Republican farmer., 1918-11-15
BEDDING
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producers who have invested several thousand dollars in the company's stock and are creditors for several thousand more on account of milk de- livered and not yet paid for. When the company had a shake up last spring in connection with the pros ecution and dismissal of MT. Coburn. it's first president, considerable addi- tiona1 capital was raised and it was given out that thus financially strengthened the company would have smooth sailing. One subsequent cir cumstance not in accord with this pleasing assurance was the failure to fulfill a promise that the milk bills then in arrears should be speedily settled. Instead they remained un- paid claims until about the first of last month when 8 form of settlement was made by the giving of notes for amounts representing the old arrears and also what was due for milk re- gently supplied. This indicated some thing wrong and the application for receiver soon followed. It is under stood that under the receivership milk bills will be paid every two weeks and consequently mostS of those who have 1 ibeen selling to the company will con- tinue. The general supposition is that l the financing of last spring might 1 have overcome all difficulties had not a large part of the money then ob tained been used to acquire the dis tributing branch of the business which i eX-President Coburn set out to pro- | vide and in so doing was alleged to
 have made questionable use of the
 dompany's assets. It Is also repre-
 scented that even with this all might
 have been well had there not been a failure to obtain bank loans which
 were withheld after being promised
 because of the strain on tine banks
 resources due to war requirements. | However, most of the interested
 dairymen in this section take comfort
 in the assurance that the company is
 solvent. They believe that the com
 small leakages which may be cor
 that the establishment of the com"
 pany was a wise move inasnuch as it
 seems to protect the interests of pro ducers who would otherwise be, in Ithe matter of prices, largely at the
 mercy of the large private concerns or individual retailers lacking in
 financial responsibility
 Many were awakened at about three
 o'clock Monday morning by the chorus
 of factory whistles penetrating from
 Bridgeport, Danbury and Georgetown.
 Knowing what it meant everybody re- joiced. Daylight brought a general
 display of flags and the ringing of the Center Methodist church bell by Rev. MT. Case, the pastor. In Georgetown the church bells were kept ringing at
 intervals throughout the day. The Home Guard went to Danbury in the
 afternoon and joined in. the big eel
 ebTation there and in the procession
 were many Bedding cars bedecked for
 the occasion. A few of these also saw
 BridgepOrt's tremendous demonstra-
 tion Tuesday afternoon and agreed that as large and impressive as was Danbury's celebration 1t ranked as
 merely a curtain raiser in comparison
 with the Bridgeport jubilatipn.
 Canvassing for the United War
 drive was begun on Monday by Chair man McCollam and his aids and is being conducted energetically with re suits which promise a satisfactory
 showing when the entire field is GOV. cred. In Georgetown $1, 100 was raised ! the first day. That community has l been awarded five stars for it's heavy over subscription to the last Liberty Loan and would have been entitled tc more had not a part of its subscrip- tions been diverted from the offlcia
 depository.
 On account of the depletion in the ranks of the Bedding Home Guard re. , ducing its strength from company tc 7 platoon proportions a second platoon ) has been organized in Georgetown 3 with 27 members. They are ho1dine I drills at home one week and the mex f week will join the older contingent or 3 drills at the Danbury armory. Int S addition of the new platoon vii g maintain the company standing of tht r command.
 As the result of an amicable con t spiracy on the part of their many t friends MT. and Mrs. Marcus H. Bur
 celebrated the twentieth anniversar! : of their marriage on Tuesday evening . at their home at the Ridge. The con f spiracy was aided and abetted b. I their daughter, Miss Cleora, who i . filling a clerical position with tn, = Remington company in Bridgeport !. MT. and Mrs. Burr had no l1nowledg, = of the plot until the visitors descended n upon them and made known thei " mission. The company numbered !, about 40 and represented severa I towns including Bridgeport, Eastol ]. and Bedding. They brought a mum . ber of suitable gifts and the evenin. n was happily passed with dancing, re e treatments and other social diver
 s1ons.
 n The victim of the third casuaItr V among the Bedding boys at the iron | is Herman Smith, son of Dr. E. H 8 Smith. His injury is not serious, be }. ing a flesh wound in the leg from = bullet and not sufficiently grave t l. make him a hospital subject. Hostil = tiles have ended without any fatalitie t among the Bedding contingent.
 = While H. Sanford Osborn was on tn = way to his road building job betweel e Waterbury and New Haven his ca e came into collision, near Morgan e Corner in Newtown, with a car driver II by Frank Platt. The clash resuIte V in some damage to both machines bu - the occupants of neither was hurt, n MT. and Mrs. Charles Ringle 0 . Bedding closed up their house las 1t Thursday and departed in their ca 0 for Florida where they intend | e spend the winter. They purpose mak " ing the entire trip by auto.
 e The vestry of the Episcopal churcl 9 has decided to have services by e clergyman on the first Sunday of eacr month and lay reading on the othe r Sundays.
 l. Bids for the three year contract fo f road repairs will be opened at th