Republican farmer., 1919-07-18
BEDDING

on tho Ridge road near Perry's store last Saturday afternoon, resulted in the partial demolition of one or the cars involved, but fortunately did no harm to the three persons endanscr- cd by the collision. A youth em- pIoyed by Percy Litchfield was warm ing up the la.ter's Ford preparatory to a trip bv the family to Danbury and in the process ran the car from the roafside upon the highway to turn fl around. It was crosswise of inc road and on the wrong" side for if when the heavy touring car be- longing to s. C. Shaw and occupied by his stepsons kemptOn and Pierre pont Adams, came from the south at a fast clip. The Litchheld employe failed to see It's approach and there being insufficient time to bring the shaw car to a stop a collision was in- avitable. The Ford was struck vio- lenuy and thrown into the air, the rear part being completely wrecked. Tho shaw car had the guards torn away and other parts of the front damaged. That the three occupants of the cars should have escaped In jury seemed hardly a possibility. Neither of tho handlers of the cars has a Connecticut drivers license. al though the older Adams boy has a New Y OTk lCfTHt anu 10 eaAA NfNl'NA fenced driver. Those acquainted with the circum stances are agreed that the collision was not his fault.
 Before the Mems club at the home of Cyrus Brewster last Thursday evening and again before a large as scublagc at the Sanford school on Sunday afternoon the Countess Tur- czynowdcz. recently returned from a mission of relief work among the war sufferers in Lithuania, gave highly interesting addresses, par tinlly rccounting her experiences. The narrative touched upon some of the incidents of privation and general woe which she suffered upon her husba and's three estates in Poland un- tiI she obtained the permission of the German authorities to move into Germany in 1918. but had chiefly to do with a description of her relief trip from rhis country to Poland early in the present year. She took with her a ton of medical supplies, about 400 garments and quantity of food, 5iI of which were sorely needed by the survivors in her de- wasted homeland among whom famine conditions were aggravated by typhus and tuberculosis. Her three homes had been footed of all that was valuable of their contents and the remnants she distributed among the population. In her book. when the Prussians Came to PO- land" the Countess has graphically portrayed her life in that country during thrce years of tho war, the nursing of her two boys through at tncks of tyDhus and. the bilIeting upon her of won Hindenburg and lesser German officers being among the
 
 the s-me graphic quality. Her hus- t-tnd was an officer in the Engineers branch of the Russian army and is supposed to have lost his life in the conflict although enUrts obtain positive knowledge of his fate are 20 far uuavailinC. The Countess, whose two sons and her sister have since spring occupied the Osborn cot tage at the Ridge formerly used as a tea room. intends to make perma- nent her location in Bedding and will build a residence in case she finds none available for purchase. She is now busy as a member of the Polish Recoust ruction Committee with plans Co send 50 nurses to Po- land. these to be followed by n force of teachers.
 The collections for the soldiers well come home celebration at Putnam Park on Aug. 2 will probably not reach the Si .OOO hoped for. but from $500 to $500. or enough to meet the expenses, iS already in sight. A collection fol- lowing the address at the Ridgewold Inn on Sunday realized about S75, n card party given by Mir. and Mrs. s. C Shaw on Tuesday afternoon pro- duccd SG2, the Pleasant Valley sum fner residents have contributed about $50 and other sums obtained by the canva astug committee will make a satisfactory showing for the Ridge section Michael Connery has guar nntecd at least s1O0 from Georgetown and the Center and West Bedding will doubtfoss also do their share. At the Mark Twain Library dance for the fund will be given tomorrow CF'riday) evening and next Tuesday evening Mir. and Mrs. A. c. Barnett will give a card party for the same object.
 -hr wife of Robert Minor. held a prxouer at Cob1cnz. Germany. for Scvera. weeks on suspicion of beina n dissen1inator of Bolsheviki propa- ganda among the American army ol occupation and recently released without trial through high inhuenc, mysteriously exerted. Is the occupant Of a small bungalow near Putnam Park. which she built last year or land purchased from Albert Bartram She ts JeWeSS or ltuSSlau Dlrtn anC by former occupation n stcuographer
 There were only two bidders, bott Stamford men, for the contract fol building the trunk highway from Enston to Bethel. The contract wa. awarded to Francis Vnreio at s315, .. 900. IL is understood the work un. der it will be commenced imme ediate' ly. Where the start will be mad, or whether it will be on simultane ously at several points, has not beer announced.
 The wife of Harry T. Johnson O. West Bedding recently made com. plaint to the authorities for the ar rest of her husband, claiming that h, had kicked her out two weeks afte they were married and refused {, yield her possession of her effects Her particular charge against hin was non-support. but as she declared that she would not again live witt him her com a.ta,