Republican farmer., 1920-06-11
DRY AMEND'T CONSTITUTIONS

"Wednesday afternoon Miss Archer be- came the recipient of a, linen shower at a party held in her honor at the rectory;
 Monday. last was observed as opening day. by the city residents having summer homes in Pleasant Valley, the occasion signalizing thelr arrival as a group for the season. A dinner which all attended was given at the John G. Stetson place in the afternoon The party comprised the Hoggson, Walbridge, Thomson, Driess, Weld and Chumley-Jones families.
 special meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary will be held at the Com munity house on June 10 with ad- dresses by Miss Franklin of Hart ford, diocesan representative, who will talk on the U. T. o. branch of the auxiliary's work. and Mrs Bard of Ridgefeld. head of the Fairfield county branch. All women are lnv1t- ed. A lunch will be served at 12:o0. Invitations have been issued for the, wedding of Miss Emma Reid of the Ridge and Parmley Scofield Clapp of New York to be solemnized at the Episcopal church on June 26. The hour for the ceremony is 6:30 p. m. 1 and reception for the relatives and a few intimate friends will follow at {; the summer home of MT. and Mrs. S. | c. Shaw. 1 William Gorham has sold his farm ! property on Sunset Hill to the Bridge !: port man who surprised him a week : ago last Sunday by arriving with a l lot of live stock to take possession. l It seems that the man supposed his agent had paid over the money, given 1 him as a first instalnent in a pLrchas- ] ing transaction and although payment l was delayed a few days matters were ; finally adjusted to the satisfaction of all the interested parties The town school committee has de-. l cided to hold the graduating exer-- 1 cises of the public schools at the. | Mark Twain Library on the evening {! of June 6. The program of exercises
 is yet to be made up.
 Our minstrel company performed | to a crowded house upon their ap pearance in Stepney on Wednesday | evening of last week. Their busi- 1 ness arrangement with the Stepney l fire department was 5o-50 and re-
 suited in $50 more for the town hall fund.
 Mrs. Janet Thompson has sold her Troperty at Bedding Center, formerly
 the Aaron Squires place and compris | ing house, barn and three acres Of
 land. to Dr. William M. Ford of New
 ork. The consideration was not far
 from 5000.
 Mrs. Julia H. Sanford has recently
 Teen laid up with an indisposition iIi the nature of general debility fol-
 lowing a cold, but is now improv- ing.
 Joseph Kratky has given up h,s position as caretaker at Dr.Cohn'3
 place and is about to move to his
 recently purchased house at Pine
 Tree Corner. pr. Cohn will sail for Europe during the present month The Sanford School ball team went ] to Greenwich last Friday and met
 defeat from the public schools team. Ii to g.
 The condition of Mrs. Stephen l Sanford who is in the Danbury hos pital with a broken hip, has been , made less favorable by complica- tions arising in the last few days.
 Harry Olmstead of New York. is
 visiting Harry Lounsbury on the :, 1 vest side.
 W. c. Sanford has been chosen a , i delegate to the meeting of the Fair
 field County Archdeaconry to be held in Stamford next Monday. , Bert Reilly and family have moved I . from Danbury to the house of Wrl. Couch on the west side