The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-17
TOWN OF BEDDING
 SPENDS $5,OOO IN
 ROAD RETIREMENT I
About $1 ,OOO is Left For Ex penditure This Fall-Miss
 Seymour Weeds.

Bedding, June 17-F'or road repairs last fall and this summer there has been expended about $5,00O, leaving only s1 900 of the appropriation for fall work. The results from this unusual outlay are in the main satisfactory, as the highways generally have been placed in good condition and consider able of the improvements can be classed as serni-permanent in charac- ter, Top dressing with gravel where it could be had, the removal of many large stones and the cutting down by Se1ectman Sullivan of two small hills on the west side are among the fea- lures to be commended. The chief cause for criticism was the ploW1ng down and inscraping of the road shoulders, a narrowing process and therefore an undesirable one. Too much of that kind of work several years ago brought the contract system into disfavor and the method is at di- rect variance with a. program aiming to effect a continuous betterment of conditions
 <! A quiet home wedding was so1- ennized last Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. Catherine Seymour in the Umpawaug section, the contract ing parties being her daughter, Miss Margaret, and Harry Lounsbury, son of the well known real estate dealer Miss Catherine, sister of the bride, was bridesmaid and O. w. Lowell best man. Rev. MT. Dobson, pastor of the Long Ridge Methodist church, tied the nuptial knot. The bride was attired in costume of pure white. Follow ing the ceremony the groom and bride repaired to the residence of the for mer's parents where they will make their home for the present.
 The se1ectmen, at their special meet ing last week, filled the vacancy in the office of acting grand juror by the ap- pointnent of Lemue1 Sanford of Lone town. He is believed to b. well quali- ged for the position. The public will be especially pleased if his first official job is the issuing of a warrant for the arrest of the f1rebug whose operations have caused so much wrath and alarm, but of whose detection there appears no present prospect. Should the crim- inal be caught and bound over the at the superior court trial connnis- stoned to prevent, if possible, the exer- else in the case of the surprising de- gree of cIernency with which the last two offenders sent before that tribunal were favored.
 Contractor McCollam is supplying the timber for the frame of the house which Daniel G. Wood will build to re- place the one destroyed by fire about two weeks ago. All the local carpen- ters are driven with work on account of the rebuilding operations due to the series of fires. Until their new resi- dence is ready the Wood family will occupy living quarters in a building | on the premises which formerly served as a. corn house.
 disposed of last week a $25 suit for wages which Adam Bolak brought seven years ago against a man named King who then ran a sawrni11 job in 1 this locality. The defendant could not | be found for summons to the court l hA9Ying " counsel the plaintiff obtained the com pensation sought from a claim he had 1 garnisheed.
 1 The George Treadwe1l house in Sam soon to undergo reconstruction as re- gards the exterior. Negotiations re-
 gently began for he purchase of the property are still pending. If the prospective purchaser buys he will
 make the house over and if MT. Tread well remains the owner he will do the 1 improving.
 On account of the weather the per- formance of tCranberry Corners at the Grange hall on the Ridge by Eas- ton grange talent was postponed from Tuesday evening to last evening. l The paralytic stroke suffered several weeks ago by Ransome KeeIer caused his death last Sunday morning. He
 was about 60 years old and had been | in the employ of Miss J. H. Sanford nurnDer or years The remains were
 taken to Ridgebury for interment | Miss Grace, daughter of Sheriff Banks, is one of the recent graduates from the State Normal school at Dan-
 bury and has taken an engagement for the coming year as a public school teacher in Easton.
 Large cylinders containing chloride of sodium have been placed along the State road across the Ridge in prep aration for top dressing. The low hanging limbs over the road were re- moved early in the week.
 Miss Carrie Newell. who occupies the Isaac P1att house which she bought from Lemuel Sanford, has purchased
 a new auto.
 STR HENRY TArKsoN