WILTON • BULLETIN
V5~L.JII, NO. 47
Ei^ggg-
WILTON. CONN.. TmmanAv
NOVEMBER 23,1939
16 PAGES
5 GENTS
^ ^ p e n i n g Herbs in Cooking' Board Fails Supervisor Dakin Discusses
At Town Hall Mr. Smith's Topic To Approve Wilton School Im**r™rement
This Evening
Educat« gg r » Three PosCabin Plan
Wilton Garden Club Hears Address by Famous Epicure
piavshop to Present Thornton Wilder's Drama
"Our Town.**
A special meeting of the Wilton
Garden Club on Monday afternoon brought out a large number
of members and their guests to
raise funds needed for the work
of the club. The piece de resistance was a talk by Herman M. K.
Smith, the former genial host at
Shaker Hollow in South Salem,
N. Y. His subject was "The Magic
of Herbs in Food and the Mystery
of Color." It was a fascinating address, witty yet learned in the
culinary arts of flavoring and
coloring to taste. A sumptuous
tea followed the talk.
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Selectmen Turn Down Application of William J.
Harrison
Paper Out Early
For Thanksgiving
In order to give our advertisers an opportunity to present their messages in advance
of Thanksgiving Day next
Thursday, the Bulletin will
be published next Tuesday afternoon instead of on Thursday as usual.
I
sible o andatP.T.A.
ANS\ - & g UESTIONS
Mr. Milk p
; Miss ComFamilies gather to celebrate the
After a hearing in the Court
stoc
r*
C
O
Doorway
Room
last
evening,
the
Board
of
ew-fangled
Thanksgiving
in
the
n
•
5f
tion
Selectmen declined to grant a
metropolis today but in Wilton
license to William J. Harrison
they're getting together to recrehich the eduThree
for
the erection of eight overate the life in a New-England vil: Wilton could
cational 1
night cabins on his property east
lage of more than three decades
.ggested by the
be expand
of the Danbury Pike near its
ago.
Senior
Supervisor
of
Rural Eduintersection
with
the
Sharp
Hill
When the public steps into the
cation, Wilson S. Dakin, at the
Road. Tiie hearing was w'eli-atTown Hall tonight and Saturday
P.T.A.
meeting on Monday evetended
and
all
three
selectmen
night to see the Wilton Playshop
ning at the Center School.
were
present.
version of Thornton Wilder's
The first was the expansion of
Mr. Harrison showed a draw"Our Town,'* they'll see a family
facilities
downward to include
ing indicating his intention to
album.
build a road 70 feet from the Sugar Merchant, 86, Active Un- kindergarten or upward to take in
The action of the play centers
some of the grades now being
til His Last Illness
northern edge of his property and
around the Webb and the Gibbs
sent
out of town.
at right angles to the Danbury
families in Grovers Corners, N. H.
The second suggestion was an
The death of George E. Keiser
Pike. The cabins would be in a row
In Wilton more families are
north of the new road. They were Sr., of New York and Dumplin enrichment of the program alclosely involved. Margaret van de
planned to be 12 by 12 feet in Hill in Wilton, occurred on Friday ready offered in the Wilton
Velde takes the part of Mrs. Webb
size, heated and with running last at his city home. Mr. Keiser schools.
(Editor Webb is Frank T. Ward).
The third dealt with a closer
water and toilets. Mr. Harrison was 86 years of age but active in
Sons John and Louis play Consaid he would cater to a good the sugar business up to his last contact in community activities
so that the students would restable Warren and assistant stage
class of travellers and expected to illness.
ceive
educational advantages in
charge $3 a night for the cabins.
He was born in Anderson, Ind.,
manager, respectively.
Opposition was largely from in 1853 and entered the sugar bus- their time outside of school hours
Leading lady is Elsie Smith as
those who live in the vicinity in- iness at the age of 16. His home and during vacations.
stage daughter, Emily Webb. PlayThere was a discussion, led by
cluding Mr. and Mrs. Samuel O. for many years was Milwaukee
ing opposite her is Harry Wassell
till
he
came
to
New
York
City
in
Mr.
Knight, of a future building
Charles G. Anderson and Mr. and
Jr. as George Gibbs. Charming
1922.
plan
for the school and methods
Mrs. George S. Weston. Thomas
Smith plays Simon Stimson,
Mr. Keiser was president of the of dealing with the crowded conW. Noonan expressed the oppochoirmaster.
sugar
brokerage house George £ . dition at the Center School.
sition of Berton B. Warren of
William Jerome Jr. is the son,
Business Session
Sharp Hill who could not be pres- Keiser and Co., a business in
Wally Webb. Mrs. Jerome has
which
his
son,
David
M.
Keiser,
Tilford
W. Miller presided' at
ent.
charge of properties. Dorothy
was
associated
with
him.
In
addithe
business
meeting preceding.
Mrs. John R. Hyland, president
Randolph does sound effects.
of the Garden Club, asked if tion, Mr. Keiser Sr. was president the discussion period. The treasInnes Randolph isNa character in
there is any real demand for of four sugar producing compan- urer, Fritz C. Meyer reported that
"Our Town."
more over-night cabins in Wilton ies in this country, Cuba and Por- the P. T. A. had 119 members
Ray Martin is in charge of proas she felt those of Mr. Disprow to Rico as well as a director of whose dues are paid for this year
duction. Mrs. Margaret Martin
and that $10 had been spent for
were probably sufficient at the several other companies.
plays Mrs. Gibbs.
His wife, Mary Camp Keiser, additional equipment in the kitchpresent time.
John^J. Tucker is Dr. Gibbs in
survives
him<and also his two sons, en for the preparation of hot
It was the opinion of Benedict
the play. Daughter Rebecca, is
HERMAN M. K. SMITH
H. Gregory that definite business George Camp Keiser of Winter lunches.
played by his daughter, Anne H.
Fla., and David M. Keiser
Miss Georgianna F. Comstock
Tucker.
The home of Dr. and Mrs. Har- -zones should be established so Park,
of
New
York
City.
Both
of
the
spoke of the Christmas doorway
The Mopres, (Mr. and Mrs. old Brown Keyes> where the meet- that it will not be necessary to sons are married to Wilton girls. decorations.
She demonstrated
hold
a
hearing
every
time
someLawrence) are creating* stage ef- !Ung was held; Was adorned with a
Mrs.
George
C.
Keiser
Jr.
is
the
the
plant
material
which is on the
series of arrangements by mem- one wants to build a commercial former Nancy Hull and Mrs. David
fects. There is no scenery.
conservation list and which may
Ernest Stock designed and made bers of the club. They were voted structure. He felt that people C. Keiser was Sylvia Kodjbanoff. not be used in the doorway comthe posters. Mrs. Anne Stock sings on by those present. The first two should not be prevented from doFuneral services for Mr. Keiser
this year. She said that
places went to the blue spruce in what they please with their own were held at his home in New petition
in the choir.
one of the primary purposes of
Gardner L. Harding replied
Henry M. Wreszin plays the lead pewter and to the mantle decora- land.
York
City
on
Tuesday
morning.
the competition is to induce the
the hope that some better
—the stage manager—in "Our tion presented by the team of with
The
widow
and
sons
accompanied
use of plant material which is
plan for zoning could be worked
Town." Brother Ralph is business Mrs. R. H. Hallsted, Mrs. James out.
the body to Milwaukee for burial. plentiful rather than those wild
He
said
that
several
proBradley Jr. and Mrs. R. Curt
manager.
species which are becoming
Mrs.
Lawrence posals had been turned down
Tickets for both the Thursday Hasenclever.
scarce. She demonstrated the
largely because they were not
and Saturday night performances Moore was third with a grouping sufficiently clear to be understood.
point with a piece of stag horn
may be obtained from either Mr. of mums and pine, branches. Until a better system could be
moss three feet in length which,
Wreszin or the Wilton Pharmacy Fourth place went to Mrs. Otto M. secured, he felt it would be necshe said, took 10 years to grow.
Stanfield.
—telephone Wilton 21.
essary to be on guard that unThe home of Mr. and Mrs. When used for decoration, the
Magic of Herbs
desirable changes did not take George J. Wessels on Weston roots must be pulled up, thus deMr. Smith said: "What I shall place in Wilton. Mr. Lindblom Road, Georgetown, burned to the stroying the plant. The same aphave to say to you this afternoon welcomed the suggestion that the ground Sunday afternoon with a plies to the ground pine or runcould hardly be called a lecture. Selectmen might be relieved of loss estimated at about $2,500.
ning moss and to the club mosses
It can only be a purely personal the duty of enforcing the resiThe cause of the fire, which or princess pine. All these plants
story
of
my
own
experiences
withA meeting of poultry raisers will
dential rules.
broke out about 3:30 pjn., has are destroyed when pulled. Laurel,
«z held in the Town Hall tomor- out order or form.
not been determined. Neither Mr. I she said, is still being protected
row evening. The Farm Bureau
"It would be a presumption on
nor Mrs. Wessels was at home but but plans are under way for its
is providing a program including my part to address you as fellowneighbors saw smoke issuing from growth in commercial plantings
motion pictures taken at the gardeners. My methods of gardentheir house and called the George- where it can be cut under superworlds Poultry Congress, a talk ing are far too unorthodox for
town Fire Department. A high vision without damaging the
oy the manager of the Mt. Fair that. I plant what and when and (
wind fanned the blaze and fire- plant. The striped wintergreen,
Next Wednesday evening, Nov- men
Farm on "How I Feed and Care how and where I please with comwere not able to get it under pipiswissa, rattlesnake plantin
[or My Birds and What R. O. P. plete disregard of all but the ember 29, there will be a hearing control.
(Continued on page four)
in
the
selectmen's
office
on
the
has Meant to Me."
most fundamental rules of garRoy M. Jones, poultry special- den as I learned them on a farm application of Lloyd E. Scribner
of Cannondale for permission to
ist for the Extension Service will in Michigan as a boy.
install three gasoline pumps on
aiscuss the purpose, development
The French have an old saying his property west of the Danbury
and results of the National Poul- "If you wish to be happy for a
Pike between Cannondale and
m • * m p r o v c m e n f c P I a n and the day, drink wine. H you wish to be Georgetown.
After Mr. Dakin's address at the ^$150 per student plus additional
matter of bringing the New Eng- happy for three days-get married
In the summer months, Mr. Parent
Teacher's
Association transportation. The present bud£nd ration
up
to
date.
There
will
—if
you
wish
to
be
happy
for.
a
Scribner
maintains
a
roadside
J . } D a n el discussion on "Tricks week, kill your pig and eat him- market at this point called the meeting on Monday, Mr. Knight get of the School Board does not
talked informally on the problem provide any funds for these pur°i the Trade in Feeding."
tContinued on page eleven)
"Stone
Mill
Market."
It
has
been
of overcrowding in the Center poses. Our real difficulty in the
As the bulletin of the Extension
widely
popular.
The
sale
of
gasoSchool.
school is that the present large
pervice remarks, "The tricks used
line
has
been
suggested
by
several
He
said,
in
part:
"I
believe
you
classes do not permit the teacher
Spiegelberg Lectures
j»y football players to 'Hold That
of
his
customers.
Such
a
station
must
ail
know
that
Center
School,
to give much individual attention
"ne are no more intricate and
would
also
permit
Mr.
Scribner
to
in
spite
of
its
enlargement,
is
to
the students. Yet the kind of an
mportant than those used by
Dr. Friederich Spiegelberg of continue some of his helpers in now overcrowded. There are over education
which we are trying to
wuitrymen to hold, their hens in Pond Road, lectured at St. Stehis
employment
all
through
the
40
students
in
several
rooms.
Only
give
demands
a lot of individual
Production."
phen's Parish House on Monday year instead of during the summer the eighth grade has less than 30
attention.
afternoon on "Christ, His Two months only.
students.
Whatever
solution
Is
"Should Wilton plin for the esNatures." This was the fifth in a
Library Sale
The
discussion
at
ttte
Ikearliig
adopted
is
sure
to
cost
money.
If
tablishment of a Junior High
scries of eight lectures which Dr. will be whether the selectman
we
send
one
or
two-grades
to
School? If we add another elema*£Lt!, nvUlng a r r f t y °* took* is Spiegelberg is giving in Ridge- should grant their approval for Georgetown, there will be in- entary school at the present time,
^cmblcd at the library and will field The subject for his next the location as "suitable for the
creased charges for transportation I it obviously would not be filled for
a,e Fm
lecture, which will be on Monday,
cnn2!.?
book Tsale
£ommlttee w l u*y^ m The
sale
of
gasoline
and
other
procharge
he
and
the salary of at least one many years to come. Or we might
November 27, is "Grace and Merducts,
due
consideration
being
more teacher at that school. If
K U * * * ' F r W * y , 2 to 9 p.m; cy. Redemption Through Suffer- given to the proximity to schools, we send more grades to Westport take the eighth grade alone to
Georgetown. That would leave
^ d a y io to 12 a m ; 2 to 5:30 ing. The meaning of the Cross
(Continued on page sixteen)
then we have to pay tuition of
through Christian History."
(Continued on page sixteen)
George E. Reiser
Dies in New York
$2,500 Fire Levels
Home in Georgetown
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Poultrymen to Meet
In Wilton Friday
Hearing Wednesday
On Filling Station
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Mr. Knight States His Views
On Overcrowded Wilton School
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