrudge the regular carriers their holiday, but the whole people have some rights in the premises. Since no congressman appears eager to win the p1audits and eternal grati- tHQ0 or ms sCOnSClBuSQLS IL seems up to the newspapers to start a crusade to have this crying evil corrected. This can be done simply and easily. By all means give the men a day of, but let their substitufes-wElo won't balk at an extra days pay-drive over their routes on the holiday. It is safe to wager that if the Postoh1ce Depart
 nent considers itself too poor not single suburbandte would denure pay- ling out of his own pocket, to be able I Ia r.a n. xT-. has grown messy. and his mail when 1 1t is of some use.''
 Commencement exercises of the San ford school will be held next week with the following program: Sunday, June l7, at 1a:3O a. na year end sermon at. Boone: Thursday. June Il. annual ball game Between the Cold fellows'' and the school at p. n-; Friday, June II, l g a. m.-farm events. track and field sports, trap shooting and swimming contest; 1 p. rn.s luncheon and inform al speaking; D. m, outdoor presents ton of scenes from William Fe1P' in grove east of school, followed by the setting of a milestone In the highway above the school; 5 D. m.. tea on lawn:
 Some have derided the recent spraying of highway shade trees in the Ridge section the derision being I caterpillar feeds only on the leaves of apple trees This is "a wrong notion The worm prefers the foliage of the I wild cherry to that Of the apple tree and is further credited with prefer
 ence for trees bearing sweet above
 those bearing sour apples. After strip ping the orchards the worm will feed
 on almost any tree, rather preferring the maple and not even baking at the
 bitter chestnut. Those who spraye1 tagainst the coddfing moth this season l were dn time to also squelch the tent l caterpillar while those who did not 1 are confronted with still another pest l in the shape of the canl5er worm l which is just beginning to get in it's
 work. although not threatening so Imuch damage as in former years.
 The town school committee have
 voted Miss Nichols, principal of the Center ecl<ooIs a $50 increase Of salary for the coming year and an increase of $25 to Miss Tutzler, her assistant.
 Under their direction the school has been brought to a high degree of ef1- l ciency and the committee felt that the I ogndtion of good service. No changes I were made in the pay Of the other teachers The present stan will con-
 tinue with the exception of Miss fKnapp who will be succeeded at the
 Cmpawaug school by Miss Carroll of
 Bethel. All the schools are to close
 June 26. In the fall the pupils of the
 Center school will hold their second
 annual fair and are now growing
 flowers and vegetables and arranging
 for other exhibits for the event.
 It would be a waste Of effort for
 Georgetown ministers to renew the
 fight against Sunday baseball in that
 village which they waged last year
 because the selectmen recently re-
 newed the lease, from the Gilbert 6 | FsNnn6F (5o fpF the 1i1Iaaa hall field
 and designated it as a public park.
 The trustees of the park who were | appointed last year and hold over
 have authority under the law to grant
 licenses for Sunday games and will
 doubtless evince the same readiness
 to do so as they showed last season . Previous to the establishment of the
 ing the crusading ministers tried tc have one of the games raided ane , wholesale arrests made, but the au thorities refused to act
 , Upwards of one hundred invitation : have been sent out for the weddi of Miss Esther Tarbel1. niece of Mis- Ida M. Tarbel1, the author, and Jame r A1drich, science instructor at the San ford School where the prospectiy bride was formerly a teacher. Tn k event is to occur on June 27 at 4:3
 p. m. at 'sThe Oalxs,'' Miss Ida M Tar bells summer home. located in Easto t near the Redding line. It will be a. outdoor wedding, the contracting cou e pie standing beneath one of the nobl y trees on the premises while Rev. : w. Boone performs the cerem ony. Prosecutions and the attendant pen
 alties have evidently had a. repressiv
 effect upon the bob veal industry i . Bridgeport. Last year buyers fror the city secured this locality for calve
 a few days old and bore them off t