The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-20
BEDDING

Au GeorSetoWn. About two years ego she barely survived an attack of pneumonia and began to show in- dications of the mental derangement from, which she mas since suffered. She had been confined to her bed for only about a week previous to her demise. Her age was about 84. Two sons and two daughters survive her, the former being Michael and James, who under the name of Con. nery Bros. Co.,, a $50,000 corpora ton, conduct a department store in Georgetown. The daughters are Mary, wife of Daniel Driscoll of Bridgeport. and Miss Catherine, who lives in Ridgefield. The deceased had been for many years a widow.
 About 40 members of the Home Guard partook of the spread which was provided for them at the town house last Friday evening by Com- missary aargeant Muennich. The host did the cooking with the excep- ton of the coffee and potato salad, which were furnished by Mrs. Henry Peterson. The principal other items op the bill of fare were frankfurters and sauerkraut, American brand. There were no speeches or other for nal exercises but company chorused a number of patriotic songs and gave the host vote of thanks in tht form of three cheers.
 Dr. Alfred Cohn's tennis court, the . building of which has kept a consid- d months, Is receiving the finishing touches It was originally a depress- ed piece. of swamp and the first step inits conve1sion was the cutting and removal Of the bogs. Ditching fol- lowed and next came the dumping of several hundred loads of stone. For the surfacing there used first a great quantity of coal dust and ashes brought from Bethel, second a layer of clay and last an application of sand. It Is the .costliest and should be about the finest court of the many in the town. The cost of it's con- struction is said to have been about s1,5o0.
 Callers at Prof. .Schock's bungalow near the Five Points are supposed to give notice of their approach by sounding an alarm by means of a pair of cymbals and a policeman's club suspended from one of the rails of the barway which serves as the entrance to the house grounds The writer, after executing this prelim- inaryla few days since, was gracious ly given admittance. Yes, and the Professor in response to the visitor's inquiries. it was true that he was engaged in the manufacture of a musScal comedy to the extent of doing the 1ibretto. A musical friend of his credited with the possession of much talent was fabricating the i score. Incidents in the life of Ben jamin West, the painter, furnished the basic elements of the work and a Home Guardsman was to be one Of the principal characters. My friend and myself,'' continued the author, "are collaborating quite har- moniously except for a few minor disaRreements He thinks am over anxious to polish, the lyrics in order to secure something the captivating metrical perfection often attained by Swinburne and Tennyson, declaring < his to be sheer waste of time. On the other hand | kick at his strivings for originality in the music. It is safer, I tell him, to stick to the old and established material giving its gloss and a seeming trace Of novelty by inversion, elaboration and var ious other juggling tricks known to the trade"
 Ttais seasonvs hay crop is very abundant, but so far weather con- ditions have delayed the harvesting are similar to those of last year, the continuance of the rainy spells which produced the unusual growth making it difficult to cure and get in the grass without it's being damaged. If cut, ting is too long delayed in waiting for favorable weather the hay suffers loss of it's nutritious qualities, so that the farmer finds choice between the policy of haste or delay difficult one. An added aggravation this year is the scarcity of labor. Farmers generally are carrying hay from last year for which their is no market, Indeed 1t looks as if the horse de crease and the auto increase had nearly done away with the demand for hay from the cities.
 On the Ridge road near the Os- born residences Tuesday afternoon James Delaney lost control of his Ford. car which executed a side nioyernent that sent it against a bank and caused Tt be overturned. MT Delaney was thrown against the windshield. the broken glass of which cut him about the face and hands although not seriously. The other forward parts of the car were also somewhat damaged
 The next in the series of unior church services will be held at the Center Congregational church on the evening of Sunday. July 2s., begin ming at 7:s0. A union children. choir made up from the three par ticipating churches will render 6 praise service under the direction O Mrs. Lemuel Sanford. The topic ol the sermon wilr be Divine Guid ance." 4
 Another postponement of the flal raising ceremony at the Center ha, been found necessary, and it is nov scheduled for Sunday, the 29th, in tn, afternoon. One reason for the de lays has been the difficulty in getting a flag Of the desired size.
 Samuel Osborn of the Ridge mad, an effort to enlist in the navy las week but was rejected on account O being four pounds under weight. B! dieting methods authoritatively ap proved as the most effective to ob tain the object sought for he is nov trying to make up the deficiency.
 Dewitt Well spent the weekend with. his wife at their bungalow il Pleasant Valley. He holds the ranl of major in a New York cayalr, racfynant and leftN on Sunday even