The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-16
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)


 Bedding. May 15.---Hard work at the eleventh hour by Chairman Brew ster and others of his committee en- aoled the town to not only meet it's Victory Loan quota of s17, ,Oo0 but to exceed that amount by a margin of U 900. On Saturday morning there N3s a deficiency of about s2. 800 and nc subscriptions obtained during the any failed to fill the gap. In the evening Charles O. Perry telephoned lFrderick F. Driggs at Brooklyn news of the situation accompanied by an appeal and Mir. DriEzs promptly re- sponded with a 5000 subscription. This saved the day and something over. Despite active efforts the part of the committee the campaign had dragged discouraEing1y from the start. SpeSia1 credit belongs to Mar GUS IT. Burr for having obtained more than $500 from persons who had not subscribed to the previous loans. While it was slow going in the rest of the town Georgetown went beyond It's previous achievements. having closed the campaign with a total of iS74.700. For the fourth loan its record was s5o.o00. As only narrow strips of the village are located in other towns Redding is geographically entitled to credit for most of the Georgetown support given the loans so that this towns showing is. on the whole, ex- ceedinEly good.
 Having missed bags of feed at in- tervals during the winter Harry Lounsbury recently instituted a watch which revealed Ezekiel Burt as the purloiner of at least one bag. ' Burr. with a team had been work ing for Lodnsbury for several months He was arrested last Saturday by an officer of the State Police and arraign- cd In the afternoon before Justice Muennich. charged with theft of grain of the value of $50. On d plea of guilty he was fined s1 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in Jail. After paying the fine and costs amounting to s22, he insisted on taking an appeal. On account of his plea and partial satisfaction of the sentence there was some doubt as to an appeal being allowable but the ! court gave the defendant the benefit ! of the doubt and. fixed the appeal bond at s250. F. R. Banks subse- ! quently became surety in this sum {, for the appearance of the accused before the June term of the crimina! Common Pleas Court at Bridgeport.
 Lawyer Caleb Burgess. who has at various times obtained projection in the public view. is there again by reason or a dlNOrCC suit brought to secure release from his wife. former ! ly Anna Fay. In his petition he claims that she told him untruths about herself previous to their mar riage and also that she deserted him , in 191f. She is his fourth matri- monial partner. His first wife be- queathed her house at Bedding Center to their daughter when the latter should reach the age of 2I.
 Burgess 10 have the use of it in :he meantime. On the attainment by the daughter of her majority Burgess pre- sented bill for repairs, fully equal to the value of the property. This the probate court refused to allow Later the father brought suit to se- cure title to the property and also quit claimed it to his second wife i The suit never came to trial but theoe doings placed the question of title in some confusion although 1t Is claimed the present ownership re- { mains with the daughter. Burgess. however. chiefly obtained notoriety from an episode occurring in the in- terval between his first wife's death and his second marriage when he