The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-13
BEDDING NEWS

Bedding, Jan. 13.-On account of First Selectman Sanford having been a prisoner at home under quaratine no meeting of the selectmen has been held since Christmas week. Selectman iPnkney has been busy, however, in the preliminary work for a cleaning up , and realizing process in the matter of tax arrears. A transcription is being made of the amounts due as shown oy the old rate books and this will oe laid before special meeting of the board to be held within a few days. Two or three of these meetings are probable before the regular one on the last Saturday of the month. ords in the town clerks office shows that a number of liens which are marked as released do not have a cor responding entry in the rate books from which the amounts subjected to liens were originally taken. That is the, liens have been paid but are so entered upon only one set of records. This way be merely carelessness. Af- ter payments for the release of the liens had been made to the town clerk the money should have found it's way through the tax collector to the town treasurer. and these three off cials are therefore concerned in the matter about to be sifted for the pur- pose of getting at the facts. That it will be sifted is something which can be relied upon as MT. Pinkney and First Selectman Sanford are thorough ly in earnest. All this must jar cruelty on the suppression element who had their way at the special town meeting and who then and subse- quently derided the proposal for general investigation as based upon nothing more substantial than spite and hot air. One disclosure naturally leads to another and before the present moment is over a general overhauling Of books and accounts may become in- evitable.
 The construction of the Luttgen dam which is to provide lake ct of about eighteen acres east of Sunset Hill was completed this week, the last gang of forty laborers having been let go on Monday. No similar enterprise of like magnitude for purely scenic purposes has ever been undertaken in this county and probably not in the. state. The dam has a length of near ly 400 feet and the core wall rises in places to height of about 40 feet if the foundation part is counted in. All the tree stumps have been remov- ed by dynamite blasts from the lake bed and it's borders, the latter hav- ing been also cleared of rocks and oth- CT Instructions The lakes companion improvement, a roadway extending from the Sunset Hill highway near l.. O. Peck's residence northward to the Dodgingtown road is also well advanc- ed toward completion and will be fin- ished as soon as the weather permits the resumption of work upon it. This road is a mile and 8 quarter in length. It skirts the lake at the west ~~sIJ l., L< ,1-.z provide a driveway along the eastern border. All the grading on the road has been done and about half of it gravelled to the depth of four inches. This layer of gravel will be made 1 eight inches deep throughout. Com modore Luttgen and MT. Peck, across whose land the road extends, will sure vehciles only.
 The town school committee have vot- | ed to take advantage of the law which | provides for superintendents for schools in country towns, the idea be- ing that each of these superintendents towns and perhaps more. The State pays the entire cost for this service. | The superintendent is to make week. 1y visits to each of the schools and will also attend the meetings of the town school committees. The money
 
 year for books and other educational appliances and which receives addi- tions of like sums from the town and the State is about to be expended. Four districts raised $10 each and one $15. Under the existing system of town management every district will through the swapping around process, ultimately, get the benefit of the en- tire outfit provided by the money about to be expended.
 The congregation of the Center Methodist church, in appreciation of the services of Mrs. s.. H. Smith as the church organist, presented her at Christmas with a purse of $25.
 Miss Lucy Sanford is recovering from her attack of scarlet fever, but the quarantine has not yet been rais- ed.
 The whist club will hold three more meetings during the present eason. The hosts are to be A. H. Sanford E. P. Sanford and Sanford H. Osborn ] nthe order named.
 Rev. w. H. Jepson, rector of the Episcopal church, is in Philadelphia, with his wife on vacation trip which will be prolonged until about Easter.
 Complaint was recently made to the authorities about the Sunday blasting operations at the Luttgen dam. The job having been finished there is not likely to be a repetition of the an- noyance.
 The assessors completed their work on the grand list this week. They have still before them the harder task of making an assessment list by school districts.
 MT. and Mrs. Ebert Sanford, A. H. Sanford, Mrs. Olivia Sanford, Ames Merritt and Miss Emma Reid attend ed Prof. Sanford's funeral in Bridge port last Saturday.