Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-05-03
REDDING

which Roswell Dingee started last
Sunday afternoon in his garden on
Peaeeable street, Georgetown, jump
ed to the dead swamp grass in an
adjoining field and swept northward
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-
troll. 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
IDENTIFY 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 a sentence of $40 fine
and costs and six months in Jail. The
defendant being poor and penitent
the Jail penalty was suspended on
condition that he paid the fine and
costs which he promised to do in in
stallments of 50 weekly.
The numerous exhibits and the
large attendance at the food show
held at the Library on Wednesday
afternoon of last week evidenced the
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, "a; mullins, 10; pies, 5; salads.
10; meaat substitutes, 8; cookies, %;
candy, 3. The judges, who were
Miss Gladys Green of Danbury and
Miss Angel of Bridgeport, awarded
premiums as follows: Corn yeast
bread, Mrs. E. Crofut; oatmeal yeast
bread, Mrs. Teresa Vaughan, Mrs. j.
Healon; barley yeast bread, Mrs. W.
c. Sanford, Mrs. ]. B. Sanford; pota-
to bread, Mrs. John S. Carney, Mrs.
Frances Barnett; combination bread.
Miss Louise Ward, Mrs. H. S. Barnes;
quick war bread, graham mullins
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, Sr., vegetable pudding; desserts,
Mrs. J. B. Sanford, pudding; Mrs.
Frank Meehan, pie with crust Of
wheat -four and corn meal; salads,
iel 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 $40, will go to the Red
| Cross.
To the many farmers having po-
tato stocks which cannot be sold at
| prices sufficient to meet the cost of
raising them the recent admonition
of the Food Administrator against
potato boarding has a decidedly iron
| ical sound although probably not
meant that way. Also decidedly of
the key 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
| ers 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 it ap-
parent to the writer that not this mo-
tive but that the almost continuous
zero weataher prevented a normal
outflow of the crop to market with a
spring glut and low prices as the re-
suit.
Owing to the severe weather condi-
tons it was hard to keep potatoes
from getting frost bitten in the cell
lars to say nothing of the di.culty OF
protecting them outside.
The chicken supper which the local
Home Guard had planned as feature
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
conservation 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
ly egg producers and also of course
some chickens are ROSTERS but despite
the possibility of applying these saw
ing facts to the providing of a 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
4 proposed festivity on Tuesday evening
the Guard busted themselves with an
outdoor drill postponed from the pre-
vious 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
T. Simpson of Hartford on the ground
of desertion. The case was uncon-
tested. The couple were married in
I1902 and subsequently Mrs. Simpson
advanced about $4,000 for the pur-
chase of a seat in the New York Stock
17xobapoo for her husband The in