The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-02
BEDDING NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST
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. V WIN NA1AD ANO < Reading. April If Mark Twain fails ito carry out his announcement made last fall that this year he was going to get into closer fellowship with the farmers of Bedding by raising some sort of a crop, he ca mot plead time he owned upwards of 200 acres and this he has increased lately by the purchase from Stephen Carmina. of the former Frank Lee farm near George town which gives him 125 acres more. This property adjoinS his former hold 1ngS and it's acquisition will enable him to carry out a previously formed de sign of building a road from the vicin- ity of his residence southerly to the highway leading into Georgetown from the east. The price paid for the prop erty Is not stated but is believed to be $6. 900 or more. The house on the place interior repairS to put it into first class shape. The supposftfon is that before the summer is over it will be occupied by some of the new owners friends.
 At their meeting on Saturday the Selectmen decided to make permanent the 'layoff' of Civil Engineer D. C. Sanforxd which they had decreed tenn porarfly a month before with refer ence to t4ae fob he had undertaken of surveying and mapping the town boun- dary line. With two helpers he had put in about six weeks on the job at total cost Of about $260. This was moro than the original estimate for the whole job and it was rather less than oue-Qf1arter done In addition the DOT tion gone over was already well mark cd ana had been mapped, a fact Of which the board was not at first aware. The members will probably peranrbu- late the rest of the line themselves, securing the aid of a surveyor only in case that it should be found neces- gary
 John Todd died Wednesday morning after an illness of about ten days from
 tage of the disease but lacked strength
 ally and heart failure ensued. The
 eaAed was not quite 30 years of age
 f1is younger days he taught school
 d worked at farn1ing- Subsequently
 estafdished aL lime kiln and followed
 fs business until about ten years ago
 Then, having accumulated a, fortune. (he sold out to the New England Lime To. His estate is estimated at from quarter to half a million dollars and Eill go virtually in it's entirity, it is thought, to Arthur J. Todd. his son by 1doption. The deceased was twice own. Last year he and his second wife celebrated their golden wedding ami versary. Charles Burr Todd. the au- thor, is a nephew and there are also two nieces surviving. MT. Todd was close in his business dealings and thrifty and economical in his ways. but was known to all his acquaintances as man of strict honesty and upright- church he was 6 liberal contributor m the ninetieS he served one term ill fehe Legislature and was for several l$ears a member Of the Putnam Park Commission.
 Redding Grange will have an open meeting at their hall on the Ridge on "Wednesday evening, April T. at S:3o. The principal speaker will be Prof. -Y- 4 MI Come of the officers of the State Grange are also to attend. Grand Master Hoaley had hoped to be with them but other engagements prevent eubstitute- There is no admission fee Tor the meeting and the public are cor d1alIy invited to attend. -
 Application has been made to the Fxobafe court for letters of adminis- hation on the estate of George KeeIer. George w. Wheeler of Bethel being Eecenmended s16t appointn1eHts as ad- su11nfstrator. Investigation of the per-, sistent rumor that the deceased had $500 or $500 in a DanbuTy or q Water bury savings bank shows that it is without foundation in fact.
 The grumbling~ over. the poor quality of the local telephone service is about to kake formal shape in a protest and petition to the company at it's main office in New Haven. The document will lay stress on the fact that the
 
 each to make prompt and satisfactory service possible. Of course the only remedy for this is the stringing of more wires. Another grievance is the Frequency with which the lines get out of order and the tardy and inefficient way in which repairs are made. The company promised more wires last year, but have done nothing in this ddreetfon. The attitude of the Dan bury Central would seem to be express ed by one of their representatives the other day who told a local subscriber Chat more wires meant more outlay, and the Southern New England Tele- ph0n7 Co. was not in business for it's health.
 The statement last week that Rich ard Emslie had settled his s5000 suit A8ainSt the Danbury & Bethel trolley conupany for 1000 was error. He authorized his counsel to settle and supposed that he had done so. but the attorney decided the plaintiff would fare better by letting a jury fix the damages. The case was being heard in Danbury this week.
 John O'Brien. who has been in the employ of Builder Burr since last fall. had a paralytic stroke last Sunday which left one side helpless. He has gone to his home in Bridgeport. agent and Henry Duncan grand juror by the Selectmen. The latter was H1eeted a grand juror last fall but Jailed to qualify within the specified time.
 Last Thursdays heavy rainfall wash cd the roads badly in places, doing more damaR> than all the storms of