The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-18
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 Bedding, March 1s-After an ill., ness of about a week from pneumo- nfa, Mrs. James Sanford suffered last Thursday night a cerebral hemorrh- age which proved almost immediately fatal The funeral was held Sunday afternoon with services at the home conducted by Rev. MT. Cunning ham,
 Internent was in the Sanford family
 burrying ground on the hill over looking Pleasant Valley from the east The bearers, all of them nephews or other kin of the deceas- ed were eErnesE and Emory P San ford, Jesse Meeker and George Hoyt of Dahbury, and,sJ. Arthur Sherwood and George Beers of Easton The many floral Offerings included trlib-
 a&es from MT. and Mrs Lloyd Banks
 Mrs. Mary Sherwood of Bridgeport,
 MT and Mrs. Randolph Bradley, Mrs IsaviIiaL Bradley the Sanford School, Mrs Charlotte Bryant, Miss Tornlin- son, Miss C. T. Flyer, and MT. and Mrs. D. $. Sanford. The age of the
 deceased was IS.
 Following the sudden departure from Hometown last week of the man Shellhouse and the boy St Halour. it was lesrned that several weeks ago the former gave the letter a skeleton
 key and told him that with 1t he could open any door lock in the house
 of John c. Read, their employer So far as is known, however. the boy
 made no use of the key to commit theft or other wrong doing, his ex- pIoits in that line being confined to the appropriation of money given him to turn over to MT. Read. The real blame for this act appears to lie with snellhos1se whose criminal bent was further evidenced by his purioining of a silver spoon which he made over into q finger ring for himself In view of these circumstances the Read family feel that they were fortunate in not being made the victims Of more serious depredatdons.
 Milk producers and other farmers in this section have been following with much interest the case of a sick cow owned by Marion Williams Of Hopewel, which was recently made the subject of an unusual sur gicaI operation The animal seemed when a. veterinary who was summon ed, resorted to an heroic method of treatment by opening one Of her stomachs and removing from it a large quantity of und1gested food which had become infected Then the animal was placed in Q sling and tended with so1icitous care as to diet and antiseptic precautions. The re- opening and rec1osing of the incision formed one of the details of the treatment. but after some alarming fluctuations Of condition the patient now fully recovered. As her econo- mic status is that of a 26 quart per diem order her owner does not re- gret the cost and trouble involved.
 No addatlonaI facts have been learned tending to satisfactorily ac- count for the origin of the fire which on Monday night destroyed the barn Of T. L. Blake4nan in West Bedding The two men employed by MT. Black man had finished their milking and other work and left the building only a few minutes before the blaze start ed at the top Of one Of the mows Of hay They say that no act of theirs could have caused the fire. The
 theory that a. tramp Iodger might have dropped g. lighted match in the
 hay is one which always suggests it. self in such cases, but in this i'm stance there are no facts known to lend 1t support. MT. Blackman will Miss Belle Sanford has been mak- | ing alterations and improvements in
 the front part of her residence on the Ridge, one Of the changes being the
 removal of a. partition by which the previously good sized living room " 1AS7A1 1AAS5
 ceiling of this apartment had been
 taken of, there were exposed the
 massive oak floor beams customary in the old style of rural house con- ! struction. Instead of recovering
 these according to first intentions
 Miss Sanford caused them to be pol ished and left in view Tastes
 change with time.'' was the comment Of an aged lady of the neighborhood upon hearing Of this incident.n When my grandfather built his house soon tafter stife B eVo lsationaryz war one Of fthe front rooms was left unfinished as regards a plaster ceiling We aI- ] ways supposed that this unfinished condition, indicated a lack of means on grandfather's part and used the apartment only for storage purposes. ] it being placed in the same rank as
 the attic. Now the oak beam ceil-