The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-04
REOOINC FOLKS
CELEBRATE At
TWAIN LIBRAR .
New Years Festivities Attrac
300 School Children
Entertain

Reddlng, Jan. "A gathering o.
nearly 200 attended the New Years
community celebration held on Mon
tay evening at the Mark Twain Lii
Iary,Sand all the public schools ex-
ept the Ridge were represented i'll
me interesting program which was
ofiered. Much illness and the icy
Dads accounted for the absence OF
The Ridge children. Those from the
Georgetown school took the most
prominent part in the exercises and
executed very prettily star drill ans,
fairy drill besides contributing their
full share to the singing and recita-
lions. In the singing the excellent
effect Of the training in vocal culture
which the youngsters have received
as part of their school course was
quite apparent and indicated that a
good percentage of Redding juveniles
possess musical aptitude. Several
grown-ups assisted very acceptably in
the entertainment, Mrs. Arthur
Stuart and Mrs. Frank Meehan with
recitations and LeRoy Collins with a
vocal solo. Miss Myrtle Beck, whose
histrionic gifts, have often shone in
Grange dramatics, executed a whist
ling S ~ in fine style. A conspicuous
figure during the evening was the VEN
cradle Ferdinand Gorham. who had
understood that the occasion was
patriotic one and came with the fiddle
on which he used to play at country
dances to do his bit in the music
making. His rendition of l"Co1um-
bia' and other national airs was
loudly app1auded. In addition to all
this the entire assembly Joined in
singing g number of standard oldtime
melodies. C. H. Plump and Rev
Mr. Cunningham, who planned the
affair, made brief addresses in which
they extoIled the "get together"
spirit as a means of sociability and
social service and expressed the hose
that it would find, expression in. many
other occasions Of the same kind. Not
the least agreeable feature Of the af-
fair was the bountiful spread pro-
vided by the ladies.
There have been a number of near
accidents to local autoists due to the
tendency of cars to skid on the ice
sheeted streets, tendency not al
ways prevented by the use of chains.
A remarkable adventure in that line
befeH Dr. Smith on Monday In as
cending one Of the lower Ridge hills
his machine executed half circle so
that it faced in the wrong direction.
Instead of trying to turn to the other
way the doctor gracefully accepted
the situation and safely guided the
car to the bottom OF the hill stern
foremost. 4 n. HI 5@
An unwelcOme visitor in town is
the much dreaded grip from which
this locality was comparatively free
last winter, but which .reappeared
few days ago and issshecoming alarm
ingiy prevalent. Mosf OF the cases
so far are in the Ridge and Center
sections The list of victims includes
Town Clerk Sanford, selectman os-
born Mrs. Charles Bradley, Clinton
Sanford and many others. None of
the patiens is In dangerous condi-
ton. s ss ~
{. The present week is being observed
as week Of prayer by the Center
Methodist church with meetings
every evening, In conducting them
Rev. Mr.. ca$e, the pastor, is assisted
by Rev. Mr.. Woolw orth and Rev. Mr..
Gum nghan.
The gathering Of ice. from the main
pond in, Pleasant Valley was begun
on Tuesday, and if the freezing
weather holds harvesting operations
will soon become general A second
ice house for r. w. Walbridge Is be-
ing put up by Builder Mcclellan.
Ernest Reid, the lad whose skull
was fractured and denied against his
brain by fall from a horse about
three weeks ago, was brought to his
home on the Ridge from the Danbury
hospital Monday, almost wholly re-
covered.
Forty-two liens against as many
property owners who are in arrears
for last years taxes were filed this
week by Collector Muennich. The
list includes all the delinquents.
The dance given by the West Red
ding fire company at the Mark Twain
Library last Friday evening was well
patronized and yielded net proceeds
of about $30.tt
Clarence Sturgis of Fairfield ac-
companied by his son and by his
Warren Waterman of
Chicago, spent the weekend at his
bungalow at Pleasant Valley
The regular monthly meeting of
No. Fire Co. has been postponed to
Monday evening of next week
: r. w. fWalbridge returned to New
York last week from a trip to Hon
olulu.
Miss Bertha Condo, secretary of the
National Young Woman's Christian
association. has been a guest of Miss
j. III. Sanford over the holidays.