The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-27
BEDDING

Bedding. Aug. 27-"Esther the
 Beautiful Queen" an operatic version of the, Bible story, recounting the Queens circumvontion of the frame up by which Pl ime Minister Haman sought to destroy the Jews-at the tine.unwilling dwellers in the Persian kingdom-was beautifully done in two performances at the Sanford school gym last Saturday afternoon and evening. Necessary to q production so nearly fawless were rot only plen-
 tiful Srescurees in the way of talent
 but the exercise of a genuine corn
 munfty spirit of which, as here dis
 played, any community might justly be proud. Tn this instance no trace of the sectional jealousy which some have ,f3ncied to. be apparent in for m CT town undertakings was dis -erni- ble as the three main sections shared equally in the preliminary labors and the final honors. Uncertain weath- CT conditions caused q change of pro- gram from an outdoor to an indoor performance. fair sized audience in the afternoon and crowded one in the evening heartily applauded the successive phases of the entertain ment which went smoothly and pleas ingly, due to. full measure of com
 potency to vocal, dramatic and scenicsrequfreme The costumes, properly Oriental and impressive to the eye, were all of home production,
 having been provided by Mrs. H. S. Barnes, Mrs. Charles Shelton and Mrs. A. C.. Barnett. while adequate sta ge scenery had been furnished by P. Britt Nash. Credit for some of the other furnishings and for many help ful suggestions belongs to W. c. San ford. For the success achieved the highest praise is due Miss Katherine Blackwell, the producing director, and Mrs. Lemue1 Sanford, who contribut- ed the piano accompaniment with fine discrimination.
 Vocally the performance left noth- ing to be desired from either the mem bers of the ca9t orftle chorus who to- gether numbered upwards of 50 voices. Of these IS adults formed the chorus proper and Is young girls were desiG hated as the Queens maidens. Miss Katherine Klein was Esther and filled the role admirably in acting as well as singing Decided hits were also made by Miss Klara Klein, Mrs. Her man Smith and Miss Pingree, who are new to the Bedding public. and also by F. W. Rosenau in a dual role. A feature much appauded was the clever dancing by little Wanda Turc- J W those taking part in the entertainment were served in the Community House with q sfine supper provided by the Woman's Auxiliary of the Episcopal church. The performa nces netted about $50 for the church's organ fund.
 Some changes have been made in the program for the course of public lectures to be given under the auspices of the Mems club. That by Henry F.
 
 thority on Am erican music, which was scheduled for Friday evening of this week. has been indefinitely postponed us the Sanford school grounds will be jn use on that and the evening follow ing for the lawn festival and fair of the local Catholic parish. On Sept. 3 Prof; Richard F. Dodge, of Storrs, head of the Farm Bureau movement, will speak at the Mark Twain Library on Some Pressing Farm Problems,' Next on the list is a lecture by Dr. George E. Vincent, head of the Rocke- feller Foundation, to be delivered at the Sanford school gym on the even ing of Sept. 16. His subject is Health in Connection with Rural Life" On the evening of Oct. 9 Judge Cropsey head of. the Boys Scout movement in Brooklyn and d former police com missioner of New York, is to lecture at the library on Juvenile Delin- ouency." The date for William Allen Whites lecture on Prohibition has not yet been arranged.
 Fifteen members of the Pleasant Valley summer colony took part last Friday in a "bee" organized for the purpose of harvesting about an acre of flax grown on the land of Fred Driggs. The plants were pulled and laid in bundles to await a weather curing process designed to facilitate the removal of the fibrous element used in cloth making. The amateur harvesters felt quite proud of their performance in completing the job before nightfall. If their estimates are correct the crop will yield about 300 pounds of fibre which has market price of about $3 a pound These figures would indicate a hand some profit from the venture as there tween sowing and gathering and no special outlay for fertilizing the soil. The net returns should therefore be not far from S2OO provided the fibre is separate by the mechanical pro- cess now available instead of by the old hand beating method The colony intends, however, to itself perform the separation and weaving pro- cesses having shown it's capabilities in this respect by samples of cloth exhibited at the recent church fair at the Ridge. Flax raising was quite generally carried on in this part of the country during the Colonial per iod and afterwards when linen and woolen cloth was largely of house. hold manufa cture, but has so long since fallen into disuse that to most New England people a patch of grow ing flax would be now decided nov city.
 A party of Farm Bureau men on a