Republican farmer., 1920-03-05
BEDDING

l Bedding, Feb. 2S Mrs. Ezekiel l Burr died at her home in West Red 1 ding on Sunday morning from pneu- 1 monia after an illness of about two 1 weeks Her age was about 60. Dur l ng the war she was one of the most l active and efficient members of her branch of the Red Cross, having a | special dexterity in the making of l bandages. Funeral services were con | ducted by Rev. MT. Dobson yesterday l at the residence of c. D. Meeker, a 1 neighbor. Owing to adverse condi- tions caused by the severe weather | burial will be at the convenience of l the family. August BruneSsen,' l brother of the late Mrs. Burr, and also west side resident. is now crit ically i'll with pneumonia.
 The concluding session of the board of relief held On Saturday last, was lonesome one, being unrelieved by the attendance of a single complaining taxpayer. Messrs. Banks and Hagen, the members of the board present, deferred action on the less than half dozen appeals they have heard in or der that w. c. Sanford, absent on account of illness. might be given op- portunity for voice in the decisions
 
 probably be a change of not more than $10O in the grand list as made up by the assessors.
 Il The Putnam Park road is again open for travel, having been cleared of drifts partly by the trunk line con- struction force remaining on the ground, and affords a better way for travel than the Sunset Hill route. Some west siders are said to have grumbled over the snow removal | work on the latter road as a needless expense because the opening of the l other route would have sufficed. So it would as regards through traffic, but in the Sunset Hill section there are quite a group of residents repre- senting important farming and other interests and six of this number ] could have secured q lifting of the snow embargo by a petition to the Selectmen as provided by statute Besides it is mail route and for the selectmen to have left it snow bound until forced to action would have ex- posed them to deserved criticism and ridicu1e.
 The dramatic performance to be given by Sanford school pupils on Saturday evening, will take place in ) the school dining room instead of at 3 Grange hall as first arranged. The 5 cast for "A Night at an Inn,'' is made ] up of Messrs. Crenshaw, Benley, Carr . | D. s. Sanford, Jr., Haggerty, Deal Wirth and Fall. For "The Lost Silk 9 | Hat the players are to be Sheffield f | Burdette, Williams, Hall and Sanford
 Both pieces are by Dunsaney, the :: Irish playwright whose work pos !. seses a highly distinctive style. The S l proceeds of the entertainment are tc ., i go towards the support of the Com s munity House.
 : The first of the weekly meetings $ which the Woman's Missionary Aux : Hilary of the Episcopal church will n hold during Lent took place at the l. | Community House on Wednesday s. afternoon of last week with hal1
 hours talk by the rector on mission e work as a feature of the proceedings . These meetings are open to the pub s lie.
 Mrs. Sarah Buchanan, now occu
 pying the Henry Rogers place, has
 rented the place in West Reddine
 owned by Mrs. Mckenzie of Bethe
 with an option to purchase.
 Among the former Bedding resi-
 dents who returned for a visit to theil
 families over New Years were Homer
 Smith, Eleanor Sanford, Howard
 Luther, Helen and Maud Boddie ant H 1 DOuSIdSS 6OOOle.
 The local visitation of influenza ap pears to have passed, no new case
 having appeared in the last few days l. Neither of the two cases of pneumoni; ,p elsewhere referred to were preceded of by influenza.
 ,o Mrs. Heggamen will occupy he .n place in Pleasant Valley during tn ,e coming summer. The Freshman fam Ln ly who were there last season, hay of rented the Fox and Waterman hous ,r for next summer.
 Is The Ridge whist club meet on Mon oe day evening with MT. and Mrs. Aarol Ln Sanford.
 MT. and Mrs Richard Rider ar 8. moving from the house owned by Mrs e. Howard in West Bedding to tn r. James Rider place.
 ve Ezra B. Meeker, who died at hi O. home in Monroe last week, aged St It was formerly a resident of Sunse of Hill occupying what is now the Wi Id Hams house. He moved from ther or to Monroe about half a century ag'
 One of the children of George l
 Williams of hometown was take
 down with measles few days az
 So far there has been no spread
 the infection from the patient.
 Mrs George Banks of Bridgepo
 is making a two weeks visit wit
 her sister-in-law. Mrs. Stephen Sa1
 ford. at West Bedding. BE A regular meeting of Fire Co.,, N sE 1, will be held at the Communit kh House next Monday evening.
 The Lenten number of Christ
 Church Messenger contains eomp1e on information regarding the missioner he extension work which has been plal Ia, ned and only awaits the endorsemel 98 of a vote by the members of u
 parish, having already received u lse approval of the vestry, the Archde
 conry and Bishop Brewster. IT sse proposed field of the work are 1i
 neighborhoods of Weston and Easto ay. Appended gre extracts from the a yth ticle in question:
 ase ''On Jan. 18th the rector was cleo 10; ed Archdeaconry missionary, off mt he was seeking with the endorsene In of the vestry, for his successor in tt ase parish The work of Missioner as was undefined, except that he was in try to carry the services and mini yer trations of the Church in the TUT on sections of the Archdeaconry, usi, per his parish as the headquarters of t