The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-24
TO HUNT FOR EGGS
 OF ORCHARD PEST
Bedding School Committee In Campaign Against the
 Tent Caterpillar
Prizes As An Incentive Mrs. Duncan Gary Dies While Undergoing surgi- cal Operation A Tele- phone Furry.

Bedding, Dec 24-Word has been re-, ceived here of the~death of Mrs. Dun can Gaya which occurred on Friday of last week at hospital in Rich mond,. Va, while she was undergoing an operation for appendicitis. She had gone south two or three weeks previously for her health. The maiden name of Mrs. Gay was Jennie Coker- With her sister, Miss Susan, she came to Redding from their home in North Carolina in the summer of 1906, being impelled to do so through reading in the papers that Mark Twain had de- cided to make the town his place of residence and thinking that they would follow his example if they liked the locality. It proved to be to their liking and purchasing a piece of land at the lower part of the Glen they oc- cupied, after rebuilding it, an old house there About four years ago Miss Jennie married Duncan Gay, the architect, who had come to Bedding from New York to plan and super wise the construction of buildings on the extensive tract opposite Putnam Park which Frank R. Chambers ac7 quired as a, summer camp ground for the employees of Rogers, Peet & Go. After his marriage, MT. Gay built in the Glen near the Saugatuck river fine residence which he and his wife have occupied during the past two years.
 With some of the local telephone wires it has been a case, as regards working service, Of '.om again, on again. ever since the ice storm. For two weeks the wire with wllsch the writer is connected was in working order for only a few hours during two weeks. Another subscriber on that line made known his grievance over this .non-service to s.25 , the com plaint bureau at Danbury, on Monday morning. The reply was that the com pany was doing the best it could under very adverse conditions. But per sisted the complainant, mine is a pub lie business wire for which pay ex- tra and it seems to be more neglected than most of the other Iines,' To this ss25'' curt1y retorted that if the other wasn't satisfied with the ser vice he was getting the company would take out his Instrument. The answer surprised the complainant be- cause he knew it was not in accord ance with the policy and practice of the company to use that tone of voice. Sounds to me- he pondered, like an obher case of the public he d-d. How ever, if they do take out my instru- ment for no better reason than now exists. I will put the matter up to the Public Utilities Commission His reflections had proceeded no further
 
 and has since stayed alive
 Clauneey Teddy. an aged colored man known to everybody by only his first name, had an apopIectic shock last Thursday afternoon and died a few hours later He was brought ,.n by the Briggs family in Sherman, but came to Bedding nearly fifty years ago as 9 farm hand for the late W H. Burr and has since lived with-t fam fly. Teddy was mentally incompe. tent with occasional special aberra- tions having mostly suicidal tendencies Once when the Burr family returned home after a few hours absence, they found their cOlored seryitor half dead from loss of blood, the result of nu- merous gashes on his Ieft arm To account for his wounds he told a story of a desperate fight with burglar but the discovery in his room of his own razor, blood stained, gave evil dence of what had actually happened
 At another time he was found in the barn with rope around his neck all ready to swing off fromLthe beam to which the rope had been attached Rescue came just in time In general Chauncy was; inofensive and faithful to his duties. He was buried Satur- day afternoon in the Ridge cemetery His age was 32.
 school committee at their meeting Tuesday afternoon that residents of the Dmpawaug section had subserib- ed $10 to be given in prizes to the school children who should make the largest collection of the eggs of the tent caterpillar, the worm which last year so seriously damaged orchards by devouring the leaves, and also ate the foliage of many other kinds of trees The committee decided that it would be good idea to widen the campaign against the pest and there fore offered an egg destroying prize of $lo for two of the other schools and $20 for the Center school, the latter having two rooms. The money will be raised by private subscription and each $10 will be divided into first. sec ond and third prizes. Last year there was similar competition, but with only one prize It was won by Edith Kennel, who turned in 35, ,150 eggs. The total catch of eggs by all the schools was 140.270 according. to the. official re- port.
 Mrs. Eliza Smith. mother of Dr. Smith, celebrated her 89th birthday on Wednesday the 18th. She received during the afternoon and entertained the numerous callers with fruit cake of her own making and other refresh-