Connecticut western news., 1903-07-02
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
EHtor of NetcS,

Ethtor of Netcs,
 Your correspondent here reported the district school as closed last week Mon day night So it did, and has about five nights a week since the term commenced but the final close for the term will be | the latter part of this week.
 Your readers are little surprised ill ! regard to the item giving account of the remains of Miss Alice Gritman being taken to Warren "where her husband was buried" She was a maiden lady who never had a husband buried in | Warren or anywhere else. She had | taken sole care of an invalid brother for many years, till becoming helpless her self ..hef brother was sent away, and she went to Bridgeport hospital for an op- 1 eration but did not survive.
 1 The Methodist church was decorated with flowers for Childrens Day services | Sunday, 2lst, but the great rain inter | fcred somewhat.
 Burton B. Patterson drove his fine our-years-old steers to the village last Saturday morning where they tipped the scales to 3160 pounds.
 Chas. G. Patterson is out with a hand some set of new double work harness.
 Rye, cut for green fodder before. the rains, lies out on the ground spoiled,
 Mrs. Cora $. Swift is appointed ad- ministratrix on the estate of Theodore Swift and application is made for the appointment of Judge Geo. c. Harrison as administrator on the estate of James 1 F. Swift, deceased.
 Your editorial ill regard to the need of the trolley in Berkshire and Litchtield counties was ill the right line. If the line is extended south to Falls Village it could then be extended through Corn wall Hollow and via West Goshen, and thence to any point east or south; or 1t could go down the valley of fthe Shepaug to Hawleyville or cross Warren line, running near Milton to Bantam. to con nect with Watertown line; or run into the Naugatuck Valley near Reynolds | Bridge; or it might run to Lime Rock Station and then rise gradually to the valley east of Mount Tarra Diddle east of West Cornwall, thence east of Corn wall Plain and so into the Shepaug Val ley and thence to any point desired. If these lines could carry freight, and thus be made an aid to develop the towns through which they would be built, they should be able to pay good dividends, and the land owners could well afford to build and operate the lines. On these routes are mountains of granite, hun dreds of square miles of valuable wood lands, spar-clays for brick, lime for burning, besides carrying feeds, coal and general freight; and there are ample water powers to generate electric power. But there seems to have been an influence of late years in our legis- lature to restrict individual rights as far as telephones and carrying freight is concerned. In connection with this subject is your news item ill last week s NEWS regarding advance of freight rates on the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Is 1t fair that great wealthy corporation like that be allowed to move freight cars by electric motors all over the cities and carry baggage and express on its electric lines, and no trolley ill the state to carry .l piece of baggage or ton of freight Is it just that one gigantic telephone company shall be given the exclusive control of the state and village be denied the right to build its own tele- phones if it desires to do so? Much money is being practically thrown away by grading dirt roads where there never ought to be road, but relocation on better grade.
 SILAS G. PATTERSON. Cornwall Bridge, Conn.,,
 June 22, 1903.