The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-02

the members was held on Christmas Day at the home of J. B. Sanford at | Bedding Center. Of the twelve child ren Misses Thedora and Eleanor came l from Washington, D. C., where they l hold clerical positions in Government l departments; Miss Abbie from Hart | ford where she is engaged as a trained l nurse, and Miss Elizabeth from New 1 London where she is a student in the | Woman's College.
 Ice harvesting fro1-4 the main pond 1 in Pleasant Valley was begun on !; Monday, the Stetson and Walbridgs 1 storage houses being the first to be | filled from this source. Milo Os. 1 born put in Miss J. H. Sanford's sup. l ply. The ice is ten inches thick and l with last years famine in mind people l will probably not miss the oportunits | offered by the present crop.
 The Sunday schools of the Centet Methodist and Congregational churches l held a postponed Christmas celebra. ton today at the former church 1 There was to be dinner and distri. | button of presents at one o'clock fol- lawed by singing and other exercises.
 In going over the contents of the Louis Goodsell house which he re- gently purchased G. Burr Tucker found one American half penny 114 years old and another IA years old. They were minted while the English coinage system prevailed in this coun- try and each bore thirteen stars re- presenting the number of States which then made up the Nation.
 Among those home for the holidays are Miss Catherine Barnett from Wellesley College, Miss Marjorie Lounsbury from Drew Seminary, Mt. Carmel, and Harold Sanford from Philadelphia.
 William H. Hill and W. E. Grum-
 man have been appointed agents for Bedding to take the new government census, work on which begins tomor- row.
 |. George D. Pattisan of West Red ding sails for China on Saturday on a business trip which will occupy about six months. He is buyer for a New York house and has made a num- Der of these trips. Sergeant F. B. Nash. the new chief of the east side fire department is to make an inspection of the apparatus every month He requests that all members attending fire report to him before leaving in order that he may know whom to credit for the service rendered.
 Arthur Burr has purchased another Ford passenger car equipped with self starting attachment.
 Daniel Hegeman of Brooklyn is visiting Stephen Sanford Of West Bedding.
 Town Clerk Sanford has sufficiently recovered from his severe illness to 1 be able to attend to his official du- ties.
 Rehearsals for the coming minstrel show will begin next week at the Community House. The scene of l the introductory sketch written for l island in the Pacific. On the shore 1 are discovered four old men. Robin son Crusoe and Rip Van Wrinkle ng. ure, who are supposed to be former l members of the Bedding Home Guard 1 shipwrecked on the island thirty years before. They eagerly watch, as 1t rises above the horizon and i drifted near, trail of smoke mark 1 ing the course of an approaching
 steamer. From the ship small 1 boat with a party of six comes to 1 the island. The marooned ones greet
 their rescuers joyfully and begin l rapid fire of questions as to what has 1 happened in good old Redding dur
 ing the. past thirty years. In the stage performance these questions may and may not run somewhat as follows: Has the town yet achiev- ed a new town house? Did the Democratic party of Bedding continue its policy of suicide on the instalment plan until extinction came? Have the Ridge, the Center, West Bedding
 and Georgetown formed a. League of
 Sections resulting in the elimination
 of the last spark of jealousy, or has
 Georgetown divorced itself with leg
 islative aid and expanded to a bor-
 ough or city? Have their old
 Home Guard comrades started and
 kept up the custom of holding an-
 nual reunions at the Hotel Green? ?
 Has the town reversed it's old attitude
 of denying to cancelled check the
 quality of conclusive evidence and
 thereby ranged itself with the rest of
 Civilization in this regard
 Is the Farmers Dairy Go. still do- ing business and if 50 what was the , last tribulation to befall 1t? Has the : water company made of the town an , area of deserted farms relieved by an
 occasional center and Pleasant Val ley been converted into a lake? Ie . the 18th amendment still operative or = has 1t been swept out of existance = along with the entire Constitution f which it perverted and undermined. f When all questions have been an. y swered the rescued and rescuers vii = proceed to celebrate by season O. s oldtime rninistrely designed to reca1 is the sweet singing of Wambold, tn, = story telling of Milt Barlow an<
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