Republican farmer., 1918-06-28
BEDDING

Tn accordance with plan advanced by the State Board of Education, to hold in this town each week during the summer vacation period a half day session of the public schools for advancement of Red Cross, Savings Stamps, childrens garden and such other war work as conditions may suggest. The town school commit tee are now canvassing the parents to ascertain if they will cooperate in the project by causing their children to attend. The attitude of the par ents in the matter will determine whether the plan will be carried out. Miss Jennie Mcdonald, teacher of the Ridge school, and Mrs. Lemuel San~ ford, teacher of vocal music, have volunteered their aid so that the directive service is already provided for. To provide for possible trans portation and other expenses the school committee has voted a condi- tional allowance of S6 per week. The Umpawaug and Center schools are included in the plan. Their regular term for the year closes the present week.
 Canvassing in the War Savings Stamps drive has been actively in progress this week with generally i satisfactory results. The committea working on the east side of the town are Fred Wood, Marion Archer, Misses Ella and Esther Ostling Cy- rus Brewster, Mrs. Randolph Bradley, l Charles McCollam, Ruth Rumsey, and Julia Banks. Those giving l pledges for the purchase of stamps should keep a record of the number | they acquire as the committee will check up the accounts monthly. From | the present time until the end of the year stamps will be obtainable at the Perry, Muennich, Connery and San | ford stores, the town clerks office and all of the post offices.
 Under regimental orders the local Home Guard will go to Bridgeport OF the Fourth to take part in the parade | of the Fourth Regiment. The auto | truck provided for their transporta- | ton will leave West Bedding at a. m. and the Ridge at 6:45, reaching i Bridgeport at 8:30.
 | The time set for their return in the afternoon is too late to per init of their taking part in the celebra- | tion at Long Ridge. On Friday evening non-commissioned officers of the conn pany---Sergeants Roseneau and Nash and Corpora1s Patison, Gustafson and Cunningham---will take an examina- tion at Danbury in order to determine their eligibility for promotion. Should First Lieut.. Ward leave the company I 6Nn a vacancy to. fill. Sufficient funds have been furnished from various sources to fully equip 15 of the Junior Guardsmen and these made their first appearance in uniform at the Chil- dren's Day services at the Long Ridge church last Sunday.
 D. R. Warner has a brood of eight English pheasants which were matched by one of his hens from eggs which The obtained in Danbury. The chicks are kept in a wire enclosed run and are thriving nicely. Two other set tings of pheasant eggs obtained by MT. Warner were turned over to Dr Smith and Howard Platt and are ir process of incubation. The Danbury man who furnished the eggs raised Hast year a large flock of the birds which became so far dometsicatet that they roost regularly in trees neal his home.
 The exercises of the Fourth of July celebration to be held at Long Ridge on the green of the Methodist church begin at 2 o'clock. The speakers an nouynced are Hon. Charles M. Jesup Jr, Dr. John c. Conroy and Hon Perry M. Armstrong, all of New York 1,a o1 U. S. government posters and athletic games and singing by the children Those attending are invited to bring old trinkets or other articles contain ing gold and silver as contributions to the patriotic melting pot.
 In backing his car out of the garage at the Ridge one day last week, B. M Bradley absentmindedly ignored tht the stone gateway through which h. undertook to pass had not beer dropped. The impact of the ca against the barrier pulled down thu heavy cap on one abutment and as i toppled MT. Bradley reversed to { forward motion. The chain, however had become entangled in one of th' cars rear wheels and as conse RA>~S , dislodged from it's pedestal. MT
 Bradley fortunately escaped 1njur! and the only damage to the machin' was broken fender.
 The annual graduation exercises b! pupils of the public schools will b
 held at the Mark Twain Library ol
 Saturday evening. Features of pat
 riotic character are comprised in tn
 program. The eight pupils who vii
 receive certificates entitling them t
 High school admission without furthe
 examination are Olley Curtis, Doroth,
 Banks, Robert and Wakeley Patison
 Harriet Ferry, Helen Bodie. Marjori
 Lounsbury and Della Williams.
 At the meeting of the town schoo
 committee last week Supervisor Mor
 ris made a belated report in the cas
 of Mrs. Florence Simpson who, fo
 the last six months, has been unde
 accusation by the Danbury authori
 ties for alleged failure to provid
 school instruction for her children 1 MT. Morris reported that in his opin
 ion the children were receiving suita
 ble instruction at home but that sh had been legally remiss in keeping
 register as required by law, neglec she promised to remedy. In view o
 these conditions the committee de cided that they were not called upo to take any further action in tn
 matter.
 During his vacation through tn
 month of August Rev. Benjamin Gun :. lingham, rector of Christ Episcopa