Republican farmer., 1919-12-19
BEDDING

l ISeOulHB, DeC- 10 OE dpOuG week past J. B. Sanford, town clerk 1 and judge of probate, has been kept l in bed by an attack of erysipelas l complicated with blood poisoning. The attacks developed from an in jury to the ankle, in appearance only Q slight bruise, which Judge Sanford received while working on his car. The blood poisoning progressed be- yond the incipient stage and for TWO or three days the condition of the pa l tient was considered alarming by Dr. Smith, the attending physician. On the first Of the week. however, condI- tions took a decided turn for the bet
 ter and Judge Sanford IS now consld- cred out of danger With prospects or | being able to resume his official du-
 ties within a few days.
 Owing to an outbreak of scarlet
 fever among the pupils the town
 school committee on Monday ordered
 the closing of the Center school for q
 period of two weeks. The first vic
 tim of the malady was a boy named
 Hes. who had recently returned rom
 d visit to Bridgeport where he IS sup
 posed to have taken the infection Ills desk mate, a boy named Buchanan. was the next to develop symptoms of 1 the disease and Q little later another
 Hes boy was taken down with it. The three are from eight to ten years ot l age. None of the eases is of speci- ally aggravated type.
 The rains and thaw Of last week
 produced road conditions seldom
 known except at the time or the spring break up and in consequence
 on Sunset Hill last Saturday even ing one car after another succumb- ed to the mud, until about fifty were strung along near the Peck residence.
 either stalled or held up by the
 blockade 4 pair of horses pulled out the car of Captain Barnes and by various other expedients the blockade was finally broken after a long delay. In the jam were two Danbury trucks, the Sanford school
 truck, with some of the pupils and a bridal couple on board and the car of Marcus Burr having the Countess Turezynowsky as passenger. The , burning out of the transmission of , Joe Krathey's machine was one of the numerous minor mishaps attend ing the period of hounderings and stalIings As the Putnam Park road :, is now closed the Sunset Hir route i remains the only one available for
 Ridge travel to the north. A good 1 thor oughfare in summer 1t is place | or honor TOT Fen1CleS "IlSH LLAC LiOSA ! comes out and leaves a surface 1 coating of mud underlaid by a soapy clay.
 An allowance of $500 for the equip
 ment of the Parish Community House was applied for at the meeting , of the Fairfield County ArchdeacOnry held in New Canaan on Monday. by Rev. MT. Cunningham and D. s. San , ford, the Bedding delegates. The par , ish house is in this instance an under taking which comes under the head z of Church Extension Work for which
 liberal provision was made In the Ma f tional Campaign program. The Arch , ! deaconry committee gave unan1n ous approval to the application of Messrs |, Cunningham and Sanford which must
 also receive the endorsement of the
 Diocesan committee and the National
 committee before the money Is ad-
 va need. The local delegates also
 made 8 report on the result of the
 financial canvass here as a result oi
 which the Episcopal church no longer | requires aid from the home mission
 fund and after Jan. 1 will hold the
 status of an independent, self-sup- . 1 porting parish.
 Agent Gardner of the State Hu- mane Society has notified Mir Warner, the local agent, that for the
 present at least no further steps will
 be taken in the proposed proceeding for the commitment of sx of George
 P. WtIliams' eight children to the county home. This decision was , reached after the recent visit to the , Williams family of a nurse represent. |. 1 ing the Humane Society. She report ed that the children were well fed and
 warmly clad and that the former un-
 1 tidy conditions within the house had i bee1 corrected.
 Edna Garpf2e ella Goodsell died at hel : home in the district east of Pleas l Valley on Friday last after an illness ] of about a year from tuberculosi. Her age was about 75 and she had . lived alone in the homestead since the death of her father, Louis Goodseu : about 20 years ago. The only surviv- : ing relatives are number of nephews . and nieces. The body was taken to Bridgeport for burial.
 D. R. Warner is suffering from an ulceration of one of his eyes for which a he underwent an operation in Dan T bury last Saturday. Ills other eye . was affected in the same way about [ a year ago and the sight saved with : difficulty.
 , Two games of basketball were , played in the Sanford school gym last $ Saturday evening. In the first the , lschooFs second team lost to the Lau- , reIs of Danbury, 25 to 4, and in the q second the Pirates of Danbury defeat . i ed the schools first team, 24 to 19. in a hard fought contest.
 :. The first consignment of timber spiles delivered at Stratford by George S. Banks under a contract calling for
 a large supply were rejected because not considered sound enough to stand
 the strain of being driven through a
 deep stratum Of hardpan. The spiles > were from blight killed chestnut trees The sale and supper given at the } | Community. House on Tuesday after G noon by the Women's Auxiliary of tho
 Episcopal church was fairly well pat 8 ronized and realized net proceeds of 5 $s0 Despite the cold the large space I twas comfortably heated.
 . The Episcopal church program fol | l services over the Christmas season a is as follows: Tomorrow (Friday) carol service at 7:50 p. m.; Dec. 23 al s f:30 p. m., carol service and Christ mas tree; Christmas Eve, caro a community service; Christmas Day I regular Christmas service with Holy i Communion at 10:S0 a. m.; at D