The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-22
BEDDING


 committee having in charge the sol diers' welcome home celebration. have postponed the affair from June 14 to August 2. A fuller participa- ton on the part of Georsetown than would otherwise be the case is one reason for the postponement. South NorNvalk Is to have its celebration early tr June and as Georgetown, in part. belongs to the same military district 1t will join in that affair, the Gilbert G Bennett shops closing for ono day so that the hands may at tend. Besides the exercises of the Fourth of July Community celebra- tion to be held by Georgetown will be largely devoted 10 honoring the ser vice men of the villages. BetheTs welcome demonstration has been ap- pointed for Memorial Day, May 80, m additional reason advanced in sup port of the idea that the Bedding celebration would stir q wider inter est and attract a larger atte endance If deferrod for Q few weeks. Lieut.. Gov. Wilson has accept,i an invita- ton to attend and make an address. and n is also expected that the Gil- bert. & Bennett Co. will shut down on August D.
 Az tho result of a recent hearing
  granted an order authorizing the sale of tho Seth Todd place in North Bedding at auction in case of failure 10 dispose of it satisfactorily by pri- vato snle. The house figured in the American Revolution, the officers of Tontnarn's Brigade, which formed the right wing of the Continental Army. being quartered there. The house was then owned by the Gouids of the famous Gould or Gold family of Fair field. About 70 years ago Seth Todd bought the house and raised 1t from ono to two stories besides making oth- .r fnpruvernents The situation is ono of the finest In Bedding. The Todd family have not occupied the property for several years and it is being sold to close the estate,
 The mother and wife of Thomas Delaney, caretalcer of Putnam Park. vyere driving in Bethel last Saturday afternoon when an auto which vas being tuwed. slowed about from the fouIins of the tow rope and struck their buggy. Their horse bolted, throwing out the younger woman. The ae.dsr, with admirable presence of mind. set down tn the bottom of the buggy the infant she had been hold ing and seiziug the reins, managed to bring the horse under control. Mrs. Thomas Delaney, besides suffering se- vera bruises, had her hip bone cracked by the faIL
 Local creditors of the Farmers ilairy Co. received information last week that the assent of 9S per cent Of the claims required by the court Y s approval of tho reorganization I ms n @d boon secured and that court action was expected on Friday by -,4H.4-r, 4Ia yoapfr-aYa11frN would be ter minated and a new corporation brought into being. This does not appear to have been done al lough one extension of the time originally set had been granted at the request of the reorganization managers. It Is expected, however, that their plans will shortly be carried through to s7ai sfactouy conclusion. Some of the ere 4itors were very late in deciding between tho alternatives of accepting common stock iu tho new company to she fun amount of their claims or Inal-i1r a cash settlement at 33 1-S cents on Che dollar. William Hall of Danbury. holder of H second rnortR~lge for S1,5OO on the Aaron Sanford property at the Ridge, ia negotiating for the purchase of the equity with John rduennich, trustee on the estate of Ralph Rockwell who
 
 haukruntcy. l-r. Sanford holds Q first mortgage for S3.5O0 and has lately taken action looking to a. foreclosure By purchasing his interest and also the nominal equity now held for the banlSriIptcy creditors Hall would be- come the owner of the property. He offers g. for the equity and Trustee 1Iuennich is holding out for s25.
 X bold theft was the whisldng away r. Fc-H1f r,F n x-oarTfr1er Jn1- stein heifer from the barn of VII liam Warwick in Georgetown. It is supposed that the thieves loaded the animal upon an auto truck for the getaway which they effected so quiet ly as to escape attention A COW be- longing to a. Georgetown resident named Burr was stolen last winter supposed by the same method and likewise without detection
 The pump lifting water from the r-rzeTvofr- well on the Sanford school farm to the distributing tank broke down Iast Saturday evening and as farm houses at the Ridge besides the schooi are dependent on this source of supply an emergency was created. To meet it D. & Sanford made prompt and fast auto trip to Sey- mour, reaching home on his return at 70 o'clock Sunday morning with the apparatus required to fix things
 The application of Private John Keefe for an allowance from the gov from being gassed while on service in ernment on account of lung injury Flanders was not granted as examina- ton showed the affection to be less serious than had been supposed The war department, however, offered to assist the applicant to learn a trade. He was already learning one branch of shipbuilding in a yard at Newark
 Memorial Day will receive in Georgetown this year the elaborate observance instituted several years ago with the aid of the late Major Mir1er and continued since his death by members of his family. A distri- button of flags among the school children. a parade in which they will take part, decoration of the graves of veterans and other exercises at tho cemetery will be among the features as heretofore.
 In order to remove possible legal obstacle to the appeal taken by Eze- kiel Burr from the sentence imposed by Justice Muennich on a. charge Of theft the fine and costs which was part of the sentence and which the defendant paid has been returned to