The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-08

nearly reached home when there arose an outcry of consternAtion. The discovery had been made that there were only five girls in the car when there should have been six Had the missing one been lost ovsTboard or inadvertently left behind through fail ure to embark? Recourse to the first available telephone showtr that the latter was the case and 70 agoniztng fears were quleted. The text day MT. Banks again went to Bridgeport and restored her to the family circle. 'The only way to make sure h such cases Is to check up by roll call before startng," gravely remarks one neigh Dor to MT. Banks. Tt might have been worse, Ben," says another, 'fbut after all what's one girl more or less among so many?" And MT. Banks is valiently buying the cigars.
 Rev. MT. Cunningham returned last Monday evening from Ayes, Mass, where he has been ding volunteer chaplaincy and Y. M. ,. A. work at Camp Devens. He fond the work very congenial. While he was at the camp Privates Roseneal and Samuel son, the latest Bedding recruits, came in. The former was assigned to duty as a corporal and i attending a school for non-commistoned offers. Earl Becker and Charle Rowland of Bedding are just out O the hospital, one having been a nEasles patient and the other the victim of a motor car accident. Morris Britton, caretaler at the S. c. Shaw place on the Rdge, received this week a letter from his son, AL fred S., sergeant in tie U. s. Ma rines. The boy has been through the recentspell of hard fighting in which the Marines bore so distinguished a part and is now acting IS instructor I of the arriving recruits. Before go- | ing to France young BrLton saw &C., tive service in Mexico, San Domingo and on the Isthmus. Hi four years enlistment term will be ID next Feb ruary.
 The Georgetown Red Closs recently held a lawn party on he Catholic church grounds in the village which was a notable financial s1ccess, real izing as 1t did the sume If $323. ! Last Saturday evening T. Marvin Stocking discontinued his grocery bus mess in Georgetown on account ot finding it ro longer profitable. He ihas conducted the store for about eight years, having purchased the stand from the late Bur Mills. MT Stocking has served two terms in the Legislature on the Democratic side and was each time oppdnted county auditor.
 The vacancies in the office of regis ltrar of voters for the wet side caused by entrance into war service of Chas Rowland and Benjamin Shreiber have been filled by the seleomen by th' appointment of Nicholas SantanellC and Hull Bartram. The vacancy aris ing from the prospective departure fo France of E. M. Bradley will De fillet by James Reynolds as deputy.
 In the summary given last week 0 the list of hospital supplies forwarded by the Bedding Red Cross there wa, inadvertently omitted 4: gallons 0 jam.
 About two thirds of the $500 rep resented by the three mill special ta! was taken in during July by Collecto Muennich. He says the hardest par of his task was the answering of in quiries as to the why and wherefor of the levy.
 Master Stephen Sanford spent las week in Westport as the guest of hi aunt, Mrs Marshall Sanford.
 The Junior Home Guard are camp ing at Patnam Park this week. lame Woodson is in charge of the boys.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Olbry of Yves Bedding are in Saratoga Springs for few weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. R. R. Walbridge ar sojourning at Point O. Woods, L. I.
 George Arnold and family are nov ing from Pleasant Valley to the Lyo tenement on the lower Ridge.