The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-07
BEDDING

engagement of twenty-seven years continuous duration had it's destined fruition in marriage ceremony which was very quietly performed last Saturday at the Episcopal rectory at The, Ridge by Rev. Raymond Cum nil gham. The contracting parties were Robert J. Wilkin and Miss Mar garet Dunnell, both of Brooklyn, N.
 r., and both, for the past three years, members of Readings summer col ony. The grooms age is 58 and that of the bride is 49. MT. Wilkin is judge of the Brooklyn Juvenile court. During his stay in Bedding he has shown a warm interest in the towns social and welfare activities, having spoken at two. of the local flag rais- ings last summer and also lectured be- fore the mems club. The handsome silk flag carried by the local Home
 Guard was a gift from him. Friends of Judge and Mrs. Wilkin say that
 the long delay in their marriage was
 wholly due to the 1atters sense of duty and sentiment of devotion to- l wards her mother who was some thing of an invalid and who as the daughter felt, needed her special OcAA D. Z A4O OA0CA WOA44A0 D AC<SSAA 0AA
 ing the summer freed the daughter
 to marry while her mother was liv-
 ing. With the exception of one mu- 1 tual friend the marriage ceremony
 was unattended by outsiders and i'm mediately afterwards the newly we'd
 ded couple left for Brooklyn.
 1 The local Home Guard company
 engaged in their first target practice
 at the Danbury armory on Tuesday
 evening using the small rcalibre rifles l which they had provided for that p1r-
 pose. Several members proved that
 they were already first class marks
 men and all made a good showing.
 Besides the target practice there was
 an hours drill and also a lunch One
 enlistment was booked. Twenty-eight
 members voted to accept an invitation
 to go to Norwalk next Saturday and parade with Co. I, one of the com-
 mands now at Camp Devens who
 have been granted leave of absence l until Monday for a home coming trip. At Tuesday nights drill Capt. Barnes
 announced the appointment of E. F.. Sanford as the company's supply ser 1 geant. %
 1 Surveyors of the State Highway de-
 pertinent began on Monday a survey of the route for the trunk highway which will provide an improved line of travel between Danbury and Bridgeport by way of Bethel Bedding
 Ridge and Easton- The survey was started at Bethel and will cover the 1 entire layout SO that everything will | be in readiness for the letting of con- tracts in the, spring in case war con- l ditions are then such as to make con- struction practicable. It has been feared that operations might have to be deferred for considerable period
 and this still remains a matter for future determination although 1t is
 now thought possible that at least a
 start may be made during the next
 building season. Under the appropri-
 ation made by the last legislature the
 sum of ESQ., is available for the work This will probably build about five miles. i. ,.' f9-
 The visit to Camp SpaFtanburg, N. lC., from which H. Sanford Osborn
 and E. M. Bradley returned last week
 left them greatly impressed and in- terested. Naturally their observations covered only g. comparatively small part of the camps nine square miles
 of territory and it's forty thousand linen, but all the conditions they noted produced highly favorable impress : sion. The fare wAs abundant, of ex- cellent quality and well cooked and the recruits hardy and contented des- Ipite the severe physical training they were undergoing. MT. Osborn's spe- cial personal interest related ro his
 brother Samuel and his cousin, "Bart'' : Sanford. The latter, now a corporal, , has since been transferred to Rigmont ! Camp in Georgia Second Lieut Samuel Randall Is now at Camp Up ! ton At the Spartanburg Mr. Bradley ! found his nephew. Charles Jones o1 Trumbull hearty and happy. The selectmen, at their regular monthly meeting last Saturday, signed an order for the payment to B. B Banks of $1,250, the fourth and final insta11ment due under his con tract for keeping the town roads fl repair during the past year. Hi work had previously been approved by the special supervising committed . after the usual inspection. Alp pointment of a member of the board of relief to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Marshall D. Sanford 2 was deferred to the January meet ] ing. No one has applied for the DO sition, but among the names suggest ed is that of A. G. Barnett, who wa the Republican candidate for assesso in the last local election.
 Cards have been received here an nouncing the marriage of Edwar' Il Field, son of, Edgar T. Field of Wes
 Bedding, and Miss Florence Louis = Gray, which occurred in Bridgepor
 last Saturday. The groom Is a ser
 geant in the Coast Artillery.
 . !. The ladies of the Bedding Bool club were entertained on Tuesday af :. ternoon by Miss Eleanor Dayton. ], being an informal occasion the guest : occupied themselves mostly wit
 work on Red Cross supplies.
 Two Danbry youths have been ar
 rested on suspicion of being the par ties who a. week ago last Sunda broke into and set fire to the Lon Ridge school house. Their trial wa
 postponed to Saturday of this weel '. The slipping of q rug underneat le her caused Mrs. D. s. Sanford t n pitch heavily against the adjacer N-.