Republican farmer., 1920-07-30
BEDDING

will be held at Putnam Park a local affair of two-fold significance, one phase being anniversary com mem oration of the ''Welcome Home"
 extended the returning soldiers last
 year and the other a Bedding Day ob- servance, by which is meant demon- stration designed to express and fos-
 ter the spirit of neighborliness and community solidarity. The general arrangements are in charge of the committee headed by Lieut.. Charles H. Ward. which so successfully ar- ranged last years welcome celebra- tion. A religious tone to the event will be inaparted by. the participation in the program of the pastors of the local churches who will figure prom inently in the afternoon exercises. Full details have not yet been planned but the morning speaker will be Rev. pr. w. S. Rainsford, formerly of New York and now of Ridgeield. who is 1 to make an address at Il o'clock. A basket picnic is next in order. The afternoon exercises are to begin at 2 o'clock and will comprise talks suita- ble to the occasion by the clergy and others.
 Patriotism, the community spirit 1 and religious endeavor in the | broader sense of the term are -ex- pected to furnish the inspiration for
 the platform outgivings. It is also | designed to have plenty of good l music, vocal and instrumental.
 Four young men from the Rogers
 SS Peet recreation camp opposite Put 1 nam Park, marred the camps pre- v1ouSly good record by a demonstra- ton of hoodlumism last Sunday af- 1 ternoon when they bombarded with stones one of Albert Williams tene- 1 ment houses, breaking most of the windows. The house was vacant, but l inside was stored ton or two of ground grain In an uncovered bin. Fragments of the shattered glass fell into this, virtually ruining it for the | stock feeding purposes for which it was intended. MT. Williams and neishbor happened upon the scene while the cu1prfts were still there and herding them back to their own | reservation, lodged a complaint with l the camp superintendent. The lat l ter expressed profound regret for l what had been done, but referred 1 the complaint to Duncan Gay, who,
 he explained, had final local jurisdic- | tion as to the camps affairs. When 1 interviewed by MT. Williams, MT. Gay was also apologetic and regret | full, but said that he must confer WILL Tduh f CndnDe nead or the l Rogers & Peet Co.,, before undertak- ing to effect a settlement. He was sure that MT. Chambers would do l the right thing and MT. Williams, l expressing a like confidence, forbore | to further press the matter until MT. l Cham bers should be heard from. The camp was started about IS years ago | with the purchase of about 70 acres
 from the moribund "O1d Put club | J hoe cir t-iI I4 resort for the employees of the Rogers
 & Peet clothing firm, who come in relays of about 40 at intervals of two l weeks during the summer. As be- 1 fore stated this is their first public l offence.
 The Mems club, has appointed a committee composed of it's officers,
 with s. c. Shaw, H. c. McCollam, B. P. Sanford and George Pattison, as | additional members. to arrange for
 three open forum or public meetings | at each of which speaker of na- | tiona1 prominence will be heard upon some topic of national interest. The 1 first of these meetings will be held | within few weeks.
 ! Rev. Charles w. Shelton, D. D..
 was the speaker at the union service
 held in the Episcopal church last
 Sunday evening, his theme being
 "Church Union and York; He
 expressed the view that while union
 of the Protestant denominations in
 the service of a complete merger was neither practicable nor desirable
 there could and should be a union based on the. principle of family re- lationship, thereby insuring reten- tion of personality with mutual en. deavor toward the accomplishment o1
 comon aim with responsibility for service as the dominating incen-
 tive. Responsibility he defined as
 ability to respond. The attendance
 was large and the singing excel | lent.
 A week or two ago three horses be
 longing to the new owner of the
 Gorham farm on Sunset Hill disap . peared from their pasture field ana
 were not located until several day. , afterwards. It was then learned that, guided solely by their instincts t they had returned to their former
 habitat in Fairfield. In thus re gaining possession of their old guar l ters they did damage to the amour ] of about $50. which the owner pait F to get back his property.
 The condition of the town roads i! 3 not what it should be although better @ than has been the case in some pre- : vfous years at this season. Because O. = defects pointed odt by the inspector l and not remedied the se1ectmen, a t their July meeting, held up the pay O e a1f three contractors. As little in thu . way of remedy has since been dom = these bills are likely to go over iron
 the next meeting also. Regarding tn S cross road from Hometown the situa h ton is rather peculiar. Plans to hav
 - rebuilt by contract fell through a e did later plans for the days worl a method. The road is in the district o ~ hoe n, e work upon it of any kind. A sugges e ton has been made that his futur
 operations consist entirely of gravel = ling, the town assuming half the COS
 for the sake of the permanency there
 by obtained.
 From its Bethel end the trunk high
 way is finished for distance of abou
 three-q qua rters of a mile, leaving abou a mile for the finishing process befor Putnam Park is reached. The worl