The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-02-13
BEDDING


 from restoration to normal, especial ly as regards mail service. describes tho local situation brought on by the storm period which began on the 4th- Not since the great blizzard of 1888 has there been such a snow blockade here. = Drifts shovelled through on the last three days of the week soon filled in again. The best Carrier Ward of route 24 could do was to get from Bethel as far as Bedding Center on Monday and Tuesday. On route 25, which partly serves the Ridge section and fringes of Easton and Newtown. there had been total inaction since Jan. 27, the first three days of which was due to sickness and not to the blockade. The worst section in town for drifts was Sunset Hill where a continuous stretch Of about two miles had to be dug through to make the road passable The work continued steadily from Saturday to Monday night and had not then been completed. Tuesday mornings snowfall halted progress there. In the Ridge section ways had by that time been opened through long banks except for a huge drift near Milo Osborn's where pass aEA could be had by g. detour through the fields. In the George town section most of the road break ing was done by B. B. Banks with the aid of two teams. The regular supply of labor in the Ridge section was augmented by the volunteer ser vices of the Sanford school boys. some of whom refused pay for their work. In spite of the obstacles Con- tractor Robert Nichols managed to give uninterrupted service on the star route between the Ridge and West Bedding, having the aid of James Tucker and L. s. Warner in the task. By strenuous effort the hometown milkmen managed to daily deliver their product at Bethel for shipment. Unless turnouts are cut in the pre- sent high walls of snow lining the roadways it Is easy to foresee serious trouble from the meeting of teams bound in opposite directions.
 The aggrieved residents on rural mail route No. 25 cannot understand why the Bethel post office did not keep the service going during the four days previous to the storm. It seems that efforts were in fact made to get an emergency carrier and that finally a man was found who agreed to take the job for 8 satisfactory considera- ton, but not at the regular per diem rate of $495. Ten dollars or nothing QO1nG was ms ana there was nothing done. If operations of the post office department are to be blocked by red tape and the matter of a few extra dollars it is about time that the public became aware of the fact in order that provision may be made for meeting emergencies like the present one through raising a fund by private subscription or by some other method. Two weeks of VI TfOC Nyaf <Dv1 NF which there would seem to be no ex- cuse.
 Clair L. Hill, youngest son of the laie Eben Hill of West Bedding, died in Detroit on Tuesday of last week from pneumonia following influenza. Relatives from this section who had gone on to care for him did not reach Detroit until just before his decease, but brought the body home and in tsrment took place last Saturday afternoon in Umpawaug cemetery. The funeral was held under serious weather obstacles. a force of men having worked all day to clear a passage through the snow to the burial place Rev. MT. Luther, now in Massachusetts. had been sent for to conduct the services. but was pre- vented from coming by the snow blockade, and Rev. MT. Dobson of Long Ridge off1ciated. The deceased was 24 years old and had been in the employ of the General Electric Go. He was soon to have been married. He is survived by several brothers and sisters.
 The town school committee has un- der favorable consid iteration a recoIn- mendation by Supervisor Sylvester that this town unite with Easton and Monroe in the hiring of a graduate nurse to look after the health of tht children in the public schools. Int state pays part of the cost of sucf service and this towns share of tht expense would be about $500 yearlS Should the plan be officially approved financial reasons would probably pre- vent it's being carried into effect unh next year as the school appropriation made for the present year does no provide a sufficient margin. The citie and most of the larger towns of tn, state already have this nurse servic' which is especially valuable in cor recting the defects of eyesight, teetl and respiratory organs to which s' many children are subject.
 Announcement is made of the en gagement of Nigel Cholmondely Jone who served in the war with the ran OL Cdpld1n. IO h11SS EILa daughter of Richard Sturgis of Ney York The prospective groom spen last summer at the Ridge with his sis ter, Mrs. Persy LitchfieEd. He 1 nephew of the late Jeannette Glider and two of his brothers, one of who1 Is head of the War Insurance depart ment, have 8 summer cottage at Pin Tree Corner.
 The blizzard's blight on plans an program extends to the minstrel sho, which was to have taken place thi CThursday) evening at Grange Hal Under the amended schedule this en
 thralling felicity, to revive a phras paraded by the San Francisco trou of many days gone by, will not event uate until the first week in April. Tn management wishes to assure tn public, however, that the delay mear no ultimate loss as rehearsals will | kept up and the interval employed i fattening the list of beguiling atroci-- no, attractions, to be offered the put