The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-07
OUR BEDDING LETTER Newsy Narratives Nicely
 Noticed
 Coons Confiscate Corn Lester o. Peck Purchases Sherman Property and Transfers It to Commo- dore Lutgen = Election Results. sar~

dore Lutgen = Election Results. i; fir
 Bedding, Oct. 7.-At Mondays elec-
 tion. on a light vote, the Democrats
 elected Charles Sanford. their candi-
 date for first selectnan. The other | two members of the board are E.. A.
 Pinkey. his opponent, and Aaron H.
 Sanford. also Republican. Charles
 Sanford had 115 votes to 110 for MT.
 Pinkney. John N. Nickerson was re- elected town clerk over J. Robert | Reecher by a majority of IF. No de- l claration was announced of the vote
 for assessors because Lloyd Blackman, | the moderator. wished to take legal | advice before deciding the question
 raised by the irregularity of the Re publican ticket in respect to this of l flee. Instead of naming. three candi- dates and designating the term of each, as al new statute requires the Republicans named but two and left 1 unspecified the periods they were to serve whereas the Democratic ticket compiled with the law in these parti- culars. MT. Blackman will announce his decision on Saturday and it will most probably be in favor of Michael Connery, J. L. Blackman and MT.
 Joseph Sullivan. the Democratic nomi-
 nees. as two lawyers who have been consulted on the matter expressed the opinion that the defect in the Republi-
 can ticket is a fatal one as regards assessors. With the exception of first selectman and assessors the Republi can ticket won out by a narrow mar gin. The members of the new town school committee are: D. S. Sanford, Michael Connery; w. c. Sanford and Eugene Adams, Democrats, and B. A. Pinkney, Henry S.. Osborn. W. B. Haz- en, Arthur J. Todd and A. G. Barnett, | Republicans. At the business meeting it was voted that next years school board should consist of six members, by which action the term of. all the | members of the present board is linn ! 1ted to one year.
 The proceedings of the business | meeting were long drawn out, the 1 main subject of discussion being the adjustment of school property values with reference to the Umpawaug dis tr1ct which alone has stood out from the plan of voting to convey it's prop erty to the town without conditions. l The assessors submitted a report show ing that Umpawaug's building had an excess value of something over $400 which would give to the owners of property in that district an abatement of about 6 2-4 mills on the taxes next due. They further reported that no site value attached to the Umpawaug property by reason of the fact that the building stands on the highway and presented an opinion from Attor- ney c. s. Garfield to the effect that under these circumstances the owner ship of the building already vests in the town. Three resolutions bearing on the subject were presented. One instructed the school committee to re- gard the building as town property without further proceedings, the sec ond authorized the abatement indi- cated by the figures in the assessors report and the third provided for general assessment by school district and an equalization applying to the entire town after the method provided by the law. The latter proposition was. the one finally adopted. During the Hebate one resident of Umpawaug 1 expressed the belief that the- ground | the district by it's then owner, whom l he named. about f75 years ago. An other resident corrected him. saying l that the gift came from another donor towns land records fails to disclose | any transcription of such a convey ance and hence the question in it's various bearings is likely to prove a | knotty problem for the incoming board | of assessors inasmuch as the taxpayers | of the other districts will naturally ob-J Ject to the property owners of Umpa- Waug receiving benefits to which they are not legally entitled.
 Favorable action was taken bv the meeting on the proposition that the | present arrangements by which | Georgetown's half district forms a part of Wilton district No: 10 be continued. Were the district to be now disrupted | as it might be under the provisions of the new school law the Bedding sec tion of it would lose the, benefits of | the $15.O00 trust fund bequeathed it | by the late Edwin Gilbert the income ] from which becomes available upon the death of the testator's widow It | is designed to ask from the next 1eg-I 1slature the passage of a special act | which will insure continuation of it's present arrangements. The George | town part now has about 80 per cent | Of the districts taxable property and | furnishes about half the pupils whose tuition is obtained at a less cost per- capita than the children in the other | districts of this town.
 For schools the meeting voted an | appropriation of s4,O00. for roads and | bridges $500, and for State roads | $20.OOO. The salary of the tax collector was increased to $150 from $1OO and | his bond fixed at $1O,000. A motion that he be bonded with q security | company at the towns expense was | voted down. The usual tax rate of 15 | mills was voted. The incoming board l of selectmen were directed to take i measures necessary to make the town | vault damp proof and when this is | done to the satisfaction of the State | commissioner of records all the town land records and papers are to be kept | in the vault. Joseph Hill was chair man of the meeting.
 After long negotiations the Ethel | sherman property at the upper end of | Sunset Hill was purchased last week by l.. O. Peck and by him immediate ly conveyed to Walter Luttgen With the former Murray place on the south | the Sherman land will be utilized by Commodore Luttgen as the site for residence for his daughter and only child, Mrs. Florence Wooten. She now resides in New Jersey and has two children. Plans for the house | have been prepared and building oper-
 ations will begin as soon as the con-
 tracts are let. The first story is to be of concrete stucco and the second of | shingles. The cost will be from $10 900 | to $15O00 and it is expected that the building will be completed or nearly
 so by spring.
 Construction work on the new Jump H.ll road is more than half completed.