Republican farmer., 1918-03-29
REDDING

P6arlng IN the DanDury ponce court
last Friday for the fifth time to
answer to the charge of failing to
send her two boys to school, Mrs.
Florence Simpson, now of Redding,
emphatically directed Mr.. Wilson. her
attorney, to oppose any attempt to
secure a. further adjournment. She
was unable to understand the reason
for the previous postponements mas
much as she had been read from the
start to admit that she did not send
thee hildren to school, thereby leav-
ing as the only issue for the court to
decide the sufficiency of their instruc-
ton at home. Again, however, the
prosecutor asked for another continu-
ance of a week in order that he might
consult about the case with Mr..
Morse, supervisor of the Redding
public schools. When the judge ask
ed Mr.. Wilson if that arrangement
would be agreeable to him he replied
afirmatively. Surprised and indignant
Mrs. Simpson undertook to offer a
protest, but the court did not care to
hear Directly thereafter she up
braided her attorney for disregarding
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occasion for his further services in
the case. He had previously been
also acting as her lawyer in the di-
Vorce suit which she brought against
her husband several months ago be-
fore the Superior Court at Hartford
and from this engagement she like
wise dismissed him. Subsequently she
retained Attorney Charles S. Hamilton
of New Haven to represent her in
both actions. So far the Redding
school board has taken no action re-
garding the non-attendance at school
of the Simpson boys although they
lived in this town for several months
previous to their temporary residence
in Danbury. The penalty for the Of
tense of which Mrs. Simpson is accus-
ed is a fine of IS for each week of
with the statute.
The community was saddened last
Monday by the sudden demise of Mrs.
Albert A. Gorham of Redding Center.
She had been i'll during the winter
from an attack of grip followed by
an aural abscess, but seemingly re-
covered and was about last Sunday in
apparently good health and spirits.
About midnight she awoke and COM
planned of severe pains in her side.
DR.. Smith was summoned from across
the street, but she expired a few min
utes after his arrival The maiden
name of the deceased was Caroline C.
Bouton and until her marriage her
home was in Danbury. She had been
secretary of the local board of edu-
cation and was serving a second term
as member of the Putnam Park
commission. Besides her husband
and Mrs. Florence Grouse, a daughter,
she is survived by a brother and a
sister. Her age was 63.
The committee of ten appointed to
make an agricultural survey of the
town met last Sunday at the office of
Town Clerk Sanford, who has been
appointed supervisor of the work for
Redding and Easton, and received in
structions and a supply of the blanks
to be filled out. Only a week is al
lowed for taking the survey and it's
completion in that time will require
active effort as returns are to be
made out under the general heads of
areau, crops harvested in 1917, crops
planned to be harvested in 1918, live
stock on hand, machinery on hand
and employees. Each of these sub
jects has numerous subdivisions to
the detailed information
The members of the commit
tee are instructed to record the en-
tries themselves.
Local milk producers had to accept
~, fTsOT tha
BRIDGEPORT distributors on Feb. 1 and
a further cut is in order on April 1.
The present rate is between Z and
cents and it would be no surprise II
the next drop was 6 IL cents. Were
prices dependent solely on the cost OF
making milk there would be no cause
for any reduction until pasture came
on towards the latter part of May as
the prices for grain foods, until then
a. necessity, are increasing rather than
Inspectors have lately
been looking over the COW barns IN
this locality and in some instances
ordered changes with the object OF
securing better sanitary conditions.
Orders were given that horses be re-
moved from barns where COWS are
k6DL OF as dill cllCI 1elIANS SAASoS 49,
uarters be separated by partition.
The picking up of bob calves to De
for veal is going on here
abouts with the usual spring activity.
Evidently Bridgeport is the destina-
tion of this unwholesome and illegal
food stuff, The explanation may be
that the demand for it is greater in
Bridgeport than elsewhere or tnat
the danger of prosecution is less there
than in other localities
A moving picture show of films por-
traying actual war scenes Will De gwen
at the Sanford school gym. on the
evening of April 4. It has been ar
ranged for at the instance OF the state
Council of Defense which furnishes
the films and also a lecturer, who mas
served in the trenches and will accom-
many the exhibit of the pictures with
explanatory comment. Admission will
be rs cents. There are also to be
placed on sale here 20 ''Smilage BOOKS
to entertainments at or near camps
at 81. Each contains 20 admissions
and the purchasers are expected to
send them to soldier friends.
last week brought the final and
worst stage in the spring break up OF
the roads, the stage in which the boz
tom drops out, and many cars came to
grief on Sunset Hill, the Putnam Park
road and the stretch between Pine
Tree corner and Jump Hill Condi-
tons. however, are rapidly improving.
Word has been received from Floyd
Bouton. Jr., who recently enlisted in
the medical branch of the service, of
his safe arrival in France. A letter
from Harold Connery, also of George
town and an ambulance driver, stating
that he had lately been sleeping in a