Republican farmer., 1919-08-08
BEDDING
Special to The Tsmes.)

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 Bedding. Aug. 7.---Heretosore our roadmakers upon coming upon biz stone with the upper part thrusting above the surface Of the roadway have usually concealed 1t beneath a
 little dirt and let 1t go at that until
 the washing of the veneer called for further treatment of the same sort.
 At their meeting on Monday the road . committee decided on change of
 policy in this respect and voted that
 In future these Instructions should be dug or blasted out and removed. For
 the extra work thereby involved the conractors will receive reasonable compensation. Another reform de- cided upon was. the replacement as occasion arises, of the present plank bridges covering drainage conduits across the roads with concrete, both at the surface and for the trench be- meath. The first of these bridges will De at once put in on a back road lead Ing from upper Georgetown to Um-
 pawaug. All three of the highway contractors are now making supple , mental repairs ordered by the com } Inittee, the members of which voted , 10 watch these operations in their re- , spect1ve districts and in case of any . siack1ng to see that the work neglect
 ca was done by other parties at the 1oItractors expense. It was also voted to further cut away the ledge east Of the Methodist Center church 50 as to give an additional width of
 two feet to the roadway Repairs of
 the permanent improvement kind will
 a.so De made on the road between the forman residence and Jesse Sanford,s corner Another improvement soon to pc taken in hand by the committee tue enm1nat1on of the sharp bend
 sonout midway on the first of the two ms leaoang from Pleasant Valley to tne Sanford school corner Still an other is the improvement of the road from the neighborhood of tbe Ridar 7 place to the Bethel line. The june = .ioh or the two roads below the Gen. ter near Floods blacksmith shon is f ~ oe improved by widening and the ) proV1dlne of convenient way of ac- cess oetween the two highways. ! unhon service was held on s,,,
 uav evening at the Center Methodist , cnurch. Rev. MT. Lewis, the pastor 3 the sermon, Rev. MT. Brady l or the Episcopal church offered, nraver l ana Rev. MT. Cunningham delivered Ieehng tribute to the late Rev. Rur-
 ton B. Case. oi- 7 Part of the equipment to be ,,s.d Y in the building of the trnnk hie,h l has arrived at the Bethel end or +ho iihe' the apparatus including a stone
 ciusher ana a steam shovel This
 iael ana the driving of the center
 slakes would indicate that the long
 delayed job is to be started at once.
 Mrs- Elizabeth Reshelle has sold
 ootn her properties at the Center. the
 former Thomas Sanford place and the lies place, to Charles Paul of Neu
 York. Miss Rochelle and tho mas , family will continue to occuny -ho houses. '--' ihe State Board of Education Ina.
 appointed Paul Dillingham; school su
 pefvlsor for the district of which this f town is a part. He comes from 3 Wllilmantic and will make his head 8 quarters at Danbury. Mrs. Margar et Aounsoury widow of the late Har- !, ry Lounsbury, Jr., has been engaged l as teacher of the Umpawaug school l for the coming term
 t Captaln H. s. Barnes and Cyrus
 Brewster, with their families, are
 camping out at Compo Beach this \ week, relying on tents for shelter. = A. G. Barnett recently added to his live stock a herd of ten Angus Pe1l s cattle. They are a Scotch breed and 3 nave superior qualities for beef pur- r poses.
 s The lunch counter at the Welcome Home celebration yielded a profit of I about $50. Receipts of the fund from 7 all sources amount to about $75O and
 there will remain a surplus of some 3 thing over $100 for the soldiers me- 8 morfa1 which is to be a feature of the new town hall.
 g Mrs. Harding of Pittsburgh is the = guest of her sister, Mrs. A. G. Bar , nett. With her family she will re-
 main in town for a few days before starting for home on the motor trip :. which was extended to Provincetowu. l Mass.
 Charles O. Perry is away on a rest 9 vacation of a week and during his ab- 7 sence aid in running his store is being . furnished by Vincent Sullivan of Bridgeport
 Have not the Anti-Saloon League
 and their Congressional allies in the
 effort to lock all doors against alco- I hol overlooked one agency of iniqui-
 tous possibilities. the agency in oues-
 ton being that familiar adjunct of the dairy farms known as the silo
 So far the silo has not figured largely as an aid to inebriety, but this h doubtless because the thirst urge had : and still has open to it other and easier means of arrangement. With the closing of these ways, one after another. the silo looms up as a last and enticing refuge to those in ex- tremity. As to what silo is proba. | ply not many need information. It
 is simply big cylindrical structure
 25 to 30 feet high and having a ca
 pacity according to size. for holding from 40 to 100 tons of green corn 5 stalks cut into short length These stalks are juicy and the liquid which
 drains from them naturally gravi-
 tates toward the silo's bottom. Ma lure, obeying her own laws with
 blind disregard for the laws of mere ly human enactment, sets up the
 process of fermentation by reason of the sugar element in this Hauid and the result is a percentage of
 alcohol grievously potential Rumor
 declares that the kind of fntoxica ton
 it produces fig even worse than the demoralizing, riot melting brand con- sequent upon the excessive consump-
 ton of hard elder. The thirsty one. if he be a trespasser and not an
 owner, sneaks to the blind side of 1 the a;lo proYfded 1rith n a,,u,,. a.a