Republican farmer., 1919-01-10
BEDDING

Bedding, Jan. -Coincfdentally with the winding up of the Bedding Home Guard which is under orders to be mustered out by Jan. IT, there has sprung pronisingly into being movement looking to the building of the new town house which Reddins so badly needs. The need has been keenly felt for years, but much talk on the subject of meeting 1t has re- suited in nothing further than the purchase of the Dayton lot at the Center and thereby the providing of site. The approaching dissolution of the Home Guard suggested to Lieut.. Muennich and some of the other members that the energies heretofore | employed in a military way might well be diverted to the realization Of the town hall project. On Tuesday evening the Guard held their final drill at the Danbury armory and at 1 the business meeting which followed ! the plan was launched with the en- ! thusiastic approval of the members l There had been some idea of continu- ! ing the Guards civic organization, but 1 that was abandoned when 1t was i learned that the state would not all low the members to retain their uni forms. The first action of the business meeting was to auction off the three target rifles and the equipment cab inets. These realized about $40. The guard owns a $50 Liberty bond and 1 has some cash in the treasury, mak- ! ing total assets of about $100. Of ! this nearly $50 must be paid the state ;,-- loo nig a balance of about the same am i cunt.
 With this business out of the way Lieut.. Muennich advanced and advo- cated the town hall project and it re
 ceived unanimous approval. As the starting point of providing ways and 1 means for carrying it into execution it was decided to appoint 9 committee Of ten to raise funds with Captain Barnes as chairman and a member ship representing the three main sec tions of the town. For Georgetown there were named B. B. Banks, Ray ! Flewellyn and Paul Connery; for i West Bedding, E. P. Sanford, George Johnson and Joel Hawiey, and for the Ridge and Center, John NIuen- ntch, P Britt Nash and A. G. Bar nett. J. B. Sanford was chosen the committees secretary and treasurer. This committee will undertake the
 raising of money for the project by giving entertainments and perhaps so- liciting subscriptions and expectations will be disappointed if the first year s efforts do not result in providing at least $500. Whatever the sum ob- tained the town will probably be asked to appropriate an equal amount. The towns liberal support of all the financial war measures sub nitted to it shows what the citizens are capable of when their interest is fully aroused and warrants the confi- dence felt that the new project will 1 command a quick and generous re- sponse.
 The ladies should heartily enter in-
 to the movement in view Of their pros pectiye requisition of the right of suf- frage in order that they may have
 suitable accommodations in the way
 of polling place, the present facilities
 being wholly inadequate. In addition
 the town needs a building which will
 afford proper offices for it's official and business boards, a court room, probably a lookup in the basement,
 a vault for the keeping of the public records and a large hall suitable for meetings and entertainments. 1t is
 also proposed that there shall be pIac- ed in the building a memorial tablet for men who have done service in
 the war and perhaps also provided a room for the storing of war relics.
 Early in the course of the entertain
 ments soon to be arranged there will
 probably be presented a comedy by
 Sergeant Nash to which he is now putting the finishing touches.
 Harry M. Lounsbury, only child of
 MT. and Mrs. Harry A Lounsbury, died on Monday evening at the home
 which he recently built in the George
 town section, his demise resulting
 from double pneumonia after a brief illness. His age was 22, and he was
 held in high regard by the commun- ity. A wife and infant child survive
 him. The former Is now seriously i'll
 with influenza. her second attack of the same disease since last fall. The
 younger Lounsburys attended on Christmas day Q family gathering re- presenting five generations which was held with the parents of the deceas sed young man. Since that occasion three
 of the party have been stricken, the third being Mrs Harry A. Lounsbury i who remains severely i'll from laryn- gitis with complications.
 Five youths accused of a series of | offensive depredations committed at | the Georgetown depot, the miscon-
 duet including a breaking into the
 building in the night season and the l tracing on the walls of indecent l phases of pictures, were arraigned
 Noforn Justice Joel Godfrey on Tues day, charged with trespass Grand
 Juror Sanford issued' the warrant on
 complaint of Special Officer More
 house representing the railroad, and Deputy Sheriff Banks made the ar
 rest. All pleaded guilty and were
 each fined $1OO and costs. The
 Carlton. Lloyd Clark, Roswell Lock-
 wood. Paul Workman and Arthur
 Patterson, all pleaded guilty and
 were each fined $1 and costs. The
 fine was remitted and the costs,
 amounting to $6.50 in each case, were paid.
 Instead of showing a slight increase
 in accordance with the preliminary
 estimates oi the assessors the new
 grand list suffers a shrinkage of S2,o74 in comparison with last years total. This will doubtless be changed
 to some extent by the work of the
 board of relief who hold their first
 session on the first Monday in Feb l ruary. The revised grand list last year was s1,S0s,S80, The practically i stationary condition If +ha Iis+ ;s , chiefly accounted for by the fact