The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-21
FOR HOME. { CUARDSMEN OF
 BEDDING ARRIVE
Mems Club of Town Discuss
 Probable Duration of Z x the War
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Special to Tbe Farmer.1
 Redoing, June 21.-The rifles for the ;S,,rn- S:aard, 60 in number, ere here e.s iast having been brought from Bridgeport on Monday by Commissary ~>-xseant Muennicb, who called an auto truck into service for their trans ,portatioh. With them the east side ~5latoon had their first practice in the the manual of arms on Tuesday even- ing. The uniform and other equip ments are expected daily. Forty-two of the Gunrd have signified their in ftention of taking part in the parade at Bridgeport on the Fourth. A truck has been engaged for the occasion. Were 1t not flor the other events en- gazing local attention on that day, chief among them being the flag pole raising at the Ridge and the celebra- stion in Georgetown, there would proab- ably be yet another in the form of a arising at the Center. Instead of af- fixing a pole to the town house for the public flag display at this. point the committee have decided to go back to the original plan of planting the pole in the open, space near by. The stick will be furnished by B. B. Banks and the raising ceremony will probably oc- tur early in July.
 H Marcus H. Burr has not yet learned a.lthough he would very much like to Y1earn who was the owner or handler of the car by which he was run down last Saturday afternoon. MT. Burr, alone, was apprpaching Danbury and near that city in his car when large car, travelling at about a 50 mile clip, passed him from the rear without hav- ing sounded warming and in doing so struck a forwarH wheel of his car. The shock disengaged Mr. Burr's hold from the wheel and before he had a chance to regain control his machine had left the road and crashed into a telegraph pole. He was pitched out, but had the wonderfully good luck to escape with no worse injury than a few bra,fses The front of his car was smashed, receiving ldamage which it will cost about $50 to repair. The big car kept on, not even slowing up, and had paesed beyond Danibury before there was a chance to secure It's h- cense number. although observed sufh- cfentfy to ree&al the fact that it was of New York city registry.
 When will the War End ?' was the subject of an Interesting discussion hehH by the Men's club at their meet ing last week at the home of Ralph P. Rockwell. Henry Forman, the mag azine editor and novelist, contributed the main talk. His conversations with ,ofiicials and others who had been in Europe with opportunities for a close range study Of various phases of the great conflict enabled him to obtain first hand and expert information of the situation and from this knowledge he had reached the conclusion that peace would come within a year ehropgh the exhaustdon of Gerinany's resources more particularly as regards the food supply Most Of the other speakers expressed the hope that the prophecy would be fulfilled and also, a lack of confident expectation Off, cers of the club for the ensuing year were elected by the meeting as fol- lows: President, J. B. Sanford: secre- tary, Rev. Raymond Cunningham; treasurer, IA c. Barnett; membership committee, Dr. E H. Smith, Philo T. Platt, Charles O. Perry.
 The selectmen and the special road committee will hold a joint meeting soon to decide what section or sections of highway shall be improved from the expenditure of the 1000 appropriated for that purpose by the annual town meeting. There are no lack of places calling for the improvement As to IhOl4<>4 al At~NA 4GE71AA6 tAA~Ao AS, o VI w c-- lent impression that the results so far achieved are not up to those of the corresponding date last season. One reason for this is that the continued wet weather has hampered operations and another that an increase of auto truck travel has kept the freshly ayp- piled material Constantly rutted. This condition is nottceably true of a stretch of the Putnam Park road where a large quantity Of material has been carted on.
 f Charles Sanfor1 returned home last Sunday from the Bridgeport hospital where both his eyes had been operated upon for the ailment known as hard ening. One good effect of the opera 4ion has been considerable correc- tfon of the state of nervousness of which his eye trouble was contrib restore his usual powers is not yet a certainty.
 The Episcopal rectory has been rent ed for the summer to Rev. Noel Gun ningham, brother of the incumbent renter The latter anf his wife are to remain as boarders. RAv. Gerald Cum ningham, another brother, preached at last Sundays services.
 The time of holding the closing ez- ercises of the public schools has been changed to this evening (the 21st. They are to occur at the Mark Twain Library. It has been decided that the school shall not hold field athletic ex- erciscs as part of this years program
 It was noticed last spring that the blaclubirdn were arriving in unusual numbers and lately they have been making their presence disagreeably manifest by their destructive work in the corn fields. Crows are generally the chief sinners in that respect, but this season they have done small harm in nlcompardson with the b'ackbirds A survey has been made by the wa ter company of the Is acre tract lying east of the Ridge school house and Consisting mostly of swampy ground through which a brook runs. An of fer by the company of $50 per acre for the land was refused by Robert Nich- ols, the owner, who asked $50 and 1t is thought the survey may be prelim- mary to condemnation proceedings.
 D. R. Warner is in poor health al- though able to be about from an ail- uent which the doctors have az noeed as appendicitis. They think that an operation may not be ne -essary. s
 Mrs. Frederick Mabury and son have returned to their summer home on the Ridge and will be Joined by MT. Ma tbury upon the closing of the school in JBennington, Vt, of which he is prin- cipal.
 Joseph A. Bishop, now residing in PeIf am Manor N Y. visited his r,lace