The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-09

ed of a pernanency in existing condi- tionse and in other respects he is car rying on business at ., disadvantage. While the course pursued by the water company has the sanction of the law it would seem to be a. case where the law permits the doing of what prac- tically amounts to an injustfce.
 Only favorable weather is needed to insure the success of the fire depart ment's entertainment at the Sanford school gym tomorrow CFridayl even- ing. It has been decided to precede the dance with a period of card play ing. While this phase of the affair is called a whist, patrons will be at liberty to indulge in whatever sort or card game they prefer. Dancing will begin at 10 o'clock and thereafter form the chief diversion. The re freshment department, which is to be a prominent feature, will be, mostly outside the gym The patronesses of s. Barnes, E. w. Boone, A. G. Bar nett. sE M Sanford, John c. Read. E. P. Sanford, s. H. Osborn, A. 1T. Sanford and J. B. Sanford.
 Legal proceedings will be taken by George S. Banks against John Peters for alleged trespass and unlawfnl ap- propriation. The former was getting ready to cut the grass on his mead ows alongside the Saugatuck river near the Weston line when he found that Peters had already harvested the hay from about an acre of the land and in addition had cut down a. mum Der of trees on the tract. Peters claims to be the owner of the land in question, a claim which Mir Banks declares to be wholly baseless and preposterouE.
 While engaged in taking out ice from an ice house last Saturday af- ternoon Charles Dean of Georgetown was suddenly seized with bemorrh age of the lungs and died a few minutes afterwards. He was about 35 years of age and is survived by a wife and one child, a daughter Recently the deceased became associated with Se- lectman ZaImon Read in the livery business in Georgetown.
 The Bedding Tree Conservation as- sociation, will hold a. special meeting at 1o:3O a. m on Saturday of this week at the MaIney cottage on the Ridge. One matter to be conBidered is the early starting of operations next season against the tent caterpil- lars for the@ protection of roadside trees. This years campaign was be- gun too late to do much good,
 The laying out and planting of an extensive. flower garden is under way by R. w. W7aIbridge at his summer place in Pleasant Valley. A. Dan bury florist is supervising the job and the plot under ,. development comprises ajDOuL an e1EhThG or am acre. Frank Nfckerson and family have come from New York to the family l1ornes ad at the Center. His moth CT, who has been spending the winter fwt1 her daughter at Seattle, has also returned here. She was greeted with the news that her other da1ghter, Mrs. Helen UpsoTa Of WatertOw4. had just given birth to a son, her third. r Complaints come from the west side l that the bridges in that section are a terror to autoists because Of the de- pressions at the approaches The road 1 repairers should have filled in these hollows with gravel, but failed to do so.
 John c. stetson, one of the PIeasant Valley summer colony, was last week elected secretary of the corporation formed to succeed the old New York dry goods firm of Arnold, Constable i & Co. MT. Stetson has long been one of the mainstays Of the firm which is arranging to remove to an uptown location
 Senator Peck has engaged Harry R. 1 Cpnk1in asythe superintendent Of Wi antenuck farm to succeed Arthur W. Storne. MT Conklin recently held a similar position with Lyde sstetson, the prominent New York lawyer H. S. Barnes car became stalled near the new Fairfield reservoir last Saturday and the occupants were fac | ing an unpleasant situation when D. l s. Sanford opportunegy came along in his machine and took them on board. Joseh Sullivan has bought the 30 acres of standing grass on the Will Il Hams farm on Sunset E1iI1.
 James Garrity has left the employ of D. 8. Sanford and returned to New York.
 Mail Carrier Ward has returned to duty on route 24 after a fayup due to ! a carbuncle.
 The engagement of Miss Anna. No l Ian of Greenwich to Charles Reynolds of Bedding Ridge has recently been announced. MT. Reynolds is a popu- lar young man. with a host of friends in this town Miss Nolan also has a large number of friends here.