Republican farmer., 1920-02-20
BEDDING
Special to The Times.l

l Bedding, Feb. 19.---Tvhe towns snow 1 removal expenses made necessary by .tthe late storms will amount to about i $800. 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 i of resumption with a pair of hired I'horses picked up as a relay. Carrier Stones return to health made things all right again on route 25. Travel is istill possible only by sleighs and to meet the needs of the hour many dis
 carded '.jungs'' have been hauled out and fixed up for use. Travel is linn iited to that attendant on the trans portaGon 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 foundered through the soft snow until stopped by the
 breaking of the harness To get them , out required the digging of way
 through the fields and the extricatien
 
 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 hard job, the use of blows and saws being required iI some places to break the surface. , Judge Winthrop Perry of South , port, whose death occurred recently . at Baltimore, came prominently into hxr hi f extensive purchases of land in tht southwestern part of Bedding and 1T I i Weston, mostly in the latter towI $ twhere his holdings amounted to up l wards of 1,50O acres Most of tn 2 1 territory was wild land and was ac p uuired with the intention of making g | it a game preserve. Included in tn f tract was what remained of the o1t = Perry homestead located upon a higl r hiII Little was left of this except
 huge stone chimney with big fire , place in each side. Around the chfm t ney Judge Perry built a dwelling S I arranged that the ground floor wa divided into four rooms each with S fire place. Before the game reser . vation had been fully stocked tn s owner sold a good part of the Ian $ to the water company and in time = will be submerged from the settin
 | back of the water through the build ing of a, lofty dam across the Saug
 | atuck river. The rest of his holding
 in that section Judge Perry deede
 last year to Yale University for tn
 use of it's Forestry department. H
 acquired his title as judge from
 judicial office which he formerly hel
 in Norwalk.
 Less than half dozen appellant
 appeared before tie board of relief 8 ! its two sessions held on the End an J the 14th. The grievances set fort by the applicants were of minor i'm
 portance, one relating to the valua
 ton of a horse and another to a n auto. Another and the final sessio Il of the board is to be held at the tow e house on Saturday of this week. The Dramatic association of tn d Sanford School have in preparatio l. two short plays by Lord Dunsar Y which they will present at Grane s Hall on the evening of Feb. 2S. The l. titles are '+The Lost Silk Hat and s+ 6 Night At An Inn" Rehearsals fc '' the performance are under the diret . ton of Captain Bonney, the school l. teacher of English.
 a A young daughter of Edward Fa1
 Tar, living in the Hopewe1l sectiol ~ has been very low with pneumoni  - new cases of influenza have develope ' in Georgetown, none of them seriou a Mrs. H. s. Barnes and Mrs. Randolr
 Bradley are nearly recovered. o+ The parish meeting of the Episcop 1+ church to have been held last Sul "a day for the purpose of a referendu 70 vote on the action taken by the vest "a in reference to the appointment id Rev. MT. Cunningham as county cor
 
 in wards securing his retention as re or tor was postponed to next Sunday o account of weather and travel cond 4o tions.
 '0 Sessions of the public school ha-
 not been interrupted by the storn
 spell except for last Monday wh,
 none was held by order of the scho
 committee
 The State will pay the cost of snc
 Shovelling on that part of the trul n- highway which was opened, this b st ing the stretch between Pine TT 7o Corner and the Five Points T si- town thus saves about $50. Ix Alvin Johnson, the Georgetov he man who went violently insa ed through crediting the prophecy of t ou worlds immediate destruction a fe e: weeks since, has so far improved du rv ing his stay at the Middletown hosy O. tai that his discharge from there d, expected soon.
 A cable has been received fire
 George D. Pattison of West Reddi lie announcing his safe arrival at Japa d Reddington W. Dayton is about he make extensive repairs upon his re as dence, the old Dimond place on I ho mond Hill.
 us The Wallace Williams corner pro nd erty in Georgetown, where the ls ne owner conducted a jewelry store yo many years, has been sold to ,ge l Branchville resident.
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