Republican farmer., 1918-08-23
BEDDING


 is whether MT. Gill really wounded the one marauder he shot at or whether the man put up a bluff in toppling over and remaining where he fell for an hour or more, meanwhile uttering groans and cries indicative of deep distress. Aroused by the barking of the dog, Mrs. Gill saw the two men at about 10:30 pass from the road to the door yard and halt near the poultry house. Directly afterwards MT. Gill shouted at the visitors and getting no reply sent a revolver shot in their direction, his object being only to give them a fright. A grad uate of the naval service and 8 quail fled marksman his scoring of a hit in stead of near hit would be a refec- ton on his skill. However, one of the men went down with a groan and the other became lost to sight in the shad- ows cast by the shrubbery. Thinkine the men might be armed and in a re- taliatory mood Gill thought it the wiser not to approach them, but in stead telephoned a summons to Depu- ty Sheriff Banks. Just before the lat ter arrived Gill saw one of the men emerge from the shadows and run to ! the barn which he entered. Hoping to trap him there Gill and the sheriff hurried to the building to find that l the fugitive had made good his escape through a door on the opposite side. In his flight he had passed behind the l horses frightening one of them so that it had plunged and broken the halte-. \ 6 ha SI1n posedly wounded man, but he had also disappeared. No blood was found at the place where he had been lying and there were TO clues of any kind to disclose the raiders identity. MT. | GilTs course of bringing firearms into l play receives general approval, the i only regret being that he did not make more thorough job of It. The east side of the town is with | out the convenience of public meat purveyor owing to the retirement from business of Ralph Rockwell, who accompanied the discontinuance by | making an assignment before J. w. Banks of Bridgeport, referee in bank ruptcy. MT. Rockwell took over the business from E. P. Sanford about
 
 | time purchased the residential proper | ty of Aaron H. Sanford on the Ridge. Lack of capital, heavy expenses and a decreasing volume of sales due to in- 1 Creasing prices are given as resons for | the failure. The liabilities are approx imately $9,O00 of which about half l represents a mortgage on the real es Bills to wholesale meat dealers in | Bridgeport comprise most of the re- maining indebtedness. Wagons, two autos and most of the other equip ment has already been taken by cred- ! itors who were secured by chattel mortgage. The other local claims are | inconsequential. The assets are small, consisting of accounts payable, a pure l ly nominal equity in the real estate and pigs valued at $16O MT. Rock well was well liked in the community and his reverses naturally excite sym pathy. A meeting of the creditors will be held at Judge Banks office on Thursday of next week.
 At the Center Congregational church last Sunday morning Rev. Lewis T. Reed, pastor of the Flatbush Congre- gational church of Brooklyn, delivered a discourse on the Epworth Leagues work of supplying the New Testament to soldiers in the training camps II, general, he said, the copies were ap preciatively received and read with highly beneficial results. Mr. Reed, who 31 years ago preached his first l sermon in the church where he spoke i last Sunday, was for seven months in 1 charge of Y. M. c. A. work at Kelley i Field in Texas, an experience which he described very interestingly before | the Mems club last Thursday evening i The interest aroused by his talk on New Testament distribution will prob ably result in a one days local drive for funds towards aiding the move ment, the campaign being conducted by Rev. W. s. Woolworth.
 It has been decided to call the Dem ucratic caucus to nominate candidates for the October town election for Thursday evening of next week. The call will probably also provide for the nomination nf representatives, thereby obviating the necessity of holding an- other caucus What will be done about trying to get in the soldier vote from the training camps is an unset tied question with a probability that this element will not figure except for those who come home from the camps tnd vote in the usual way. That is no effort will be made to secure votes by mail As to candidates there has been no particular discussion, although there will be strong demand for the re-nomination of First Selectman VIC. Sanford. The ticket to be submitted by the Republican managers for | ratification by their party caucus is yet to be made known. It is assumed,
 however, that s. c. Shaw will defer
 his claim to the senatorial nomination on account of unwillingness to run against D. S. Sanford, his cousin, and i again seek a place on the ticket as representative This year the caucus will probably not repeat the blunder | of failing to select one representative
 candidate from Georgetown or West 1 Bedding, an error of policy which led | to the defeat of H. s. Barnes two years ago.
 James and Theodore, son of Red l dington W. Dayton of West Bedding, | have finished a several months
 course of training in aviation camps
 on this side and received their com
 missions as second lieutenants. They
 are now awaiting a call to France to
 enter the active flying service. Alvin, son of Prof. Louis Treadwell, formerly
 of hometown, is now flying on the French front.
 Eighteen members of the Ladies
 Aid society of the Centre Methodist
 church went to Danbury Tuesday on | invitation of Mrs. Charlotte Bryant