The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-11
BEDDING NEWS
A Reply to Taxpayer or the Towns Land
 Project.

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 Bedding; Feb. 1.-The contract for
 the Samuel C. Shaw house has been
 awarded to the Smith Building Co.,, of Bridgeport. MT. Shaw and the con-
 tractors were here Tuesday, looking over the ground and making arrange
 ments to begin construction operations
 at once. It is reported that the con- tract figures are about $30,00O. The ! first story is to be of hollow concrete ! blocks and the remaining part of wood. 1 Tiles will be freely used in the interior 1 finish. Besides the house a horse barn | is to be erected. Next week a force l of Italian laborers will start excava- 1 tion for the cellar and when this is fin-
 ished the other building work will be
 steadily pushed The material to be
 used on the job will be carted from
 Bethel by E. M. Sanford. A roadway | is to be built northward through the
 fields from the building site by Mar
 shall Sanford.
 It is authoritative1y stated that in l the recent senatorial election Repre- degee, thereby fulfilling his ante-elec- | tion pledge Nedeless to say that the 1 local E. J. Hill followers are free in | their declarations as to what will hap pen to MT. Banks in consequence of l his action should he again seek pre- l I0rm0nL rom the fS6QOlI1g 0lSCCOFdle.
 Clinton Sanford is again home from
 Storrs on account of renewal of trou- 'ble with his eyes, but expects to re- i turn in week or so.
 Charles Burgess, who left the Center | last summer to begin naval training
 on a school ship, has obtained admis- | sion to the Naval Academy at AnapO- i lis.
 l Many housewives will be glad to 1 know that baker Joseph Dayton of
 Bethel will resume his trips through the 1 Ridge and Center in a few days. The McMillan company announces
 the early publication of book entitled
 ''The Earths Bounty by Mrs. Kath- crime St. Maur of the Center. 1 Miss Isabel V. Lyon, Mark Twain's
 social secretary, has been i'll for a week
 or more but is improving.
 Out of town parties inspected the
 store building on the Ridge recently with a view of renting it for store pur- | poses.
 A baby girl was added to the family l of Frederick Crouch in hometown last l Saturday
 Joel selleck has gone to Gloversville, N. Y., on visit to his daughter. Miss Emma Olmstead Of the west 1 side has returned from an extended visit to friends in Albany.
 | A few days since Will Baldwin saw smoke issuing from the big barn on the Treadwell place in hometown which was recently sold by A. H. Dinond to Albert Williams and hastening to the l spot found a man lowering over a fire 1 which he had started in a COW stable from some rubbish. Close by were quantities of straw and hay. Baldwin extinguished the blaze and demanded of it's author what he meant by kind ling fire in such place. Quite un- abashed the other said he did it to crnfVx yQY~FY7 nf c a grant character who worked some on the farm last summer. The premises are at present unoccupied and that the i buildings escaped destruction may be accounted a piece of good luck. G. Fred Nickerson, who removed
 kane, has left there and is now 1ocat-
 cd in Portland, Oregon, where he will have charge of an agency for the Northwestern National Fire Insurance Co.,, the home office of which is at Mill waukee
 Bethel town team defeated the San-
 ford School at basket ball. IS to IT. The
 next afternoon the Sanfords played the
 Gunnery school at the Ridge and again
 suffered defeat, the score being "A to
 IF. The Gunnery is one of the best
 of the Prep" school teams. Papers were served on Bashford
 Bain Tuesday in suit for defamation
 of character brought by Adolph Geop- Ter. Damages are laid at $2, 800. Both parties are residents of the west side. The plaintiff sets out as grounds for the action reports alleged to have been circulated by the defendant to the ef- feet that he, sGeopler, endeavored to have his mother-in-law committed to an insane asylum while she was recOv- ering from a fit of sickness, his object in thus endeavoring to have her got out
 of the way being to obtain control of her property. These reports the plain tiff characteriZes as false and mali coius.
 Edmund Treadwell, who died in Bethel last Friday, formerly resided in
 this town and about 30 years ago ran a stage line between the Ridge and
 Bridgeport. He served with credit in
 the Civil war, enlisting Aug. 12. 1862 in
 Co. D, Seventeenth Conn. Regiment
 He was taken prisoner Feb. 5. 1865 in
 an enga cement at Dunn's Lake, Fla,
 and released on parole the following
 April 21. He received an honorable
 discharge on July 10 of the same year.
 His death occurred on the anniversary
 of his capture. For several years his health has been poor.
 The whist club met Monday evening" with Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Sanford.
 There has been much guessing re- garding the identity of the person who over the signature oI ldXpdyeF pore down last week in the columns of The Farmer upon the Tomlinson land pro- ject The general verdict places the article in the "knocker' class rather than viewing it as a fair criticism. And still it's inspiring motive may have been, as it's author evidently wishes it to be considered, a benevolent desire to benefit Bedding by deterrring the citi- zens from entering into a project like ly to breed legal complications, and fin- ancial loss and to result in a retarding instead of "a developing of the towns growth and welfare. The legal com plica tions arising before Taxpayers prophetic vision are contained in the provisions relating to the creation of board of directors and a board of trus- tees and the conflict of jurisdiction or authority which may develop between the two bodies But why should there 1,<a nrn1z conflict 1xhera 10 snheres of