The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-24
Special to The Times. )

months service with the Red Cross transport division. He is the first Bedding man in service to arrive home.
 Within the past few days deeds have been filed for record in this towI: and Weston by which Winthrop Perry of Southport conveys to Yale Univer- sity for the ibeenfit of it's Forestry de- partment several hundred acres of land located in the two towns but mostly in Weston. The land Is almost wholly forest, swamp and brush and has been put to no practical use by MT. Perry since he acquired it eight or ten years ago, beginning with the Joel Perry farm lying along the line of the two towns. Later purchases of tracts to the southward increased the holdings to approximately ,5G0 acres. Conjectures that the new owner was i to convert the territory into a game preserve proved mistaken as no move in that direction was made and two or three months ago MT. Perry an- | nounced his intention of making a gift of the property to Yale. In the deeds he reserves for his own use a. bungalow on the former Perry place which he built as a summer residence. A comparatively small part of the entire tract will be required by the water company for the reservoir to be formed from the building of the big dam across the Saugatuck river in Weston.
 MT. Perry has offered the water company this land as a gift provided 1 if Wnlll6 loi ryI c1oa In gard to the location of the new high way made necessary by the creation of the reservoir pond. So far his proposition has not been accepted. | The Sanford school and the Center public school, both of which had been closed in consequence of influenza, re- | opened this week---and at the same time the epidemic caused the closing of Umpawaug school. In Georgetown, which suffered so severely during the earlier period of the malady but has for several weeks been wholly free from 1t, g. few new cases have ap- peareds They are confined to two or three families and all possible precau- tons will be taken against their ex- 1 tending. The first outbreak of the disease in the village resulted in l ocOuk AdlL d OOZen QOdCDS.
 | The milk producers in this section have accepted a slight reduction in
 the prices paid by the Bridgeport
 buyers. The present rate of the Far
 mers' Dairy Co., is 8 IA cents and
 that of Hebard 8 1-2 cents, the latter | being a drop of one half cent from
 the earlier winter rate. Conditions
 with the Dairy Co. are materially i'm proving since Receiver Mckay took
 charge. November's business showed
 a clear profit of $500 and Decem-
 Der profit of S2.500. With the gain
 from January added it is expected tc
 declare a dividend during February
 of 25 per cent or thereaoouts This
 will apply on the s60,000 or more
 of notes held by the producers tc
 whom the company has been indebted
 for several months.
 Both the Bedding representatives
 to the general assmbly, fared well 1T
 the matter of committee appoint
 ments. , Paul Connery, democrat, re
 ceived an assignment to the judiciary
 committee, a notable honor In the
 case of first term member He i also on the joint rules and engrosse(
 bills committees. $. c. Shaw, re.
 publican, has four committee posi- tions, the most important being tha on finance. The others are forfeited rights, state parks and woman suf frage.
 A nine year old boy named Morris one of several put out by the Nev England Home of Bridgeport to boar with Mrs. Henry Sanford in Pleasan . Valley. decamped last Saturda, l morning after being reproved fo ] some misconduct. He was seen t
 head south on the road to Bridgepor l after inspecting a sign post near hi = boarding place, but at last account had not been further heard from.
 The steam crane which the U S f government commandeered from tn r Gilbert & Bennett Co. nearly a yea:
 ago, to use in unloading coal at Will 7. sons Point. has been returned t }, the Georgetown factory. Meanwhil T the company had to rely entirely O, n | hand labor to handle its own coa :. shipments, but was aided in the wor1 '. by men supplied by the governmen l l from it's Wilson's Point force.
 - The judgment rendered last weeI ! by the justice who tried the Kearne ! truancy case in West Bedding includ ed a suspended sentence to the Re f form school which will be enforce s in case the defendant continues t
 offend. E. P. Sanford was appointe f probation officer in the case and t = him kearney's teacher will mak @ weekly reports regarding the boy e school attendance. The lad, who wa s living with his grandmother, ha = been taken in charge by an uncle n Mrs. John Frederickson of George y town. who lost son a few week l. ago on the battle f@ont in France. - undergoing treatment at a Brookly
 hospital for injuries sustained in cor
 sequence of a fall from a street cal l. One Of the hurts was a severe seal 'e wound.
 .e The committee appointed by tt
 Home Guards to raise funds for tt
 building of a new town house, di l. not meet this week as expected, bt d cause d full attendance of the men l. bers could not be secured. A mee
 ing will probably be held ne:
 week.
 d, A letter received this week by II d parents of Harold Connery was a y, companied by war relics consisdr
 of a German military cap and bel
 The buckle on the latter bore Il y inscription God With Us." Tor
 Connery, who has been driving s - ambulance for more than two year
 ia now in Germany with the Amer
 can Army of Occupation and do
 not know when he will be release