Republican farmer., 1919-01-17
BEDDING
Special to The Times }

| Special 10 The Times) Bedding, Jan. 16.---The town house building committee formed by the Home Guard upon it's dissolution will hold it's first meeting on Tuesday evening of next week and man out the preIiminaries for an active cam paign. One of the plans in view is the enlistment of various focal aEer- cies to cooperate in the task which has been undertaken. The Mems clubs, the school children and the Ju- nior Guard are among those whose help is to be sought and uroca5't- other bodies and interests vii be in I vited to lend hand, The indications are that the assistance sought will h" readily forthcoming and in that event success is believed U 5c 2s- sured.
 The Center school was closet this week on account of Miss Rider, thu principal. being sick with influenza. |. Several of the pupils a-sp have the maladE ia q mild form. All arc i'm proving and the school viii probably resume next week. The Sanford school is also temporarily closed. two us the younger pupils having tcau taken down with the influenza on lle;r re- turn after the holidays recess. It was consequently decided to have the ros.
 of the boys return horne until th, danger of contagion had passed. Al Baker is moving from his broth
 CTS home in Pleasant Valley to the
 former Rowing place at Jump Hill
 now owned by the water company
 He has secured a government light
 house job at New London, but will
 leave his family here for the present
 Moses Becker is to build an addition
 to the Pleasant Valley house and vii move to the place upon it's comple- | tion.
 The Daniel Collins place in Pleas.
 ant Valley, of which Johanna. Collin.
 is now the principal owner. has beer } purchased by Mrs. Fred Drggs. Tn,
 property includes a house. barn ant
 about 50 acres, nearly all woodland
 while all the details of the deal ar,
 arranged conveyance is yet to bt
 made.
 . Funeral services for the late Harr, NJ. Lounsbury were conducted at tn, t home of the deceasd last Thursda, <, afternoon. Ark lodge, F. and A. NJ 1 'AA-Sii attended in a body and laid the re s mains to rest with the Masonic ritua,
 "A tenacy prosecution, proceed Q ing hardly known in this town, ha l been sought at the instance of tn e school supervisor with a west sid = youth named Kearney as the de T fendant, the boy lives with hi f grandmother who is unable to cor |, trol him. The case was heard be e fore Justice Muennich yesterday al
 ternoon and the costs of prosacu e ton imposed as the penalty. r Miss Virginia Runyan underwer - an operation in New York hosp h tai few days ago for the renovs y of tumor and is now convalescin
 at the home of Mrs. J. II. Sanfor
 under the care of a trained nurse. & Attorney s. C. Shaw and famiI vacated their summer home at tn r Ridge on Tuesday to occupy the ! house in Bridgeport for the rest e the winter.
 s Mrs: Harry Lorensbury and ht " widowed daughter-in-l are on u ;- gain after serious attacks of inf, IF enza, L. s. Warner is fast recover
 ing firm his illness with pneumoni V The Mems club held their reguIs h monthly meeting this week wit d Benj. Bassett in Hopewel A wa if veteran is to be the principal speal @ CT.
 Il Contrary to report and expectatio l. 4. A, Gorham appears to have bee = passed by in the distribution of tI s minor General Assembly plums la if week. There is left him the cousoI; Ia tion of knowing that none of thes
 few but widely sought favors went .o any other Bedding man.
 r George Arnold Sr., had a slight oI ,l eration performed on one of h :. eyes at St. Nincent's hospital tn 7 week. It was called for in cons 2 quence of Q slight abscess which fo
 lowed the removal of briar whfC
 had pierced the eyebalI.
 Howard Ridge of Danbury has mo, ed into one of Miss J. +. Sanford 2 tenement houses.
 Ernest Kiss, employed at the Hog son summer place, went to the Dal
 bury hospital this week to be treatc
 for liver aiIment