The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-10
Thirty Telephone Poles on Sum- set Hi.l Stripped of Their
 Equipment
John H. Jennings Sells His West Side Property and Business
 to E. P. Sanford

while the upper part serves as a resi- dence. It has the conveniences oe running water and furnace heating. The price is not given, but report places it at about $8,000. MT. Jen- nings bought the property eight or ten years ago from ". M. MandeVille and has enlarged and otherwise inn proved 1t. The new owner will take possession Jan. l. meanwhile .contin- uing his meat business with Ralph Rockwell, to whom he has sold it. as ! his helper. The latter will retain its present location in Pleasant Valley until April 1. when the property passes to the ownership of the Bridgeport Hydraulic Co, and may be able to secure a lease for it's further occu- pancy. Early in January MT. and Mrs Jennings will start for California in the hope that a sojourn there will benefit Mrs. Jennings health. She suffers severely from asthma and the doctors say that a change of climate is her only chance for Improvement. Mr. Sanford will doubtless succeed MT. Jennings as postmaster at West Redding, a position paying about $40e a year, and is also to continue the store business.
 No one hereabouts remembers an ice storm productive of a more general wreckage among trees and telephone lines than the one which made the
 
 so unpleasant Wherever there are trees the ground is streHn with snap ped off branches and in numerous in stances the entire tree has been brought down. Near Charles More houses residence on Monday morning a big tree, in falling, barely missed the team of How ard PIatts Many ott- ens had narrow escapes from being struck by big branches torn loose by their weight of ice In a, lot near A. e. Barnett's house large hickory tree went over and lodged against a telephone pole.
 On Sunset Hill thirty poles were stripped clean of their cross-pieces and wires. The long distance system suffered the most for while the heavy poles mostly resisted the pressure,s many Of the wires broke and formed a tang1e with the sagging mass which held. Mail Carrier Ward, on his trip Monday morning. found the road ob-s structed at different points by three trees and eight telephone poles. Gem eral paralysis fell upon the local tele- phone service Tuesday morning and it will probably be several days before mattesr are fully lighted.
 The newly elected officers of Red ding Grange are as follows: Master, Snith; treasurer, Milo Osborn; secre- tary, Mrs. Olivia Sanford: lecturer, Miss Lucy Sanford; chaplain, Albert A. Gorha1n steward, Lew Warner; assistant steward, Benj. Parker; as- sistant lady steward. Miss Myrtle Beck; gatekeeper, James Ferry; plan ist, Miss Florence Sanford; the three graces Misses Aminta Shaw. Esther Beck and Floasie Jones.
 The Improvement of the Putnam Park road near the main park en- trance by which a Jog, was straight 4f,,. provided proves more expensive un- dertaking than was anticipated. At their last meeting the seIectrnen op- posed 8 bill of $290A Arendered by S. H.. Osborn for doing the principal fea- lures of the work. MT Osborn was then engaged to gravel the improved section and this job, including the cost of repairing the upper section of the road rutted by the gravel teams, will eosf probably $2O0 more Some are Inclined to critieise the selectnen for making a permanent improvement in- @vo1ving so large an outlay without inst btainingl the sanction of a town meeting and getting the job done by contract awarded through competitive bidding instead Of by days work. However, no one disputes their legal right to handle the undertaking in a way they have. If former Highway Com. MacdonaId had carried out the
 
 sInitted himself the entire Park road would have been recon str1cted under state appropriation.
 With deep regret the many Bedding friends of s. Ernest Sanford heard the news that he is lying In a serious condition at his home in Newtown. On Thanksgiving week he underwent an operation for gall stones at New York hospital Soon after his return home there appeared indications of an internal abscess. This broke while the doctors were getting ready to lance it and from the released pus there de- veloped blood poisoning which now forms the most. threatening of the complications in the case. The pa- tient was very low last Sunday, but later reports from his bedside afford some encouragement. MT. Sanford is a son of the late Stephen Sanford and hn1as a position with 2. Bridgeport manufacturing concern
 Last Friday night some one explod- ed a quantity of dynamite in the main pond in Pleasant Valley, the water of which had been lowered on account of the bridge building job there. Great mortality among the fish resulted and this was doubtless the object of the perpetrator perpetrators who are supposed to have garnered a goodIy spoil, although 9 lot of dead fish were floating in the pond the next day.
 On Tuesday, " 11l1am F. Smith, game and fish warden for this county, came from NorwaIk to investigate the case and in company with D. R. War 11er, the local warden, made an ex- tended inquiry. There were no in1me- diate arrests and whether they ob- tained the facts they were after does not yet appear.
 Authoritative announcement is made of the engagement of John Muennich, nroprtetor of the Ridge store. to Miss Ethel, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Lem uel Barrett, who reside in that section of the west side known as Topstone The date fixed for the wedding Is April IA next
 The sale and tea held by the ladies