The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-02
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toward the UmpaWaug section until it had covered about 200 acres Fire Warden Warner and a large force of helpers worked hard for five hours before getting the flames under con- trol. Patches of good sized trees received considerable damage and seventeen cords of piled fire wood belonging to Lemuel Barrett were consumed. No buildings were burn ed. As the law requires a permit for the outdoor burning of waste at this season and as Dingee had failed to provide himself with one he was arrested on Monday and when ar raigned before Justice w. c. Sanford | pleaded guilty. While he had evil dently intended no harm Justice San ford felt that an infraction of the | law attended with such serious con- sequences ought not to go unpunish ed and imposed sentence of $10 fine and costs and six months in jail. The l defendant being poor and penitent 1 the jail penalty was suspended on | condition that he paid the fine and 1 costs which he promised to do in in sta1lments of $2 weekly.
 The numerous exhibits and the large attendance at the food show held at the Library on Wednesday afternoon of last week evidenced tha wide degree of local interest in the conservation cause which prompted the affair. Virtually, all the speci- ments of cookery had been made with view to the saving of four and sugar, and comprised the following: Bread, 24; mullins, 10; pies, 5; salads, 10; meaat substitutes, 8; cookies, 22; candy, 3. The judges, who were Miss Gladys Green of Danbury and Miss Angeu of Bridgeport, awarded premiums as follows: Corn yeast bread, Mrs. E. Crofut; oatmeal yeast bread, Mrs Teresa Vaughan, Mrs. J. HeaIon; barley yeast bread, Mrs. w. c. Sanford, Mrs. J. B. Sanford; pota- to bread, Mrs. John s. Carney, Mrs. l Frances Barnett; combination bread, Miss Louise Ward, Mrs. H. s. Barnes; quick war bread, graham muffinsl Mrs. Lyman Beers, Miss Margaret Sawyer; corn bread, Mrs. W. c. San ford, Mrs Henry Platt; oatmeal bread, Mrs. D. R. Warner; steamed bread, Mrs. Albert Williams; loaf cake, Mrs. Lyman Beers. Several cake exhibits were ruled out because frosted.
 Cookies, Mrs J. B. Sanford, Mrs. E. I. Gorham, Mrs. Kate St. Mauer, SOY bean croquettes; Mrs. H. Louns- bury, ST., vegetable pudding; desserts, Mrs. J. B. Sanford, pudding; Mrs. Frank Meehan, pie with crust of wheat flour and corn meal; salads, Mrs. P. H. Smith; candy, Mrs. Dan ieI O'Keefe. Special mention with blue ribbon was made of Mrs. Geo. B. Pattison for a Japanese table and Mrs. H. E. Bodie for a. model school luncheon. The judging committee accompanied their awards with high praise for the exhibits as a whole. The lecture by Miss Merritt was heard with close attention and interest and there was a large sale of the excel lent war cook book compiled by Mrs. Barnett. The net receipts, amount ing to about $20, will go to the Red Cross.
 To the many farmers having po- tato stocks which cannot be sold al prices sufficient to meet the cost of raising them the recent admon1tion of the Food Administrator against potato hoarding has decidedly iron ical sound although probably not meant that way Also decidedly of the kev was a recent editorial para graph in a, New York paper saying that the government might success fully encourage the growing Of pota- tees but could not supply the grow CTS with enough brains to prompt them to sell while the selling was good. the implication being that the vegetables were withheld from the
 market during the winter in the ex- pectation of higher prices. A little reflection should have made 1t ap- parent to the writer that not this mo- tive but that the almost continuous zero weataher prevented a norma outflow of the crop to market with a spring glut and low prices as the re- suit.
 Owing to the severe weather condi- tions it was hard to keep potatoes from getting frost bitten in the eel liars to say nothing of the dt.culty of protecting them outside.
 The chicken supper which the local ASNDS~AA V of the anniversary muster they were to hold at the town house on Tuesday evening, occasioned some adverse comment out of keeping with the food conservatfon policy, the killing of lay ing hens this spring having been ban ned as detrimental to egg production. Of course all hens, are not continuous Iv egg producers and also of course some chickens are roosters but despite the possibility of applying these saw ing facts to the providing of chicken supper which would be strictly ortho- dox Captain Barnes thought it well to avoid even the appearance of evil and therefore cancelled the engagement in it's entirely, And so instead of the proposed festivity on Tuesday evening the Guard busted themselves with an outdoor drill postponed from the pre- yious evening.
 In the Superior Court at Bridgeport last Friday Mrs. Florence Simpson, for the past year a resident of this town, was granted a divorce from William IT Simpson of Hartford on the ground of desertion. The case was uncon- tested. The couple were married in 1902 and subsequently Mrs. Simpson advanced about $6O, ,000 for the pur- chase of a seat in the New York Stock Exchange for her husband. The in yestment proved a total loss for her and upon this impairment of her for tune Simpson advised her to go back to her folks. Although she was will ing to continue living with him he left her and the assertion has continued. =. 4o~,,oo of tho danreo Mrs SinD-