Republican farmer., 1918-05-17
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propriate exercises. The Home Guard
and school children are to partici-
pate. Captain H. S. Barnes will make
presentation of the emblem and w. C.
Sanford, first selectman and chairman
of the local War Bureau, the accept
ance response. Other speakers are to
| be Lieut.. Col Ives of Danbury, and
| D. s. Sanford. Reddings achieve
ment in supporting the last Liberty
Loan certainly gives warrant for
pride and jubilation. The amount of
subscriptions credited the town by the
official bank record is $42,65O and
rightly there should be added more
| than 81 600 which has not been includ-
ed owing to neglect on the part Of
certain subscribers to attend to this
phase of the matter. Of the total ac-
tually credfted only 81 200 came from
the towns summer colony which COM
prises many wealthy persons. These
individuals doubtless did their share,
! but the credits went to New York or
other cities. Georgetown's contrjbu-
ton of nearly $4,000 represented a
considerably larger number of indi-
viduals than did it's contribution to
the previous loan, the shop hands of
| the village participating almost to a
man.
The special business of the session
of the Fairfield County Association Of
Churches and Ministers to be held at
the Center Congregational church on
Tuesday, May q, will be the ordina-
ton to William Sage WOODWORK, Jr.,
son of the church's pastor. The exer-
cises begin at 2 o'clock and will pro-
coed in the following order: Invoca-
ton by the moderator; Scripture read
ling by Rev. Frank =. Carlson; ser
mon by Re. William Rockwell, Phi. d.;
| prayer of ordination, Rev. Nehemiah
Boynton, D. D.; charge to the minis
ter, Rev. w. S. Woolworth; charge to
the missionary, Rev. Edward L.
lSmith, D. D.; right hand of fellow
ship, Rev William III. Day, ID. D.;
benediction, Rev. W. S. WOODWORK,
Jr. Besides the county association
the Clinton Avenue church of Brook
Ign and the Tallman church Of Tall
man, N. Y, will be represented in the
council. The ordination candidate has
done ministerial work in Canada and
elsewhere during the past year and
has been enrolled by the Foreign Mis-
sionary Board as one of a specially
selected band of 16 chosen to perform
service in Turkey after the war He
graduated on Tuesday of this week
from the Union Theological Seminary
of New York.
Eight hours of actual toll is the
daily schedule of the college farmer
cites who are located in West Red
ding under enlistment for the season
in the food production service. This
schedule is faithfully followed and
thsu far the original band of workers
remains intact. They have put in sew
| eral acres of potatoes and half an
acre of onions and are now planting
a varied assortment of garden stuff.
One day last week they varied their
agricultural activities by replenisning
the wood pile with the aid of a buck
saw. The experience proved that the
crop of blisters on their hands had not
previously reached the maximum. AS
nothing further has been heard from
the other group of college women
who expected to do farming on Miss
Fowlers land at Redding Center the
superstition is that the plan will not
materialize owing to the lack of hous-
ing accommodations.
Suffragan Bishop Acheson visited
Christ Episcopal church at the Ridge
on Wednesday evening and admins
tered confirmation to the following
candidates: Mrs. Grace Allen, Dor
man Allen, Catherine Barnes, Edith
, Cromwell, A. c. Gustafson, Mabel
, Nichols, Helen May Lahey, Converse
r Morrill,, Mildred Peterson, Andrew
Sherwood.
l A recent outbreak of measles and
. whoopng cough in Georgetown and
: vicinity involved many pupils of the
Georgetown school and at one time
threatened to necessitate the schools
{ closing This was avoided, however
r and the near epidemic is now well
| in hand and decreasing. Among the
: patients are the wife and five chill
dren of B. B. Banks. A granddaughter
of Frank Albin was in a serious con-
dition for a time, but is now improv-
ing.
Counsel in the tax suits of Messrs
Peck and Luttgen against this towr
were given until the end of the pres.
ent week in which to file briefs re-
garding the new points raised in the
-. litigation by the re-committal of the
cases to ]. W. Banks, who heard then
as a committee of the superior court
It is expected that a disposition o.
them will be made before the mid
summer vacation of the courts.
Mrs. Frances Abbott and Mis-
Tbbetts summer residents of Yves
q Redding. have begun making ar
n rangements for community celebra
r ton of the Fourth of July. A chill
!. dren's parade is planned as one of the
features and the indoor exercises will
4 probably be held at the Long Ridg,
r Methodist church.
| A letter written on April Z has beer
" kreceived from Harold Connery, WIN
o left Georgetown more than a year agt
IS driver in France. 1t says that he wa!
s owrking at the front when the grea
drive of March 81 started and for tive
weeks did not remove clothes o.
4 shoes. In one stretch of As hours hs
- had no sleep and no food except {
hasty bite. He came through the or
rs deal aIninjured.
at The Home Guard will give an en-
0. tertainment, probably a, revised edi
70 ton of their last falls minstrel show
at the Mark Twain Library on tn
Is evening of June 1, for the benefit o
at the Junior Home Guard. The junior
"a now number 20 with a prospect of hal
:, as many more members and are anx
ieus to obtain uniforms
al The union service next Sunday vii
!. be heRd at the Center Methods
=, church in charge of Rev. Mr.. Case
h