Republican farmer., 1919-05-16
BEDDING
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 Bedding, May 15.---Hard work at
 the eleventh hour by Chairman Brew ster and others of his committee en- abled the town to not only meet its Victory Loan quota of $17,c0O but to
 exceed that amount 'py a margin of
 s1.0oo. On Saturday morning there
 was a deficiency of about $2.5O0 and the subscriptions obtained during the lday failed to fill the gap In the
 evening Charles o. Perry telephoned
 Frderick F. Driggs at Brooklyn news lof the situation accompanied by an appeal and MT. Driggs promptly re- lsponded with a S2,0OO subscription.
 This saved the day and some thing over. Despite active efforts on the
 part of the committee the campaign had dragged discourag gingly from the start. Special credit belongs to Mar GUS H. Burr for having obtained more than $500 from persons who had not subscribed to the previous loans. While it was slow going in the rest lof the town Georgetown went beyond it's previous achievements, having closed the campaign with total of $14.7OO. For the fourth loan its record was SoOOO0. As only narrow strips of the village are located in other towns I ASSAoii6 iS 6co5IdktillGdlly eHlllleu lO credit for most of the Georgetown
 support given the loans so that this | towns showing is, the whole, ex- lceedingly good
 Having missed bags of feed at in- l tervals during the winter Harry | Lounsbury recently instituted a l watch which revealed Ezekiel Bur- 1 as the purloiner of a least one bag. | Burr. with a team, had been work inc Tor I
 He was arrested last Saturday by an
 officer of the State Police aIsi arraign- i ed in the afternoon befole Justice | Muennich, charged with theft of l grain of the value of $50 On a l plea of guilty he was fined s1 and | costs and sentenced to 30 days in | jail. After paying the fine and l costs amounting to S22, he insisted | on taking an appeal On account of | his plea and partial satisfaction of the | sentence there was some doubt as to | an appeal being allowa ble, but the 1 court gave the defendant the benefit
 of the doubt and fixed the appeal
 bond at s250. B. B. Banks subse- | quently became surety in this sum | for the appearance of the accused | before the June term of the crimina.
 Common Pleas Court at Bridgeport. | Lawyer Caleb Burgess. who has at | various times obtained projection in | the public view, is there again by
 reason of a divorce suit brought to | secure release from his wife, former | ly Anna Fay. In his petition he | claims that she told him untruths
 about herself previous to their mar | riage and also that she deserted him
 in 1914. She is his fourth matri-
 monial partner. His first wife be- 1 queathed her house at Redding | Center to their daughter, when
 the latter should reach the age of 21. Burgess to have the use of it in he | meantime. On the attainment by the 1 daughter of her majority Burgess pre- l sented a bill for repairs, fully euua! | to the value of the property. This | the probate court refused to allow. l Later the father brought suit to se- l cure title to the property and also quit claimed it to his second wife. l The suit never came to trial. but theNe doings placed the question of l title in some confusion although it is | claimed the present ownership re- | mains with the daughter. Burgess, however, chiefly obtained notoriety from an episode occurring in the in | terval between his first wife's death | and his second marriage when he persuaded a young Cuban girl to | clandestinely leave her friends in New York and accompany him to Bedding 1 Center where he claimed to live in l splendor estate of large size | and magnificence. They were to be 1 married upon their arrival here. As
 neither the pictured opulence nor the ] promised wedding materialized the disappointed young woman made
 known her plight to one or more Center residents Results were speedy. That same evening a band of hastily organized vigilantes. wear ing improvised masks, descended
 upon Burgess, dragged him from the l house and plenteously kicked and
 pummelled him. When they were | through he fled to New York and soon thereafter the distressed damsel | also vanished from the Center.
 The former Kennel farm in Sand 1 fordtown has been leased from the l water company by Lemuel B. Sanford who conducted it one of their su- | perintendents during the past few | years. The change comes through l the company's decision to discontinue | farming operations this season. These i operations were carried exten-
 sively for two years in order that the ] land might contribute to the coun- l try's war needs for food supplies, an |
 The money returns from the crops | raised were below the costs of pro- l duction. The company are now cur l tailing their numbering operations. | the sawmill which has been running l for more than a year in the northeast | section of the town, having been laid
 up this week. Another mill will con-
 tinue to be run at Pop Mountain in ! Weston.
 1 It happened that the centenary of | the General Assembly. celebrated on | Wednesday of last week. was also the fftieth anniversary of the date on which w. H. Hill of this town began | service as member of that body. The experience of none of the other 1 former members in attendance upon l the celebration extended so far back. Altogether MT. Hill served four terms. as a representative from Bedding.
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