The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-14
BEDDING


 about 80 heard the lecture given by Prof. Jarvis at the Ridge gym last Saturday evening on the insect ene- mics of fruit trees and the best ways of combating them. The best and indeed the only effect1ve method was spraying. He further said that spray ing against the scale would give as good results if done late in the fall or towards the close of winter as in the spring when time was more Valuable. Spraying for the coddIing moth should be done when the Blossoms began to drop. The lecturer answered a mum Der of questions from the audience, one of them relating to the protection of squash vines from the sQuash bug. After the lecture Mrs J. J Northrop of Newtovvn read the humorous poem which describes the adventures Of Darius Green with his flying machine and George Russell sang a tenor solo uel Sanfords An informal dance was the closing feature of the evenings program.
 l The members Of the Center school ball team may develop into major league stars and shine effulgentiy on the diamond and in the sporting pages of the newspapers; they may attain such political erninance that one half. the country will view them with great alarm while the other half points to them with intense pride; they may be- come mighty men Of finance and am mex to themselves not a few of the millions which they 5uggIA about; they way win the Ioftiest distinction in |literature art, the learned professions For science, but by whatever trail they |sreach Flames heig hts-if they do reach thern-+these later triunphs will. not produce the soaring elation of spirit, the rapturous, unal1oyed joy which came to them last Friday as a" result of their having trimmed the Sanford School Juniors by the score of 20 to O.
 A sale of geraniums, tomato. pepper and other plants, will be held by the women of the Center Methodist church 20. They will also serve a lunch, com mencing at noon and continuing through the afternoon. Contributions and orders in connection with the sale will receive prompt attention from the |comnittee which consists of Mesdamesa Marshall D. Sanford, John s. Sanford Milo Osborn. D. R. Warner and J A. Bishop. gs< The local branch of the Equal Fran chise League was to have elected of ficers last Friday, but deferred the. election to some later date owing to. the small attendance. Miss Lucy sam ford recently resigned the presidency of the league and Mrs E. F. Sanford. first vice president, is it's present head.
 Two criminal prosecutions against Georgetown parties were disposed Of before Justice Pinkney this week. On Monday Elmer Gustafson was fined $7o# and costs for making threats against a man named De Mayo and his family, hourishing a pistol while he did so. On Tuesday Nicholas Heron was fined $3 and costs and given 30 days for mak- Ing a distnrbance in the office of the Gilbert & Bennett Co. Tn both cases judgment was suspended on the jail sentence $
 The transaction reported several -weeks ago in the sale by w. C. Sam ford to Clarence 5turgis of Fairfield of the hilltop building site known as ssThe Heznlocks. in Pleasant Valley has been completed by execution of the conveyance papers There are two and one-ha1f acres in the tract; and the consideration was $1o0 per acre. MT. Sturgis will put up a bunga low there. probably this sumner.
 Last fall Marcus Burr obtained from. Pennsylvania batch of certain species of parasite which was alleged to be an enemy and sure destroyer of the scale. He turned the colony loose upon an apple tree which was badly. infected with the scale and awaited re- suits. Recently; he closely examined the tree and found that the scale had entirely disappeared
 With the exception Of Umpawaugs the present staff of teachers in the towns public schools will remain for an other year The schools are not to close until the latter part of June
 Rev. H. O. Gilman has bought a new carriage to go with the horse which he recently purchased
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