Republican farmer., 1919-05-23
BEDDING

Eeddlng. May 22-For reasons which appear to them sufficient, the committed having in charge the sol. diors' welcome home celebration. have postponed the affair from June
 II to August 9. A fuller partictpa-
 ton on the part'of Georgetown than would otherwise be the case is one [ reason for the postponement. South Norwalk is to have its celebration early in June and as Georgetown, in part, belongs to the same military . district 1t will join in that affair, the
 Gilbert & Bennett shops closing for one day so that the hands may att ! tend. Besides the exercises of the Fourth of July Community celebra-
 ton to be hold by Georgetown will be
 largely devoted to honorins the ser vice men of the villages. BethePs
 welcome demonstration has been ap-
 pointed for Memorial Day. May 80,
 an additional reason advanced in sup
 port of the idea that the Bedding
 celebration would stir q wider Inter
 est and attract a larger attendance ff
 deferred for few weeks. Lieut.
 Gov. Wilson. has accepted an invita-
 ton to attend and make an address.
 and 1t is also expected that the Gf-
 bert & Bennett Go. will shut down
 on August 2.
 As the result of a recent hearing
 before the probate court there was
 granted an order authorizing the sale
 of the Seth Todd place in North
 Bedding at auction in case of failure
 to dispose vof it satisfactorily by pri-
 vnte sale. The house figured in the
 American Revolution, the officers Of
 Putnam's Brigade, which formed the right wing of the Continental Army
 being quartered there. The house
 was then owned by the Goulds of tha
 famous Gould or Gold family of Fair
 field About 70 years ago Seth Tod"
 bought the house and raised it rom
 one two stories besides making oth-
 CT Improvements The situation is
 one of the finest in Bedding. The
 Todd family have not occupied the
 property for several years and 1t IS
 being sold to close the estate.
 The mother and wife of Thomas Delaney, caretaker Of Putnam Park. | were driving in Bethel last Saturday | afternoon when an auto which was ! being lowed, slowed about from the | fouiuE of the tow rope and struck l their buggy. Their horse boited | throwing out the younger woman. The | elder. with admirable presence O.
 mind. set down in the bottom of the | buggy the infant sAe had been hold | ing and seizing the reins, managed to | bring the horse under control Mrs. Thomas Delaney, besides suffering sc- we're bruises, had her hip bone cracked by the fall.
 Local creditors of the Farmers Dairy Co. received information last week that the assent of 9S per cent of the claims required by the court for it's approval of the reorganization plans had been secured and that court action was expected on Friday by which the reecivership would be ter minated and new corporation brought into being. This does not appear to have been done although 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 satisfactory conclusion. Some of the creditors were very late in deciding botween the alternatives of accepting common stock in the new company to the full amount of their claims or making a cash settlement at B Is cents on the dollar.
 William Hall of Danbury holder of a second mortgage for s1.5oo on the Aaron Sanford property at the Ridge, is negotiating for the purchase of the equity with John Muennich, trustee on the estate of Ralph Rockwell who held the title when he went into bankruptcy. MT. Sanford hoii@s first mortgage for S3.5O0 and has lately taken action looking to a foreclosure. By purchasing his interest and also tho nominal equity now held for the banlSruptcy creditors Hall would be- como the owner of the property. He offers e for the equity and Trustee Muennich fs holding out for s25.
 A bold theft was the whisking away last Monday night of a yearling Hol-
 TN~HY I liam Warwick in Georgetown. It is 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 10 a. Georgetown resident named Burr was stolen last winter supposed by the same method and likewise without detection.
 The pump lifting water from the reservoir we'll on the Sanford school farm to the distributing tank broke down last Saturday evening and as farm houses at the Ridge besides the school are dependent on this source of supply an emergency was created To meet 1t D. s. Sanford made a prompt and fast auto trip to Sey- rnou-, reaching home on his return at 10 o'clock Sunday morning with the apparntus required to fix things.
 The application of Private John Keefe for an allowance from the gov from being gassed while on service in crurnent on account of lung Injury Flanders was not granted as examina- tion showed the affection to be less serious than had been supposed. The war dspartment. however. offered to assist the applicant to learn trade. He wss already learning one branch of shipbui1ding 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 Miller 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 the cemetery will be among the features as heretofore.