The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-06

rally and passed away about half an hour after the attack. The deceased i was about TO years of age and a na- tive of Barkhamstead, Conn. The 1 medical profession was his first choice as a life pursuit, but soon after at taining his degree as 9 doctor he studied for and embraced the minis terial calling. Two years ago he mar ried Mrs. Ella Read, widow of Aaron Read, being at the time a. widower with two children, daughters, by his first marriage. These and his second wife survive him. From the begin ming of his settlement here he had the atfectiOnate esteem of his congrega- tion and it was upon their petition l that he was continued in the pastorate for a second term.
 The Bedding Home Guard do not yet know how they are to be affected by the decision of the State military authorities to reduce the force to 5000 from it's, present strength of 13,000 by disbanding some of the rural compa- nies- A few of the members had in , tended to retire when their two years' term of enlistment expires next March, but the majority express de- sire to continue with the organization l if the opportunity is offered The SUD- position is that the units in those 1 town which have only pIatoons in- stead of Q full company will be the ! first to be dismissed. The Bedding Guard was recently recruited to full company strength to supply the losses due to enlistments and the draft and it is believed there will be no diff culty in maintaining full ranks under the new order of things. Probably few of the States county companies are the equals of the Redding Guard in drill proficiency and a record of interest and attendance and this fact will doubtless be taken into account in selecting the commands for reten- tion in the service. To disband the local company would leave @ gap in the battalion to which it belongs, the other units being the two Danbury companies, the Bethel company and platoons fromm Newtown and Ridge field.
 l The Bridgeport health officials decid- ed to bring a new prosecution against George P. Williams of hometown. against whom the first proceeding on the charge of having in his possession watered milk with intent to sell the same for public use resulted in fail ure on account of g. defect in the com plaint. This time there are to@ be three counts based on three tests each of which showed the dilutfon of the defendants milk with water, A Bridgeport firm of lawyers was en- ployed to draw the new complaint with the aim of avoiding another pos sible flaw. The bearing of the case has been set for this CThursday) a.f ternoon. Should the dependant plead not guilty the State will ask for an adjournment in order to present evil dence by the experts who made the analysis of the three milk samples taken at different times from Will Hams cans.
 About three months ago the ladies of the Red Cross in Georgetown dis tributed large number of what they called Thanksgiving bags which were intended as receptacIes for a deposit by their holders of one cent on each day when the weather was stormy. These bags when collected and emp tied last Saturday yielded the unex- !pectedly large sum of about S1O0. If was evident that the single deposits had not in all instances been limited to only one cent.
 The death of Frank Hall of George 1 town occurred last Sunday at the Danbury hospital to which he had been conveyed the previous Sunday suffering from kidney ailment. The deceased had for many years been en- gagged in the occupation of trucking. His age was about 65 and he was un- } married.
 M l man of Bridgeport, conducted a ser l vice at the Episcopal church on the
 morning of Thanksgiving Day. He , will of11ctate at the service in the same
 church on Christmas Day morning
 and on Sundays in the interval the
 pulpit will be supplied by lay readers.
 The vestry has voted to decorate the church for Christmas in accordance
 with the usual custom.
 The town road committee will per
 nit the new contractors to furnish bonds given by private parties in-
 stead of requiring surety company
 bonds as formerly. The reason for
 the concession is the raise in rates
 made by the insurance companies, the
 present rate being one and one-haIf
 per cent. as against one-haf per cent,
 This would make the premium cost of
 the sureties $81 in tho present case.
 Zach contractor is to be required to
 furnish two bondsmen.
 The hearing on the application made lin behalf of J. Henry Duncan for the
 removal of his conservator has been postponed in the Bedding probate
 court for one month from Wednesday lof last week. MT. Duncan was not present and had no medical witnesses present to testify in the support of the
 claim that he had regained his sanity
 this claim being the ground for the
 duplication. Hence the postponement
 A threatening chimney fire at the residence of Town Treasurer Hill In
 hometown caused considerable excite
 Inent in the neighborhood last Satur- lCay afternoon. The neighbors prompt fly rallied and by the use of hand
 chemicals and other means confined the blaze to the chimney
 A letter from Edward M. Bradley (which his mother received last week
 showed that he is now in Paris, hay ing crossed the channel after a few ldays in London with the Red Cross limit to which he belongs. Soon after
 his arrival he ran across two Bedding