The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-19
BEDDING
BEDDING THE MYSTERY" OF BEDDING ACCOUNTS
Farmer Correspondent Thinks EIucida tiOn Should be for Expert
 Accountant.

Bedding. Nov. 1e.-The Turney San-
 ford place in Pleasant Valley has been
 sold by Mrs. Benlah Osborn. the late Lowner's granddaughter, to Miss Esther
 Waterman. a wealthy lady of South
 port. The transaction was effected
 through the Sanford real estate agency
 for a consideration said to be about
 8. 500 Included in the deal are the
 elder min and, adjacent pond which
 were owned by Charles Sanford and
 the ice house that belonged to W. c.
 Sanford. The mill win be removed. ! Besides a large house and a stone
 barn the property acquired by Miss Waterman comprises 35 acres. ten of
 which are a tract used by the late
 owner for the raising of small fruits
 and vegetables. Miss Waterman has
 been within the past two or three
 years guest at the Ridge Inn for
 the town became actuated by a wish
 to secure a summer place here Her
 plans regarding the property are not fully matured but she contemplates | keeper who will have the privilege of taking boarders, keeping in reserve at all times accommodations for the own fer- In that event the landlady will probably be Miss Rushton. who has heretofore conducted the Ridge Inn and is now in charge of the domestic arrangements of the Sanford school. Not until the late Ezra Bassett was on his death bed did even his near relatives know that he had a savings bank deposit of s1.40o. A few days before his decease he made an equal division of the property between his two maiden sisters. Mary and Sarah The latter has since passed away. MT. Bassett was physically incapacitated for active employment during the lat ter half of his life and the hoard he had accumulated represented the saw ings from his earnings while a young man at the Bradley Axe factory in Weston
 Since. the latter part of last week work has been activeiy in progress on the private roadway which Commodore Suttgen and L. O. Peck are building from a point on Sunset Hill near the latter's residence to the cross high way in Dodgingtown. The laboring force consists of about 40 Italians fur nished by Contractor Fletcher. who built Bethers new reservoir dam and Is also constructing the big dam by which MT. Luttgen will flood tract of about eighteen acres in the valley east of Sunset Hill. The latter project will be completed in about a month The roadway Is to be about one and a third mile in length and in the upper section its construction will require considerable cutting down and filling The cost is estimated at from $10.OO0
 
 nearly completed the foundation work for the house which MT Luttgen is to erect for his daughter on the form Ter Murray and Sherman properties and expects to have the job finished early in the spring. These improve ments suggest review Of the large out avs made in this locality within the last few years. MT Peck's expen- ditures are estimated at s100.0 900. while those by Commodore Luttgen for his @rnr @f 1r Gr this sum. In addition he spent about s5.O00 for macadamiZing stretch of roadway at the upper end of Sunset Hill and he and MT Peck together of fered the town s2.000 for rebuilding the Sunset Hill highway. southward- This scheme fell through on account of the refusal of Highway Com Macdonald to sanction the use of State appropria- ton money for it's accomplishment
 Winthrop Perry. who recently bought the Joel Perry homestead prop erty, has since purchased about 60 acres of sprout land adjoining 1t from Charles R. Morehouse of Weston.
 The town has paid the State tax Of cne-half mill one the grand list levied by the last General Assembly. The amount was $4s1.92-
 A party of the Sanford school pupils with Principal D. s. Sanford attend ed the YaIe-Princeton football game at New Haven last Saturday
 A handsome monument was recent ly erected in Saufordtown cemetery in memory of the late Dr. Gorham of Wilton
 Jump Hil Is still nominally closed to travel but the State roadway con-. strl ton Is sufficiently advanced for teams to make their way over it.
 The selectmen met at Putnam Park yesterday to receive and talk over the plans for the new park roadway over the layout donated by Frank R. Cham bers. They will hold a meeting Sat urday to arrange for. inviting bids for the job.
 Some one who modestly conceals his identity under the pseudonym ID" ex- presses himself in last Thursdays Farmer about Bedding Ridge affairs and the Farmers Bedding correspond ent. Despite the tone of clumsy black guardian and caIlow impotence which runs through the production let us deal gently with ID" as 1t is meet that the erring and the ignorant should he dealt with. For while surely enough. the tone is as described, the itself. considered in the light of its evident purpose, is as anus ingly futile as that of the spanked by making faces and sticking out its tongue. Nor. although ID" professes to speak as the champion of the town should the town bear the reproach of his production with it's blind alley 1 grammar and its damaging. although | admissions No. the arti- | cle's assumption of representative | quality is effectually discredited by its | alien and unauthoritative sound. Take, | for instance, this choice excerpt:
 The writer of these articles" (re- | ference being to those regarding the | proposed investigation of the towns | affairsO ''in his attempts | to throw light upon the mystery of | town accounts has made a miserable | failure of 1t. as any one can see that | he cannot prove what he is accusing | them of" |
 Disregarding the impulse to finger | over the inquiry. "who's them" we | pass on to the phrases mystery of | town accounts" and cant prove it." as of more compelling attention. The cant prove ft' cry is the familiar | one of the criminal who fiatters him.