The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-18
BEDDING

Marks on the window sill show that a jimmy was used to pry up the win dow through which entrance, was ob- tained by the burglars who rzaided the
 unoccupied home of R. R. Walbrdge II in Pleasan mt Valley on wedneeday night of Last week Bureaus closets
 and either receptacles were explored | and the contents scattered about. The | visitors carried away a suit of clothes.
 clothing, but left a box of plated silver
 ware which they opened. The bur
 glary was a close pattern of the one
 Henry J. Phillips in the hometown |
 secton few weeks ago. except that
 in tho latter instance the value of the booty was about $500.
 An effort will be made to obtain the approval of Com. Bennett for a pro- ject to use part of the existing State Aid appropriation to reconstruct the highway for about a third of a mile 1 westward from the Episcopal church |
 corner. This stretch is worn and every | spring becomes a Quagmire. Com. | Bennett has ruled that the appropria- |
 don referred to shall be used towards | the construction of an improved high | way from Georgetown to the Ridge |
 and thereore the present project though a beginning has already been
 made on the Georgetown end.
 The ruling also deferred further I work on the improvement until the | ton was finished. That job will be | wound up the coming season and | upon it's completion it would be an | easy matter for Contractor Valerie to state aid road by reason of his equip
 ment being already on the ground. | Public opinion, which appears in | this case to be singularly free from | partisan taint, strongly favors the | thorough probing of the grand list
 scandal with the aim of placing the
 personal responsibility therefor. Par | tia1 arrangements had been made for l a public meeting on Thursday evening of this week to consider the matter, | but the plan was given up on ac- | count of the decision of the se1ectmen | to call the adjourned town meeting for Thursday of next week. At that
 | meeting it is purposed to ventiFate the
 question and secure the appointment
 of a committee of investigation The
 selectInen are among those in favor
 of such a. course. Should an investi-
 gation make it apparent that the de-
 Hnquent in the case is a public off,
 ctal the Superior court will probably
 be asked to terminate the cuIprits
 term of office After taking compe-
 tent advice on the subject Town Clerk
 Sanford has decided not to include in
 his report of the grand list to the Tax
 Commissioner the statement from the
 board of relief of their discovery that figures in the abstract had been tam , | pered with.
 , The will of David B Wheeler, who died during the winter at the home in West Bedding of his grandson, John D. Wheeler, has been probated here. It beeaueaths his entire estate, } inventoried at between $2,0O0 and S3,000, to this grandson although the , testator has five sons. Shortly before his decease the grandfather also pur- chased for John D. Wheeler a house
 in West Bedding for about $4,00O.
 | Frank Nickerson, aged 13, of Red ding Center( narrowly escaped loss of an eye on Thursday of last week
 when the built from a toy rifle In the
 hands of Dudley Sanford, school mate, struck the eye bone socket II glanced off, but inflicted a severe in jury. The case was purely an acci- : dent.
 2 Mrs Emma Clapp of New York, 2 will spend the next two months at the :: Reid, her husband, P. S. Clapp, Jr., being meanwhile engaged in a tour ot ]: inspection to study the inner workings Of the plants of the U- S. Steel Cor poration and other steel mills. The opportunity comes to him by reason : of his having been awarded schol- arship by the Carnegie Foundation. : Mrs. George A. Sanford of the sanfordtown district observed her 93rd birthday on Monday of this 2 week Among the gifts she received was one from her brother. of the 2 firm of Riddle, Banks & Bailey o1 Philad elphia.
 The basketball talent of the Massey School of Stamford, came to the Ridge last Saturday and won agains the Sanford School, the first team bJ 0 to IS and the second by IT to If L. S. Warner will at once proceed 2 with the erection of a bungalow or . the foundation at the Center, whict he completed last year. The par ents of Mrs Herman Smith are te came from Brooklyn to occupy it. . Mrs Albert A. Gorham has gone . to Hartford for a stay of two week! with her husband who has the pos . of Senate doorkeeper.
 Ell Saturday of this week will mari . the 5Sth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse* L. Sanford : MT. Sanford reached the age of 9' about two months ago.
 . Miss Katherine Blackwell has re stunned relationship with the Reddinf 2 Singing society as their director ant conducted on Monday evening a yer! satisfactory rehearsal of "The Pirate. of Peenzance.'' Tines ociety will pro duce the opera at the Sanford Schoo = gymnasium on the evening of May s and there may be further perform = ances.
 Jessie Sanford of the Bethel Banl . is severely i'll at his home on the Ridge with influenza. 2 DrD NNkT ATC