The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-14
BEDDING

at Huhoken wcr. Sergeant J. E. san ford. Jr., of RedlinE Center. and Pri- Hate John O'Kente of Bedding Ridge Judge Sanford went down the Bay to meet tno iucor ing squadron on one of the boats or the welcoming com 1uittee. but in he pouring rain failed to distinguish his son among the masses of men that throuEed the decks 0f the steamer NieuW Anlscer- dam. and aS the soldiers were at once transferred from Hoboken to Camp Merritt in New Jersey. returned with out seeing him. Sergeant Sanford. however, arrived home on Tuesday night, being met by his father at South Norwalk. The young man, whose bravery in action won him the British Medal of Merit and the American DisunEuished Service Cross, is in excellent flesh and spirits. None of his three wounds left any permanc+lt disability, although his in jured hand is not yet restored to nor nal feXIbility. The enga cement in which he received his wounds was one of the most desperate of the war.
 His regiment the 10Ith, was one of those assigned to the task of breaking the Hinden5urE line and capturing the st. Que0reu tunnel, through which inc Germans were enabled to bring forward reinfOCeemeuts under cover This underground passage also en- 25led them to place troops for attack ing the advarcing Americans in the rear, thereby creating situation which made the sllccess of the as Sault n seeming imUussibiIity. In front of the assailants there had been three deep trenches with concrete firing steps, each trench protected by A belt of 5arbcd wire entanglemeuts 70 to 90 feet in width. The fierceness and deadiiness of the defense is part !y indicates by the fact that it put out of action all but one of the 26 British tanks of the heaviest type. Nevertheless the 10Ith pressed on and won their objective, this wonderful achievement being accomplished at Nendhuille on Sept. 4S of last year. 1t was in the inferno of that attack that Sergeant Sanford persisted. after being wounded, in going forward until two more wounds brought him down.
 The day before the 1O6th Regiment of the same division to which Private O'Keefe belongs, had been engaged in another desperate action having for it's object the capture of the out post positions of the IIindenburg line in the Donue locality. After terrific fighting they cleared the way for the next forward movement as planned. O'Keefe was not in this engagement, being at the time still inca apaCitated from gas poisoning.
 His poisoning did not come about through inhalation, the usual way, but by eating food which had been exposed 10 the gas fumes. The food was awaiting his detachment on their return to duty in the front line trenches and he and some others partook of it before the danger had been realized. The sickness which resulted in his case was severe and of long duration.
 Private O'keefe visited his parents on Monday and returned to Camp Merritt the same day. A number will go from this town to see the home coming parade of the 27th. which takes place in New York, March 25th
 Recent business transactions be- tween Gabriel Finck of Jump Hill and Ridge residents have resulted in a situation possessing interesting complications. Tinck gave John Muennich a S24 check on a Bridge port bank to complete payment of sL St& grocery Dlll- hDLL me SeI ille time John KoIosky sold a COW to Finck for STA and accepted the lat ter's check in payment This check MuenniCh cashed. Last Saturday the S24 check, which had been placed with Danbury bank for collection, came back to Muennich, protested. From this fact and from information which reached him he concluded that the S74 check would also be dishon- ored and on Monday began getting busy in an effort to protect his inter ests- On Tuesday morning kOlosl-y went to Finclx's place, the latter being then absent, and reclaimed the COW. Later in the day a. horse supposedly owned by Finck was attached by Muenuich in a suit to recover for SZ+ check and protest costs. Then the unexpected happened iu a notice from the Daubury bank that the COW check of STA had been hOnored by the Bridgeport bank on which it had been drawn. Thereupou Afueunich did a little figuring which showed that as accounts stood he owed Finck a balance of about $25. This he profTered. The latter failed to see matters in that light however. and in a heated conversation over the phone demanded the return of the COW and threatened all sorts of law suits, which demand and threats the other man ignored. And there the case rests for the present.
 The condition of Mrs. Martha Os- born who was pr0strated by apo pIexy at Washinston, D. C.. about two weeks ago, has underEoue no mater ial change in the last few days. In the early part of last week there was a slight improvement following a second shock, which made her con dition critical, and she has since held her own and perhaps gained a trifle. H. Sanford Osborn returned from Washington last Saturday and is in receipt daily Of d report from the attending physicians.
 The project for utilizing the Mark Twain villa as d hospital for invalid soldiers whose pre-war pursuits were artistic appears to have fallen through, as nothing to advance it has been done since a government arch.- tect planned alterations on the build ing last fall. Present reports are that so few of the class for whom