Republican farmer., 1920-02-13
BEDDING

l Redd1ng, Feb. 12@Tied up for week and with conditions then far | l from restoration to normal, especial l ly as regards mail service, describes 1 the local situation brought on by the 1 storm period which began on the 4th. l Not since the great blizzard of 1888 | 1 has there been such a snow blockade 1 | here Drifts shovelled through on 1 the last three days of the week soon
 hHed in again. The best Carrier 1 | Ward of route "A could do was to | get rom Bethel as far as Bedding l Center on Monday and Tuesday. On l route 25, which partly serves the l Ridge section and fringes of Easton and Newtown, there had been total 1naction since Jan. 27, the first three days of which was due to sickness and not to the blockade. The worst section in town for drifts was Sunset | Hill where a continuous stretch of about two miles had to be dug through to make the road passable. The work continued steadily from l Saturday, to Monday night and had
 not then been completed. Tuesday
 mornings snowfall halted progress
 there. In the Ridge section ways
 had by that time been opened
 through long banks except for a huge
 drift near Milo Osborn's where pass age could be had by detour
 through the fields. In the George
 town section most of the road break
 ing was done by B. B. Banks with
 the aid of two teams. The regular
 supply of labor in the Ridge section I was augmented by the volunteer ser
 vices of the Sanford school boys. 1 some of whom refused pay for their
 work. In spite of the obstacles Con-
 tractor Robert Nichols managed to
 give uninterrupted service on the star
 route between the Ridge and Wes.
 Bedding, having the aid of James
 Tucker and L. S. Warner in the task.
 By strenuous effort the Lonetown milkmen managed to daily deliver their product at Bethel for shipment. ! Unless turnoutS are cut in the pre-
 sent high walls of snow lining the
 roadways 1t is easy to foresee serious trouble from the meeting of teams 3 bound in opposite directions.
 f The aggrieved residents on rural
 mail route No. 25 cannot understand why the Bethel post office did not
 keep the service going during the four , days previous to the storm. It seems that efforts were in fact made to get an emergency carrier and that finally a man was found who agreed to take | the job for a. satisfactory considera-
 ton, but not at the regular per diem
 rate of $4.95. Ten dollars or nothing 4 Was HIS ulllu1dCuIn dAO lllSi t | | was nothing done. If operations of . . the post office department are to be . blocked by red tape and the matter of a few extra dollars it is about time . that the public became aware of the . fact in order that provision may be . made for meeting emergencies like II the present one through raising a fund by private subscription or by
 some other method. Two weeks ot Innn-Sarvica ia 9Pgravati0n for
 which there would seem to be no ex-
 cuse.
 ,t Clair L. Hill, youngest son of the , late Eben Hill of West Bedding, died
 in Detroit on Tuesday of last week .z from pneumonia following influenza
 Relatives from this section who had 's gone on to care for him did not reacf l. Detroit until just before his decease % but brought the body home and in IT torment took place last Saturday It afternoon in Umpawaug cemetery. The
 funeral was held under sertou:
 weather obstacles, a force of mel <. - having worked all day to clear {
 passage through the snow to thu " burial place. Rev. MT. Luther, nov |, in Massachusetts, had been sent fo F. to conduct the services, but was pre- le vented from coming by the snov l. blockade, and Rev. MT. Dobson o e Long fIlOSS OltpClcdleu He oeSSdSV' le was 24 years old and had been in tn r. employ of the General Electric Go ,h He was soon to have been married m He is survived by several brothers an'
 sisters
 The town school committee has un
 der favorable consideration g recon
 mendation by Supervisor Sylveste
 that this town unite with Easton an H Monroe in the hiring of a gradual ~Pf h .n children in the public schools. Tn ol ] state pays part of the cost of sucl ae service and this towns share of tn ed expense would be about $500 yearls Tt Should the plan be officially approve ce financial reasons would probably pre- as vent it's being carried into effect unt tn next year as the school appropr1atio D. made for the present year does nc or provide a sufficient margin. The citie O. and most of the larger towns of tn B. state already have this nurse servic
 which is especially valuable in COT
 recting the defects of eyesight, teet
 and respiratory organs to which s
 many children are subject.
 Announcement is made of the en >r gagement of Nigel Cholm ondely lone W who served in the war with the ran
 of captain, to Miss Rita Sturgi vi daughter of Richard Sturgts of Ne
 York. The prospective groom speT ng last summer at the Ridge with his sis on ter, Mrs. Persy LtchfieDd. He nk nephew of the late Jeanette Glide
 and two of his brothers, one of whol en is head of the War Insurance depar 'o ment, have a summer cottage at Pin ne Tree Corner.
 as The blizzard's blight on plans an
 program extends to the minstrel sho which was to have taken place tn lai (Thursday) evening at Grange Hal his Under the amended schedule this CT ct thralling felicity, to revive a phra; his paraded by the San Francisco trou ut of many days gone by, will not even ted uate until the first week in April. TT nt- management wishes to assure u 1ef public however that the delay meal tea no ultimate loss as rehearsals will I
 kept up and the interval employed
 fattening the list of beguiling atrocd-
 no, attractions to be offered the pull
 lie.
 Evidently made furious because the Io- were sustaining their first defeat tl