The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-28
BEDDING

8 Mrs. Martha Osborn. whose death oc- q cured in Washington D. C., last Fri A day. arrived here Saturday afternoon 8 accompanied by Judge J. B. Sanford, brother, and Miss Eleanor Osborn, } stepdaughter. Funeral services were $ conducted at the home on the Ridge Monday afternoon by Rev. c. s. } Luther who had his first pastorate fin ' this town and Is now located in New Haven. For his remarks he referred to the Christian character and estima- I bIe qualities of the deceased and made ] mention of the fact that four years H ago, on the same date and at the same hour and place, he offlciated at the funeral of Henry s. Osborn, her husband. In the numerous floral tributes from the friends of the de- ceased lady roses and sweet peas were conspicuous. The pail bearers ] were Lemuel B. Sanford. Dayton l Sanford, Arthur Hague, Arthur Orton John Randall and Samuel Randall, all of whom, with one exception, are nephews of the deceased, Interment was in the Ridge cemetery. With commendab1e promptness Charles Stauffer one of the new road ! contractors, started work on the lob last week, Sunset Hiu being the place to which he first gave attention It
 needed the leyelling process badly enough and so do other sections but II probably none more than the stretch
 near the Easton line at the southern
 exteremity of the same highway. This
 is so deeply rutted that 1t forms a companion piece as regards travelling
 horrors to the Easton section Of the
 road above and below Jump Hill. The long continued neglect of the latter | may possibly be explained by the sup 1 position on the part of the Easton | selectmen that they are relieved of responsibility in the matter because | | the road has been designated as a ] | trunk highway and should therefore i i be looked after by the State. This l i point was brought to the attention of i l Highway Com. Bennett by the Red 1 | ding committee which interviewed l l him last week. His response was that i 1 the Easton officials were mistaken if 1 l they entertained such an idea, the i i care of the road devolving upon them | i until the Stats made the road 8 trunk 1 1 line in fact well as in name. 1 All uncertainty regarding the fate l of Alvin Treadweu, 6. member Of the | American aviation force who was re- 1 ported missing while performing ac- 1 tive service at the front last fall, has i been removed by 6, letter received by Prof. Louis Treadwell, his father, 1 from another American flyer. The 1 letter says that young Treadweu while engaged in combat with an enemy airman above the German lines, was shot through the lungs. He was alive when his machine reach ed the ground and was taken to q i German hospital where he died four ! days later. The writer of the letter was at the time a patient in the same hospital and upon recovering took the first opportunity of communicating with the family of his dead com rade. although his letter was a long
 time in reaching its destination.
 Young Treadweu was native of this
 town.
 Among those who went from this
 town to New York on Tuesday to wit
 ness the triumphal parade of the 2Tth
 division were Mir. and Mrs. J. B. San
 ford, Mir. and Mrs. Lemuel Sanford
 H. Sanford Osborn and Capt. H. S.
 Barnes. Their interest in the occa-
 sion was largely centered in Sergeant J. B. Sanford Jr., who was severely
 wounded in the final assault which
 smashed the lIindenburg line, and by reason of the bravery he then evinced has been decorated by both the Amer ican and British commands. Of his
 relatives and friends who closely
 scanned the marching ranks, only Miss Eleanor, his sister, was certain of having distinguished him among the paraders. Sergeant Sanford ex- poets his discharge from the service on April 2. He will then come to his home at Bedding Center, but the question of remaining and resuming the management of his fathers farm is yet to be decided.
 Publication in book form of the poems left by Richard Mansfield End, who was a pupil at the Sanford school for two years and who died from pneumonia, last fall while in training for the aviation service has been arranged for by his mother. While here young Mansfield was a contributor to 'The Sanfordian," the school paper, but at that time his associates believed that his talents were hfstrfonic, rather than literary. Certainly his personation of shy lock-" given at the school when he E was concluding his stay there, con vtnced those attending the perform ance that he had inherited a, large share of the genius which made his father one of the country's leading ac- tors.
 Daniel R. Warner, whose general health has been poor for some time, is undergoing a new affliction in the form of ulcers upon the inner side of his eye1ids. They are very painful and receive daily treatment from a physician. E
 The firm of Osborn & Barnes has been awarded a road building con- tract which calls for payments amounting to s157.50o. Last season the firm was occupied with a s100,00o contract for road construction be- tween Waterbury and New Haven.
 Twelve acres of corn intended for the production of the grain and not si1age will be put in this season by Marcus H. Burr. The local potato acreage E will probably be less than that of last year owing to present low prices and apprehensions of return of the blight which did go much damage last season.
 A special town meting will be held Saturday at the town house to fix the tax rate for this year.
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