The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-31
BEDDING

Bedding, Jan. 31.-Fire, started in a mortar board partition from the stove pipe, damaged the interior of the Ludway house, located below Pine Tree Corner, to the amount of about $200 last Monday morning. The house was unoccupied at the time ex- cept for the presence of Arthur Rus sell, the young stepson of MT. Lud- way, who had come from New York to spend the week end. Chief Marcus Burr of No. 1 Fire Co.,, was notified of the fire by telephone and hurried to the scene with a hand chemical ex. tinguisher. This he used with such good effect that the flames were soon subdued, without having extended be- yond two rooms. The property was insured for $1,700 with the agency of W. H. Hi1I who estimates the loss at s200, equally divided between the building and the furnishings.
 The contract for re-indexing the towns land records has been awarded by the selectmen to Town Clerk San ford, who will start on the work as soon as a decision is reached as to which of the two or three approved systems open to choice will be follow ed. Promptness in getting the job un- der way was deemed desirable in order that it might be completed by the end of 1919, the time limit set by the statute with penalty for delay be- yond that period. The matter of compensation is to be adjusted later as so few towns have arranged similar contracts that anything like a fixed standard for such work has not been established However, there is no doubt felt as to reasonable and satis- factory terms being arrived at in the case of the local records. There are 33 volumes to be gone over, the older ones being in fine and often grabbed writing with the ink so faded as to be scarcely legib1e.
 One of those needing the Hoover exportation for increased pork nro- auction is A. G. Barnett of hometown who is reducing his dairy herd to make room for pig growing. He has areaoy secured half a dozen brood soWs and will raise all the progeny they are to produce in the spring. After the rearing stage the broods will be turned out to pasture in patches of alfalfa and common clov- CT, the latter being sown at intervals in order to provide fresh forage. These feedlng grounds will give access to a break so that the growing pigs may require no hand supplying as regards either food or drink. The final fat tening process in the fall is to he accomplished by turning the pigs into corn field, another detail in the scheme of labor saving. While the Hoover plea had a measure of influ ence in causing MT. Barnett to under take pig raising he says that another reason is the labor shortage which makes it difficult to get enough help to continue milk production and his other previous farm operations on the former scale.
 A local canvass is about to he made in behalf of the fund the Knights of Columbus are raising for relief and recreation work among the soldiers and the response should be as gen. eraI and liberal as that extended to the other periodically worthy ap- peals previously presented to the pub lie. Bedding is included in the terri tory covered by the Bethel council of the order in this campaign. The local committee appointed by the council consists of H. C., Mcclellan, chairman: Rev. MT. Cunningham, M. Joseph Sullivan and D. S. Sanford. They will soon meet to arrange for inviting contributions to the cause through out the town. In Bridgeport the re- cent K. of c. campaign resulted in raising about s20,000 above the city's allotment of $50,OO0.
 At the annual meeting of the Center Congregational church last Friday the former officers were re- elected for the coming year. The fi- nancial statements showed receipts for the past year of S2,225 with a balance in the treasury on Jan. 1 of $329.
 An advertisement for a house. keeper recently placed in a New York paper by Bedding widower brought sixty responses. The respondent who was hired brought along two children of her own and there were eight more
 of her employers to be cared for. After weeks stay she returned to New York.
 A letter received by relatives here
 on Monday announced the safe ar
 rival in France of Travers Malone who had sailed about two weeks be-
 fore as one of party of twenty five
 sent over in the country's postal ser
 vice. All had written long letters pre- vious to their departure and the agent