The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-26
BEDDING

SA5o6O0 III 1OOO 5AO"ANS %AOt11 patriotic motives, one being already established on the west side and Miss SyIV1a De Grasse Fowler having of tered her 80 acre farm at Bedding centre for the use of another. Miss F'oWler lives in Washington, D. C., and IS 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 lively engaged in Red Cross work. On Tuesday last a representative of the women to whom she has tendered the use Of her farm here visited the Gen. ter to inspect the place. She found that the old house upon it had gone to complete ruin. There are no other buildings and this lack of habitation may be fatal to the project. It is possible, however, that those intent upon it by using tents or putting up temporary shack for shelter purposes. The agent called on Town Clerk San 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- 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- b1e the towns allotment of $10,500. The largest single subscription was one for $5,000 turned in by J. B. San ford from a person whose name is so far withheld. A $1,000 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 $7,0O0. Having filled it's 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 four and feed, had been selling wheat flour without an equal quantity of substitutes. MT. Blackman admitted rot tn oh oc, well founded but offered as an excuse l 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. l hold use. The agent said it was not his province to pass on the sufficiency of this defense, that question being 1 left for a decision at headquarters | upon presentation of the facts in | the case.
 The Bedding Home Guard will ob- serve their first anniversary at the
 
 chicken supper prepared by Mary Peterson being one of the features of the program. Since recruiting to it's | maximum strength of 5 members, the organization has lost about 15 men by enlistments and draft calls.
 This loss has been only partially 1 made good although eight new mem, bers have joined within the last two l or three weeks.
 By the fortunes or misfortunes of l war the Gilbert & Bennett Co.,, have 1 lost the steam sshovel which, they | bought recently to use in unloading coal from cars. An agent of the government came along last week and communicated it. What shall we do now for a shovel?" asked Su- perintendent Lou Miller mournfully. 1 "Order another" said the agent. MT | Miller reflected that this meant a l probable delay of six months or so, | but indulged in no audible wal The l agent on learning that the employe who operated the shovel was of draft 1 age, also communicated him..
 l The recent efforts of the Farmers i Dairy Co. to increase their cash re- l sources by a further selling of shares l have proved unexpectedly successful and show that the dairymen of this
 section are very much in earnest IT the resolve to maintain their owI
 marketing a~ency. Replenishment of the company's coffers to the amount of about $35,0 has beer
 effected through the new nancing. A!
 a consequence the company will nex | month start the plan of making pay | ments for milk delivered every two weeks holding back one weeks pa! as part of the regular system. Hero
 tofore payments have nominally beer made monthly and on that basis no
 always regularly.
 The exercises attendant upon tht
 unfurling of service flag of twelv'
 stars for the Georgetown school nex
 Sunday will begin at o'clock. Tn
 presentation will be made by Mar.
 Fox and acceptance by Charles Jen | nings Pearl Clans will read al
 essay on "The German Government
 All these are graduate pupils of tn
 school The program also include
 addresses by Joseph Taylor of Soul
 Norwalk, Rev. Father O'Brien o
 West Norwalk and Secretary Hine O
 the State Board of Education.
 The appointments made at las
 weeks session of the New York Eas
 Conference include the transfer o
 Rev. Y. W. Dodson from the Lon
 Ridge Methodist church to New Mil
 ford.\ His successor here is Rev. MI
 Woodson. Rev. B. U. Case was re