The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-07
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)

made by the board of relief amounted to $5,555 and the additions to $4,326 so that the net change in the total of the grand list is slight. Two houses and barn which the assessors had over looked figure in the additions and a bungalow located in Bethel just over the line and listed by mistake fur nlshed one of the reductions. The latter in detail are as follows: Ran dolph Bradley, $4OO; Mark Dewsnap, 900; Dora Reed Goodale, $50; estate Patrick Green, $2E""; estate Katy Hill, $70; Harry Lounsbury, s190; Isabell and Jennie Mcdonald, S2OO: Ethel Muennich, $SO; Florence Ranney, $2OO; George P. Williams $50; Johanna Col lins, $7OO; A. D. Hill, $2O0; Bradley Sanford, $1, 900; A. B. Sanford. S235: Arthur J. Todd, a,OOO; A. L. Tread well, $200; J. E. Treadwell and A. B. Hill s1O0
 The principal additions were: Chas- E. Barrett, s2OO; P. J. Costello, s45; Henry J. F'orman, $1,5OO; Owen J. Gill, $21; E.. F. Gorham, $500! William J. Morrissey, $10O; LeRoy Osborn, $5;
 - Sydelski, $20O; Joel Selleck, $4OO; Alice w. Sturgis, $65O; William Schrei- ber, $605. Soldiers exemptions amount ed to $19,OOO.
 First Selectman Sanford has been 7s1ed by the State Council of Defense 1 to aid in movements undertaken to increase food production the coming season by enlarging the area devoted to crops and bringing into service la bor for their cultivation which special effort is required to make available. One of these movements is the crea- tion of a junior organization designed to enlist boys and girls in the growing of garden products and others means for the growing and saving of food. The selectman has appointed Town Clerk Sanford as a committee to get such an organization under way. To- cal efforts to increase membership in the County Farm Bureau will also be made, a general drive for that object having been arranged to start on March 8. The town has already a con- siderable membership in the bureau, but there is no reason why it cannot be materially increased. In the same general line of endeavor is the cam paign to utilize the older school boys as farm helpers and this will be the theme considered at the next meeting of the Mems club to be held on Thurs day evening of next week. Contrary to custom it will be an open or public meeting and will take place at the Sanford school instead of at the home of W. c. Sanford or originally ap pointed. The speaker of the evening, if he can be secured, will be MT. Rol- lin who is in charge of the move lin, who is in charge of the move
 The herd of about 40 deer which Commodore Luttgen turned loose from their enclosure at Sunset Hill last fall in order that the forage they would have needed in confinement might be saved for domestic animals, have entirely vanished from that sec tion. In the early part of the winter small attachments of them occasion ally appeared near their former place of keeping, but failing to receive food did not finger long. Scattered groups were seen from time to time in the woods within few miles of the hill and a number of the wanderers are known to have been shot. The list of killings reported does not account however, for half the herd. It was thought that some of thes urvivors, if there are any, might show up this spring at their former home, but so far not one has put in an appearance.
 William Colley, a well known resi- dent of Georgetown, formerly en- |l ployed as a blacksmith by the Gilbert & Bennett Co.,, died suddenly on We'd nesday of last week. He was at the dinner table when he slid from his chair in a faint. He died the same evening without regaining conscious ness. The attending physician found that death was due to kidney disease. The deceased was AT years old and is survived by wife and two children.
 A local car owner who has driven more than 50,000 miles and so certifi- ed when he recently forwarded his application for renewal of license was surprised by the statement in the Of
 ficial response that, being without experience as a driver, he must go before the board of examiners. Another applicant who is a justice of the peace, acknowledged his own ap- plication as the subscribing authority thereby certifying that he had "per- sonally appeared" etc. Did you do
 it by standing in front of a mirror 9" was the comment written upon the
 papers before they were returned to him.
 The pupils of the new Georgetown school gave an exhibition last Thurs day evening before a large assemblage of parents and friends. The exercises occupied about two hours and pre- scented a highly pleasing and satisfac- \ tory demonstration of the instruction carried on in each of the five depart ments and also in culinary instruc- \ tion. To the latter one teacher gives
 her entire time. In all particulars
 the exhibition convinced the audience
 that they had a school to be proud of Three of the eight children of Will
 liam Crouch, living in the Glen sec tion, are victims of scarlet fever in a mild form. All attend the Center
 school, but Dr. Smith after ascertain ing the circumstances, decided that the closing of the school was not \ necessary.
 News of the death of Thomas Lud-
 way, which occurred in New York ir II December, was received in this town
 only a few days ago. He had been 6
 resident of Bedding most of his life
 and was ST years of age. His mar
 riage to his second wife, who survives him, occurred when he was about 75
 and one child was a result of the
 union. The deceased served through the Civil War in a New York regi.
 ment of volunteers.
 A dance was given at George Hal Hast Friday evening under the man.