Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-03-08
REDDINC

Redding, March THE reductions
made by the board of relief amounted
to s., 555 and the additions to s4,S26 SO
that the net change in the total OF the
grand list is slight. Two houses and
a barn which the assessors had over
looked figure in the additions and
bungalow located in Bethel just over
the line and listed by mistake fur
nished one of the reductions. The
latter in detail are as follows: Ran
dolph Bradley, $500; Mark Dewsnap,
$500; Dora Reed Goodale, $50; estate
Patrick Green, s225; estate Katy Hill,
$40; Harry Lounsbury, $3.50; Isabel
and Jennie Mcdonald, $500; Ethel
Muennich, $50; Florence Ranney, 5000;
George P Williams, $50; Johanna Col
Inns, 500; A. D. Hill, $500; Bradley
Sanford, $1,000; A B. Sanford, $235;
Arthur J. Todd, $1,000; A L. Tread
well, $500; j. E. Treadwen and A. B.
Hill, $100.
The principal additions were: Chas-
E. Barrett, 5000; P. j. Costello, $45;
Henry J. For1nan, 81, 500; Owen ]. Gill,
81; E. F. Gorham, $500! William ].
Morrissey, 500; Leroy Osborn, $;
= Sydelsl1i, 5000; Joel Selleck, $500;
Alice w. Sturgis, $3.50; William Schrei-
ber, S605. Soldiers exemptions amount
ed to $ls,00O
First Selectman Sanford has been
asked by the State Council of Defense
to aid in movements undertaken to
increase food production the coming
season by charging the area devoted
to crops and bringing into service Ia
hor for their cultivation which special
effort is required to make available.
One of these movements is the crea-
ton 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. Lo-
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 g. 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 he 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 Mr.. 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
ton. 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 linger long. Scattered groups
were seen from time to time in the
woods within a 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. 1t 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-
; ployed as a blacksmith by the Gilbert
! & Bennett Co., died suddenly on We'd
, nesEay 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 a wife and two children.
A local car owner who has driven
more than $4,000 miles and so certif1-
ed when he recently forwarded his
application for renewal of license was
:, surprised by the statement in the Of
fetal 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-
nIication as the subscribing authority
| thereby certifying that he had per
sopally appeared" etc. did you dc
. it by standing in front of a mirrorg''
= 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
n occupied about two hours and pre-
: scented a highly pleasing and satisfac-
a | tory demonstration of the instruction
carried on in each of the five depart
n nents and also in culinary instruc,
2 ton. To the latter one teacher gives
n her entire time. In all, particulars
o the exhibition convinced the audience
n that they had a school to be proud of
e Three of the eight children of Will
: liam Crouch living in the Glen Sec
: ton. are victims of scarlet fever in q
= mild form. All attend the Center
h school, but DR.. Smith after ascertain
i ing the circumstances, decided that
n the closing of the school was not
e necessary.
a News of the death of Thomas Lud-
b way, which occurred in New York il
r December, was received in this town
only a few days ago. He had been q
Y resident of Redding most of his life
4 and was 81 years of age. His mar
rage to his second wife, who survives
him. occurred when he was about IS
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