The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-10
PAGEANTRY, ACTION AND SONG IN ROBIN HOOD ON THE TURF
Redding Ridge Scene of No table Production by San
 ford School.

cle, action and music with dialogue holding a subordinate place was the performance of Robin Hood" as pre- scented by the Sanford school last Fri day afternoon on an open air stage of greensward composing about half an acre. Growing in this space were young pine trees two OF, three years advanced from the seeding and a dense grove of naples at one side served a real forest and made an admirable off stage retreat. On an- other side was 8 high bank which fur niSfed the audience, which comprised delegations from the public schools and many visitors from other towns, a balcony point of view. Of the 57 persons, taking part in the production about 20 were mounted and all wore costumes picturesque or gorgeous and historically correct. Hitting contests between the horsemen formed an in- teresting feature and another was the execution by crossbow of a deer steal CT. Herr Emil Shock, who arranged the performance and coached the per formers, impersonated King John and rode a, white horse. R. M. Hewitt, an other of the schools teaching staff, was Robin Hood and Miss Katherine Barnett was Maid Marian. Cows, oxen, chickens, dogs, squirrels and pigs figured in the performance. Four of the songs had been written, words and music, for the ocasion by Herr
 
 rowed from De Koven and Smiths opera of Robin Hood. The entire pro- duction went smoothly and did the school and all engaged in it great credit
 Mrs Marietta Lyon reached her nfnet- eth birthday last Sunday and while no attempt was made to for mar1ys celebrate the anniversary it was not allowed to pass without recogni- tion- Tn the afternoon she received communion from Rev. Mir Cunning ham, rector of the Episcopal church, of which faith she has been 9 mem Der since childhood. Several neighbors called in to tender congratula tions Mrs. E. A. Smith os the Center, whose age is 89 years six months, expressed hers in a note Among those sending remembrances were Mrs Hobart Brinsmade of St Louis, a daughter, Louis L.. Brinsmade of New York, grand nephew, Miss J. H. Sanford, Miss Eleanor Dayton, Mrs. John s. Sanford and Mrs. Anna, Holbrook, a domestic in Mrs. Lyons service for the past three years who contributed a big birthday cake marked with the pertinent dates. Mrs. Lyons children, besides Mrs. Brinsnade, are Mrs John c. Read and Rufus A. Lyon of this town, and she has five grandchildren and five reat-grandchildren The aged lady has been for several years crippled with rheumatic affection of the joints, but her mentality is as alert and vigorous as ever and her waking hours are fully occupied in reading and sewing and cheerful converse with callers. She is the widow of Alanson Lyon, who died in 1861.
 The big excavation that has yawned in the roadside near the Boston school in Georgetown for the last six years, a danger to the school children and teams, is at last to be filled It was opened to procure a deposit of mica or some such mineral and abandoned when tfae supply gave out. Who should bear the cost of filling the hole then became the problem which has ever since been tossed back and forth be- tween the town school committee, the owner of the property and the select men. It was said that one of the lat ter board authorized the mining en- terprise in the first place, but made no arrangement for restoring conditions. Thus matters stood until a few days ago when Dr. Smith arranged to fill the cavity at his own expense and take the chance of being reimbursed by the town. It is a reproach to the town that the matter should have been SO long neglected. $4 900 and S5, GOO caused by the burning of his residence last Sunday evening Daniel G. Wood had r1 insurance of something less than $2, ,00o The artf-@ 
 house were few and of little value. MT. Wood himself carried out a trunk in which was $65 The trunk was un- locked and when, an hour or so after it's removal MT. Wood raised the lid and looked for the cash it had disap- peared. In the general excitement and confusion it was easy enough to com init the robbery without detection, but in the line of meanness the act ranks with the authorship of the anonymous islander letter which delayed the pay ment of George F. Williams insurance for several weeks.
 The worst of the local measles vis- ftation appears to be over, although a number of cases among children have developed within the past few days. Dr. Smith has been called to attend nearly 100 cases, and many of the lighter ones had no medical attend ance An incident of the epidemic was the extraction from the dim past oh an fauldwife'' dfctum declaring cider to be a sovereign remedy for the disease especially when the eruptive stage held back. And it is illustrative of changed conditions that those who sought to make use of this alleged remedy found difficulty in finding the cider. Until recently the community was practically unanimous in laying by a store of apple juice each fall and then gradually and growing more so. with each succeeding year the cider
 making practice decreased until now it is in this town mostly done away with
 Two real estate transactions on the west side went through this week. Frank L. Brunissen sold his property, consisting of buildings and 25 acres to John Wesley Johnson of New York. The purchaser is colored and a minis ter of the Methodist church. The price was about 2,5O0. Mrs. Ruth Ann Stiles Townsend sod her house with other buildings and five acres to Maude W. Beaudry of Mount Vernon, N. Y. The price was about $2,000 and the property was formerly part of the Moses Platt place.
 Contractor H. c. McCol1arn started work Monday on the building of a