The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-29
OUR BEDDING LETTER Bigger Grand List: Lower
 Tax Rate Coming Meeting Saturday to Hear Protests from Persons Alleged to Be Indebted for Back Taxes.

l Bedding. Dec. 29-The assessors will probably finish their work this week In Georgetown. where the property consists mostly of houses and other | buildings, they made an increase in the valuations averaging about fifty 1 per cent, and this rate of increase | has been about maintained with the farming property which they subse- | ouently passed upon. Of course this does not mean that they added fifty per cent. to last years figures or that the degree of increase is the same in all cases. In fact, it ranges from l less than fifty to one hundred Tn some instances. The new appraisement will give a grand list of considerably more 1 than a. million and allow of 8 tax rate of ten as against the former rate of fifteen mills. Should the list reach a million and a quarter the town will l have to pay one-u quarter of the outlay for it's future State road construction | instead of one-eighth as at present, the advantage of the lesser proportion being granted only to towns having grand list of less than $1.25O.000.
 There promises to be busy time at the town house on Saturday of next week.. when the Selectmen. attended by the Town Clerk and the Tax Col lector will be in session from 10 until o'clock for the purpose of hearing
 
 fer regarding the bills sent them for
 back taxes. In many instances the explanations will consist of the show ing of receipts for the taxes the pro-
 testers have been invited to pay. The
 collectors gave these receipts but neg:
 their rate. books. This is only one
 of the forms of carelessness disclosed
 by the efforts of Collector Duncan to
 realize on the arrears. Taxes are due
 and unsecured by lien in some eases
 where the property has been sold and
 conveyed by a warranty deed. The
 same state of affairs exists with some
 estates which have been settled.
 Bedding Grange has elected the fol-
 lowing officers: Master. Frank T. Me
 han; overseer. Albert A. Gorhan: lec-
 turer. Lucy Sanford; steward. Henry -J J. KennelI: assistant steward. Fred K. Wood: secretary. Mrs. B. P. Sanford; treasurer. Milo Osborn: chaplain. Rev. W. H. Jepson; gatekeeper. Albert Will liams; Seres. Miss Myrtle Beck; Po- mona, Mrs. Meeker Jones; Flora, Will helmina Fanton; lady assistant stew ard, Miss Florence Gorhafn: pianist, Mrs. Randolph Bradley; member exc cutive committee for three years, {, Meeker Jones.
 The jamitor of the Center Methodist church fell down on his job last Sum- day. the members of the congregation finding on their arrival the edif1ce locked and unheated. They promptly repaired in body to the Congrega- tional church. On Tuesday evening Christmas exercises and @ supper were given for the Methodist church Sun day school
 The petition in behalf of the appoint ment of w. c. Sanford on the State Board of Agriculture. to succeed Iver- son Fanton of Weston. is being largely l signed in this and neighb bring towns | and has the support of Messrs. Brad 1 ley and Peck. Readings representa- tives. The appOimtm ent is one allotted | to this Congressional district and is a | finality when made by the Governor, the Senates confirmation not being re- quired
 There was commotfon fn Floods | blacksmith shop at the Center. last Saturday. when Mrs. Towards horse 1 kicked over the stove and scattered live coals over the floor. Another Of the animal kicks struck Mrs. Howard | in the leg. inf1icting painful injury. |
 The will of the late Elizabeth Gill bert of Georgetown has been filed for probate. There are no public bequests Of any account, the estate. which is | estimated at upwards of s100. 600. being divided among nephews. nieces and other relatives of the testatrix.
 Since the death of Town Clerk Nick | erson there has been found among his papers @ receipt showing that the sum paid him for taxes by Mrs. Cornelia | Moore in the spring of 1908 was with in few days turned over by him to ex-CoHector Sanford. Through the | mistaken recollection of the collector he afterwards had the belief that the payment was, for the taxes of some l one other than Mrs Moore. but the, production of the receipt convinces him that an error was made and an'| injustice thereby done to the late town clerk who made a second payment of the Moore taxes something over a year 1 ago.
 4 tract of four or five acres known as Pine Bluff and located in the Um- l pawaug section. has been sold by | Henry R. Rogers for $500 to a party | who will build upon it. So far the transaction is merely a bargain, there 1 having been no conveyance. |
 Mrs. Michaelson. who has been living 1 in the Prof. Abbott residence at the 1 Center. recently sialed for Europe. | She will be joined in the spring by 1 her sister. Mrs. Woodruff. who has engaged Mary Jane Peterson. the col Woodruff and Mrs. Michaelson are sis l ters of Mrs. Abbott.
 D. $. Sanford attended the meet l ing of the Headmasters' Association | of New England. in New York this | week
 Reuben Wheeler. of Pleasant Valley | is laid up with a severe attack of in | fammatory rheumatism.
 Deputy Sheriff Banks is a grand | father. a boy .youngss CT having arrived on Tuesday in the hom of Mir. and | Mrs. William Banks
 Henry Sanford and wife were in | town on Tuesday. making a brief stay before returning by auto to their New York home
 The big town safe was moved yes- terday from the home of the late Town | Clerk Nickerson to the office of Town Clerk J. B. Sanford who. on Monday, | also enters upon his duties as Judge | of Probate.