The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-05
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)


 Baker. at their home in Pleasant Val ley. Baker himself was taken down with double. pneumonia, and his wife and their six children, the youngest aged three months, with influenza The other occupants of the house who are Charles Williams, father of Mrs. Baker, and his daughter Della were at the same time subjects of se- were colds. The entire care of the stricken household practically fell upon Williams who received some help from sympathetic neighbors and did his best to meet the needs of very serious situation. The greatest need was the attendance of a woman with some skill in nursing, bat efforts to obtain such aid proved unavailing. Mrs. John Favereau, one of whose children-i is just recovering from pneu- monia, was willing to undertake the job, but her own sudden illness pre- vented The case has prompted the suggestion that the town might in measure prepare for such <emergen- cies by hiring a trained nurse. for the winter months, a step which would not , necessarily mean much expense to the town as the services of the nurse would probably be most of the time in demand by those able and willing to pay for them. Yesterday the children
 
 while the condition of the parents re- mained serious, the mother being threatened with pneum onia.
 / The agency for distributing to the local public some 40 packages of as- sorted garden seeds furnished by the governmen has been thrust upon Capt. H. s. Barnes by U. s. Senator Mclean Instead of trying to dodge the responsibility Capt. Barnes ac- cepts the trust and announces that while they last the seeds will be de- liyered to all corners in the order of their applications. Requests by mail will also be responded to. This sea sons supply of the seeds is meagre one in companion with those dispens ed in some previous years when about every citizen received through the mails two or three consignm ents from as many Congressmen. The usual re- suit was sore perp1exity on the part of the citizen as to whether he should rely solely on free seeds at the risk of a barren garden or go to the expense of buying seeds with fair certainty of satisfactory results.
 Because William A. LounSbury Of the hometown section is well along in years his friends are inclined to take a jocose rather than a sympathetic view of the affHction that has befallen l him in the form of an attack Of measles. He has them in mild form i and is supposed to have taken the in l lection from a child of George Will l jams, a neighbor. Two of the other Williams children are now down with | the same ailment. A young son Of w. E. GrurrTnan is also measles vic i tim The boy is a pupil of the Center 1 school and the source of his infection 1 cannot be accounted for.
 l Some promising histrionic talenf was disclosed in the presentation ot the two Dunsaney plays given last 1 Saturday evening by pupils of the San | ford School. The performance went l smoothly and capabEy and to the 1 satisfaction of an audience which 1 filled the schools large dining room l No little ingenuity had been shown by | Captain Bonney and members of the | cast in providing scenic effects from | paper and other inexpensive mater 1 ials. Between the acts and after the performance members of the Wom' 1 ans Missionary Auxiliary dispensed 1 refreSA1m ents. The entertainment re | aIized about $45 for the Community l House fund.
 Fire company No. 1, at their meet | ing on Monday evening, voted to fur | ther equip the engines with ropes e5 l peciaHy adapted to quickly hitchins 1 them to autos for runs responding tt 1 alarms. It was also decided to at onc' | restore to usefulness the engine a; the Center which, in consequence O. i being left outdoors after it's last ser l vice call, had become frozen up ant
 frozen in. After the transaction O.
 business the members enjoyed sea
 alyIyI a1aF
 card playing.
 St Johns Episcopal church O Washington, Litchfield county, haI released Rev. Raymond Cunningham
 from his engagement to become 1t | rector next spring, the release havins
 been asked for in accordance witl
 changed plans by which he might re
 tain his present pastorate in ReddinE
 and enlarge his present field of mis
 eionary extension work. A vote b.
 the parish here on the question o
 approving this plan will be takel
 next Sunday provided the weathe
 does not curtail the attendance a
 church as it has for several week
 past.
 Bills for snow removal amounting
 to about $500 were approved by tn
 selectmen at their meeting on Mon
 day and there are some additiona
 ones to be presented. There wer
 three campaigns of shovelling to clea
 the roads, the last being called for b,
 the storm of Wednesday of last week
 and numerous minor jobs in betwee1
 to clear away over night driftings il
 spots.
 The findings made by the board o ! relief make additions to the grand lis
 of s1,s5S and rgductions of $1.29O. Al
 the additions were due to clerical CT
 TOTS in making up the abstract. thre
 1istings having been omitted. The re v4sed grand list totals $1,826,SS7,- a
 increase from last year of S1 8, 1895.
 A trained nurse supplied by tn
 State Board of Education examine
 the pupils of the Center school fo
 physical defects on Thursday of las
 week. She found that several ha
 tonsils needing medical treatment an
 that there were also several who's teeth should be filled. The condition revealed by her inspection furnishe
 a strong argument in favor of the pro 1 feet for having a district school nurs
 as a permanent arrangement, pla | which will probably be placed in et ! Ro,+ ,ex+ var with Bedding as on