Republican farmer., 1920-06-11
BEDDING

Bedding, June 1o-The members of Fire Co. No. 1, at well attended meeting on Monday evening, voted to Increase their equipment by the pur- chase of a Ford car chassis on which Will be mounted two of the tanks forming part of the chemical engines owned by the department. There are five of these small engines which can only be got to the scene of a fire
 by hand, horse or auto hau1age and the need of at least one machine cap-
 able Of self travel has been strongly Ielt Tor the past two. or three years. It's acquisition would have been sooner attempted but for the suc- cess1on of drives seeking financial ald Tor other objects. The cost of the
 new apparatus will be about $500 and
 the funds needed will be raised by direct appeal to the public instead of by the slow and uncertain method or entertainments. To obtain the $5OO there is required a contribution | of only $1 from each of the residents l in the territory served by the depart ment. Of the three engines reserv- | ed for use in their present form it is planned to retain one at the Center l and to place another in Pleasant Valley. The third will probably. be
 left at the Ridge. Chief P. B. Nash | will give the free use of his services in getting the new apparatus into | shape. A committee consisting of | MT. Nash, ex-chief Cunningham, J. l B. Sanford, Jr., James Reynolds and | U. B. Sanford, Jr., was appointed to i handle the details of the ndertak-
 Ing as a whole. The annual meeting l of the company will be held at the Community House July 6, the eIec- 1 ton of officers being the main bus
 mess and supper and smoker being l also a part of the program.
 Much Debated work in the applica- tlon or screenings aId sand has made the R1dge road again passable after a. long period of tribulation due to the deposit of sharp edged stones which
 there was no avoiding. The excuse offered for the delay in relief was the temporary stopRage of access to the contractors sand bank in Bethel, an excuse hardly adequate in view of the that the former Livermore place at the the E1aston line offered a convenient
 source of sand supply and the further fact that conditions could have been earlier remedied by spreading the piles of screenings already placed at the roadside. Observers of construc- uon operations across the Ridge have noted that the recent deposit of broken stone appears to be of uniform depth which would of course be right if the entire stretch had already been ItefordiZed whereas in building the earlier State road gaps were left with out any stone foundation. This defect should have been supplied in the pres ent construction for if not supplied the lcomp1eted road bed will, in places.
 lack the wearing qualities it should
 have, the unfortified surfacing being liable to frost upheavals and displace- ment from heavy traffic. Howeyer the iOfh iS
 cording to specifications and. under
 supervision of the State highway de-
 partment lnSuring strict compliance herewith.
 The buyer of the William Gorham place on Sunset Hill is John Takacs 1 Of Bridgeport. The property com
 pr1ses about 40 acres of which ten are located in Bethel. The price was
 about $3,000. MT. Gorham continues ! to occupy the premises along with . the new owner and has so far not . arranged for another place of resi-
 dence.
 After holding last week a good-bye
 meeting to the season and making il
 the occasion for tin shower to one
 of the community's brides-to be the
 Ridge Whist club resuscitated itsel1
 on Tuesday evening for the purpose
 of bestowing a like honor upon Mis-: i | IIilII1d IIelu,1 dnOIHer or those SOOI
 to be wed. Mrs. E. P Sanford ha.
 arranged for tomorrow afternoon {
 party at her home at which Mis-:
 Reid is to be the beneficiary of z linen shower William A. Grouse, a former resi- | dent of Bedding Center and now O . Danbury. was seriously injured las i, Sunday by being kicked in the stom ach by one of his horses while he wa leading it from the stable. In ap parent playfulness the animal sho out with both heels, landing then 9 against MT. Grouse's body. He wa. , thoroughly knocked out for a time J but will not be permanently disabled ] D9s* s The selectmen arranged at thei - monthly meeting on Monday to mak,
 an inspection of the repair work re. e tcently done the highways, in tn. = early part of next week. They alst
 discussed, without solving the prob
 lem, the situation regarding the re
 construction of the cross Lonetow1
 highway. They had arranged with E
 B. Banks to do the job, but he ha
 been unable to make even a start be
 cause of inability to get help an, would like to be released from th, engagement The signs to warn auto
 ists Of danger points in various part
 d @ Georgetown and will soon be place, 7 in position. The board will also hay, = painted and provided with new rope
 the steel flagstaff al the Ridge.
 t ! One day last February while Majo
 Tupper, one of the local summer col onys was waiting at the Danbury Hos = pital, where his wife was a patient !, he picked up copy of "Life" and no
 ticed the publications offer of prize
 for the best titles to certain picture it contained. Then and there he i'm = provised a ten word title which h :. forwarded. Last week. greatly to hi surprise, he received from the maga e zine a check for $500 with the notic a that it was in payment of the frs
 prize which his title had won.
 = Plans for the celebration of Jul . Fourth in Georgetown are Fractica1l, l. completed. There will be 8 big parad d in the morning with band heatsin in r>cI, fo J,.,1