The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-19
BEDDING HOME
 GUARD IS WELL. W
 ORGANIZED NOW
Town Increases Tax Rate by Half Mill Over Last
 Year.

dHu III IfO peElunCtoIy UT AOliudy .SPAi : it the members of the Bedding Home Guard assembled at the town house last Saturday evening to advance the work of organization. After brief talk by Capt. Barnes, outlining the measures required to make them an efficient and soldierly body he an nounced his appointments of non- commissioned officers and the selec- tfons were approved by a unanimous vote. They were as follows, in the order of seniority given: Sergeants, Thomas Lahey, P. Britt Mas, F. r. Sanford, William Gill, c. B. Leh- man; quartermaster sergeant, John Muennich: six corporals, F. w. Rusa- nan, J. B. Sanford, IT,; B. M. Bradley, H. Sanford Osborn. George E.. Swanr1. ! GA. Pattison, Sr., John Olley. The company now numbers eS officers and men, seven of the recruits having failed to pass the physical examlna- tior1 These were George s. Banks, w. E. Banks, B. Clinton Sanford, Milo L. Osborn, Frank E. Meehan, Clar- ence. Beecl1er and Frank Hall In Georgetown there has been recruited an independent platoon Of 27 recruits with prospect of several additions making the total strength of the local Guard close to 100.
 A schedule for future activities as far as arranged was announced by Capt Barnes as follows: Every Mon day evening the company's subordln- ate officers will meet at the town house for instruction. On each Tues day evening at 8 p. m. there. will be platoon drill at the sym on the Ridge for east side and Center members and on Thursday a like drill at the Sanford garage in West Bedding for the west side members. On every other Sunday at 2:45 p. m. an out door company drill will be held, al- ternating as to the drill ground be- tween the Ridge, Center and West Reddfng. On Tuesday evening the company met again at the town house and were formally mustered in by Captain Ryder of Bethel. The mem bers are now being measured for their uniforms by Quartermaster Sergeant Muennich. The color is an olive drab. The equipment includes overcoats, knapsack, blanket. .leggins and canteen and the arms is the new. Springfield rife. A civil organiza- tion of the company. as an adjunct of it's military side is in process of form ation. .a The local campaign for an extens- i've planting of trees on what are now practically waste lands, brought sub- stantiaT results at recent evening
 meeting held at the town house un- der the auspices of the Mems club. There was good attendance and those present listened with close in- terest to what State Forester Fflley had to say on tue subject. He did not claim that the crop would yield a profit like one reaching maturity in a single season. but said that the ultimate returns might be counted as clear gain, because meanwhile the production from the kind of soil he had in view was usually a zero quan- tity. A period of about 50 years was required to bring fine tree slips to good timber size, although ten years was enough to make trees suitable Tor Christmas aobservances and these found ready market at $5 each. They were also in some demand for ' tth&r ornamental purposes and their removal by a judicious thinning aided the growth of the trees which were left Orders for pine and fir slips from the state nurseries were invited when MT. Ffl1ey concluded and these came In rapidly until a total of more than 17,O00 had been reached. Some of the larger orders were! D. sS. Sanford z,400 for Putnam Park and 1,20O for his individual use; H. San ford Osborn, ,OOO; A. G. Barnett, 1,- 200: Emory P. Sanford, ,000. Other orders came from H. c. McCollan, pr, w. e. Deming, c. H. Plump. Fred Driggs, and John e. Stetson- There are promises of further orders which will swell the total to nearly if not quite the 25,0Q0 which was the mark originally set by the campaigning committee.
 Albert Bigelow Paine has sold his house in West Bedding and about 20 acres of adjacent land to William H. Cromwell of Mt- Vernon. N. Y.,7 for a price said to be approximately $5,000. It was kormerly known as the Bonton place. The house, not a large one. is of the old type of dwellings, having one of it's roofs slanting nearly to the ground Mir. Paine acquired the property dozen or more years ago, being one of the earliest of the towns incomers and the pioneer among the literary set of that contingent. He enlarged the building by a kitchen addition to provide room for the ments including an indoor water sup ply. Subsequently he put on another addition to provide room for the orchestral presented to him by Mark Twain, This orchestral, massive instrument costing several thousand dollars and provided with mechanical devices for making easy the individ- ual effort necessary for it's operation, was played for the last time in its owners Bedding home while the body of his daughter Jean, dead with trAgfcal suddenness, was being car ried from the house to the hearse for shipment to the final resting place at Elmira. The grief stricken father had asked MT. Paine. his friend and biographer, to sound this requiem. To him 1t vas a finality service as re- gards the instrument. He asked MT. Paine to accept it as gift and take 1t away. He never wished to hear it again.
 1t was through the advisory inf1u- ienee of MT. Paine that Mark Twain came to Bedding. and had built at an expenditure of $30.0o0 the house which has been unoccupied since his death in the spring of 1912. The sale by the former of the property where he has been living does not mean his departure from Bedding. On the former John Peters place west of the Saugatuck river. is bungalow be- Iour tn hin, svIfc1, Jno x1ri11 r,oc,,y,xy