The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-14
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)

Redding, March 1.-The Mems club haS arranged for an open meeting to De held on Saturday evening of this week at the Sanford school with Frank Rollins, principal of the Bush wick high school of Brooklyn and a New York state commissioner of sec- ondary education, as the speaker. The farm problem and the utilization of student help as one of the means of meeting it will be the subject of MT, Rollins address. Last season this class of labor rendered considerable assistance in the cultivation and har- Testing of crops, volunteers for the work being assembled in camps at convenient points and assigned in re- sE'onse to calls for their services. A considerable extension of the system is to be sought for the coming sum- mer, and MT. Rollins is laboring ear nestly towards that end. As he is fa' miliar with all phases of the move ment his talk should be informative and interesting.
 The marriage of Fred Wood of Sun set Hill and Miss Catherine Starr Nichols took place on Tuesday after noon at the residence of the brides mother on South street, Bethel It was a quiet, family affair attended only by relatives and a few near friends of the contracting parties Rev. MT. Coburn of Danbury per formed the ceremony and there was no bridesmaid or best man. After a brief trip to Southern points MT. and Mrs Wood will mage their home with the formers parents, the groom re- Suming the management of the BOO acre milk farm which was recently transferred to him by his father
 Rifle practice was engaged in by the local Home Guard at their drill meet 1 ing in ,Danbury on Tuesday evening An average score of 42 out of a pos Sible 50 was made, a showing which warrants an expectation of success in the battalion target competition to be held in April. The Guard will prob ably resume outdoor dTiHs early next month on their training field at Red ding Center. Tomorrow Friday) eve ming the company will meet at the town hall to give a reception and a send-off to Corporal Part Sanford and Jack OKeefe, who are in town on an eight days leave of absence from the Spartanburg camp. The two volunteers have taken on weight dur ing training and are hard as nails They expect orders to sail for France at an early date.
 Orlando Sanford, a former Reddine resident, died at his home in Ridge field on Tuesday, aged about 75. He was at one time superintendent fo1 the New England Lime Go. of the John Todd lime burning plant after it's requirement by the New England company and subsequently held tn, position of railroad freight agent al Danbury. Sanford Station on the Norwalk and Danbury railroad was named after the father of the de. ceased.
 Any remaining doubt as to the sta. tus of Home Guard members as re- gards liability for payment of thk ipersonal tax would seem to be re moved by a communication from Col Clifford B. Wilson to First Selectma1 Stanford. The Colonel writes that tht Military Emergency Board of tht State have decided that by the term of existing statutes the Guardsme1 are not liable and therefore he re
 quests that no effort be made to col lect the tax from them. The select
 men had already decided to leave tn,
 matter in abeyance until the questio,
 had been authoritatively decided.
 While in Hartford on Tuesday, H
 Sanford Osborn interviewed official
 of the State Highway Department il
 reference to the prospects of build
 ing, the coming season, of the Bridge ,, port rtIDanbury trunk line for whicl surveys are now in progress. He wa
 told that under present conditions n.
 positive assurances could be giver New bridges and the closing of gap on roads already in process of con , struction have first can on the appro
 priation and next will come the high way in which this town is especiaIl !, interested When that project i reached the Easton and Fairfield sec tion of the present State aid roa6 which was built by the water com
 pany, will be re-surfaced and other wise improved 50 as to be brought u 7 to the trunk highway standard an
 entirely new construction will started at its northern end, about tw miles below Jump Hill. It is likel
 that there will be funds available t
 permit at least beginning of thi work The officials admitted the de sirability of speedily getting on wit the new road but said the case woul
 be more urgent were there not al
 ready a trunk line between Bridge
 port and Danbury by way of New
 town. When the Bedding section c
 the new line is built the present bend
 of the Putnam Park stretch will b
 largely eliminated.
 First Selectman Sanford is in re
 ceipt of an offer from the State Coun cil of Defense to provide an exhfbi of patriotic films for local presenta tion with the accompaniment of a lee