Republican farmer., 1918-04-26
BEDDING

Bedding, April 25-The prospects are that Bedding will this summer have two groups of CIV York college men engaged in food growing from patriotic motives, one being already established on the west side and Miss Sylvia De Grasse Fowler having of fered her 80 acre farm at Bedding l Centre for the use of another. Miss | Fowler lives in Washington, D. C., and | is a descendant of Admiral DeGrasse who commended the French, squadron which brought the forces that turned the tide in favor of the Americans at | the decisive battle of Yorktown dur | ing the Revolutionary struggle. In the present conflict she has been act 1 lively engaged in Red Cross work. On 1 Tuesday last a representative of the women to whom she has rendered the use of her farm here visited the Gen. l ter to inspect the place. She found that the old house upon it had gone 1 to complete ruin. There are no other | buildings and this lack of a habitation may be fatal to the project. It is 1 possible, however, that those intent upon it by using tents or putting up @ temporary shack for shelter purposes. l The agent called on Town Clerk San l ford during her brief stay and ex- | plained matters. Meanwhile the party of ten ladies who arrived at the Dea- | conness' Home place about two weeks ago are awaiting better weather con- ditions and further preparation of the soil before planting. They will first
 put in potatoes and onions and later garden seeds of all kinds. Besides be- ing manifestly ladies of intellect and
 refinement they appear to be physic- ally equal to the task they have un- l dertaken. They wear uniforms con- structed after the bloomer style of costume with overalls as one of the features.
 With returns still incomplete those
 already received show. that the Lib
 erty Loan subscriptions are fully dou-
 ble the towns allotment of $10,5OO.
 The largest single subscription was
 one for $5,OO0 turned in by J. B. San ford from a person whose name is 80
 far withheld. A $1,00O subscription
 came from the Congregational
 church, having been appropriated from the balance in the society's treas
 ury. Georgetown's contribution to the total is about $7,00O. Having filled its
 quota within the prescribed time the town is entitled to an honor flag.
 Ex-Sheriff Hawley acting as agent
 for the State Food Administration,
 came to West Bedding from Hartford last Saturday to investigate a com
 plaint that J. L. Blackman, dealer in
 flour and feed, had been selling wheat
 flour without an equal quantity of
 substitutes MT. BIackman admitted that to some degree the charge was
 well founded but offered as an excuse that he was not at first officially notified of the regulations in question.
 Desirous of observing them he sent to
 Hartford for a copy and since receiv-
 ing it had been observing the rules.
 He admitted that corn meal of his own \ grinding was mostly the substitute he had sold and that although unbolted
 many considered it suitable for house. hold use. The agent said it was not his province to pass on the sufficiency of this defense, that question being left for a decision at headquarters upon a, presentation of the facts in | the case.
 The Bedding Home Guard will ob. , serve their first anniversary at tht town house next Tuesday evening, {
 chicken supper prepared by Mary I Peterson being one of the features O.
 the program. Since recruiting to it:
 maximum strength of 65 members
 the organization has lost about 1;
 men by enlistmepts and draft calls
 This loss has been only partiall! k made good although eight new mem
 bers have joined within the last two or three weeks.
 l By the fortunes or misfortunes O l war the Gilbert & Bennett Co.,, hav' !. lost the steam shovel which the. f bought recently to use in unloadins l coal from cars. An agent of tn
 government came along last weel l and communicated it. What shal
 we do now for a shovel?' asked Su | perintendent Lou Miller mournfully 1 "Order another,' said the agent. MI
 Miller reflected that this meant | = probable delay of six months or SC O but indulged in no audible vail. Tn e agent on learning that the employ l. who operated the shovel was of draf - age, also communicated him.
 = The recent efforts of the Farmers |. Dairy Co. to increase their cash re
 sources by a further selling of share
 have proved unexpectedly successful
 and show that the dairymen of thl
 section are very much in earnest T
 the resolve to maintain their ow
 marketing agency. Rep1enishmen 6 of the company's coffers to tn < amount of about 5000 has bee l- effected through the new nancing. A Le a consequence the company will mex n month start the plan of making pay
 ments for milk delivered every tw
 weeks, holding back one weeks pa
 as part of the regular system. Here 5 tofore payments have nominally bee e made monthly and on that basis no = always regularly.
 The exercises attendant upon tn
 unfurling of a service flag of twelv
 stars for the Georgetown school nez > Sunday will begin at o'clock. Tn n presentation will be made by Mar Fox and acceptance by Charles Jen
 nings. Pearl Clans will read a IS essay on 'The German Government. 70 All these are graduate pupils of tn V school The program also include ' addresses by Joseph Taylor of Sout
 Norwalk, Rev. Father O'Brien (
 West Norwalk and Secretary Hine ( lu the State Board of Education.
 V. The appointments made at la y weeks session of the New York Ea: oo Conference include the transfer { '' Rev. Y. w. Dodson from the Lon
 Ridge Methodist church to New Mi