The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-15
BEDDING EXPECTS
 EXPERTS REPORT
 ON FINANCES SOON
Selectmen Preparing Annual Re- port For Submission to Town
 Meeting
Lack of Granite COmpeIs Roads
 to be Repaired With Clay Sunset Hill May be Repaired


 1 Bedding, Sept. l15.-This week Ex- pert Soule is in Newtown auditing the accounts of that town for the past year preparatory to the publication of the seIectmen's annual report. Since 1 Newtown's discovery of so much that | was wrong in her governmental bus ness affairs the annual audit of the accounts is no longer intrusted to amateurs. By the time MT. Soule | sumes his work here next week it is expected that he will have finished with the seven consecutive yearly rate books beginning with 1895. As far as can be learned his exploration in this particular field has brought out no discrepancies between the rate books and the town treasurer's books. The rate books themselves, which cover the period when H. s. Osborn was collector, are virtually free from blemishes. There remains to be clear ed up the s4O0 collected on> liens in later period and so far /unaccounted for, and the other matter of S4OO in dispute between the treasurer and ex- Collector Gorham- The, point at is ness of the figures in the collectors book which purport to have been en- tered there by the treasurer as cred it's. MT. Gorham insists that these figures are right while MT. Hill talk ing his own books Is the guide, as- serts that they are wrong to the ex- tent of $4e0. When MT. Soule was asked for his opinion of the contro-. ve5tsy he said he had none to offer inasmuch as he did not profess to be handwriting expert. Despite the interruptions to his >labors. MT. Soule still expects to have his report ready for submission to the annual town meeting, Oct. 3. There is frst-class authority for saying that aside from the knowledge already made public the report will contain some real sur prises-
 The lack of grand deposits of con venient access compelled the use of other material for repairing the local State roads and in hometown and on the Park road clay was used as the next best available material, a cover ing several inches deep being applied. Moisture makes this stuff sticky and slippery and auteists who travelled over it during the recent wet spell /had lots of trouble to make progress It was a piece of this clay veneered highway which caused the rnishap his party near the park. While clay or hardpan top dressing has. some very objectiona bles qualities itN pos sesses others which are good Prop- er1y shaped and competed it affords in dry weather a smooth firm Surface.- To best obtain this condition however, requires the use of the implement known as the King drag which is practically a scraping device consist ing of a plank set upright at an angle. By the use of this drag on dirt
  softened by rain the displaced ma terial is brought back from the sides to fill the wheel tracks and other depressions and give the desired crown contour. From repititions of this treatment the roadway is kept in proper shape to shed water and the competing process of travel ultimate ly produces a degree of solidity which renders the surface highly resistant to pressure and almost impervious to moisture. This is especially the case oJory ha ardT purpose giving the King drag trial here, believing that many sections ot the local roads are of kind to prove it's usefulness. With the drag and proper Drainage it is thought that the road over Sunset Hill could be placed in a satisfactory condition at no great expense.
 The selectnen are getting ready the copy" for their annual report to be submitted to the annual town meet ing next month It will make fair Iy good financial showing, there being a cash balance. Of this $1,00O will be used towards reducing the funded in debtedness. The cost of the work done by Accountant Soule will be between $500 and s!0O-
 The will of the late Mary Bassett contains a bequest of $4oo to Rev. w H. Jepson, who is named as ex- ecutor. The rest of the estate, amounting to about $1,0o0, is left to Mrs. Thomas Brown. a niece of the testatrix.
 There will be no change in the firm of Greenbaum & Klein for the present the senior partner having changed his plans in regard to retiring. His wife and child, however, will be in Bridge port during the winter.
 MT. and Mrs. M. 4. Kilbourne gave a party Monday evening a their bung- allow on the west side. The company of about thirty had an evening of rare enjoyment.
 John c. Read, A. G. Barnett, Geo. Williams and Albert Williams, all of hometown. have erected silos recently That of MT. Barnett is his second.
 The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth John son in Bridgeport last Thursday was attended by Mrs. Jeremiah L: Read and R. A. Lyon, niece and nephew of the deceased. Mrs. Johnson, whose end came very suddenly, had just returned to Bridgeport after spending the summer with Mrs. Read and was well known here. The interment was in Mountain Grove cemetery.
 E=M. Bradley and mother have re- turned to the Ridge from their cot tage at Fairfield Beach,.
 A party in observance of her birth day was given last Thursday by Mrs. A. H Sanford at her home on the po,,+o,, cola zE--