Republican farmer., 1918-08-09
BEDDING
Special to The Ttmes.)

mer colony 10 keep no money or prac- ticaly none in the house the burglar who invaded the home of H. c. NJ Thomson last Friday night would probably have got more cash. As it was he obtained from a hand bag less than $1 which was all the family had on the premises. Patterns have been made of deep footprints left by the visitor in the soft soil outside the pantry window, which was his way of access, and it is hoped the evidence 1 they furnish will aid in identifying the guilty party. Upon getting inside the thief apparently first paid his at 1 tention to the ice box and from it's contents made a hearty meal. Drip pings from candle marked the trail of his explorations through all the lower rooms of the house. The search was evidently thorough, but the only spoil he gathered besides the cash were a few trinkets, some cigarettes and part of the cigars from a full box He must has brought with him the candle he used as the drippings showed it was of different material from candles already in the house. MT. and Mrs. Thomson, their daugh- ter and two servants all of them on | ing the raid. In joint session last Monday the road committee and the selectmen decided to expend the $1,000 available for permanent road improvements in the following places: Near Falls hill on the Little York road, widening and gravelling. A stretch above the resi- dence of James Rider, also in West d. fnT dressing either of gravel or lime kiln screenings. The narrow stretch be- tween two lodges near the Methodist parsonage at Bedding Center. The doing of a complete job here would probably cost not less than $1000, but the situation can be greatly improved
 by cutting out the rock on one side at the west end and this was decided
 upon. It is expected that future ap-
 propriations will provide for the com
 pIetion of the improvement The only
 other improvement agreed upon was
 the raising by the application of
 gravel of the roadway from in front
 of the Episcopal church to Muen-
 nich's store. This stretch usually pre-
 sents a combination of ruts and mud
 and has long needed attention. On
 
 will be expended from $2OO to $500.
 How the energies of the nations
 patriotic women had been organized
 and directed for war work was inter
 estingly told by Miss Ida M. Tarbell
 to an audience at the Sanford school last Sunday afternoon. She is one of
 a national committee of ten appointed
 to encourage and systematic these
 activities. When they first met in . Washington to survey the field the undertaking, she said, seemed of dis
 heartening magnitude. Soon, how ever, it became apparent from the flood of unsolicited offers of help
 which poured in from all quarters that the women needed no additional indictment to get busy in doing what they could---all they needed was guidance. Several women wrote to
 inquire if they could not help out by
 making pepsin from chicken gizzards.
 Another wrote that she wished to
 dedicate herself and her little farm
 and income to the cause and was
 afraid of neither death, people or
 work. The outcome of this fine and
 universal spirit had been a volume of
 vast and varied notable , among which were the results of the womens gardening movement. In the mining regions nearly every family had now it's own garden although be-
 fore the war there were virtually
 none. In the irrigation districts ot 5 Arizona water had been diverted from
 the main ditches to nourish war gar
 dens. Miss Tarbell also spoke of the
 material aid women had rendered as
 mechanical workers. It was formerly
 assumed that this was a class of work . for which they were unfitted, but !, while some had shown lack of adapt 5 ability women in general had made
 good at the shop benches. The change -' in occupation thus wrought by wal
 needs was likely to remain perma-
 nent to a alrge degree The main l. purpose of the womens' war move l. ment, said Miss Tarbell, was to re- = lease man power for the more stren- c uous work and this object had beer s obtained to a surprisingly large ex. t tent.
 l. Two young women of Bedding have g made inquiries indicating their inten.
 tion of responding to the Govern. s ment's call for 5000 between the age: l. of 15 and 35 to join the United States d Student Nurse Reserve. Those who = enroll engage to hold themselves ir , readiness until April 1, 1919, to accep
 assignment in a nursing school. The
 campaign is locally in charge of the
 Womans Committee of the State Council of Defense and will extend tC l. August il. Any woman wishing tc e enroll may apply to any member O. Il this committee who are Mrs. Emory
 P. Sanford, Mrs. A. G. Barnett, Mis-! 0 Isabelle Mcdonald, Mrs. J. B. San n ford, Mrs. B. U. Case, Mrs. Raymond + Cunningham.
 e The revised list of Bedding citizen d tchosen for jury service during tht h ensuing year is as follows: Eugene 1t Adams, H. S. Barnes, Irving J. Banks
 E. M. Bradley, Michael Connery, Joe L. Godfrey, w. E. Grumman, Gershon 70 HilI w. H. Hill, Fred A. Judd, RufuI ~ A. Lyon, H. C. McCollam, Frank T l' Meehan, Fred. Miller, R. H. Nichols
 Charles o. Perry, Zalmon Read, Franl Le Rider, E. M. Sanford, LemueI San n. ford, J. B. Sanford, B. P. Sanford, T Il M Stocking, L. S. Warner Fred le Wood, Wallace Williams.
 e Two known hits were made b! IT lightning during the shower of las J. Saturday afternoon, one of then f. rending a tree in the dooryard O d Town Treasurer Hill in hometown bu al doing no further harm. The othc st struck a tree in James Riders door "a yard in West Bedding. Part of tn ,s current registered its passage int
 the ground and the rest 1eaped to tn :. side of the house, ripping off some c
 the siding and shattering the window ~ on the way inside. There it knocke - askew some articles on a stand ant ileft no further trace of it's activity. II The frierds of B. B. Banks, one o