The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-04
BEDDING

general business last. Saturday and appointed MT. Sullivan, the minority member, as permanent clerk. He will keep the ledger and 8 record Of the proceedings the latter being fea,- ture which has been neglected. It was decided to improve that part of the Putnam Park road opposite the pavilion by straightening the curve and lowering the grade. Sanford Os- born has been hired to do the job and started upon 1t today. Members of the board will attend to minor re- pairs throushouk the town with the particular purpose of holding the roads in shape against the winters seventies. The Wilton selectznen att tended the nesting to urge recognf- tion of their claarn of $79 for hospital and doctors bills incurred in behalf Of William Martin, a former Bedding resident who removed to Wilton more than -four years ago. The Wilton ofd- ciaIs maintained that the fact of his having been allowed to vote here dur ing this period made him legally still resident of this town. The payment by last years Feeding selectmen of one of Narttn's doctors bills was an other argument advanced in support of Wiltonas claim. These arguments were considered insufficient by the Bedding board who said that the real status of Martin as resident was not affected by his being allowed to vote here through a mistake or by the payment Of one of his doctors bills by reason of a misunderstanding The
 claim was therefore rejected and a suit may follow.
 A petition brought by Agent Gard ner of New Haven. representing the State Humane society, for the com mftment to the County Home of i've children of Charles Bennett, a west H1o Judge Sanford last Thursday. The childrenss ages range from twelve to Eve years and the family also com prises an infant not included in the application Their transfer to the home wa ssought on the allegation that they are neglected by their pa rents. No verbal evidence was offered to substantiate this claim, several persons who had been relied upon for supporting the testimony declining to give it. The appearance of the young sters also failed to bear out the alle- gation of neglect, as they were com fortably attired and apparently well Bennett asserted that he worked steadily and applied his earnings to the support of his family. Judge San 7 ford continued the case to Dec 10, saying that meanwhile the family would be kept under observation by
 
 Of the proceedings was the attendance ! at church on sunday of Airs. Bennett and the five children
 pr. William J. Long of New Jersey,
 Naturalist and author, was khes guest Of Dr.. E. H. Smith at the Center the 1 latter part of last week and the pair put in two active days of hunting. They bagged several cartridges, one woodcock and several squirrels and rabbits. pr. Longl came into special neWsnaper prominence two or three | years. ago from being engaged in a controversy with exrPresident Roose- welt regarding the traits and anatomy Of certain wild animals. In the att 1 tendant exchange, of compliments Roosevelt denounced Dr. Long as a nature fakir and incidentally put sew 1 era1 other naturalists who professed | to speak with truth and authority in the same class. The, doctor retorted tartly and both disputants emerged from the conflict alive, although bear l ing more or less honorable scars. As l to local hunting conditions this fall Dr. Smith and other sports1nen de- I scribe them as fairly good. The na- l tive partridge is about as plentiful as i usual several docks of the Hungarian f variety have been raised and quite a. sbird conspicuous from it's bright
 plumage, are also in evidence. Some l quail have also been seen, but no true
 sportsman shoots g quail these days. The annual meeting of the Bedding l Book club was held at the home of
 Mrs. Janet Thompson last Friday l There are 39 members, all ladies and an exchange of views showed that the
 past years record had been highly 1 satisfactory. It was decided to ap- point a committee to note lists of new publications and choose from them
 books considered the most desirable
 for purchase by the club members,
 their selections to be of course only j. coInmenda tory. Mrs. D.. s. Sanford, 1 Dora. Read gGoodale and Miss Marion l Smith were named as the committee Exercises dedicatory of the new hall l of Bedding Grange at the Ridge are 1 to be held this evening under the dl-
 rection of the State Grange officers. The Danb11ry and Bethel Oranges have accepted invitations to be pres ent. The business phases of the cere- l mony consist of the transfer by the 1 local body to the state body of the l building, it's acceptance by the latter | and it's reconveyance by the State l Grange to Bedding Grange. The ef- feet of these proceedings is to pledge l the state body to the maintenance and l continued use of the building for
 Grange purposes with all the business
 and property responsibilities implied i by such a pledge.
 When ossif Gabrilowitsch, the emil
 nent pianist and son-in-law of Mark
 Twain, landed at New York few I days ago, with his wife and their | young daughter he brought with him ] the story of his, arrest as a spy short Fly before leaving Germany. His na- tionality is Russian, a circumstance which naturally brought him under | general suspicion, but his apprehen- sion came about directly by reason or 1 information lodged against him by his i butler. At first the indications were 1 that he would suffer the death. pen- atty and his release is partly attrIb- I uted to. the influence exerted by his l American wife. strengthened by her