The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-29
BEDDING
Special to The Tirnes.)

over big. M. Cunningham (I here stands for Minstrel and not for Mon sieuT) sang ditty about our new town hall which would be built in the fall 0year not specified) by the efforts of all and with benefits not small In another local lyric aHusion was made to Ford Osborne's unappeasable hank ering for doughnuts and we learn that
 John Malone didn't get the cider that
 he sought-o
 And William E. Banks has bought a
 new auto.
 A further declaration in the song that several years ago A. G. Barnett made several barrels of cider and has the cider yet nearly caused a stam- pede of the audience in the direction of hometown. Many other personal hits, some of them too cryptic to l score, enlivened the festivities. A fa- voring Of Pinafore was given the pro- gram by Interlocutor Wards imper- sonafion, by costume and introd1Dc- tory song, of Sir Joseph Porter K. c. B. and later by the company's rendi- tdon of Tt was the Cat'' air, very | prettily done. P. Britt Nash consti- tuted a large percentage of the show. He painted the sceenry, a background and two flats showing an island in the tropical Pacific ocean, sang two basso solos with fine voice and expression, contributed greatly to the hiIarity as an end man and sang in the quartet, the other members of which were Messrs. Cunningham, Roseneau and feushmore. The other three end men were Frank Meehan, E. P. Sanford and Lem Warner all of whom did l well. The singing all through was l excellent, a particularly pleasing hit being a duet by Messrs. Cunningham and Rushmore. The skTfful piano ac- companime by Mrs. H. s. Barnes | was an appreciated feature of the evening. Members of the company in addition to those already mentioned | were J. B. Sanford, A. G. Barnett, l James Reynolds, J. B. Sanford, Jr., and A. H. Sanford. Grange Hall never held a larger audience, being filled to the uttermost. The receipts were $111 and the expenses $20, leav- | ing balance of $91 for the town hall fund. A scout from the Stepney fire | department thought well enough of ] the show to sign up for repetition l of the performance in his settlement i about the middle of next month. Eas- ton is also clamoring for the enter | tainrnent and it's call will probably be needed.
 The two power sprayers bought about 12 years ago through co-opera- i ton on the part of east side residents, will not get into action this season on account of the difficulty in obtaining l teams and men to operate them. For this reason the officers of the associa- | ton did not send out the usual notices | this spring, and the few applications | that have come in for service of the | machines cannot be met. Last year | they were mostly used in poison | spraying to kill worms. The destruct- l i've work in orchards of the scale was
 the incentive to the acquisition of the l sprayers, it being realized that unless | the ravages of this and other insect Il pests were checked the trees would not long survive. For several years
 the spraying treatment was applied | quite generally in this section and good results followed although in the
 case of many of the older orchards
 it's remedy came too late to be fully
 effective and many of these are now
 hopelessly on the way to decay. With
 young trees lasting renovation was
 usually effected. It is to be observed.
 however, that little fruit tree planting
 is now being done in this section to
 replace the fast passing orchards, ar
 inaction reflected in the virtual ab-
 sence of nursery canvassers who used
 to be numerous and keenly comped-
 tive. By reason of these conditions } the officers of the spraying associa'
 ton contemplate an early winding LII
 of it's affairs by selling the machines
 Thes um they should bring combined
 with the cash in the treasury would
 it is believed, be sufficient to return lto the stockholders their original in
 vestment.
 The railroad change of time fo , daylight saving, so-cal1ed. affects com paratively few in this town and vii
 be followed by only those whom i does affect, as it is out of favor witt most of the population. The chang , has been adopted by the Gilbert { , Bennett Co.,. the Georgetown schoo and those farmers who sell their mill
 to the Farmers Dairy Co.,, as the lat
 ter's truck now arrives an hour earlie . than formerly. The public school | with the exception of Georgetown vii , adhere to standard time and ther ! will be no change in the hours of ser ; vice at the Episcopal church. Thos 1 having occasion to connect with train should bear in mind the difference be 2 tween the old and the new order o things
 About midnight on Wednesday c a last week the family of Frank Ferr. u awakened by the smell of smoke, dis covered that chimney blaze had is nited the wood box and some gar
 ments around it in the kitchen. The
 quickly aroused W. E. Banks an . Daniel O'Keefe, neighbors, and tn
 combined forces soon extinguiShe e :, the flames by the application of wate to the downstairs blaze and th
 throwing of salt down the chimne! The damage was slight, but a fe'
 minutes delay would have meant th
 destruction of the house.
 Five teachers and sixteen pupil
 from Rosemary Hall, a girls schot
 in Greenwich, were entertained las
 Saturday night and part of Sunday b
 Mrs. E. M. Sanford. The party lei
 Greenwich on Friday for Ridgefelt
 going part of the way by train an
 walking the last few miles of tn
 Journey. On Saturday they hike
 the entire distance from RidgefeI
 .