The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-20
FAIRFIELD

l Robert Barrimore and family of | Bridgeport have been visiting N-- W. | Ogden of Congress street. | The assessors of the town are indus | triously at work on the tax lists. At | one time the town had some 1000
 acres of land which were entered for | taxation, but this finally dwindled to
 about 15.0O0. The Custom once was to l include two acres of land with each | house and tax it as belonging to the | house. The law now requires that
 This restores to the domain of real es- | tate some 5000 acres. The tax asses
 sors say that people who object to hav- | ing their property taxed at it's full
 valuation, >forzet that if this is done | the whole amount on the grand list will be increased so much that it will rot be necessary to lay a tax of so
 many mills on dollar. whereas if
 there is undervaluation the grand list is smaller and the rate of taxation has to be increased. The fact is the town rpust have a certain revenue for cur rent expenses. such as good roads. schools. etc. and if it cannot be had
 one way it will be by another. The latest news from the baby car
 riase case" is to the effect that the
 prosecution does not seem inclined to
 press the matter, in the hope of get ting damages. If it ever does come to trial, the expectation is it will be tried before a jury
 " At the monthly meeting of the Teachers Association of the Sunday School of the Congregational church it was voted to nominate the following officers for election: Superintendent, of the school Deacon John D. Deyo; as sistant superintendent. Bacon Wake man: treasurer. Livingston G. Smith; superintendent of primary department. Miss Ada C. Sterling: superintendent of the cradle roll department. Miss Mary West. The school has about 150 pupils. It was voted to give $ as a Thanksgiving offering to buy supplies for the poor. This church annually makes up a number of baskets for Thanksgiving dinners and sends to the needy. The sum of s10 was voted to Association. of which for this State Rev. Mir. Woodruff of Black Rock is the president.
 Mrs. Eleanor Perry of Greenfield Hill is reported i'll with the grip.
 At the Grange meeting on Greenfield Hill. R. F. Pease. Edward Pease. Olive and Frances Pease gave readings and music.
 Miss Edith Banks is passing a couple of weeks in Bridgeport
 The Fairfield Athletic club boys are so delighted with their new quarters the Lvceum building they meet there every night for pleasure and ex- erciSe.
 There Is a renort that Mrs. Mary Mills has a severe cold
 A few evenings since Miss Frances Hotchkiss gave a small party to some of her school girl friends
 Next week Attorney and Mrs Clitus King plan to go to Milwaukee to spend Thanksgiving.
 The following juvenile books have just been added to the Pequot library | --Child-lore Dramatic Reader. C.. T. Bryce; Ways of the Six-Footed. Mrs. A. B. Comstock; Eagle Badge. Holman Day. Little Folk Of Brittany. A c. | Haines; Outdoor Studies, J. G. Need | ham; Stories of Insect Life. c. M. Weed; and three books about birds and beasts and plants by Mrs. M- O: Wright.
 Mir and Mrs. Louis Ambler are home | from a visit in Stamford.
 Mrs. G. F. Monroe is on the sick list.
 Dr. HetzeI is said to be attending | William A. Smith who is quite ill
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Bensons after visit in town, have returned to New York.
 The next reading to be given by the Village Improvement Society of South port will be on Nov. 30 at the home of Mrs. John Perry.
 Judge Perry was the moderator at the recent consolation at the Congre- gational church in Westport.
 A hot house is being built by Jesse Pratt of Greenfield Hill.
 Mrs. George Wilbur Smith of this town, wife of the proprietor of the VII | lage Store. Bridgeport, has been elect ed in Hartford a member of the So- ciety of Mayflower Descendants.
 The statement that has found cur rency to the effect that Is acres of the estate of Mrs. Charles Bradley, known as Gilbert Hill, a little north of the Jonas Nissan place on Greenfield Hill, has been purchased by I. DeVer War ner of Bridgeport. Is doubted by gen. tlemen in town who have good oppor- tunities for knowing. Three times be- fore it has been reported sold It may be that negotiations are in progress for its sale. but that is another thing.
 Henry Tobin and family have gone to New York.