The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-30
JUDGE WINTHROP PERRY ACQUIRES
 WESTON DGMAIN
HIS HOLDINGS MAY BE INCREAS- ED TO 2,50O ACRES-REDDING BACK TAXES LESS THAN REP RESENTED-OTHE NEWS OF BEDDING AND VICINITY.

| routine work as they lacked sufficient
 ly complete data to make much pro-
 gress towards clearing up back taxes
 this being now their special field of
 effort. To facilitate this work the
 town clerk Is getting the record of | tax liens in shape for a compete re- port. It appears that upon the old
 rate books of which he took charge
 three or four years ago Attorney s. C. Shaw has collected about I,4o0. IL | also appears that Se.ectman Pinkneys
 estimate of s1i.O00 as the total amount
 several thousands Attorney Hurl-
 butt. in reviewing the situation as | regards back taxes in a rec0nt opin-
 ion. pointed out that for a numoer
 had vio-ated the law by proceeding
 with the collection of tax accounts | upon their books after their term of
 office had expired. This was merely
 technica. deviation from the law and does not appear to have caused an actual harm. The collectors err ed through ignorance of the law which is not so strange in view of the
 fact that none of the town officials
 are given to a diligent perusal of the
 Revised Statutes of Connecticut. The | town clerk has a copy of this useful
 volume but there Is none in the se- lectmen's office at the town hall nor has there been since the revision of 4
 pages of the book are h-led with sec
 tions bearing upon se.ectmen's pow CTS and duties. Economy was prob
 ably the considera tion which restrain
 ed the board from investing in a copy.
 In public affairs economy is doubt
 less a great virtue and one which is
 often insufficiently regarded. Its ex-
 ercise in the present instance has
 saved the town s2.50. How much it
 has cost indirectly one is not called
 
 The contract between the town and
 James E. Trelduen for the building of the new road below Putnam Park has been signed. The bond of s300 required from the contractor was fur n.shed by George s. Banks.
 Miss Lucy Sanford. daughter of First Selectmen Charles Sanford has the scarlet fever and the house has been quarantined- It Is supposed that she caught the infection in Bridgeport about two weeks ago.
 The local ice harvest began in ear nest this week. the ice being of good
 thickness and quality. E. P. San ford began filling his houses on Tues day. John Muennich has arranged to store a large quantity this year. N T. Hcggson has had his ice house moved to a new location and rebuilt on an enlarged plan.
 Mrs John c. Read of hometown re- turned on Tuesday from a two months absence in the West. most of which was passed with her sister. Mrs. Ho- hart Brinsmade. at St. Louis. On the return trip she stopp>d for a week in Chicago with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Harry Olmstead-
 Miss Lizzie Lockwood, who died at her home in Ridgefield last Friday sin of Mrs. John S. Sanford and had many acquaintances in this town. Her age was 65.
 A hockey team has been organized by Ridge and Center talent. and 1t would like to hear from similar teams in neighboring towns with view to games Address L. warser. Bethel.
 A coon Is rarely captured in daylight because caution impels him to conane his walks abroad to the night season. The other day. however Al Emmons' dog encountered a coon in the cary afternoon and ran 1t into a ledge whence 1t was yanked with a hook and killed.
 The authorship credit for :sThe Fol- lies of Rsdding R.dge." recently pre- sented with SO much success by the ! pupils of the Sanford school, belongs to Raymond Cunningham. one of the staff of teachers. The suggestion has | been made that he extend the Foll'es into a second series for jubilee presen- tatIon before the present school term | ends.
 The large building which the GIL bert & Bennett Co.,. have acded to | their manufacturing pant in George town during the year Is completed | except for the installation of the me | equipment The structure is I said to represent an outlay of about | E5o.o00.
 A steady improvement which Is very hopeful continues in the condition of | William C. Sanford. He left his bed | .ime In a long period and is now strong enough to be out of doors isily.
 Builder McCollam has taken a con- ract to add another story to the Iitchen extension of L. O. Peck's resi- fence on Sunset Hill.
 Sheriff Banks has lately been laid ID with an attack of sciatica from which he is improving.
 Considerable work had to be done to make the roads passabie liter the snow drifts. The mails did lot come through until Tuesday.
 few weeks ago 1t was stated in his correspondence that the recently hrop Perry in Weston amounted to % acres His agent has since con- inued purchasing until the total Is low upwards of 1.500 acres and to his there will be added 1000 acres nore provided the agent can buy on erms satisfactory to h,s principal. '~'s --'r cc~-n-'se the greater part of he region extending south and south NSs ~AAi. bACA.Gy . corner ana knOWn 6 ''1he Den" What the purposes of , udge Perry are in becoming the own r of so large a territory remain as ct unrevealed. He has said that he Id not Intend to establish a game pre- crve either on a club basis or for his wn use as he does not care much for uniting. That farming is his object 3 also denied so that about the only uess left remaining Is development i f the tract for building purposes. T fuch of the land. however, would eem too mild for such uses being It, e else than crude and barren wild [ rness. The building of a road to be } hfee miles long southwesterly from he Joel Perry place, which forms the ) ucleus of Judge Perry's domain, had ot progressed far when work on the 2 )b was suspended until spring. The t 0rce of surveyors who had entered | pom a thorough sizing up of the f roperty has also suspended opera a ons for the winter. but work was 2 ept going upon the reconstruction of T 10 old house at the Joel Perry farm. Q uilder Eugene Adams Is doing the s