The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-09
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)

.CdtttC8ic gave lilc <ntiIh WdiIl 1Ah- brary for several years before his death has now been assured as a per- ma anent income upon an entirely new basis. Tne contribution ceased be- fore MT. Carnegie's death. it being subsequently, learned that it came from him as a; recurrent gift instead Of being derived from trust fund. butswas restored last year by the trus- tees of the Carnegie Foundation after they had been appealed to by the Li- brary trustees. The latter were there fore further surprised and gratified when they received last week from the Carnegie Foundation a. check for $1o,o00 with the explanation that it had been decided to make enduring by his means the benefaction begun by MT. Carnegie. The Library trus- tees, who were named by Mark Twain upon his death bed as the agents of the 5000 which he then gave for library building, are Albert Btgelow Paine, Harry A. IOunsbury and Will Ham Fl Hazen. They have virtually decided to invest the entire $10,0O0 in Liberty bonds of the fourth issue. By . the addition of about $20o which is available there can be acquired a suf- ' ficient amount of these bonds to yield yearly income of $510, the character of the investment insuring a fixed re- turn WlSu duJSt1utc Sdlcky-
 About 100 attended the union ser vice held last Sunday evening in the Center Congregational church, the other churches represented being the q Center and the Long F'io~e Methodist and the Episcopal. A combined choir of some 20 voices rendered the musical f program in fine style. The speaker of the evening, substituting for Miss Roach, was Miss K. Vaudy Wojcies- jah, a Polish woman of American birth. Her subject was the American ization work being done by the foreign languages branch of the Red Cross She said that upon the close of the war many of the patriotic societies tran4ferred their activities to this Americ Hiza ton work, but because of an arbitrary and patronizing attitude instead of one evincing sympathy and understa nding they often did more harm than good. They failed 10 take into account the inevitable difficulties of readJustment to new environ ment by which the immigrant was confronted The newcomer naturally fell into association with his own countrymen still alien and usually disappointed because their own ex- pectations in reference to life in America had not been realized. Thus from the start there arose prejudfces and a sense of lost ideaIs. Tse only
 
 these people were tE~-- -s' patience and hebpfulness. The speaker de- scribed the good results achieved by the Red CrOeB in carrying on their work along these lines, showing how the we'll meaning but ignorant for eigner had been saved from exploit ation, often by those of his own race, and had been helped to obtain through the courts redress of wrongs which his unaided efforts could not have se- cured and especially the help given returning immigrants bewfhered by the complexities of passport and in come tax requirements.
 John Muennch, now of Bethel, ha0 sold his real estate at the Ridge, a house, garage, barn and three acres, to Henry Boddie. The consideration is understood to be about 8, 500. The family of the purchaser now live in the Randall house at the Center which was recently sold to J. B. Sanford, Jr. MT. Boddie Is travelling salesman for a Canadian firm.
 The Episcopal clergy of Bethel, Danbury, Ridgefield and Newtown will meet with Rev, MT. Cunningham at the rectory on the Ridge next Sun day afternoon for conference re- z garding missionary extension work On the 14th the pastors of the Red ding churches, Messrs. Cunningham, Lewis, Cook and Woodson, are to hold a conference regarding local church activities At this meeting plans will be considered for a survey of the town as to religious conditions.
 The valetudinarians of the east side met the snappy, agile youngsters of the west side in a ball game at the Ridge Monday afternoon and as- tonished themselves and their oppon- ents by winning, the score being II to S. John Todd umpired. The col lection realized $7-5O and will help defray the cost of repairing the Ridge flag pole
 C. H. M- Thompson and N. F. Hoggson of the Pleasant Valley sum- mer colony have sailed for Europe on business trips. The former is president of the American Hardware Co.,
 Miss Frances Barnett celebrated her 10th birthday last Saturday by a soap bubble party to which A of her young friends were invited. On Mon day Marion Osborn, aged just g, had a birthday party at the shore, several Ridge families taking part in the out ing -,.a,.. s. -.s
 A B. Frost, whose new residence near the Five Points is now com pleted, has enlarged his boundaries there by the purchase of tract of about four acres from Charles More house.
 The old Sanford homestead, known as the brick house, is occupied by a family from New York, who have rented it for the summer.
 Barnes & Osborne have finished their state road contracts in Orange and Salisbury, but are still busy in the latter place on road work for the town.
 MT. and Mrs. Parmley s. Clapp, returning from Boston to New York on their wedding trip, have been guests of Miss J. H. Sanford for a few days. Soon after arriving here Mrs. Clapp became indisposed with symptoms indicating ptomaine pois- oning-
 The annual fair and sale of the Wornan's Auxiliary of the Episcopal church, will be held at the Commun- he aff