The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-19
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)

Bedding, Sept. 19.---The total of the towns draft registration last Thurs day was 1S0 S9 names being recorded at the Center and 991 at Georgetown. Of the latter about 50 are employees of the Gilbert Ss Bonnet Co. Character | istics of the registration were the readiness, promptness and cheerful ness of spirit with which the subjects came forward and performed the duty. It is believed that the list as it stands is a complete one of every man liable, there having been no delin- quents or attempts at evasion. In the first registration the total was 110.
 The expression by some friends of D. S. Sanford of the idea that he was indifferent about the result of the sen- atorial contest in which he is a candi- date has been met by vigorous dec larations from him that the idea was entirely wrong. The nomination was unsought and unexpected, but with his acceptance of it he entered the race with a determination to use all proper means at his command to win out. A comparison of his qualifica- tions for the office with those of MT. Bissell, the opposing candidate, would
  Sanford is very deeply versed in the science of government and thoroughly informed regarding the political issues of the day. He is free from the vice of intolerance and the itch of meddle- someness and to much of an independ- lent thinker and too broad minded to be either the tool of a political ma chine or blindly a partizan. The dis trict will do itself credit by sending him to the Senate and competent Judges of conditions believe that his lchances for success are promising de- spite the nominal Republican major ity.
 Owing to delay in the arrival of campaign literature the meeting of the local committee on the new Lib erty Loan was postponed from last Saturday evening and will probably be held tomorrow (F'riday) evening. District Manager Shepherd will attend and clear up all doubtful points on which explanations may be needed. The card system, involving the use of a questionnaire, will pFobably be em- ployed by the canvassers as it brought good results in the last town drive. The campaign opens on Sept. 28.
 1 The local diphtheria visitation has brought no cases beyond the two original ones and the patients in both these are on the gain. For several days the temperature of Myrtle War ner was very near the fatal stage, and while her condition is still low the prospects favor her recovery. Eliza beth Duncan, the other patient, is re- garded as out of danger.
 A Bedding man has been reproaeh- ing himself for several seasons past over his failure to clear off a large patch of wild blackberry bushes which stood out as an obnoxious defacement on an otherwise trim and well-kept farm This season the bushes bore : iplentifully and the gathering and sale of the berries realized the owner up- wards of $1OO. Somehow this result doesn't seem to point just the right . moral, such as virtue is it's own re- ward and the like, but facts are facts and cash is cash.
 To an Easton citizen who boastingly proclaimed the other day that his , town was wholly free from debt a f Bedding neightor retorted that decent | roads and considerable debt would be ' a more creditable combination than the one now existing. The Jump Hill r, road from the towns northern line to y the new, short section built this sum- , mer above Ogden's Corner approaches r, the limit for all sorts of badness . Why some of the suffering travelling ! public do not seek the aid of the I county commissioners in an attempt Ito better matters remains a mystery. :. The acceptance by the government Q of the offer of the Mark Twain place as a convalescent hospital for Army and Navy officers has been followed by the planning of alterations to fiji . it for that purpose. Those decided 6 upon for the two main floors will pro- y vide accommodations for 2S patients 2 The placing of dormer windows and other changes in the attic story vii n increase the buildings capacity to 40 besides the requisite force of nurses G and general help. Stephen M. Burr e of Bethel who was Contractor Suth- " erland's foreman in the job of erect n ing the villa, has been engaged tC O make the alterations. They include the conversion of the barn into a gar. age.
 The, Center Methodist church, whicl had been prettily decorated for tht occasion, was the scene of wedding
 last Saturday morning, the contract
 ing parties being Simeon c. Moss
 butler for Prof. Frank Abbott O
 Princeton, and Miss Mary J. Benning
 ton a trained nurse who came ol
 from Georgia for the ceremony, ar
 irving in town the previous evening
 The couple, who were joined in wed
 lock by Rev. Mir Case, are colored.
 An improvement long needed ha
 been well done in the gravelling 0
 the road at Episcopal Church Corne
 westward to Muennich's store, suf1
 cient material having been put on t.
 considerably raise the road bed. Thi
 is one of the four jobs on which tn
 special appropriation of $1,00O is bein1
 expended. The contract for like i'm
 provement above Falls Hill in Yves
 Bedding has been awarded to Harr,
 A. Lounsbury. The contract price i
 s250, but through the liberality of Joh]
 G. Fellowes about $500 will be expend
 ed on the job.
 The steel flag pole at the Ridge wa II the s1thieet of a steeple tack ]nh le e