Republican farmer., 1919-05-30
BEDDING
Special to The Timcs.)

| Bedding, May 29.---A dispo5scssion | suit brought by George T. ard Jo- | hanna Howard to oust Sarah A Bu- l chanan from the property at Bedding Center which the plaintiffs recently purchased from Alexander SchaII was scheduled for trial today CThursday) 1 ct the town house before q justice and | Q special jury of six citizens The
 jury feature, wlich came about at the
 instance of the defendant, is some thing unusual in such suits here. The complaint sets forth that May ? l the parties entered into a verbal lease i of the premises for perio1 of six months and that the defendant de-
 faulted rpon the second payment to i have been made by the terms of the
 agreement. Judge Gilbert of Bethel | IS counsel for the plaintiffs, and At | torney Howard Taylor of Danbury | counsel for the defendant. This is tho second suit that has been brought in i connection with the recent change in
 the ownership of the property the other being an action by John H. Ma
 lone to recover a commission from MT.
 ScnaH for services which the plaintiff l claims to have rendered as an agent Tn the transaction. Those drawn to serve on the jury in the ejectment icaSe are Michael Connery, llemuel B. l Sanford. zalmon Rea5, Frank Mec- nan. w. E. Grumman and Ebert M. Sanford.
 Master stephen Sanford of West Bedding was one of the fifteen con. 1 testants in the junior oratoriaI com petition by representatives from the i public schools throughout the State Whlch was held last Friday at the
 ale Lyceum in New Haven. The
 prize went to Frank Le Gretto. a
 crippled Italian boy from Warren,
 ana While the audience approved the 1 award as rightly bestowed the senti-
 ment was that Master Sanford &C., l qultted himself in manner which l entitled him to a place near the head | of the class
 l Frederick E. Driggs who came to i me rescue with a s2,O0O subscription i III heddlngs Victory loan drive gave l ahother exhibition of the same liberal | spirit when, at an auction sale of doughnuts at New York last week in
 coiihectloh with the Salvation Army campaign he bid off a single dough. nut'for S550. The doughnut he gain | placed on sale and this time the bid ding kept on until the price amount ed to S5,O0O. Mir. Driggs is a pioneer 1 member of this towns summer col ony, having built in the Pleasant Val ley section about fifteen years ago a.
 residence of the log cabin style which he still occupies.
 The house at Jump Hill recently | bought by Paul Kicker, is to be ex- | tensively improved by the new owner. | whose plans also include the building 1 of an annex to serve quarters for the farm help. Builder McCollam | will do the work. About ten acres 1 have been planted with potatoes by | MT. Kicker.
 l About twenty members of Bedding
 Grange paid social visit on Tues i day evening to Danbury Grange l among them being F. W. Rosenau and | Mrs. E. P Sanford, who assisted in | the entertainment program of songs l and recitations
 Mrs. J. B. Sanford went to Wash | ington a few days ago for a visit | with her daughter, Eleanor, who has
 held for several months clerical po- | sition in the War Labor Bureau
 June will be Commencement Day for the Sanford school. The athletic | competitions are to be held at Put
 nam Park and the annual planting of the school milestone will take place or the Bridgeport road below Pine | Tree Corner. At o'clock services will be held at the Episcopal church and the days activities will conclude with the annual promenade at the gym.
 Sergeant Herman Smith arrived at his home a Bedding Center on Tues
 day evening, having received his dis | charge in the demobilization of the S2nd division to which he belonged. For a considera tion of $25 William | Hall of Danbury has acquired from l the bankruptcy trustee the Rockwell | creditors equity in the Aaron San l ford property at the Ridge. MT. Hall l holds a second mortgage on the prop l erty and presumably stands to &C., | quire the first mortgagee's interest. Owing to unpleasant weather the Thursday evening had a small attend l ance and the receipts left no margin
 for the soldiers welcome home fund. Albert Bigelow Paine is at his bun and G. A. Guillame and family have | arrived at their summer home in | Umpawaug4
 MT. and Mrs. George Duncomb of 1 Bridgeport, are making a two weeks
 visit with Mrs. Stephen Sanford in 1 West Bedding.
 The artesian well which is being 1 sunk for Dr. Alfred Cohn. has | reached a depth of over 200 feet 1 without striking water. the bore be- 1 ing almost entirely through solid | rock.