The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-29

some confusion and vexation as was the case last summer.
 MT. Claussen, head of the junior department of the Sanford School
 nas m preparation the play of ''The Pied Piper of Ham1in,' for a per formance on June in connection With the schools commencement exer- c1ses. Mrs. Peabody of Boston, au- thor Of the play, has shown her in- 1 tereSE in the production by writing 1 MT. Claussen a helpful letter regard, l ing it.
 Three young persons and two ] adults were confirmed by Bishop Acheson at the Episcopal church on Sunday evening, the former being,
 stewart and Joyce Boddie and Joseph | SheHIeld, the latter a Sanford school
 student; and the others Fred k. Wood | ot sunset Hill and Frank Bird, lately | or New Jersey and now a Ridge res l ident. The Bishop preached a force
 fui sermon from the text. See what a cloud of witnesses" In the after 1 noon he assisted in services at the | Wolfpitas school house and during his | stay arrangements were made with
 him to become the official visitor of | the Sanford school.
 | The Putnam Park section of the , trunk highway is closed to raveI while | It IS receiving another oil bath, a job
 which will take about d week The
 section below Pine Tree Corner also i remains closed to await completion of | the deep fill on each side of the new
 bridge above Jump Hill. By July 1 | the entire line will be in good shape for travel, although probably open to | the public considerably before that | date.
 Pupils of the public schools have | begun rehearsaIs of an operatta for
 briary in connection with the regular l graduation exercises in June. Their
 training and the other preparations 1 are in charge of Mrs. Lemuel Sanford A chicken supper which had a lib
 eral patronage was given at the Com | mun1ty House on Wednesday evening 1 for the benefit of Evening Star Lodge, i Order Good Samaritans. of Bethel.
 Mesdames Mary and Jennie Peterson 1 were the caterers.
 Rev. Herbert Ekins of Bridgeport | is to preach at the Center Methodist church on Sunday. He is a candidate for engagement as a settled pastor
 under the federation plan recently l adopted. .-.
 MT. and Mrs. Noble F. Hoggson of
 Redding and New York are to sail for
 Europe early in May.
 E. M. Bradley has gone from his | home at the Ridge to his cottage at
 Fairfield Beach. where he and his
 mother will spend the summer. MT. Mahan, one of the Sanford
 school teachers, was called to New
 York this week on account of the | sudden death of his father.
 The Whist club met on Tuesday l evening with MT. and Mrs. Rand olph Bradley.
 Some person unknown broke into Grange Hall on Sunday evening and
 stole several pounds of candy.
 Augustus Coffey of Pleasant Valley
 has a new Ford car.
 II Those who will take part in "The l Pirates of Penganee,'' to be produced at the Sanford School gym on the
 evening of May represent the best
 of the towns musical talent and al its sections we'll The zeal they
 have shown in regular attendance al rehearsals, some of them coming lons II distances to do so, promises well fol
 the success of the undertaking whicE
 is the most ambitious of the sort 1T II local annals. Musica1ly, "The Pir- ateS" marks a considerable advance over Esther in which practically
 the same band scored such a success last year. but the thorough drill they have undergone should make then equal to the occasion F. W. Rose
 neau will be the Pirate King, J. B Sanford, Jr., his lieutenant, Rev. NIT Cunningham a Pirate Apprentice, Dr. Smith. Major General of the Brit ish Army, Howard Luthera- Sergean of Police, Miss Klara Klein, Miss Alic' Day. Mrs. Rudolph Bradley and Mrs Frank Meehan, the daughters of Gen
 Stanley and Mrs. Herman Smith,
 piratical maid-of-all-work. Mrs. Lem ,uel Sanford will be the pianist. Tn chorus numbers about twenty P
 Nash has painted an outfit of scener-
 for the production and the costumin will be adequate.