Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
BEDDING
Especial to The Times )

the Sanford school last Saturday even ing Miss Ida M. TarbeH did not pitch into' the Senate obSTucti onistS of the Peace Treaty, but feeling4y and forci- bly expressed how deeply she deplored such obstruction both on account of the great harm it did to other nations and the injurious effect it was having on the worlds opinion of this nation. The early part of her talk was given to a graphic description of the scene at the signing of the treaty with Ger many at Paris, scene Of which she was a spectator. The atmosphere or the occasion was tense with emotion, the predominant element of which was @ feeling of relief and elation over the prospect that there was about to be- gin 8 new world era free from wars. This sentiment of confident hope, however, was not all pervading. The speaker observed a jarring note Of dissent in the scornfu1 expression worn by one of Ita1y's representatives and the same expression of cynical der1- sion marked the face of a member of | the French group. Of all the distin- g1ished figures in that notable assem- blaze the personality of President Wilson stood out as the most digni- fled and impressive even in compar- tson with those of Clemenceau and Lloyd George, the two other great personages of the occasion. It was highly diversified gathering as to races and costumes. It comprised l coal black Negro and the handsomest l man in 1t was an Arabian.
 The hideous war was at last over thanks largely to America and also thanks mainy to America by the work of her President there were to be no more wars All recognized the fact that the treaty was not a perfect 1n- 1 strument, that could not be expected | in view of the many and complex problems which confronted the Con- ference, but the League of Nations Covenant provided a way of correc' tfon by future readjustments for what
 ever mistakes had been made. Ano | then the months went by and the United States Senate, by its refusa to ratify the Treaty, dimmed the higf hopes that had been raised. Europe could not understand how it was tha America which had risen to sucf heights of self-sacrifice and idea1isn should sink to such low levels of tim idity, indifference and dfstrust as were indicated by our Senate's attitude. Tt the rest of the world it looked like { shirldng of responsibilities which wa:
 unaccountaible in men of what hae gone before The address was heart
  showed itself to be in full accord witt the speaker.
 A delay of five minutes in the dis
 covery of the fire which started las Thursday afternoon the secon' floor of Miss Florence Simpson | house in hometown would probabl 1 have meant the destruction of tn l building Mrs. Simpson and her tw | boys had been out for walk an 1 were nearing the house on their re 1 turn when they saw smoke comin l from the windows of an upstatr l room in which an oil stove had bee left burning. The wick flame ha f1ared to the ceiling and set fire t
 the curtains and other light furnish ings of the room which were burnin
 fiercely when Mrs. Simpson arrived
 She and the boys obtained water b
 breaking the ice which covered tn
 cistern and succeeded in subduing tn
 fire before neighbors arrived an helped finish the job.
 A Danbury real estase firm. actin , for Henry A. se1leck of New Yorl
 an author, closed negotiations th1
 week for the purchase of the Set
 Todd place, located in the Lonetow
 section not far from the Danbury lin'
 The consideration is about S5,00t Title has not yet passed, but 8 partis l payment was made to limit the bal
 gain. A supposed sale of the proI erty was made last summer, but afte
 terms were agreed upon the prospec tive purchaser failed to complete tt
 transaction.
 The newly elected officers of Rec
 ding Grange, Mrs. B. P. Sanfo1 ,. heading the list as master, will be il
 stalled on Wednesday evening of ne: a week by A. J. Sherwood, former . master of the State organization. TT ceremony is to be open to the put | lie and will be followed by the ser s ing of refreshments. At last week f meetings of the Grange a gener - discussion took place as to u
 causes which had brought about u q body's languishing condition. Or member thought the explanation Ii 2 in the fact that while the distincti' 1 mission of the Grange was agricu Il tural Bedding had ceased to be
 strictly agricultural community. Il sentiment that in future the 1oc
 Grange enlarge the sphere of it's a
 tivities with a real community spil ih as the moving impulse received ge -9 eral approval.
 Several more good voices would
 welcomed for the chorus of the loc u combination who are to give a mi strel show within a month or Is Those willing to help in this respe 'e are asked to make the fact known
 Manager P. B. Nash. Those alrea k enlisted for the chorus are Jam re Reynolds, A. G. Barnett, J. B. Sa ss ford, T. W. Read, Fred Crouch a | Messrs. Crenham, Sheffield and Bu al dette of the Sanford school. T se quartet will consist of F. W. Ros
 neau, Harold Rushmore, P. B. Ma es and Rev. Raymond Cunningham. T Id end men are to be Frank E. Me IS han, F. P. Sanford and Sergea a. Nash. The interlocutor is Charles a- Ward.
 While D. P. Sanford, the w e. Bedding merchant was driving -,- car through Branchville last Mond IS, the wheels skidded on the icy surfa s. of hill and caused the car to -,- overturned. MT. Sanford was par
 caught beneath the top which W
 torn off, and severely bruised, | '. may be considered fortunate in he
 ing escaped with no worse injuries. K man who was the only other oct a. pant of the machine escaped unhu n1