Republican farmer., 1920-06-25
BEDDING

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 Bedding, June s24-Graduation ex- ercises of the public schools were held on Wednesday evening of last week at the Mark Twain Library in the pres ence of large gathering. The ten who received diplomas signifying that they had qualified to enter upon High school course. were Helen Ash worth, Viola Favereau, Elizabeth Hes and Stuart Boddie of the Centre school, and Christine Olley, Elizabeth Klein, Augustus Reiske, Elizabeth Vaughn, William Barry and Hubert Bronson of Umpawaug. Several girl couples. from their lower grade schoolmates held aloft daisy festoon- ed arches beneath which the gradu- ates passed in procession on their way through the aisle to the plat form. Each graduate contributed something to the program of exer- cises, Elizabeth Vaughn rendering a violin solo, Christine Olley a song | with the others joining in the chorus; Elizabeth Hes an essay on Gaming; Hubert Bronson an essay on Trap ping in . Redding,' and Elizabeth ] Klein the class prophecy. The others were heard in recitations which in
 
 Viola Vavereau. and 'The Tar Baby," l from the Uncle Remus collection of stories by Stuart Boddie, each being ! warmly appIauded. Supervisor Syl- l vester made presentation of the di- l plomas with appropriate remarks. l The address of the evening was by ! Rev. MT. Gilbert of Danbury, who gave the graduates excellent advice l and frightened his discourse with
 several humorous stories. that were appreciatively received. Chorus singing by the children and songs by | the G1ee club of the Center school comprised the remainder of the Iro- 1 gram.
 l A good sized barn on the former 1 Livermore place at the Easton line 1 was destroyed last Saturday after barn belonged to the Levi Hall sec barn belongtd to the Levi Hall sec 1 ton of the estate, the whole now being owned by the water company.
 A MT. Hebrusley. employed by the 1 company and occupying the former Hall house, did what he could to ar I rest the progress of the flames by | throwing on water dipped from the l adjacent brook, but his efforts and
 those of two others who joined him l were of little avail and two smaller 1 farm buildings and the house itself ! would probably have been swept away
 had not Arthur Burr arrived with one l of the chemical engines of the Red ding fire department. The combined forces succeeded in confining the l flames to the building in which they started. The burned barn was practically bare of hay or other con 1 tents.
 Louis L. Brinsmade, whose sudden l death on Wednesday night of last | week at his home in New York
 shocked and saddened a large circle of acquaintances, was grandson of
 Mrs. Marietta Lyon and had other
 near relatives in Bedding. He was
 the son of Hobart Brinsnade, a
 prominent business man of St. Louis
 and a former residents of Bridgeport
 After his graduation from the
 Bridgeport High school the deceas-
 ed entered Washington University al
 St. Louis, from which he graduated
 with the degree of mechanical en- gineer acquiring also the degree oi
 electrical engineer by subsequen, 1 course at Cornell. In both univer-
 sities he was an honor student an6 also won distinction in athletics Soon after completing his studies he entered the service of one of the Westinghouse subsidiary companies ir New York, whence he transferred
 to the Westinghouse Machine Co. another subsidiary. His advance was rapid and about fifteen years agc , he became the company's manager 1 for New York city and New England a position which he held until abou three years ago when he retired tt
 engage in business for himself {
 supplier and installer of mcdaniel l equipment. In the full tide of high ly prosperous career and while il
 robust health he was stricken witl
 the illness which speedily caused \ his death from blood poisoning, in
 lection being due to a slight ruptur of the femora1 artery consequen [ upon a fall. His age was A. H : is survived by his wife, one daughte l who is a junior in Smith College, an, f a son of 13. Funeral services wsr 2 ] held at the home on Friday mornin f 1 last and interment was in Mountain l Grove cemetery, Bridgeport, tn same day.
 town roads showed them to be il | fairly good condition, although in tn 2 districts of each of the three contrac tors there were noted places callin' ! for additional repairs. If thes ! ! places are fixed up meanwhile pay ment of the first annual instalmen , due the contractors will be voted b. the selectmen at their meeting on tn . first Monday in July. Otherwise pay ment will be withheld. In referenc :. to the cross Hometown road it wa | | | agreed that Contractor B. B. Bank o should cart the gravel sufficiently t l conform to the permanent inA,rove : ,ment" standard as far as the wor . extended, the town paying half tn : cost. As the road is in the distric covered by MT. Banks regular con tract it was considered fair that h
 should bear the burden of the othe
 half The 5O-5O arrangement to mee
 the cost of repair work above the or
 dinary was worked out on the Littl
 York road last year with satisfactor
 results.
 ~ As the selectmen at their last meet , ing turned down request that the
 cause to be painted and equippe'
 with new ropes the steel flagstaff a = the Ridge residents of that section wi e attend to the job at their own 'ex ' pense. The pole was a gift from E IT ID. Adams, the New York financie1 and on the occasion of it's raising O '1 July A. 1917, the donors grandson " nf tn tou