The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-27
BEDDING

Bedding, May 27-The public is greatly pleased with the good pro gress the trunk highway is making and to an equal degree aggr1eved over the manner in which construc- ton work has been carried on across the Ridge. The principal cause or complaint was the leaving uncovered for several days of the broken stone laid the whole width of the roadway for nearly half mile above Pine Tree corner, a. condition destructive to auto tires and horses hoofs. In the last few days methods were im- proved by more closely following the deposit of coarse stone with a surfac- ing of screenings which relieved the harshness. Another grievance results from the passage of fVe ton trucks carrying the stone over the lower half of Sunset Hill and the consequent rutting of the dirt road way, so that it has become almost impassable. The breaking down by the trucks of one bridge on the Put nam Park road and the fact that other bridges are out of commission by reason of replacement work made this diversion of traffic necessary to avoid a delay of operations and de- lays are undesirable from every point of view. However, a law provides that whenever the State Highway de- ipartment damages a town road by the use of trucks with a capacity of more than three tons the state shall make good the harm so done and therefore the town will obtain reparation un- less the selectmen are negligent in the matter of putting in a claim. A minor damage item is the smashing sof the large drainage tube in the roa dway near the Ridge school house. If loud and general complaints are of any effect the contractor will hereafter amend his style of opera tions so as to cause less inconvenience to the travelling public.
 All who attended the performance of the operetta Boy Blue" at Grange hall last Friday evening, and the au dience filled the hall to overflowing pronounced it one of the most charm ing entertainments in the towns s amusement record. For the signal success achieved equal praise is due the two score children of the public schools who took part in the produc- ton and Mrs. LemueI Sanford who trained them so admirably for the task. A specially attractive feature was the fireflies chorus by ten little girls costumed in red who flashed Internationally by the aid of electric torches and who danced and sang in a style most pleasing to the eye and ear. Another taking feature was that Furnished by four boys imperscnating frogs. All the numbers were tune full and well sung and the scenic eff fleets and graceful evolutions of the small actors made up a delightful Combination. Most of the action was Supposed to mirror the dreams of Little Boy. Blue while he was under a haystack fast asleep" The enter tainment netted about $40 for the town hall fund.
 Cancer proved to be the cause of the stomach troubles which made Holm Rollig an invalid for the past three years and brought about his ~eath on Friday last at the home of Albert Fearon in Easton. He was we'll known character whom every Teutonic appellation decidely out of accord with the maledictions which he poured upon the Germans and all pertaining to them from the time the world war started. His violent anirnosity in this respect was due to his Alsation birth and the fact that the Franco-German conflict of 1870 drove him from his native land and made him an emigrant to this coun- fry Many years ago he peddled clans through this section. but for aonas time past lived. nomfnaily as