The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-12
BEDDING CENTER
 DECIDES TO JOIN
 WITH FIRE co. NO. 1
Town Now PuzZling Over Mystery of Mir. Bradley's
 Mutilated OK.


 turned out Saturday evening in at- tendance upon the meeting held at the town hall to decide upon the former locanty's attitude in regard to becom- l ing an integral part of Fire Co. No already organized in the Ridge sec Etion H. Barnes, president of No 1, was called to the chair and with D. s. Sanford and others of the Ridge. delegation explained the situation as 1 to the appartus now in service, pro- posed additions to this equipment and plans for the future in general. Those who had advocated a separate organ izatipu for the Center were present,
 but took no part in the discussion and Center sentiment, as far as it found l expression, was all in favor Of mem bership union with No. Go. George | O. Dudley and E. P. Sanford headed 1 a deIegation from West Bedding where
 a. movement is under way to provide better fire protection. They also ] showed an inclination to combine with l No. 1, but on account of the distance
 between the Ridge and their locality i were advised to form company of i their own. Between this and No. there could be arranged working | agreement A suggestion that a com> ! rnittee be appointed to raise funds in the Center by means of subscriptions i and entertainments was not cafr1eo
 out. Before the meeting dispersed nine ] presented their names for active and l two for associate membership.
 1 w A. Grouse, local director of the
 Fairfield County Farm Bureau, began l a canvass this week for membership
 subscriptions, the terms being a pledge 1 of $1 yearly for three years. On tee
 first day he secured fifteen names. To
 obtain the g, 900 of, national and state l aid conditional1y forthcoming the bu-
 reau must raise $500 by the latter part
 of September in addition to the $500 | : i<Nvo i last March. Some. of those approached
 by Mir Grouse asked him about the
 work so far performed by County Agent Wright. His reply was that the
 tree pruning demonstration at the
 farm of Albert Williams last spring
 was one of the assnts activities. A
 good deal of MT. Wr1ght's time had l been devoted to matters relating to dairy interests, the ground so far cov-
 cred being mostly in the upper part of the county Among the results ac- tcompished had been an arrangement | for the monthly inspection. of herds by an expert at a yearly cost of $1 per lcow. This, inspection covered about
 everything relating to better methods iof milk production, health and care of the animal, feeding. sanitary condi-
 tions and the like. Experts from Storrs College did the inspecting and advice giving and eventually MT
 Wright expected that from five to six thousand cows would be brought un- der the application of the system. An other undertaking which he has In view is a plan for the selling of farm produce to better advantage through lco-operative methods and the estab- l lfshment of a central marketing. agen- cy.
 The latest local mystery does not pertain to arson or other Undetected crime but has to do with the loss by of of dolph Bradley of the greater part. of it's tail. The oxen were a pair of four tyear-old Devons, the, raising and train
 ing of which is MT. Bradley's speciality,
 and were valued at $250 Going into the pasture lot atfer them between
 showers one day last week MT. Brad Hey was surprised and shocked to dis cover that one of them retained only the bleeding stump of a tail, severance having taken place a little more than st> foot from the body! Examination o1 the stump made 1t apparent that. anl- putation had not been effected with 9 : knife No the tail had plainly beer gnawed or snapped off by the teeth o1 some animal. Bat what animal? : vicious bulldog of Airdale might have ; done it if given time, but dog usually s conveys warning when about to attacl kand the OK would naturally front ar
 approaching enemy with it's horns
 Neither did it look like a bears jot P although bear tracks were found 1T
 that locality last spring. lynx ol wildcat? Perhaps. although that the
 ory did not find aceptance and mucf : ingenious guessing left the mystery Z mystery still. MT. Bradley had jus ? bandaged the stump and was ponder ing on the question of an artificial tai to restore the victim hy-hghtine
 equipment when a butcher came alons : and made him an offer for the =oxep l It was a beef basis price and of cours' r much below that for a fancy pair. O
 Avor1ing cattle, but MT. Bradley ac
 cepted it. 4 A>
 Our badly worked highways are un
 dergoing repairs, the work having
 been started earlier than usual be a cause the need is more pressing: O1
 the hills of the mail route to Wes s Bedding gravel is Icing applied whicl z is certainly the proper method Q
 treatment although regrettably ex = penSive on account of the hauling cost = One of the road machines began worl . yesterday and the other two will sool = follow sui There remains of the las road appropriation of $5,000 only a feV
 hundreds and probably s2,o0o more wi
 be required to put the roads in any - thing like proper condition. The tota a will therefore be approximately $500 n as against the S5,S00 which was pre-
 viously the record for any one yea and included $500 as salary for the su lpefV1Sor rms year lhe superVlsoF f salary was saved" or was it?
 l On the application of the selectme l followed by a formal hearing last Sat / urday before Probate Judge Sanford e Michael Connery was appointed con . servator over J. Henry Duncan, for = mer tax collector and now patien at the state hospital in Middletowr = The action was taken because Dunca - is in law an incompetent perso 0 against whom two lawsuits are i II prospect. One is by the America a Surety Go. which will be called upo
 to make up his g, 300 shortage to~th . town and the other to recover his $2t ; shortage administrator on the es e tate of the late Mary c. Osborn ( '