The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-05
BEDDING
Special to The Farmer.)

of the Center wish to do in the way of fire protection, the problem 'oelng whether they shall organize com panyfof their own or join hands with the existing Ridge department, will be determined a a meeting to be held at the town hall next Monday evening. Mem bers of No. 1 Go. will be present to explain matters which would seem ready but which a few waof the Center folks persist in viewing through haze of suspicion and distrust:
 The present company has expended upwards of g$70O, practically all. the money having been raised in the Ridge section, and purpose getting additional apparatus. They are willing to an- swer calls from the Center whether that section becomes a contrbuting partner to the enterprise or not, but suggest that a spirit alike Of fairness and self interest should prompt it. to provide another engine to be located there. Whereupon some of the Center people talk about an attempt to es- ploit them and dictate to them and express fear that in case their means provide an engine it will not be all lowed to remain in their locality That such notions are not held by the Gen. ter people generally will probably be shown next Monday evening At the monthly meeting of Go. l last Monday evening five active members and one
 
 Cunnfngh Sullivan and Rockwell were appointed a committee to pur- chase a truck at a cost not exceeding $7O.
 1 The cross on the spire of Christ Episcopal church and the two smaller crosses above the entrances to the ed Iifiee are being regilded at a cost of over $100. The spire cross is seven feet high and the man engaged on the job works in ss hood enclosure while lappIying the gold leaf in order that the fragile and valuable material may l ing held last Sunday further improve ments to the edi1ce were decided upon, these being the repainting of the exte- fior and the redecoration of the chan i eel. White will be- the color used in | the outside works The rector, J. w. Teets and W c. Sanford J1ere ap- pointed a committee to solicit bids and l award the contract at a cost not more 1 than $2o0. The money comes from tho 1 Ladies Aid society Mesdames D. s. Sanford, A. G. Barnett and eC- Sam ford were made a committee to ar range for the chance1 decoration.
 At a meeting of the selectmen last lThursday evening sthe tax books were gone over for the purpose of eliminat- ling the dead wood uneollectab1e | charges with which they have been tencumbered. Most of these consisted -E of poll or military taxes and were strung over a period of a dozen years. Tn some cases the parties had died or moved away and the others could be
 c1assed as hopeless in respect to colIec- ton prospects. Of the abatement en- tries appearing against many of them there was no other record. This clean ing up process was one that should have been done long ago. Such futuRe I taxe abatements as may be voted by the seleetnnens will be entered in a book <7o1 fc,- al
 A petition is being prepared asking that the carrier on R. F. D. route No. sl24 extend his travels so assto= take in a portion of the Putnam Park road He now goes from Bethel to the Center I wholly by way of the Hometown road and it is proposed that from the old school house corner in Hometown he shall cross to the Putnam Park road. going. southward upon it as far as the park and then retrace to the corner.
 The change would accommodate five
 families, including the Rogers, Peet &
 Go. camp. which has summer popula- Nl ton of about fifty, and mean about
 two miles additional travel for the I carrier. T With deep sorrow the Bedding
 friends of Mrs Joel F. Se1leck learned
 of her sudden death which occurred
 last week in Bridgeport. She had
 spent the summer at her husbands, old
 home on the west side here and dur
 ing this and previous sojourns made l'acquaintances who were won to sin
 cere regard and satta chment by he1
 rare qualities of mind and heart. She was a daughter of Zalmon Goodsel1 o1 Bridgeport, a graduate of Smith col
 Iege, and 1eavesgtwo young children.
 AIR opportunity to make purchases from the Teets collection of useful anG ornamental articles will be offered or
 each Wednesday afternoon of tht
 present month"; the collection remain. ing meanwhile on the lower floor o.
 the Sanford school gym. In variety
 and attractfveness the collection il
 well worth viewing and so far there
 have been few visitors who did no
 develop an irresistible impulse to buy Mrs. William Crouch died on Sunday
 at her home in the Glen from peri
 tonitis following confinement a shor time previous. Her husband and eigh children, the oldest of whom is 13 sur yive her. The funeral was held o1 Tuesday, interment being at Greenfield Hill.
 The directors of the Gilbert & Ben nett Go of Georgetown elected at tn annual stockholders meetings so1 Tuesday of last week have elected Samuel Miller as president. He ha been superintendent of the plant fo several years and as head of the cor poration succeeds his father, the lat
 Major D. H. Miller.
 There were four etildrenss birthda- parties in town last Saturday. On
 was for the four year old daughter o
 MT. and Mrs. S.C. Shaw, another fo ! the four year old daughter of MT am 2 Mrs. Meeker Jones, and the third fo I Adelaide, the thirteen year old daukh
 ter of MT. and Mrs. Alexander Scha1l. : On Monday next the Clerical associa ton of Fairfield county will hold thei E monthly meeting at the rectory on tn
 Ridge as the guests of Rev. Raymon Cunnin gham.
 : MT. and Mrs. Alexander schalI Q : the Center make formal announce e ment of the recent marriage of thei 7 daughter, Miss Louisa F., to Dr. Wal
 ter Franz of New York.
 : The store on the lower Ridge pre- t vious1y conducted by Sullivan Bros