Republican farmer., 1919-04-25
BIDDING
Special to The Times.1


 Bedding, April 24.--The homecom- ing from the war of one son and the marriage of another made this an eVentfuI week for NIr. and Mrs. Mi chael Connery of Georgetown. Har- old, the younger son, has the dis junction 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 8 student at Fordham University when he enlisted in June 1SlI. He was in tL1e raining camp at Allentown, Pa, until the following August and then went over as d mem Der 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 hlS 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 Verdun, 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
 The regions in which he drove on
 his mission of bringing back the
 
 fire, but while he had any number of
 narrow escapes, he came through
 without injury from proiectiIes, 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 at St. Augustine's church in Bridgeport i on Monday morning in the presence of a, gathering which comprised their parents and other relatives and friends from Georgetown. The bride is an orphan and has been making her home with a sister in Bridge port The newly welded pair started in the groom's auto on a honeymoon trip to Washington. D. C.. but stopped in New York long enough to join in the welcome to Harold Connery. Attorney Con- nery is a mem Der of the law firm of Tammany & Connery of South Nor walk and a representative from Red ding in the present LegisIa ture His i future residence will be in South l NorwaIk.
 For the first time since it's forma- tion the Mems club became concretely l aggressive. or, in other words, took to 1 the war path at its regular monthly meeting held last Thursday evening 1 with H. c. McCoIlam-. The speaker | of the evening, Representative s. c. i Shaw, gave an interesting review of l the work done and in hand by the legislature, mentioning among other 1 things the defeat of the cat Iicensing i bill; the passage by both branches of l the $10.00O appropriation for a new 1 building at Putnam Park and the l pending proposition to appropriate | S10,000 for fighting the corn borer i an imported pest which has just made i it's appearance in this state. He also l described the financial troubles which 1 had overtaken the trolley lines and l the proposed legislative aueviations 1 and expressed approval of the plan 1 requiring jitney car owners to give l bonds.
 | Afterwards some one brought up 1 the subject of the dIsgracefuI condi- l tion of the Jump Hill road and the | suggestion that the club will take up | the matter met with unanimous ap- provaL The only apparent method l affording a remedy being pressure 1 upon the Easton seIectmen by means l of an appeal to the County Comnlis- | sioners this course was decided upon, i the club voting to institute such a 1 proceeding and press the fight to a | finish. Arrangements were made with 1 Attorney s. c. Shaw to prepare the 1 papers and take the other legal steps | necessary for bringing the issue to a i hearing as speedily as possible. The | responsibility for the attendant ex- l pense is assumed by the club, but in i case the mmissioners decide for 1 the petitioners the costs will fall upon the town of Easton For this reason the selectmen may conclude to | fix the road without waiting for com- 1 pulsion to be applied.
 At the Methodist parsonage in | Georgetown last Thursday, Rev 1 Danforth Lewis performed the cere-
 mony uniting in marriage Albert A | Gorham of Redding Center and Miss 1 Ellen Jane Crouch. The groom is 62 and widower and the bride 49. | The couple were unattended and i'm l media tely after the ceremony de l parted on their wedding trip tc 1 Washington, D. c. MT Gorham is | one of the towns substantial and well known citizens. and has been for many years active in politics or 1 the Republican side. Among the public positions he has filled are l those of representa- tive, selectmar
 and assessor. He is doorkeepe1 1 in the present Legislature and hel6 a like position in the Legislature ot 1 1917. The bride is an English la dy l who is not so well known here per- l sonally as by reason of knowledge l of the self-sacrif1cing devotion she l has shown in behalf of relativ whc l located in Bedding while she was ir : her native country. Several years ago she gave up a well paying posi- 1 ton in London to come here and 1 help care for a, brother who was suf- ] fering from consumption. Upon his 1 decease she returned to England, but