The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-25
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(sreciaI to The TimesD Bedding. April 24---The homecom- 1 Ing from the war of one son and the marriage of another made this an eventful week for MT. and Mrs. Mi chael Connery of Georgetown. liar old, the younger son. has the dis tinction of being the first Bedding boy to enlist and the first to go across. The word boy is in this in stance no misnomer as he was only IS and a student at F'ordham University when he enlisted in June, AS17. He was in the training camp at Allentown, Pa, until the following August and then wont over as @ mem ber of the ambulance service to which he had been assigned In October he was transferred to the French army and has since been continuously in service as an ambulance driver until his release the present month. Dur ing that period he was active in the districts where some of the greatest conflicts of the war were waged, among them being Veriun, the Somme and the southern section of the country over which the Germans pressed their great drive in the spring and early summer of last year.
 L4Ao L6SAOhS III WuLLA AG OTOF0 on his mission of bringing back the wounded were often under enemy fire, but while he had any number of narrow escapes, he came through without injury from proiecties, gas or the accidents unavoidable from travel conditions. For one period of two weeks last spring the desperate needs of the situation prevented him from having his clothes off. and sleep and meals were secondary con alterations. The transport Mobile, on which he made the homeward voyage reached New York yesterday afternoon His father and other relatives and friends were on hand to greet him
 Attorney Paul Connery. elder brother of the returned veteran, and Miss Ann Dorgan were married al St Augnstine's church in Bridgeport on Monday morning in the presence of gathering which comprised their parents and other relatives and friends from Georgetown The bride B an orphan and has been making har home with sister in Bridge port The newly welded pair started in the gToom's auto O1 hoaeym moon trip to Washington. D. c, but stopped In New York long enough to join in the welcome to Harold Connery. Attorney Con nery is 6 member of tho law firm Of Tanannany & Connery of South NHr- walk and a representative from Red ding in the present Legislature. His future residence will be in South NorwaIk
 For the first time since it's foru7a- tion the Mems club became concretely aggressive, or, in other words, took to the War path at it's regular monthly meeting held last Thursday evening with H C. AIcCo1laIn- The speaker of the evening, Representative S. C. Shaw, gave an interesting review of the work done and in hand by the Legislature, mentioning among other things the defeat of the cat licensing bill; the passage by both branches of the s1o,e0o appropriation for a new building at Putnam Park and the pending proposition to appropriate S1o,o0o for fighting the corn borer an imported pest which has just made its appearance In this state He also described the financial troubles which had overtaken the trolley lines and the proposed legislative elevations and expressed approval of the plan requiring Itney car owners to give bonds
 Afterwards some one brought up the subject of the disgraceful condi- ton of the Jump Hill road and the sugges ton that the club will take up the matter met with unanimous ap- prOvaL The only apparent met thod afrording a remedy being pressure upon the Easton selectmen by nea ms of an appeal to the County Comm g. siouers this course was decided upon. the club voting to institute such a proceeding and press the fight to a finish Arrangements were made with Attorney & C. Shaw to prepare the papers and take the other legal steps necessary for bringing the issue to a hearing as speedily as possible The responsibility for the attendant ex- pense is assumed by the club, but in case the commissioners decide for the petitioners the costs will fall upon the town of Easton- For this reason the selectnen may conclude to fix the read without waiting for com pulsion to be applied
 At the Methodist parsonage in Georgetown last Thursday, Rev Danforth Lewis performed the cere- mony uniting in marriage Albert A Gorham of Bedding Center and Miss Ellen Jane Crouch The groom is 62 and a widower and the bride 4o AAo IOuplb were uuaLLEnOGa ana I'm mediately after the ceremony de- parted on their wedding trip tc Washington, D. c. Mir. Gorham is one of the towns substantial anC well known citizens and has beer for many years active in politics or the Republican side. Among the public positions he has filled are those of representative, selectmar and assessor. He is 8 doorkeepel in the present Legislature and helC a like position in the Legislature O. 1917. The bride Is an English lady who is not so well known here per. sonally as by reason of knogFIedgt of the self-sacridcing devotion sh, has shown in behalf of relatives wh, located in Bedding while she was 1T her native country. Several year. ago she gave up well paying posi- ton in London to come here anC help care for a brother who was sui fer1ng from consumption. Upon hi deoease she returned to England, bu a year or two later again crossed tn; ocean to care for the eight mother less children of William Crouch, an other brother whose home is in tn,