The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-17
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 Bedding, July 17-An auto crash on the Ridge road near Perrys store last Saturday afternoon, resulted in the partial demolition of one of the cars involved, but fortunately did no harm to the three persons endanger- ed by the collision. A youth em- ployed by Percy Litchfield was warm ing up the latter's Ford preparatory to a trip by the family to Danbury and in the process ran the car from the roadside upon the highway to turn 1t around. It was crosswise of the road and on the wrong side for it when the heavy touring car be- longing to S. c. Shaw and occupied by his stepsons, Kempton and Pierre pont Adams, came from the south at a fast clip. The Iitchfield employe failed to see it's approach and there being insufficient time to bring the evitable. The Ford was struck vio- Iently and thrown into the air, the rear part being completely wrecked. The Shaw car had the guards torn away and other parts of the front damag ged. That the three occupants of the cars should have escaped in- jury seemed hardly a possibility. Neither of the handlers of the cars has a Connecticut drivers license, all though the older Adams boy has q New York license and is an exper fenced driver. Those acquainted with the circumstances are agreed that the collision was not his fault.
 Before the Mems club at the home of Cyrus Brewster last Thursday evening and again before a large as semblage at the Sanford school on Sunday afternoon the Countess Tur- cZynowicz, recently returned from mission of relief work among the war sufferers in Lithuania, gave highly interesting addresses, par tially recounttng her experiences. The narrative touched upon some of the incidents of privation and general woe which she suffered upon her husba nd's three estates in Poland un- til she obtained the permission of the German authorities to move into Germany in 1918, but had chiefly to do with a description of her relief
 trip from tt,his country to Poland early in the present year. She took with her a ton of medical supplies, about l, 400 garments and a quantity of food. all of which were sorely needed by the survivors in her de- wasted homeland among whom famine conditions were aggravated by typhus and tuberculosis. Her three homes had been footed of all that was valuable of their contents and the remnants she distributed among the population. In her book, When the Prussians Came to Po- land" the Countess has graphically portrayed her life in that country during three years of the war, the nursing of her two boys through at tacks of typhus and the billeting upon her of von Hindenburg and lesser German officers being among the phases described. Her talks have the same graphic quality. Her hus- band was an officer in the Engineers branch of the Russian army and is supposed to have lost his life in the conflict. although efforts to obtain positive Knowledge of his fate are so far unavailing. The Countess, whose two sons and her sister have since spring occupied the Osborn cot tage at the Ridge formerly used as a tea room, intends to make perIna- nent her location in Bedding and will build a residence in case she finds none available for purchase. She is now busy a member of the Polish Reconstruction Committee with plans to send 50 nurses to Po- Idlu, LHeSe to pe IolfoNeu py St Aoa SS of teachers.
 The collections for the soldiers wei come home celebrati ton at Putnam Park on Aug. 2 will probably not reach the $1, GOO hoped for, but from $500 to $500, or enough to meet the expenses. is already in sight A collection fol- lowing the address at the Ridgewold Inn on Sunday realized about S75, a card party given by Mir. and Mrs. s. c. Shaw on Tuesday afternoon pro- duced S62 the Pleasant Valley sum mer residents have contributed about $50 and other sums obtained by the canvassing committee will make a sa isfactory showing for the Ridge section. Michael Connery has guar anteed at least $100 from Georgetown and the Center and West Redding will doubtless also do their share. At the Mark Twain Library a dance for the fund will be given tomorrow F>riday) evening and next Tuesday evening MT. and Mrs. A. G. Barnett will give a card party for the same object. The wife of Robert Minor, held a prisoner at Coblenz Germany, for several weeks on suspicion of being a disseminator of Bolsheviki propa- ganda among the American army of occupation and recently released mystertously exerted, is the occupant of small bungalow near Putnam Park, which she built last year on