Republican farmer., 1919-07-25

niversery by a dance as surange Ha1Il
 on Saturday evening of <his wAak. |
 For the latter affair no peraonaf au-l
 vitations have been iesued, bne4n-
 stead a general invitation t0sAu arho
 attended their wedding. For tho
 past eight years Mir. Mabrey has sbeenA
 principal of 4ths high school at Ben-I 'ntrgtor,, Vt To-sethe coming year hel
 has accepted an: n:.engagement@as ono of |
 the teachingt staff of the Sanford School. ,~
 Tine contr1hu tioos Of the R1dgA sec-
 ton for the sold1ers' welcome homo
 at Putnam Park on August 2 amount
 to about $275. Georgetown has so
 far raised about $146 for the same
 object of which $50 was donated by the Gilbert 60 Bennett Co Tho Ca1R. i
 ter and West Bedding are yet to be
 heard rom. The refreshment sec-
 ton of the general com n1ittee ts ar
 xan8zngfto feed 130s A chorus made
 up from local ta1entsT1it Aang appro-l
 priate selections and in addition to
 the Instrumental music by the
 American Band ofsSouth Norwa1k.,anl
 orchestra of four pieces will furntshi 'rloeso for dancing in the evening. s At their next meeting the eelect-1
 r1enfwfll take action towardssrefund-
 ing the $10,0oo, of, town bonds which {: feu due Eon Nov. 1. Tn ese bear in-i
 terest ntx the rate %of 3h per cent.A
 but itisis believed sthat;sthe. new loan3 Ncannct bel placed at a. srateele than 4A. The present.board will proba-i ply contentsitselfF with canvassing the situation and leave the, finishing steps; for negotiating the 4new issue: to ttbe !
 executed by their successors. sss4 A donation of s25 to the welcome nome fund has hpnn hy
 Banks of the great jewelry firm sof ] Riddle, Banks & Bailey of Philadel-i phia. native Of Bedding, Mr. Banks keeps informed regarding af-i fairs in his old sh ome town and allows !;
 few charitable or x public welfare i causes here to pass without giving, ] them his aid. < He issa liberal sur- porterrof. the CentertMeth odist .churchi and has for years borne the entirei expense of keeping cleaned up ,thas Hull cemetery in Sanfordtown.s sEsSsZ Considerable ,, loss has come Xtoi farmers hereabouts from damageBto hay and grain which was caught Sby ! the long wet spell after being cut.sH.'l ! Sanford Osborn has six acres ofswheat in this fix and Milo Osbornyanotherj 1 large field of the same grain. Many oat patches have also been Mplaced In the damaged goods class. <
 The supposedssalesofst the SethiToddl property has fallen through, us thei New York parties who arranged .s4oj purchase it have withdrawn from &l1sl agreement by which the transfer wasi to be effected. Two or three other important deals pertaining to real estate on the east side are fhe sAub- | 1ect of pending negotiations ,;faf. The premises of Mrs. Bond who' occupies the former Aaron Read place in hometown, were visited by ! thieves one night 1astSweek and j25; clue to the raiders.4 FS.,{&. < :.
 The whist whichs Mrs. sA.aG. Bar
 nett was to have given on Tuesday,
 for the welcome home fund rhas beent
 postponed to Fridays.evening of thisl week. A ball game to have been playedsat the Ridge last Saturday af-l ternoon, between the Fidgesand West Bedding was 4spostponed | for one week. ss 7.ssssas MarcusaH. Burr shas traded .in .his Ford fora new caraof the came make ban. Thomas Delaney has also bought a new Ford, the salesman fin all the transactions being P. B. Nash. MT. and Mrs. R. R. Walbridge are | at Watch Iill for a few days. Rev. Dr. Charles w. Shelton, SaI
 Ridge summer resident, will preach
 at the Center Congregational church on Sunday next. !
 About the most interesting pet Sn i town is a ayoung crow which some fof !
 Fred Mabrey's school boys in Ben I
 nington captured with a nest of fiedghng five months ago and which was brought to the Ridge by MT. Ma brey recently when he came home. i It has become tfully domesticated and l is lively and craftily guileful ito a
 most diverting degree, the latter rsten-
 dency being mostly displayed by it's constant practice of stealing various i
 objects and hoandtng them in hiding places A few days since it was de-
 tected in, the act of making off from | the dining room of Miss Belle San l, ford's house with. a silver spoon. At | another time Miss Sanford found* un- | der a pillow of. the porch sleeping i room a chickens head andd a ;:chop i bone which the crow had deposited 1 there. Circumstantal evidence in the l matter of the bone was conclusiveszs MT. Sanford witnessed the manoeuvxAs by which the crow had sneaked saf 1 from the family dog. A favortte | amusement of the pet is to perch on Miss Sanford's shoulder and try to l pull out the ornaments in her slnaiP.
 Flocks of wild crows have several times come close to the house. anh tried to coax away the alien member of their spcsses. Out although the 1 youIgster was besNffiszs..S.o folloyV1nx l them a short way 1t always dewsbaca | to ifs human friends. It as said@thaf |
 wild crows in such cases always do | to Heath their domesticated reanttve | as Having proved a traitor to+thesstate | of crowdom. . - |
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