Republican farmer., 1920-04-30
BEDDING
1specaa1 to The Times.l

siderable new stuff in the minstrel show last Friday night and it all got over big. M Cunningham CM here sta nds for Minstrel and not for Mon sieEr) sang a ditty about our new town hall which would be built in the fall Gyear not specfied) by the efforts of all and with benefits not small. In another local lyric aIfusion was made to Ford Osbornes unappeasable hank ering for dougianuts and we learn that
 John Malone didn't get the cider that
 he sought-o
 And William B. Banks has bought a
 new auto.
 A further declaration in the song that several years ago A. G. Barnett made several barrels of cider and has the cider yet nearly caused a stam- pede of the audience in the direction of Iloneaown Many other personal hits, some of them too cryptic to score, en1ivened the festivities. A ha- voring o6 Pinafore was given the pro gram by InterIocutor Wards 1nPer- sorradfon by costume and 1ntroduc- tory song, of Sir Joseph Porter K C. B. and later by the conpany's renda- ton of "It was the Cat'' air, very preftTYy done P. Britt Nash conSti- tu4ed a large percentage of the show He painted the Sceenry, a ofcKssfouffd and two flats showing an island in the tropical Pacific ocean, sang two Dasso solos with fine voice and expression, contributed greatly to the hilaTIty as an end man and sang in the quartet the. other members of waFS<h were Messrs Cunningham Roseneau and Feushmore. The other three end men were Frank Meef1an, E.. F. Sanford and Lem Warner, all of whom o1o we'll The singing all through was excellent, a particularly pleasing h11 being a duet by MesSrs. Cunn1nS.hadIl and Ruskmore. The skiFful pzarHo ac- cornpa rriment by Mrs. H. $. Barnes was an a,ppreciated feature of the evening. Members of the company in addition to those already mentioned were J. B.. Sanford, A. G. Barnett, James Reynolds, J. B. Sanford, Jr-, and A. H. Sanford. Grange Hall never held 8 larger audience, beIIfS ftFled to the utteTnost- The recerpus were S111 and the expenses $20, leav- ing a balance of $91 for the town hall furrd A scout from the Stepney ffe department thought well enough o1 the show to sign up for a repetition of the performance in his settlement about the middle of next month. Eas- ton is a1so claInoring for the enter tajnTuent and it's call will probably be needed.
 The two power sprayers bought about i ? years ago through co-opera- ton on the part of east side residents will not get intor action th1s season or account of the difficulty in obtaining teams and men to operate them. For this reason the officers of the associa- ton did not send out the usual notices
 
 that have come in for service Of the machines cannot be met. Last veal they were mostly used in po1soT spraying to kill worms. The destruct i've work in orchards of the scale wa: the incentive to the acquisition Of tht sprayers, it being realized that unleS the ravages of this and other insec pests were checked the trees woult not long survive For several year the spraying treatment was applied quite generally in this section an' good results followed although in tn case of many of the older orchard its remedy came too late to be full. effective and many of these are nov hopelessly on the way to decay. Witt young trees a lasting renovation wa usually effected. It is to be observe ed however, that little fruit tree plantin is now being done in this section t replace the fast passing orchards, a inaction reflected in the virtual ab sence of nursery canvassers who use to be numerous and keenfy competi tive By reason of these condition the officers of the spraying associa ton contemplate an early winding u of it's affairs by selling the machine: Thes un they should bring combine with the cash in the treasury wout it is believed, be sufficient to retur to the stockh elders their original ir vestment.
 The railroad change of time fc daylight saving so-ca1led, affects con paratively few in this town and wi be followed by only those whom does affect, as it is out of favor wit most of the population. The chang has been adopted by the Gilbert Bennett Co.,, the Georgetown schot and those farmers who sell their mil to the Farmers Dairy Co.,, as the la ter's truck now arrives an hour earlie than formerly. The public schoo with the exception of Georgetown wi adhere to standard time and thel will be no change in the hours of SC vice at the Episcopal church. Tho! having occasion to connect with trail should bear in mind the difference b tween the OlO anu Lne ueW OtOSE things.
 About midnight on Wednesday
 last week the family of Frank Ferr awakened by the smell of smoke, di covered that a chimney blaze had i nited the wood box and some ga rneuts around it in the kitchen. Tn quickly aroused w. E. Banks al Daniel O'Keefe, neighbors, and t combined forces soon extinguish the flames by the application of wat to the downstairs blaze and t throwing of salt down the chirnne The damage was slight, but fe minutes delay would have meant t destruction of the house.
 Five teachers and sixteen pup from Rosemary Hall, a girls schC in Greenwich, were entertained Is Saturday night and part of Sunday
 Mrs E. M. Sanford. The party | Greenwich on Friday for Ridgefie going part of the way by train a
 walking the last few miles of t journey. On Saturday they hik