Republican farmer., 1920-05-07
BEDDING
Special to The Tirnes.l


 the selecfnen at the regular meeting on Monday to proceed at once with the work of improving the cross high way between LonetownAand the Put nam Park road, authority for such action having been conferred by vote of the recent town meeting The plans and specifications prepared by the civil engineer who made survey Of the road last fall in preparation for contracting out the job will be followed to the extent permitted by the use of the $2,000 which is at the selectmen's disposition. The amount was not sufficient to secure any bids for the contract, but the expectation IS that it wiA carry the improvement we'll forward and may possibly effect it's completion. The idea is to apply the reconstruction process to the worst spots first, leaving the better sections to await further appropri- adon if that should grove necessary. Arrangements have been made with E. B. Banks to perform the work and he will probably begin operations ! next week. He is now busy upon his , regular road contract
 i Town Treasurer w. H. Hill is still
 at the Danbury Hospital where he
 was successfully operated upon last | Thursday for the removal from his | stomach of a safety pin which he
 swallowed on the Sunday night pre- | vlous. He had withdrawn the pin from his pajamas and placed it in his | mouth to leave his hands free to re- | adjust the garment and before he re-
 aliDed what had happened the pin | slipped back into his throat. Efforts I to expeI it by coughing resulted in it's 1 passage downward An x ray exam
 ination at the hospital showed the I af ff1.a v,fr, <tr>r
 ach's exit passage with the point | innbedded in the flesh. The doctors 1 say that it's continuance there would 1 have caused death in a few days. No | complications have followed the op- 1 eration and present conditions seem
 to assure complete recovery. MT. Hill l is 75 years of age, has been town | treasurer for about 30 years and | served several terms in the Legisia- | ture.
 When George Russell came from I New York on Sunday last to his house, which is located on the Easton road short distance below Pine Tree Corner and has been unoccupied dur
 ing the winter, he found abundant evidences of burglarious visitation.
 Entrance had been gained by pry- 1 ing up a window. Although the only | articles missed are part of the con | tents Of a box of tools the premises l were very thoroughly ransacked in
 an apparent search for valuahles and
 in a spirit of wanton destructiveness. Bureaus were runmaged and five l trunks in the attic broken open and ! their contents StTeWn about. An | iron safe box was also broken. The
 headlight of motorcycle stored in
 a small building on the premises was
 smashed and tire tube cut in pieces. The intruders knocked the
 neck from a bottle containing whis-
 key which they found in the house
 but singularly enough spared the fluid
 itself. The job was a, crude one
 like the breaking into half a dozen
 vacant houses at the Ridge during
 the winter and as in those cases nc
 clues promising detection were left. According to present calculations this seasons operations will complete the trunk highway to a point cohsid- : ra1bly below Pine Tree Corner. Dur
 ing the winter a good deal was done on the Putnam Park section in the way of blasting and in filing in where
 the line was changed to lower ground to straighten bends and improve grades. From Bethe! down abou l half the length of the Park road ha: received the stone base which will b. l overlaid with three inches Of bitum | inous mixture. Two crushers arr turning out the broken stone as fas as it can be distributed by six autt
 trucks and two horse teams. It i
 figured that the road will be finished , to the Five Points by July 1. Fron this point to Pine Tree Corner tn !. stone base of the present state roaC will be left as it is, the dirt and grave , surface alone being removed for re < placement with the new surfa cin:
 material. Progress along this sectiol ei should therefore be rapid. The quarr.
 at Jump Hill will probably be utilized . to supply the stone between that poin , and Pine Tree Corner. On Tuesda,
 one of the cruShers was out of com
 1 mission for several hours by reasol s of a large hammer getting wedged il 9 it's interior. All other methods fail @ ing an acetylene flame was appIie { to soften the metal and thus permi t removal of the obstruction.
 l Although the recent town meetin i withheld it's sanction from the pro = position to hire a nurse for the pub
 lie schools the town school commit
 1 tee concluded at their monthly meet
 ing last Friday, that they possesse
 sufficient authority to act in the mat
 l ter and voted that the services of
 i nurse be obtained as soon as prac \ | ticable. It is hoped that one can b | had before the present term closes 5 few weeks hence. In regard to a pro
 l posed change in school hours to con
 form to the daylight saving plan g was decided to let the parents of tn = pupils settle the question by vots = The verdict was for the new time S s that the school sessions will now be I gin at o'clock, standard time. a The engagement is announced 0 e Miss Emma Reid, daughter of D1 t Anna M. Reid, to Parmley Sehoffel
 C1app. The prospective groom has = position in the main office of tn - United States Steel Corporation i = New York city. He served in tn 5, World War with the 27th N Y regi : ment. The date for the wedding ha e not been fixed
 e The ball team of the Sanfor 0 school won two victories last wee e on their home field. On Thursda If they defeated the Bethels Highs,
 to ', and on Saturday repeated wit J. the Hopkins Gramm-- school of Ne7 e Haven, ' to s.
 l. Rev. MT. Cook of the Yale Divinit st school made so favorable an fmpres e sion by his preaching at the Cente