The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-16
BEDDING
Special to The Times.l )


 Bedding, Nov. 16-The receivership of the Farmers Dairy Co. was an un- pleasant surprise to Bedding milk producers who have invested several stock and are creditors for several thousand more on account of milk de- Ivered and not yet paid for. When the company had a shake up last spring in connection with the pros ecution and dismissal of MT. Coburn. it's first president, considerable addi- tional capital was raised and it was given out that thus financially strengthened the company would have smooth sailing. One subsequent cir cumStance not in accord with this pleasing assurance was the failure to fulfill a promise that the milk bills then in arrears should be speedily settled. Instead they remained un- paid claims until about the first of last month when a form of settlement was made by the giving of notes for amounts representing the old arrears and also what was due for milk re- gently supplied. This indicated some thing wrong and the application for receiver soon followed. It is under stood that under the receivership milk bills will be paid every two weeks and consequently most of those who have been selling to the company will con- tfnue. The general supposition is that l the financing of last spring might | have overcome all difficulties had not | a large part of the money then ob- tained been used to acquire the dis tributing branch of the business which ex-President Coburn set out to pro- vide and in so doing was alleged to have made questionable use of the ctompanys assets. It Is also repre- sented that even with this all might have been well had there not been a failure to obtain bank loans which were withheld after being promised because of the strain on the banks resources due to war requirements. However, most of the interested dairymen in this section take comfort in the assurance that the company is solvent. They believe that the com pany's troubles are partly due to small leakages which may be cor rected and are as confident as ever that the establishment of the com.
 
 seems to protect the interests of pro- ducers who would otherwise be, in the matter of prices, largely at the mercy of the large private concerns or individual retailers lacking in financial responsibility.
 Many were awakened at about three o'clock Monday morning by the chorus of factory whistles penetrating from Bridgeport, Danbury and Georgetown Knowing what it meant everybody re- joiced. Daylight brought a general display of flags and the ringing of the Center Methodist church bell by Rev
 Mir Case, the pastor. In Georgetown the church bells were kept ringing al intervals throughout the day. The Home Guard went to Danbury in the afternoon and joined in the big eel. ebration there and in the procession were many Bedding cars bedecked fo1 : the occasion. A few of these also saw Bridgeport's tremendous. demonstra. tion Tuesday afternoon and agreed Danbmy's celebration it ranked as merely Q curtain raiser in comparison with the Bridgeport jubilatibn.
 Canvassing for the United Wa,
 drive was begun on Monday by Chair man McCoIlam and his aids and i being conducted energeticaIly with re ; suits which promise a satisfactor. [ showing when the entire field is GOV
 cred. In Georgetown $1, 100 was uaiset } the first day. That community ha. , been awarded five stars for it's heav.
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