The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-19

excellent display of vegetables all
 grown by the pupils. Other exhibits
 were pie by Miss Crouch, cake by sMedora Sanford and je1lies by Misses
 Helen and Maude Bodie. Several
 we'll executed meohanical drawings and specimens Of needlework caused
 favorable comment Sewing is one of Ethe branches of instruction in the school, a fact which reminded some Of the older visitors that it used to
 be taught in the country schools in the first half of the last century and [ perhaps longer. Most of the samples so painstaking1y wrought by the grandmothe CTS and greatgrandmathers of the present generation and now highly cherished as family heirlooms 1 were patterned and executed under, the direction of the teachers of that period
 Dr. Charles W. Shelton of New ' ork has purchased from p. $. San ford a building site on the Ridge near ly opposite the resid denca of Miss Belle Sanford, on which he will put up a. bungalow. If the weather permits it will be built this winter so as to be ready for his occupahcy early next season The contract has not yet been awarded pr. Shelton is sec
 retary of the Home Missionary So- ciety of the Congregational Church.. and his Wifezis sister of Mrs. D. $. Sanford
 | large and sympathetic gathering attended the funeral of Mrs Louis G.
 Rurnsey which was held last Satur
 day art erno1n win services at the
 horne and interrnentf the Rtdge
 CernetE Rev. MT. Evans, former
 Iy pastor of the Center Congreeati ion | al Church, came from Pawtuckets R.
 l., to ofaciate and besides offering prayer and reading selections from Scripture recited two poems, one of which was Crossing the Bar. A quartette sang Asleep in Jesus' and remarkable for their profusfon, and beauty. The bearers were Milo 0s- born, Aaron H. Sanford PhiIo Pla4t
 Randolph Bradley, E. P. Sanford. and J. Henry Duncan
 l ItsIooks as if the Bridgeport Water Cos did not intend to apply the clean l ing up process to the large pond in tPIeasantS Valley until spring as the sluiceway gates are again down and l the water at high mark from the re-
 cent rain The sediment taken from the pond bottom should have consid-
 as it consists largely of decayed vege-
 tation and road wash deposits. E. P- Sanford intends to use mesof it
 for meadow top dressing. Probably other farmers will also wish to secure some Of the same material Of which there will be a. great abundance The water company has arranged to sub- stitute a cesspooI for the earth vault
 on Mrs. WiIliam Whiteheadss prem l ises
 are entered in the new egg-Iaying competition recently started by the I 1Connecticut Agricultural college rep resents Herbert s. Barnes, .fowlery,'' \ located at Redding Ridge and popu- lated by about $500 White Leghorns. l | the contest were calculated it was l found that MT. Barnes coop headed l the list. He has strong hopes that the close of the competition will find 1 still at the top.
 On Saturday evening last Miss Ida
 Williams, daughter, of Charles Will l Hams, and William Sears of North Ad aTns, a. teamster engaged in carting | lumber for Charles BeardsIey. were united in marriage by Rev. MT. Gil- man at the parsonage of the Center Methodist church. The following day 1 Mrs Mary Ludway, widow of Thomas 1 Ludway, Jr., and Frank Benedict, son 1 of stephen Benedict, went to New Milford and were there joined in mat Il rimopy.
 I ley on the Ridge, one of the towns fine old houses. is receiving a new GOV I ering of shingles laid upon the pre- l vious surface of shingles with build ing paper between.
 I Under the treatment of Br. Wilson | of Bridgeport, the eyesight of Taz + Collector Duncan has considerably inn I proved. Arsenical poisoning from | the handling of wall paper had so af- lfected his eyes that he was nearly :. blind
 The bungalow which Clarence Sur l gis of Fairfield is building in Pleasant LValley has progressed as far as the
 laying of the foundations and the con l struction of the chimney
 l Miss Lucy Wilson of Sanfordtown 1 has gone to Norwalk to spend the I winter with Miss Bartram, relative.