The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-01
BEDDING PLEASED
 BY ROCK REMOVAL
 NOW IN PROGRESS
The Towns Long Talked-Of Mems Club Becomes
 q Reality.
Especial to The Farmer.(

tractor Banks is proceeding to cart on material and remove rocks. The
 latter feature is especially pleasing to the public because under a strict construction of the contract MT. Banks
 is obligated only to remove the small CT, loose stones. He gave the com nittee verbal assurance however, that he would do a reasonable am ount of
 work towards getting rid of the larg- CT rocks which were imbedded in the
 soil and is doing even better than he promised as he is using dynamite on the Instructions that refuse to yield to crowbar persuasion alone. It is also his intention to have vaca- ton period in road work, but to keep doing in some branch of it throughout the season. As a town official views the case he can afford to do this and will probably find it to his ulti- mate advantage. The same official also pointed out that the contract does not cover a considerable class of
 work which the selectmen prosecuted l in the past two years. Last year $7OO was spent on a job on the Park
 road which cost $7O0 and did not
 make much of a showing and yet had
 to be done. The trimming of Iedges putting in metal drainage tubes, re-
 pairing bridges and carting gravel
 probably used up $1,0OO more. MT
 Banks is required to maintain only
 
 furnishes the material for that.
 After an intermittent discussion of the project extending over several
 months residents of the Ridge and
 Center have organized a Mems club
 with an initial membership of eigh-
 teen which will probably be consid-
 erab1y enlarged. The original mem-
 bers are H. s. Barnes, D. s. Sanford, H. Sanford Osborn, Rev. Raymond
 Cunningham A. G. Barnett, Philo T. P1att, Benjamin Bassett, J. W. Teets, Charles o. Perry, pr. E. H. Smith, J.
 B. Sanford, H. c. McCo11aTn, w. c.
 Sanford, Charles Sanford, John Muen- mich, Ralph Rockwell, M. Joseph
 Sullivan and Rev. MT. Woolworth. IThe
 officers are: D. S. Sanford. presi-
 dent; H. s. Barnes, secretary; Rev.
 Raymond Cunningham, treasurer These officers and A. G. Barnett were appointed a committee to prepare ar ticIes of association. The plan is to
 hold monthly meetings at the homes
 of the members for the discussion of
 topics pertaining to the local public
 welfare and for general sociability. Miss Jean w. Tatlock of New York, age 43, was fatally injured last Satur- day in a runaway accident which oc- cured on the long hill leading from Bedding Center to the Saugatuck val ley. She was visiting the family of
 A.. F. Brinkerhoff at their summer
 
 the time of the accident were MT | Brinkerhoff's two sisters. A wagon l iron. which became loose, swung against the horse and caused the anil nal to plunge and swerve to the side of the road where the vehicle was upset throwing the occupants upon a heap of rocks. Mrs. Tat1ock must
 have also been dragged among them as the upper part of her body and head were badly mangled. Mrs.
 Mary Peterson brought out a mattress for the victims to lie upon and help was 'phoned for in all directions Among those responding was IF. Sam ford Osborn, who was presiding at selectnen's meeting, and by direction of pr. Smith he hurried Miss Tat lock and one of the Misses Brinker- hoff to the Danbury hospital where Miss Brinkerhoff suffered sprains of both ankles and severe general
 bruises. Her sister was badly shaken up and bruised, but both are recover ing.
 At <the Center Congregational church there was held last Sunday evening a union Memorial Day service in which the Center Methodist and the Episcopal churches participated. The church was decorated with the national \ colors and a combination l choir of Twenty-Five voices furnished a musical program of notable excel lence Rev Mr. Woolworth the Congregational pastor, spoke on ''Men and Times of the Civil War; Rev. MT. Cunningham of the Episcopal church. on General Grant, and Rev. MT. Chase of the Methodist church on "Our Women of the Civil War; The
 large congregation in attendance fol- lowed the exercises with deep inter est.
 Bridgeport's industrial boom is still
 enlisting recruits from this section, the latest being Lemue1 Sanford, who has become an inspector at the works of the Remington Arms Co.,, where his brotfer-in-1aw previously held a po-
 sition. MT. Sanford's dairy farm in hometown will be looked after by his
 brother, Bartlett, until it is rented. Mrs. Lemuel Sanford, who is now
 teacher of vocal music in the public
 schools of Westport and Bedding, will
 not renew either of these engage ments and is to join her husband at
 Bridgeport as soon a satisfactory rent can be secured. To the many friends of Mrs. John Carroll the news of her death, which occurred on Bridgeport Thursday of last week closely following her re-
 mova1 from her home in this town, brought deep sorrow. Her age was about 80 and she had been a resident of Bedding since her marriage B years ago. Death was due to gen. era1 breaking down which had been attended by ailments of a minor na- ture. She was a devout member of the Catholic church, devoted to her family, very kindly and helpful to those in need and possessed of an un- varying sweetness of disposition. Her husband and four children survive her, the latter being Mrs. Thomas F.
 Cotter, Mrs. Michael Casey, Mrs Mar garet A. Mo11oy and Mrs. Maria, J.
 Flynn, all of Bridgeport. The funeral
 was held on Saturday morning with
 interment at Westport.
 The opening feature of the Sanford school commencement will be the