The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-03
TOWN FATHERS PAY
 AUTHORIZED BILLS
But Never Again is Determination Of Bedding SeIecimen Expressed by
 Resolution.
OUR BEDDING LETTER

Redding March 3.-At the last meat ing of the se1ectmen there were pre- sented a number of bills for snow show cling that had not been authorized by any member of the board. The bills were approved, but the board passed resolution, offered by MT. Pinkney that bills for work not ordered should be ignored in the future. Oustide of this action ony routine business was
 transacted. The board will hold an other special meeting in a, few days
 to continue it's work of looking into the towns finances.
 The new State road across the Ridge
 is good deal of disappointment now that is it being subjected to the
 test of the spring thaw. The stone ballast remains where it was placed
 but the material above it. consisting of
 has been converted into soft and sticky mud making travel over it about as disa greeab1e as is found anywhere.
 The lower section, which was built by the town, is in much better shape by reason of the fact that the upper lay
 CT consists partly of gravel.
 The principal reduction made by the Board of Relief in the grand list was that granted on the application of Commodore Luttgen, whose valuation was cut down to the amount of $1, 600 on his autos and $5,00O his real es- tate. No increases were made from the valuations fixed by the assessors. The total of the corrected grand list is about $915, GOO.
 his duties as supervisor of the public schools of this town and Wilton and last Saturday attended the monthly meeting of the town school committee to discuss the local situation. He will spend part of each week in visiting g the Bedding schools. MT. Parker be- longs in Torrington, is a graduate of Wesleyan University and recently re- signed the principa1ship of the Center school in Norwalk to take his present position. He is one of a force of about thirty supervisors who have been ap- pointed by the State Board of Educa- 1 ton.
 school district of holding another
 meeting to again vote on the question | of conveying the districts school property to the town. Last fall UTn- pawang, alone of all the district, vot- | ed against making such a transfer. Should that action be reversed it l tions attendant upon making an as
 sessment list of the town by districts and apportioning among them the tax | required to raise a sum equal to the
 value of all the school property, which 1 tax would be abated, according to the
 relation each districts assessment list 1 bears to the value of it's school proper | ty assets. UmpaWang held out for this method of adjustment because of l a nominal excess value in it's property
 but how it would actually fare in the | | matter of doubt inasnuch it's school 1 building stands the highway and is 1 therefore, in a strictly legal sense, aI-
 ready the property of the town. There | fore the district might have to pay a deficiency rate instead of getting a re- | duction from the general tax rate by
 reason of excess value.
 An illustrated lecture on print cul-
 ture was given at the hall of Bedding Grange last evening by D. s. Sanford
 The meeting open to the public
 and the serving of refreshments fol- lowed the lecture. New members of
 the Grange are MT. and Mrs. Henry 1 Kennel, MT. and Mrs. Meeker Jones and Miss Myrtle Beck.
 | William Couch is circulating a sub- scription paper inviting donations to- wards making good the loss suffered
 by the recent burning of his house
 The results so far are not encouraging g
 but he says that if all the expressions | of sympathy offered him were dollars
 he would already have money enough to build another house.
 Miss M. A. Rushton.. who formerly
 conducted the Ridge Inn. and is now 1 housekeeper for the Sanford school vii soon leave here to take charge of the I Heathcote Inn located near the Harlen i railroad about 30 miles above New