The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-10
STAMFORD

The town meeting last night was largely attended and passed off in a quiet, orderly and business like man. ner. Judge Peck presided and in the stable Beardsley read the warning. The first item of business, according to the warning, was to consider the advisa-
 bility sof making further appropria- tion for the addition to the center
 school. MT. Samuel Beardslee made the point of order that as nothing
 was said in the. warning about voting | money, the matter could not be con sidered. Point over-ruled. MT.
 Brakeman. on behalf of the School effect. that 5000 be appropriated for the proposed addition to the school building. Rev. MT. Bullock proposed that the resolution be tabled. MT. Blakeman went over the situation,
 which has already been made public,
 and told why he wanted the extra $2,- 900. He hoped the resolution would
 not be rejected. MT. Bullock advo-
 cated the purchase of the Sillick es-
 tate and using that for a school house. It was plain that the voters did not favor adding rooms to the center school, and the resolution to give the School Board $2, 900 in addition to the $14, ,000 already voted, was laid on the table by the decisive vote of 81 to Il. MT. Carlos F. Blakeman said the an- nex building to the center school can not be spared for the Huntington road people. He added that if there is an empty room in the Russell building he will try to rent it, as another room thought it was not practical to so all
 ter the inside of the Sillick building as to make it into a school house.
 The second article in the warning was in relation to the Hollister Heights school The committee re- nortad rrOnOSad tO h11Ir 1ot containing one acre, situated at the corner of Barnum and Sound View avenues. It can be had for $2,600. It is on high ground and fronts a street 100 feet wide. It belongs to the Cur tis Thompson estate of 10 acres. MT. Blakeman called the attention of the. assessors to the fact that the whole estate is assessed at but $4, ,000, but when the town wishes to purchase one acre, the sum of $2, 2,600 is asked. MT. ,Conine remarked that he was glad MT. Blakeman was waking up. He thought the location a very fair one, and added that it is but one half mile from the railroad. The resolution to was adopted. The question of school for Huntington. Road was preached but nothing was done about it. The town appropriated the sum of $200 for repairs to the town hall and the meeting adjourned. It was stated during the meeting that anoth- CT extra town meeting will soon be called to consider the proposition to purchase the Sillick property, which can be had for s16,O00, just the sum wanted for building four additional rooms to the center school house. The Sillick question is beginning to loom large, and something may come of it.
 To-day Rev. c. S. Bullock, his wife and daughter, Evelyn, went to New York to be measured for their cos tunes which they are to wear during the Hudson-Fulton celebration, on board the Clarernont. MT. Bullock is to represent Robert Fulton and Miss Evelyn Harriet Livingston, whose en- gagement to Fulton was first announc- ed on the Claremont. This will take place in New York on the 18th of Sep tember. As the Claremont sails from Newburg to Poughkeepsie Mrs. Bull lock will take Evelyn's place and rep resent Harriet Livingston.
 The funeral of John Evans, whose remains were taken yesterday from the Housatonic river, was held this morning at St. James, church.
 Yesterday Father Duggan of West