The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-29
CHARITY NSP PlRED B0H ACQUISITION
 AND DISPOSITION
Mr. Teets' Belgian Sales Collection Featured At
 Bedding Church Fair.

Bedding, July 29.-Bought to help. the distressed BeIgsans and sold to help the church is briefly the story of the large and varied collection of articles which constituted the most inn portant and Interesting exhibit of the Episcopal church fair held at the Ridge gym last Thursday aftern oon and evening It was Fly the con a fine summer home on the Ridge. and comprised articles for erna nnent and use s4c as hammered brass ware, ,ol- let aI5pIfanees. travelling bags, napery and a host of other things. The col lection made a. averita b3e bazaar of the room on the lower floor in which most of 1t was d4sp4aye d.. The sales in this was realized from the articles which MT. Teets donated to the general de- parfmeat in charge Of the ladies on
 the floor above. Sales from the col lection made previous to the fair had yielded $20O, a. total of $320 which reserve fund. The larger part of the collection is yet to be disposed of and will be offered to-the public during August on such days las the Ladies, Aid society may designate. During the last weeks in August the Catho1ic GnuEGn4 Ok IEle E[l3ASE lS4 10 sAO4O a Sale and enteEtain1me for two evenings at the gym and what remains Of the. col lection VIII be onesof the attractions of this affair. Tn amount obtained from the sales is to be divided equally between the Catholic and Episcopal all the revenue from the disposition of the entire collection gees to the latter church for uses speclhed.
 Most of the articles in the scollec- ficns Mr Teets purchased at Belgian relief sales in New F fork and else where. being credited with an outlay or about s l. 0gO at a single one of these added many articles prevfosis1y picked ID in his European travels Some of those purchased at the re1fef sales have special interest by reason of their being personal Offerings of Belgian refugees Others were donated sor York merchants MT. Teets says that any one is at liberty to guess regard ing the value of the whole, but 1t Is generally agreed that s1.5Oo would not be an extrayagant estimate. The ar tic1es are being offered at an ayerage discount of 50 per cent from shop re- tail prices. but despite this concession the remaining lot Is expected to pro- duce several hundred dollars more
 Aside from the Teets sales the fair | had attractions in plenty A goodly | display Of aprons, specimens of fan cy wQ1k and other comm odities were | offered by the ladies and there were | refreshments in abundance, An ob- ject of Interest to many was the gfId- ed ball supporting a gi1ded chanh-j c1eer which formerly crowned the | ersire of the Episcopal church as a weather vane and for the past twen- E ty years or more has served the same | purpose on Miss Abbier Sanford's barn ! The ball bears two bullet marks from shots fired by the British troops in | their passage across the Ridge dur- | ing the war of the RevoIlti on The | ancient relic is to be again affixed to. | the church edihce, probably just above the front entrance The net proceeds $120 derived from the separate sales from the Teets collection
 An Italian known only as John To his fellow workers on Terry saw mill job In Pleasant alley tried to sell them last week Various articles of | sils. pneringAa barrel of the latter for g and afterwards droppizg the price | to 50 cents He sold only a few of the things the other men being sus- Mrs. Fred Disgs, whose log cabin sum u1er home is in the vicinity, heard of ! Johns doiugs and made an investiga fdon which disclosed the fact that he E had obtained his wares by footing the | bungalow of De Witt C. Webb. The bungalow has been mostly unoccupied this7 EumAfeE xand 9Joz1n1 effected en- trance by breaking wfndew panes with | stones and showing back the sash fasS tenings. His booty included a la dies waterproof hunfing suit and a | quantity of other wearing apparel | Before the authorities could grab the | cu1prtt he took alarm and fed be- ing last seen in the neighborhood | while walking northward through the woods with a bag on his back Most | of the. stolen property was recovered | It IS believed that John will be Iocat- | ed and caught, either in Danbury or Derbys
 It had been intended by the direc- tors of the Gilbert 6 Bennett Go. to s1o- cate the $25, 600 school house which l their corporation will provide for the [ Independent Georgetown district on a | site in the village not far above the | factory plant They have changed I their plans in this respect, however [ because this plot did not afford sufTi- | cient space suitable for play grounds | on acconnt of comprising a steep hill | Another site of two acres, all level | ground. has been secured. The tract is nearly opposite the present school in | the town of Wilton The company would have preferred a location fh | = J