Republican farmer., 1918-08-09

 ae a business collage there, ta4.0g along her six sisters for ar ou:;rg. On the return trip the party had nearly reached home when there arose an outcry 0S conAter nation. The discovery had been E,ade thst thVre were only five girls in the car when there should have been six. Had tEe missing oae been lost overheard or inadvertently lert behind thS ougt. E.il- ure to eroark? Rooo1rCe 59 t1s, f;css availabIe telephone shove, that the latter RaG the case ara q, agoT;izirg fears were qtlioteo. The rext day MT. Banks again went to Bridgeport and s'ssUored her to the family circle. The only way to nlakt s'.re in C1.c;S cases is to check Up by r0ll call ps:oce starting,'' gravely remarks oro neigh Dor to MT. Banks. Tt night n"ve been worse, Ren,' says another, ''rut after all what's ors girl more or less among so many?'' And MT. Lt3.ihs is valienfSy buying tho cigars. 1 Rev. MT. Cunningham returned last Monday evening from Ayes, Mass, where lie has been doing volun: eer chaplaincy and Y...N. c. A. work at Camp Devens. He found the work very congenial While lie was 9; the camp P1ivates Roseaean ard Samuel son, the latest Bedding recr;fits, came in. The former was assigned to duty as corporal and is attending a school for non-com m;aissnned offers. Earl Becker and Charles Rowland of Bedding are just out of the hospital, one having been a measles patient and the other the victim of a motor car accident.
 Morris Britton, caretaker at the S.. c. Shaw place on the Ridge, received this week a letter from his son, Al fred S., a sergeant in the U. S. Ma rines. The boy has been through the recentspell of hard fighting in which the Marines bore so distinguished a part and is now acting as instructor of the arriving recruits. Before go- ing to France young Britton saw ac- tive service in Mexico, San Domingo and on the Isthmus His four years enlistment term will be up next Feb ruary.
 The Georgetown Red Cross recently held lawn party on the Catholic
 church grounds in the village which was a notable financial success, real izing as it did the sume of $323.
 Last Saturday evening T. Marvin Stocking discontinued his grocery bus mess in Georgetown on account of finding it no longer profitable. He has conducted the store for about eight years, having purchased the
 stand from the late Burr Mills. MT Stocking has served two terms in the
 Legislature on the Democratic side
 and was each time appointed county
 auditor
 The vacancies in the office of regis
 trar of voters for the west side caused
 by entrance into war service of Chas
 Rowland and Benjamin Shreiber have
 been filled by the selectmen by the appointment of Nicholas Santanello and Hull Bartram. The vacancy aris- ing from the prospective departure fol
 France of E. M. Bradley will be filled
 by James Reynolds as deputy.
 In the summary given last week o1
 the list of hospital supplies forwarded
 by the Bedding Red Cross there was inadvertently omitted 42 gallons o1
 jam.
 About two-thirds of the $500 rep resented by the three mill special tax
 was taken in during July by Collector
 Muennich. He says the hardest part
 of his task was the answering of in , quiries as to the why and wherefore | of the levy.
 Master Stephen Sanford spent las week in Westport as the guest of hi: aunt, Mrs. Marshall Sanford.
 The Junior Home Guard are camp ing at Patnam Park this week. Jame Woodson is in charge of the boys :, Mir and Mrs. John Olbry of Wes , Bedding are in Saratoga Springs for { | few weeks.
 F MT. and Mrs R. R. Walbridge arr , sojourning at Point O. Woods, L. I. , George Arnold and family are nov , ing from Pleasant Valley to the Lyol
 tenement on the lower Ridge.