Republican farmer., 1918-09-06
BEDDING

cratic caucus last Friday night when it named a Republican as candidate l for representative, the person thus | he nored being Attorney S. c. shaw, who had already teen nominated for | the same office by his own party. A comiltee appointed to report nominees presented the names of Paul Connery
 and Eugene Adams. The latter posi- | lively declined and several other capa- l ble Democrats whose names were suc- cessively brought forward would also | have none of r. for various reasons | advanced by th@xn Then E. P. San l ford suggested that the caucus en-
 iorse MT. Shaw. Several approved the | idea and no one opposed 1T although w. c. SanforH, okairman of 6he town committee, urged careful deliberation
 before the proposed action was taken. The vote for MT. Shaw as running | mate for Mir. Connery was unanimous Some Democrats not present criticize the step as matter of party policy, l while offering no objection to MT
 Shaw as an individual. He has served
 two terms in the legislature and made
 a good record. Mir. Connery is a, young
 man of ability and character, just
 entering upon his professional career
 as lawyer.
 The other nominations were as fol-
 lows: Assessors, Joel Godfrey; se-
 lectmen, w. c. Sanford and James E.
 Driscon; judge of probate, J. B. San
 ford; auditor, H. c. McCollam; jus
 tices, Joel Godfrey Rufus A. Lyon,
 Daniel Vaughn, Eugene Adams, w. l C n
 ford, Michael Connery, H. A. Louns-
 bury; constables, John Pryor James Delaney, W. A. Grouse; registrars of
 voters, E. M. Bradley, Nicolo Sante hello; school committee, J. B. San
 ford; tax collector, John Muennich. The candidates for selectmen are the
 present incumbents and are believed to be reasonably sure of election. As to the candidates for judge of probate, tax collector and MT. Shaw they can } not fail, being on both tickets.
 l The Republican caucus, held on Thursday evening, nominated only
 state ticket candidates, because the call, through inadvertence, failed to mention the naming of town office candidates as part of the business. In
 the proceedings a new method was fol-
 lowed. that of balloting for candidates without a previous presentation of names. This did not delay results as !, might have been expected, the rest ballot usually bringing decisive ma ,, jorities. The nominations were:
 Representatives, s. c. Shaw, John
 H. Holman; judge of probate, J. B.
 Sanford; Justices, John Muennich, w. E. Hagen, F. I. Judd, A. G. Barnett,
 Joel G. Hawley. Another caucus to name candidates for town offices will , be held next Saturday evening. H.
 | Sanford Osborn has made 1t known , that he will not accept a re-nomina-
 ton for selectman.
 & Within a few days Deputy Sheriff S George S. Banks lost both his daugh- , l ters through their entrance to the l state of matrimony. Although both . marriages were private they were in . no sense clandestine, the engagements !; | having been of conventional duration {; and the weddings having the advance 8 knowledge and approval of the var f ious family groups. On Wednesday d evening, Aug. 21, there was perform e ed by Rev. B. U. Case at the Center = Methodist parsonage the ceremony by = which Miss Grace, the younger daugh- e ter, became the wife of Wakeman 1T Wheeler of Easton. The contracting : couple were unattended and following e the ceremony proceeded to the home of the groom. g The bride has for the - past two years taught one of the Eas- ton public schools. Her husband is al IL present one of the towns selectmen
 and has held other local offices.
 ;, The marriage of Miss Julra Bank! u and Frederick Perry, son of Danie . Perry now of Milford and formerly 5 :, of Easton, took place last Saturday o evening at the residence of the off v ciating minister in Ridgefield. Thence n the bride and groom started on { ~ honeymoon trip through New Yorl ,e State and upon returning will takt d up their residence in Milford.
 The band of ten New York farmer
 cites at West Bedding took a rest las
 Monday along with the other toiler
 and received quite a number of visi
 tors. On all the working days sine x, entering on the adventure they hay,
 conscientiously devoted eight hour =, daily to crop coaxing with highly sat VI isfactory results. They have raised H half an acre of superlative onion
 and about two acres of sweet corn be , sides an abundance of beans and ' wide range of other garden stuff
 Some has been shipped to New Yorl and most of the remainder put up ol
 the premises for winter use, cannin; . operations having been continuou
 since the season opened. They hay .I two cows and fortunately one of tn '. . band knows how to milk. Anothe " has served as cook from the begin 5 ming.
 nc The fate of Austin Workman, for oS merly of Georgetown, would appea
 to have been accurately determine ~ as a telegram from the War depart . ment received by his brother on Sat Ir, urday last announced that Austin wa r- a prisoner in Germany. In the frs , official announcement he was report ,o ed as missing and in the second a ;n dead. The third is presumably bas o ed on later and correct information c, Probably the most important mat w ter to be decided by the annual tow ra meeting in October is the method C In road repairs to be applied for at leas an the coming year as the three year of contract now held by B. B. Banks e1 ad pires this fall. There are diverger n- and strongly held opinions as t ns whether the contract system ha a. worked out in a manner to recon as mend its continuance and these wi
 doubtless find full expression. It
 not believed that many will favor TT return to the plan of having the SC IT lectmen care for the highways an NJ there remains only the contract sy! " tenn or the employment of a super