Republican farmer., 1918-11-08
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)

John Ii. 1Onmdn. $. C. shaw, Lns other representative chosen, was on both tickets. D. s. Sanford, Demo-
 cratic candidate for State senator had a majority of r over BisseH,
 backing by his home town of which
 he has reason to be proud. Some of the other figures are: Hnlcomb, 169; lSpellacy, 137; for congress, l.. O. Peck, d, 140; Merritt, r, 154; for lieutenant governor, Lockwood, q, 14O; Wilson, Ir, 154. Those elected justices of the peace are Joel Godfrey, Daniel
 Vaughn, Rufus A. Lyon,' John Muen-
 nich, F. A. Judd, A. G. Barnett and
 Joel G. Hawley.
 The plan of a division into districts
 with a contractor for each instead of having the new road repair contract embrace the entire town was thor
 oughly discussed by the road commit tee at their meeting on Monday and
 finally adopted A number of argu-
 ments were advanced in favor of the plan. One was that while with the single contract method not more than two or three bids were likely to be called out division of territory would elicit proposals from more than this number for each section. SlIrh
 increase of competition, it is believed, will inure to the benefit of the town Furthermore there would naturally be some rivalry among the contractcrs and this should tend to greater thor
 oughness and excellence in the work. Little river and the Saugatuck river , are to form the interior boundary lines in the division, making a west ern, center and an eastern section.
 The committee further decided, in ad-
 vertising for bids, to invite proposals
 for each of these sections and alEo
 bids for the town as a whole. If tle ' award goes to a single contractor lse will have the privilege of sub-lettsr
 as regards two of the sections de- f fined.
 . H. c. McCollam, chairman of tie } local committee in charge of tie l united drive which begins next Mof- g day for the joint benefit of variolSs r war relief organizations, has appoint = ed the following associate members S each having the designation of cap : tain: Cidge section, Mrs. Raymond
 Cunningham; Center, Mrs. J. B. San . ford; Sanfortown, Mrs. E. M. San. e ford; Pleasant Valley, Mrs. W. c e1 Sanford; hometown. Mrs. w. H. Hill f The canvass in West Bedding will be
 supervised by D. P. Sanford, whose V appointment comes from the distric committee, and in Georgetown by Mi " chael Connery, permanent chairman of war relief work in that section
 The amount which the committee ha!
 set as it's goal is $2,5O0. MT. McCol V lam has succeeded in getting the orig ', inal territorial arrangement changed n so that Bedding instead of being di a vided will constitute a unit subsi
 diary to the Danbury district.
 d The influenza touched this towl - very lightly except in Georgetown " where it was epidemic to a degre,
 probably not excelled in any com
 munity of the country. Out of ;
 population of from five to six hun
 dred at least two hundred were vic
 tims of the malady. Among the con a siderable Italian and Polish element 2 of the population it left hardly a sin gle person unaffected In compariso,
 with the number of sick the mortalit
 was light, a fatal termination havin es resulted in less than half a doze, Ly cases These were mostly cases wher in pneumonia succeeded the influenza E. The worst of the epidemic seems | l. be past, there having been practicall n no new cases in the last-few day at and most of the earlier patients bein to in favorable progress towards recov ,f cry. In the other parts of the tow as there have been quite a number c ot pneumonia cases, none of whic t1- proved fatal.
 t0 A letter from Lyman D. Dunnel . written from a military hospital a ~ Chichester, England, brought to hi - parents at their summer home on tn p- Ridge a few days ago news of his hay ''' ing been wounded while taking pal > in general engagement on tF 9e French front. His command ha CT overrun the first line of enem It, trenches and was cleaning up the set h- ond when his left shoulder was pierce or by a bullet, putting him out of actio1 e. The letter gives a graphic account r. his experience in the battle and make or light of his injury. Young Dunnen
 one of the enlisted contingent, havin ne Joined the famous 7th N. Y. regimeI ce after Americas entrance into the wa st. The 7th afterwards was merged wit e. the 107th. He is a former pupil of tI t. Sanford school and held a business DO mt e1tion in New York at the time of h he enlistment.
 nd Miss Elizabeth S. Sanford is be UT reresentative to assist in the helpf rs. work the Red Cross has undertake ee in the matter of getting Christina iss packages to the soldiers overseas Sl ll- has a supply of the standard contail h. CTS which have been provided ar IT. will furnish them upon applicatic
 made to her at the Town Clerks O ny flee. The Red Cross pays transport; 'e- tion charges on the packages commi IT. ted to their care, and Nov 20 is u ly, time limit set for forwarding the! rs packages.
 to Tn reporting the trif1e wounding 7t- France last month of J. B. Sanfor el- Jr., The Times correspondent ina lar vertently misstated his rank He w he corporal in the Bedding Hon nd Guard when he enlisted and won { o1- appointment to the same position 1al his training camp in this country. ( Id the other side he was promoted to nc sergeantcy which rank he now holt ,do He is a member of Go. K, 107th reg aiu ment, 27th division.
 L Of the 28 Bedding men in the SC ,bo vice to whom ballots for Tuesday 5-r election were sent only six made r "y, y turns. These were Herman Srnit of Francis Malone, George Russell, I 5o Deming, Thomas Darragh and Samr u @ Day.
 "n Rev. Raymond Cunningham a. IlI 'J Edward Y Bradley have made knoy ,iIe me to friends here their safe arrival tl tI0 France. The former went as a cha 'he lain and the latter as a member ses Ethe Red Cross transportation servic
 Ralph Rockwell has given up me