The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-29
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)

of Bedding dairymen by Bridgeport i milk inspectors led to two prosecu- 1 tions on the charge of dealing in wa tered milk. the defendants being George P Williams of Hometown and Charles Archer, farm superintendent for ex-Senator L. o. Peck of Sunset Hill. After there had been received the reports of the analysis which ad- versely affected the two persons named they were questioned by Messrs. Bartram and Warner, the in- spectors. Archer frankly admitted that he had added water whenever the supply of milk fell slightly short of filling the cans, but said he was thereby innocent of any intentional wrong doing as the barn foreman as- sured him that this was proper and customary practice. The foreman fur ther told him that the Bridgeport dealer who took the milk rather pre- ferred to have it watered little. Ar cher said that as he knew nothing about the dairy business himself, his trade being that of a gardener and | florist, he accepted the barn foreman's statements without question. The
 practice of diluting the milk was
 wholly unknown to MT. Peck accord
 ing to further declaration by Archer.
 AS for Williams, he indignantly re- pelled the charge pr implication, as- Eserting that the very idea of watered
 milk was obhorrent to him. If there
 had been dilution it must be the work Of unknown trespassers intent on do-
 ing him an injury. Color was given
 that theory, he said, by the fact that
 on two mornings lately he found the
 lids off his milk cans and on one of
 these mornings one of his horses with
 it's head held down by rope to which
 was attached a heavy weight. Inci- Tdentally he dilated on the series of
 misfortunes which had befallen him,
 the list including the burning of his
 barn, numerous other losses and last
 year the death of his wife, which left to his sole care their eight young children. He promised to keep the
 building where the filled cans were 2 kept locked hereafter and a day or s two later published a newspaper ad- s Vert1sement warning traspassers to : keep off his premises.
 A On warrants issued by Grand Juror \ E. M. Sanford, Archer and Williams ! were araigned last Saturday afternoon a before Justice Muennich The former q pleaded guilty, and was fined $7 and @ costs, the minimum penalty. The maximum is a fine of $2OO In the case Of Williams, Attorney Davis o1 & Danbury, his counsel, moved for the q dismissal of the complaint on account Of a technical defect in it's wording g and the court granted the motion 4 The re-arrest of Williams would prob. 2 ably have followed at once had there 4 been blank warrant available Wher 8 the inspectors left they had not de. < c1ded whether to drop the case o1 @ prosecute anew.
 7 A dog good for both coon and skunl 4 hunting is accounted a rarity and { % treasure and Patrick Sullivan, of Sun # set Hill, being attended by an anima ss or this reputed versatility had higl
 hopes when he set put on a huntins
 1aunt the other night. No game wa. # raised, however, until, after a thre, M hours tramps through the wilds, tn q dog treed something. A coon at las N was MT. Sullivan's joyful comment M Beng without a gun he dislodged tn x animal by begging stones. The pro
 cess was repeated until the, quarr q obtained refuge for the third time ii A the top Of d tree SO high that it wa 5 payond the range of hand thrown nis
 slles. Leaving the dog on guard Sul 4 Ivan skurried around until he got d gun and returning fired a shot whic E caused the animal to tumble from it @ hlgh perch. Provokingly enough
 lodged in a tangle of grape vine
 atout 25 feet from the ground. Dre
 senttng a new problem. Not to h A denied, however, the hunter under NJ took the risky, difficult and scratch 1a climb until a last the prey was with
 in his grasp. And then. Yes. th reader has guessed 1t; it was a blac cat instead of coon.
 In the second set of bids subn7itta for the road repair contract for tn
 middle section of the town the onl
 oHers came from B. B. Banks and r R. Warner who had tied on the frs competition. The figures were re spectlveIy $1,775 and $1, ,795 per tannlJn The lower figure being that named h Banks the contract went to him. Tn yearly total of the three contract covering the towns entire territory I $5,375 yearly against $5,ooo for th three previous years. Undoub+edI the plan of divisional contracting ha \ proved a measure of econDny for th a town as the only figure submitted if the whole job was upward of s2O m h whereas the aggregate of the thre nlds just accepted is $16,125 for tI three years. HE Notn1ng has yet been done in fl way of alterations to fit the Mar Twain villa for it's proposed conve1 sion into a hospital for military co, Valescents who quit artistic n1,rsui
 to enter the service, but 1t is no+ h, lieved that the project has been aha, doned. When Mrs. Gabri1ovvi+sc donor Of the building for hospital use was here a few weeks since +a +oI part in a concert she said that cond oS tions for occupancy noirht no+ ho = \ fected until spring. The project \ under the auspices of the Artists, ",
 science League which has Rudva, \ Ripping. Enr4co Carus1 and ToI ,I
 Drew. representing literature, mus
 ana the orama' as members of cor mlttee TOT stimulating membership. Mrs. Grace Brumley, formerly H West Bedding and latterly of Beth. dld her utmost to prevent her st
 rom being taken by the draft a1 when she failed declared that if were Killed she would end her ov hfe by strychnine. Last Thursd;
 morning a War Department teIegra E came 10 her announcing that he h; met hls death at the front. Going
 her room Mrs. Brumley swallowed
 dose Of strychnine which she had ke In readiness and when 4iscovered so E afterwards was beyond aid. She i rTT1 rod IAYr