The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-19
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Bedding, Feb. 19---The towns snow removal expenses matde necessary by the late storms will amount to about $500. Regular mail service on the two rural routes through the Center and Ridge sections was restored about the middle of last week, Carrier Ward coming through on the first two days of resumption with a pair of hired horses picked up as a relay. Carrier Stones return to health made things all right again on route 25 Travel is 1 still possible only by sleighs and to meet the needs of the hour many dis carded ttjungs'' have been hauled out i and fixed up for use. Travel is 1irn- 1 ited to that attendant on the trans portation of necessities with a short age of service even to that extent A forecast of the further travel tribula- tions which must come before the snow gets away was afforded by the soft spell of last Sunday morning. a situation then partly relieved by speedy freezing. A sled loaded with ten cans of milk was stalled at Lone town in the narrow snow walled pas sage which the thaw had made a canal. The horses fioundered through the soft snow until stopped by the breaking of the harness. To get them out required the digging of a way l through the fields and the extrication of the sled was also a toilsome and difficult task. The peculiar quality of the snow which was heavy and gran ular like sand, a condition aggravated by freezing, made the first digging through the drifts a hard job, the use l of blows and saws being required in some places to break the surface. i Judge winthrop Perry of South port, whose death occurred recently 1 at Baltimore, came prominently into 1 local notice a few years ago by his 1 extensive purchases of land in Nthe
 southwestern part of Bedding and in ] Weston, mostly in the latter town
 where his holdings amounted to up-
 wards of 1,500 acres Most of the territory was wild land and was ac- | quired with the intention of making
 it a game preserve. Included in the ! tract was what remained of the old
 Perry homestead located upon a high l hill. Little was left of this except l huge stone chimney with a big fire l place in each side. Around the cf1in-
 ney Judge Perry built a dwelling so
 arranged that the ground floor was 1 divided into four rooms each with a l fire place. Before the game reser-
 vation had been fully stocked the owner sold a good part of the land l to the water company and in time it
 
 back of the water through the build ] ing of a lofty dam across the Saus- i atuck river. The rest of his holdings 1 in that section Judge Perry deeded 1 last year to Yale University for the i use of it's Forestry department. He acquired his title as judge from a judicial office which he formerly held i in Norwa1k.
 Less than half dozen appellants appeared before the board of relief at it's two sessions held on the End and the 14th. The grievances set forth by the applicants were of minor inn portance, one relating to the valua- ton of a horse and another to an
 auto. Another and the final session of the board is to be held at the town
 house on Saturday of this week. The Dramatic association of the Sanford School have in preparation
 two short plays by Lord Dunsary
 which they will present at Grange Hall on the evening of Feb. 2S. Their
 titles are '"The Lost Silk Hat'' and 'tA Night At An Inn.'' Rehearsals for the performance are under the direc-
 ton of Captain Bonney, the schools
 teacher of English.
 A young daughter of Edward Far
 rar, living in the HopeweI section
 has been very low with pneumonia, l
 new cases of influenza have developed
 in Georgetown, none of them serious.
 Mrs. Fl. S. Barnes and Mrs. Randolph i Bradley are nearly recovered.
 | The parish meeting of the Episcopal
 church to have been held last Sun
 day for the purpose of a referendum
 vote on the action taken by the vestry in reference to the appointment of
 Rev. MT. Cunningham as county com
  wards securing his retention as rec
 tor was postponed to next Sunday or
 account of weather and travel condi- tions.
 Sessions of the public school have
 not been interrupted by the stormy
 spell except for last Monday wher : none was held by order of the schoo committee
 The State will pay the cost of snow
 shovelling on that part of the trunk
 highway which was opened, this be-
 ing the stretch between Pine Tree
 Corner and the Five Points. The town thus saves about $80. Alvin Johnson, the Georgetown
 man who went violently insane : through crediting the prophecy of the worlds immediate destruction a few U weeks since, has so far improved dur ing his stay at the Midd1etown hospi U tai that his discharge from there i expected soon.
 A cable has been received iron U George D. Pattison of West Reading ' announcing his safe arrival at Japan s Reddington w. Dayton is about t U make extensive repairs upon his resi- ; dence, the old Dimond place on Di u mond Hill.
 The Wallace Williams corner prop n erty in Georgetown, where the lat owner conducted a jewelry store fo u many years, has been sold to u BranchViIle resident
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