The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-16
BEDDING NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST
 TO OUR READERS

TO OUR READERS Bedding, Sept. 16.-By voting on
 Monday night to reject the plan of
 conveying it's school property to the 1 town Umpawaug district has blocked the short cut method of equalization | called for in connection with the change from the district system to the town system of school management. | The vote against the plan endorsed by the attorney general was practically
 unanimous. The Ridge district held it's third meeting to pass on the, same question last Thursday night and vot- ed in the affirmative but the refusal of a single district to acquiesce, was suf- ficient to defeat the plan. Umpa- | waug's action leaves matters in rather an awkward situation. The time be- in which to make an assessment valu- ation of the towns property by school
 district lines and there is doubt wheth- CT the assessment would be legal if not finished by this date. If the job were prolonged into the next month the latter part of 1t would have to be
 done by the board of assessors elected at the annual town meeting and the legal status of an assessment begun by one board and finished by another
 
 statute plainly provides that the as- sessment shall be made in September and that the equalization tax based on this assessment and the appraisal of the school property shall be laid at the annual town meeting which will be held this year on Oct. 4. Until re- gently only the two methods of ad- justment referred to have been under consideration but according to Secre- tary Hine of the State board of Edu- cation there remains a third which is authorized by chapter 146 of the pub lie acts.
 The execution of the third proposed plan must be by action of a town meeting and in furtherance of the ob- ject sought to be attained Secretary olution:
 'aThat for the purpose of relieving the town from the expense of equali- zation and adjustment under the. pro- visions of chapter 146 of the public acts of 1909 the; town school committee is directed to assume control of the school property and in lieu of the equalization tax the selectmen shall credit each district with the amount of the appraisal of its property and the town shall pay and perform all debts and obligations of said district in lieu of equalization and adjustment in case districts do not continue their organization for any purpose after December 1, 1909.'
 This seems straight and comprehen- sible enough except for the closing sentence. A town meeting votes to as- sunpe control of the property without taxing districts having less valuable school property to make up for their deficiencies, tke nominal consideration therefor being assumption of the dis trict indebtedness. It happens that none of the districts in this town has any indebtedness, but that fact may be immaterfal The last sentence, however, would seem to imply that the districts may if so disposed con- tinue their organization whereas the primary object of the new law is to do away with district management and the maintenance of organization without power would be an empty formaIity. In fact the law makes of this being so why should the resolu- tion refer to the continuance of dis trict organization as if it were a pos- sibility contingent on some sort of bargain Here is a puzzle sure enough and before anything is done in refer ence to the latest adjustment propo- sition legal advice will probably be taken.
 The way having been cleared by the dissolution of the defendants injunc- tion and the withdrawal of his writ of error in the summary process ac- tion of Caroline P. Greer vs. Charles Banks, Constable Joseph R. Hawley, with William Banks as his assistant, visited the former Zeke Burr place last Saturday afternoon armed with writ of execution for the eviction of the occupants. No opposition was offered to the service of the writ. By the time the executors hadf finished taking up carpets and carrying out the rest of the furniture the stove had cooled sufficiently to be handled. On learning from Constable Hawley that his bondsman was W. H. Hill, Chas. Banks intimated that MT. Hill would have to stand suit for damages on ac- count of the eviction proceedings. This is not the only indication that the parties are inclined towards further litigation as on the same day the Banks family was moved out the jus tice who tried the case received from Lawyer Gregory, their attorney pa pers embodying several new motions. One was that the original judgment be vacated and another that Minnie Banks be allowed to come in as a party defendant. The justice refus- ed to entertain the motions and re- Greer will endeavor to obtain satis- faction for the<action of the late ten ant in gathering the apples on the premises and the damage done to the trees in the process.
 Without a dissenting voice the spe- cial town meeting of Saturday voted to accept Frank R. Chambers proposi- tion to turn over to the town that sec- tion of the Putnam Park road owned by him provided the town would re- place part of it with a road built overs new layout across land which he owns and which he also donates for that purpose.
 In connection with the vote of &C., ceptance the selectmen were author ized to contract for the construction of f11a new rliapa of road S If c Oanar- ally realized that the disposition made of the matter settles question which might aephaseAannoy.;