The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-09

considerable section of the Park road
 which was built by the Old Put club
 and the ownership of which passed by
 purchase to himself. The condition
 is that the town shall follow a new
 layout at the lower end over land
 which he owns. This new piece of
 roadway to be constructed under his
 proposition is approxin1at ely 600 feet
 in length and the cost will not be
 large. In connection with the proposed
 improvement the moving of the barn
 on the land will be necessary. As MT.
 Chambers proposition is an advanta-s
 geous one for the town 1t will probab
 ly be accepted.
 At least two of the nine school dis
 tricts of the town are yet to take de- cisive action on the proposed plan to lequanze such differences as may exist
 in the value of their school property
 by unreservedly deeding it to the
 town. The adjourned meeting of the
 Ridge district is appointed for this i(Thursday) evening and that of the
 Umpawaug district for the following evening. Should one district fail to concur in the arrangement the plan falls through and the assessors must get busy in the task of making a val uation of all taxable property in the town by school district lines, a work for which there is hardly time before the October election by which date the WOTk ShOulQ De completed.
 Work on the State road across the upper part of the Ridge is proceeding with a satisfactory degree of progress despite some delays from partial de- sertions by the Italian 1aborers The stone ballast has been Laid and mostly mer John Close house from which point to the Five Points there is to be no stone foundation. It has been found that owing to an error in the measurement figures by which they were guided that the contractors be- gan work on the south end 22 feet from the termination of the piece of State road previously built This gap they will build although it was not covered by the terms of their con- tract. The plans for the lower stretch Of the Ridge road, extending from the Episcopal church corner to Burr's Hill, were submitted to the highway con1- missioner last week by Civil Engineer Sanford, and this job will be advertis- ed next week.
 Couch Hill districts the public schools opened on Tuesday of this week with the following teachers: Ridge, Miss Jennie McDonald; Center, Miss Joseph Bishop; Umpawaug, Miss Lou Carson; Diamond Hill, Miss Maggie Flood. A Miss Dooley of Middletown has been engaged to teach the Boston school while for Couch Hill a teacher is yet to be secured.
 Having lost three pigs by ravenous dogs since last spring George F. Ha. gen. recently placed what swine he had left within the protection of a wire fence@ At o'clock last Sunday morn ing the noise of barking reused him and going forth with his gun he saw a dog trying to get inside the enclo- sure. one shot finished the intruder. Of the three pigs killed MT. Hazen has received pay from the State for one and from the town for another. He will also get pay for the third from one of these sources.
 The Sanford School reopens Sept. 21 with all the pupils for which it has ac- Practically all of last | years pupils are to return except | those who have entered college. The | tea ching staff will be the same as last | year except for Mrs. Shelton, the in | structor in drawing. H. K. Rymington, | a former pupil, is to pursue his edu- 1 cationa1 course the coming year by a | trip around the world as a member of | school of travel.
 Bedding Grange will be represented | at the State fair in Berlin next week | by an exhibit of fruit and vegetables | to which nearly all the members are | to contribute. Articles for the exhib l 1t are to be delivered to Past Master | Albert A. Gorham who will attend to | their packing and shipment. For | the exhibit the Grange re- | ,eives a bonus of $10.
 Albert Bigelow Paine is about to | nave his house on the west side en- arged by roomy addition and oth- erwise improved. An addition is also .o be built and many other improve nents made to Alexander Schall's house at the Center. Builder M. B. Burr is to do both jobs. The house | 1t Hoyt's Hill Bethel, which Joseph romlinson bought last spring, is being by Builder McCollum.
 A final decision is daily expected in he action brought to evict the family ,f Charles Banks from the former zeke Burr place in the Glen Bernard 7on Beacheinhausen, the present own sr of the property awaits the issue inn