The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-19

zen went home and alongside his door yard path found a duplicate package. Emerging from the house half an hour later 8 third package obtruded itself on his attention, causing wonderment to a mild degree at the thoroughness and liberaNty with which the adver- Using campaign of free distribution was being waged- This wonderment, mounted several degrees when not long afterwards a1fourth package came. into View at another point by the walk. Assembling the four the citizen con 9veyed them to the hired girl with the
 Jocose remark that the place appeared
 to be regarded as a relief fund or; die-
 tary experiment station. The girls answer was the production of a fifth package which she said a gentIeman1y
 caller had insisted on her accepting a few days previous. This was a satis-
 factory explanation and there was also no mystery about the package be
 slowed at the store and one of the
 three dropped in the yard. The other two, < however, were provocative, Of speculation. Was there a. string Of three autos each shedding packages on.
 householders ork was there a single
 auto, going around the square and Ndo-
 ing the repeat act until growing
 Knowledge of local geography made
 the mistake apparent!
 Eight autos carried the children of
 the Episcopal church Sunday school to
 Fairfield Beach on Tuesday for their
 annual picnic. The party numbered some thirty youngsters and perhaps a dozen adults and all had a perfectly lovely time.
 Miss Lucy Sanford was recently the recipient, at her home in Pleasant Val Hey, of linen shower surprise by a.
 numerous. party of her girl friends Such affairs are of course forerunners of matrimony, but on this occasion the ,s-S--< announce the identity of the prospec- tive groom or the date chosen for the happy event :. It didn't really matter because the guests had no doubt on the former essential point and knew they would be Informed abaut the lat ter detail in good time.
 It has been learned by Michael Con nery, conservator flor J. H. Duncan. that the latter,s supposed shortage of $200 as administrator on the estate of Mary c. Osborn, will be largely de- creased by expenditures he made for. neded repairs on the property and failed to enter in his accounts More than half the shortage is thus account | ed for.
 l Joseph Hill. who was recently glad Idened by check for $2S1 representing the arrears part of the pension granted him, has gone to Massachusetts to re- new acquaintance with his relatives He will probably. not return to Pine Tree Corner where he has made his home for the last year or two. Arthur Hargraves, whose auto run about was recently. damaged by col lision with another machine that was turning into the grounds of w B. fClahn on the west side, has been paid l$75 in settlement of his claim for dam lages.
 A party of Ridge residents consist 1 ing of MT and Mrs J. W. Teets, Mrs.
 H. s. Osborn and Miss Eleanor Osborn are auto touring through Massachu- l sets this week
 l The improvements in progress upon the Episcopal church property will in Iclude the substitution of copper for tin where the latter was used as a roofing material, and the building of a new piazza in a straight line across the front of the rectory.
 The registrars met last week to su-
 pervfse the primary voting lists and as usual in that branch of their duties had practically nothing to do l The Catholic church bazaar opens at 1 the Ridge tomorrow (Frriday) evening and continues Saturday evening John s. Sanford is confined to the house with indisposition following a slight shock.