The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-05
BEDDING

Bedding, Nov. 5@The only Demo- cratic salvage in this town from F I Tuesdays wreck was the election of l Michael Connery for representative. the strength he showed in his own district of Georgetown being the main factor in enabling him to lead ! among the four candidates for that office. He had 285 votes, while William B. Hazen. Republican. came next with 274 and is therefore the other successful candidate. Geo G. Banks, Republican, had 267 and Mrs. Annie Tomlinson Sanford, Dem ocrat, 249. The surprises of the are, were the defeat of Mrs. Sanford, and that of J. B. Sanford for judge | of probate, the latter losing to Fred
 erick A. Judd by single vote. The figures are 2S4 and 283. Judge San ford has held the office for a mum Der of years and performed it's duties | to the fullest satiSfa ction of the pub lie. MT. Judd will bring to the Do l sition intelligence and integrity, but | is handicapped by lack of legal train ing and judicial experience As to | Mrs. D. s. Sanford her qualifications | for public service as legislator and | so undeniably superior that the fail ure Of her sister voters to give her a | credit. Compared with the landslide char. acter of the Democratic party in some ii other sections of the state the party d1d not do so badly in Redding i: being estimated that the increase of a the Republican majority from four years ago is just about accounted for 3 Dy the additional strength coming Il rom the woman vote. The figures on presidential electors are 36O and 2o4, 2 a Republican majority of 56. In na- t1onal campaigns previous to the two preceding this one the towns Repub- lcan mapority was seldom less than a l00. Tuesdays total vote was 582. Ihe justices of the peace elected are H Rufus A. Lyon, D. R. Warner, w. c. sanford, F. A. Judd, Frederick Sur l ges ". P. Rowland, William Warwick, k. w: Dayton and Joel Godfrey. The until o'clock. About dozen ballots j were rejected either for faulty mark ing or for lack of any marks what ever. On about 60 of the split bal lots only one candidate for representa- A tive was designated. There is some A talk of a petition to the Superior court S asking for a recount of the ballots which were cast in the Georgetown district, the special object of the pro- { posed review being to secure a re- versal of the present official decision E as to the probate judgeship.
 #I A summons. process has been served E upon B P. Sanford in legal proceed # ings begun by Jacob Doggett of New
 York city to recover damages due to an automobile accident of which his H daughter, Rosemary, was the victim. H According to declarations in the E papers the accident occurred in 18th @ street on Oct. 27, 1919, when a Ford F. car Of1Ven Dy GeOfSe JOhnSOn, who IS & described as the defendants agent, B knocked down and severely injured
 the Dogget girl. On her behalf
 the father asks damages in $5,00O and E pensation in the sum of $1,000. The E officer serving the papers found no H property subject to attachment.
 A number of petty thefts have late. the Center chanced upon the discov-
 cry one day last week that her apples & had been picked by unknown tres # passers and left in bags under the & trees with the apparent purpose of
 removal under cover of darkness. The 8 owner anticipated the marauders in
 the matter of removal: About the
 that several bee hives which she left 1H at the Center when she removed to the E Ridge, had been despoiled of theil X stor of honey. Mrs. Eleanor Dayton - also of the Center, found that her en-
 tire stock of jars contaiSing preserves
 had vanished from the cellar. The | theft is attributed to a girl recently il her employ who had owned up to the stealing of small sum of money ant
 was afterwards committed to a stat, institution for another larcenious op
 eration in the neighborhood. At { young girls birthday party in thu
 Ridge section few nights since, thu
 elaborate birthday cake, still uncut
 mysteriously disappeared from tn banquet board, an abduction ascribet
 to a spirit of youthful mischief rathe y | than serious evil design.
 Two Halloween parties were givel
 in town last Saturday evening, one a
 the Sanford school, and the other il
 the Center Congregational church
 The latter was under the direction o
 Mrs. Lemuel Sanford. Both were cos
 tune affairs and afforded a display c
 some highly ingenious and fantasti
 garbings, one guest personating a
 ear of corn.
 J. B. Sanford, Jr., is being congrat t,,Jo Incl 1xyloi ioI, a
 tended the sinking of an artesian we
 last week upon the premises of h
 new home at Bedding Centre.
 abundant flow of water was struc
 at a depth of 12S feet, whereas h
 ne;ghbor, Dr. Smith, went to dept
 of about 700 feet two or three year
 ago and the nsecured only scant
 surply.
 from the injury to his back which
 suffered by a fall in his barn near
 two weeks ago. The accident Shov
 what mishaps sometimes happen fro
 unlocked for causes. The ladder lat which he had mounted to the upp
 beam swung backward as he reacl Ire ed for bundle of straw and
 tumbled about 20 feet to the unco
 cred floor. Examination shove ms that the rope by which the ladder W; lh0 fastened to the keam had bee art eaten through by rats.
 The old chimney in the reSiden
 of Albert Williams, which seemed
 have a special propensity for fire
 was taken down last week and r
 placed by one of improved constru
 tion with a fire place as new fe
 ture.
 William Arnold has taken a jt
 with farmer at Washington Depc
 there from the Ridge with his far
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