Republican farmer., 1920-05-14
BEDDING


 taining it at any price. Such was the
 statement made by J. A. Sherwood,
 former master of the State Grange, 1 in talk about the milk situation be- fore Bedding Grange at their regular l meeting last week. He said that l farmers were now getting about six l cents quart for milk they sent to
 Bridgeport whereas the cost of pro- 1 ductfon was not less than nine cents.
 As natural consequence, production
 wss steadily decreasing and unless 1 dairymen received better returns for l their product that tendency would l continue until the output fell short of | the demand. The speaker cited as an 1 instance of this tendency the fact that | within a narrow radius of his home in
 Easton a dozen. silos had recently gone out of use, indications of a con- | dition existing all through this state
 and also in New York state. The
 general selling off of dairy herds had
 brought material reduction in prices
 for cows because the business was
 getting few recruits to take the places
 of those retiring. Lower rates to the consumer which had been effected by
 some campaigns against the high cost , of living were invariably at the ex- , penSe of the producers and not the distributors although the latter could
 much better afford to bear the reduc- tions
 The committee of assistants ap- pointed by Mrs. J. B Sanford, head 7 of the local movement for the Saliva ) ton Army drive which began this 5 week, is as follows: Michael Con nery, Ruth Runsey, Kenneth McCol- , lam, Seymour Barnes, James Reyn- , oldS, Helen Ashwo-th, Eric Steitzel, ? Vera. Day, Maude Boddie, Edgar Grumman, Mrs. Charles Hill, Benson
 Pattison, Edgar Hawley and Captain Bonney. The Georgetown section
 will be looked after by MT. Connery
 and the aides of his appointing and
 all the other localities are covered by
 the other members of the committee. ' It is believed that the campaign will
 result in raising the s4oo which is it's \ object for while the Army's religious
 and humanitarian activities have not
 been extended to Bedding all are
 aware of the great amount of good the organization has and is accom- l p1ishing and feels for. that work a sympathetic interest. At the same = time it can truthfulIy be said that with each new drive the populace generally feels an increasing inclina-
 ton to take to the woods, the inn ? pufse, however, having the accom- . panying consciousness that such in- - clination is ungracious, improper and
 perhaps even sinful.
 = The date for the production, by 5 public school pupils, of the operatta V Boy B1ue," has been changed to the - evening of May 21 at 7:30 o'clock : the place being Grange Hall as pre- viously announced The title role will be assumed by Vivian Day an6 S that of the other principal character
 by Alice Sanford. To be seen and ' heard in the entertainment are 2 1t chorus of Elves. another of Fairies
 ten boys in a Fishing chorus and the e Four Famous Musical Frogs. Another l. number consists of musical asserva ,- tions that Katy She Did" and "Katl e She Didn't" The operatta is by
 Thomas Sheppard and abounds ii Is catchy and pleasing melodies. Mrs Ie Lemue1 Sanford is conducting the re a1 hearsaIs and will supervise the enter 1- tainment.
 y. Having tried both occupations Ga. it briel FGnclk can testify that for ricf y and quick returns plain farming can l. not be compared with making con a traband whisl1ey, the only troubl, W with the latter production being th' ,e danger on the part of medal
 Government repriSalS which are fata ,a to permanent profits. This d1-awbac cl 6. he realized last Saturday when Fed ,o eral agents invaded the cellar of hi house in Bethel near the Bedding lin, =, and confiscated three stills and som N of the potent liquid they turned out = The stills have a daily capacity af be i9 tween 30 and 40 gallons and Finck hat III been selling the stuff in Brdgepor Is for S27 a gallon. Tt is supposed tha Ill neighbors informed on him. He ob l. tained his release under g. heavy bond 'e but as a, penalty for his operation
 faces a fine of several hundred dol l. lars and a prison term besides. Abou SC a year ago F'inck sold his farm a m Jump Hin and moved to his presen CT home Shortly before that he wa ct threatened with trouble by reason O Ie pa.yfnr, for a COW with a check wh1cl ad there were no funds to meet at tn to time. The matter was settled and i'm o. pending legal proceedings thereb 7g avoided.
 In few days constrUction work O. ~ the trunk highway will be commence at Pine Tree Corner and carrie
 northward towards the scene of oper aa. ations advancing from the oppoSit -e direction. The quarry above Putnar as Park will supply the stone for bot oi sections. At the upper end of tn "s line the final processes are now be Id, ing applied. The bend at~~ine Ire Of Corner is to be partially stradg'htene as by the layout taking in the preser ks site of Miss Runyon's barn.
 n- A serious accident befe1 Mrs. Ste
 phen Sanford on Thursday of la: f- week in consequence of a fall in th IT, cellar of her home which resulted as hip fracture. The faH-was caused b an her stepping off raised walk, tn fly ending of which she failed to ot ed serve in the dim light. At the Oar mt bury hospital the doctors decided n' lift to attempt the setting of the broke to bone The patient is doing well, COT m sidering the nature of the injury an
 her recovery, aside from lameness,
 indicated. She is mother of E. P. an
 s. Ernest Sanford and is held in e
 fectionate regard by many friends fly For the drive about to be unde Lc- taken in behalf of the Danbury ho IT. pital the head of the Bedding con tai mittee is Mrs. E. P. Sanford with NIT of Raymond Cunningham and MT he Charles Hill as associates. Each wi