The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-21

approval of a majority of the residents including the 500 newcomers who, if the plan works out as MT. Tomlinson estimates, will locate here in the next five years
 Another assumed cause for shying
 rocks at the project has been it's fan cled antagonism to good roads. It is true that MT. Tomlinson suggested
 that some of the back roads be left practically as they are because so much Tn keeping with the surround 1ngs. Had he lived long in the town ne would have known that fears for the1r reconstruction into first class highways were needless. The authori- tles expend little effort on these back hlghWays, not nearly as much as those having occasion to use them would like. On the subject of highways the contract says only that the trustees may improve some of the principal roads. So may any other private parties provided the improvements are
 carried out after plans approved by the local authorities. The selectmen are charged by statute with the care of
 roads and if they fail to perform this duty properly may be compelled to do so by the county commissioners. In aodltlon there is the law for the build ing of improved roads by the town and State jointly. Bedding has now to her credit something over $5.000 for this purpose and only awaits the action or the State commissioners to apply It to the, use designated. If the pres- ent legislature makes a further good
 roads appropriation this town will countless put in a claim for it's share. NO one need fear that the land pro- | Ject will prove any obstacle to Red ding's aspirations for improved high ways. ,
 l The two essentials on which the ma- turing of fha scheme hinoaS first 1 the pledging of the required amount or land and, second, the finding of a contractor. A month or six weeks should determine whether these con- ditions can be met.
 One of the strong and much discuss ed novels of the past year was '"To- gether,'' written by Robert Herrick of the Chicago University faculty. Prof. Herrick has recently been in Bedding and during his stay looked about with a view of acquiring a place of resi- dence here. He has arranged to place
 his son as pupil in the Sanford school in the spring.
 Commodore Luttgen has had surveys ! made and other preliminary work done towards the building of dam for the
 flooding of about eight acres at the east of his new mansion on Sunset Hill. The formation of the ground is
 such that to secure the desired depth
 dikes would have to be built on the
 east and west sides of the tract to be
 flooded. Another possible obstacle is
 an old highway which has fallen into
 disuse except for the carting of wood.
 The location of the proposed pond is
 on the land bought by L. O. Peck from the Gorham estate.
 The grand lisit of 1908, recently com
 pleted except for the review of the
 board of relief, totals $S87, an in-
 crease from the previous year of $59,-
 239. Virtually all of this increase rep
 resents new buildings. There will
 probably be no material reductions by
 the board of relief
 By score of 23 to 21 the Ridge
 School of Litchf1eled county defeated
 the Sanford School at basket ball at
 the latter's gymnasium last Saturday.
 The Sanford's play the. town team of
 Bethel at the same place Saturday af-
 ternoon of this week.
 Ice cutting at the; Pleasant Valley
 ponds began last Tuesday when E. M.
 Sanford put in Miss J. H. Sanford's
 supply. The ice was ten inches thick.
 Mrs. M. c. Dewey has vacated the
 George Sherman house in Pleasant
 Valley and gone to New York for the
 rest of the winter.
 The reported sale by L. O. Peck of
 another large building site on Sunset
 Hill has no foundation in fact.