The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-16
CREAMERY FOR
 WEST BEDDING
Promoter Offers to Establish Milk Depot For Producers
NO BOND; NO COLLECTOR
Town Will Abandon Informal Method of Handling Trust
 Funds Now


 Funds Now
 Bedding. June 16.-On the invitation of promoter who has recently estaD- 1ished a creamery and milk shipping station at Brookfield, west side milk producers met at West Bedding. Mon day evening. to consider, giving sup port to a like enterprise there. The promoter said he would pay the rates fixed by the New York Milk Exchange under which the net price at the pres ent time would be three cents with or course an increase under the winter schedule. The only definite response to his request for pledges under the plan advanced came from J. l.. Black man, who offered to supply three cans daily at once with a probable increase seemed to wish more time to consider the matter before committing them selves, and the meeting adjourned without any positive results having been reached. Another meeting will probably be held soon.
 Events connected with the term closing of the Sanford school gave social enlivenment to the Ridge the lat ter part of last week On Thursday evening the schools dramatic section presented The Elopement of Eleanor at the. gym before a large and well showed careful preparation and decid- ed histrionic talent on the part Of nearly every member of the cast. A new stage curtain had been provided for the occasion. The receipts were $80. On Friday evening the schools closing reception at the gym brought together a large and brilliant assem- blaze of the relatives and friends of the pupils. New York, Bridgeport and other cities were represented. and there was a notable display of elabor- ate toilets. An orchestra of four pieces from Bridgeport furnished the music. Of the schools graduating Princeton, one Williams. three Yale academic. and five Yale's scientific de- partment.
 In years past this town accepted several trust funds consisting of be- quests left for the care of the testa- one case for the upkeep of a nonu- ment also. These funds were turned in with the towns ordinary revenue and paid out for ordinary expenses, leaving of course the obligations. as- stunned by the town with their accept ance an obligation for all time. Re. gently the receipt by the Selectmen Of an inquiry from Attorney Shaw as to what investment had been made of the Dennison cemetery trust caused the board to question the correctness of the disposition heretofore made Of such funds. They decided that the proper method would be to seouester these funds and investing them in some safe manner make each the sub ject of an account. A proposition for such action has been inserted in the call for Saturdays special town meet ing.
 Being disinclined to ask his friends to furnish bonds for him and also dis inclined to incur the expense of obtain ing bonds from surety company. J. Henry Duncan, who was elected tax collector last fall, has about made up his mind not to qualify for the office, and so informed the Selectmen. That body can afford no help in the matter of bonds, as the last annual town meeting rejected a proposition that the town pay for bonding the tax collec- tor. The same meeting raised the collectors salary to $50 from s100 and fixed his bond at s10,0O0. The Select speedily make up his mind either to provide a bond or decline the office. In the latter case they would appoint his successor.
 The seven room cottage and the barn which E. M Bradley of the Ridge has been building on Fairfield Beach at Pine Creek. was finished this week. once begin work on bungalow for Herbert Bouton of New York, to be located on an elevation just east of the Saugatuck river near Library Corner. MT. Bouton. Who bought the site from Albert Bigelow Paine, is big New York corporation The house is to be 28 by 28 feet. with a 10 foot piazza which will be overhung it's en- tire width at the front by the build fng's second story.
 Excavation was commenced on Tues day for the foundation for the Mark Twain public library. The building will be B by 45 feet and will con- sist of basement and a single story above. The stone work for the base ment rises we'll above the ground and the rest of the building will be frame structure covered with shingles. The basement will be divided to afford good sized kitchen. The work of con- struction will occupy about two months and upon its completion the building will be utilized for a fair.
 Having in mind the statement quot ed by last Thursdays Farmer from a interests. the friends of the Bedding trolley scheme are pleased to note that all was smooth sailing for the Monroe line at the hearing in behalf of the latter project before the Superior court at Bridgeport on Monday The cheering assertion of the Big Business authority was to the effect that in case the Monroe line was constructed the Bedding line would surely be built by the Connecticut Co.,. which resented the alleged hold up nature of the other enterprise. At the court hearing re- ferred to nothing was heard of the Philadelphia capitalists who when the original application for the charter was made to the Legislature, were rep resented as having $100,000 in bank as a starter for the enterprise and were also said to be willing to furnish a bond as a guarantee that they would promptly begin construction work. The bond was never put up and the Danbury & Bethel Street Railway Co. now turns up as the owner of the franchise. Some years ago the Con- solidated Railroad contemplated pur- chase of the Bethel & Danbury line, but dropped the matter upon learning the size of the company's bonded capi- talization.
 The funeral of Johp O'Keefe, who died suddenly in a Danbury saloon last Saturday afternoon. was held on Tuesday morning with services at the Catholic church in Bethel. It was at first conjectured that there might have been an element of foul play in <I