The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-22
Collector Gorham Makes One
 More Proposition
Attorney Shaw, to Whom Offer is Referred, Recommends Settlement, Making Shortage Nearly $1,000

heOQlng, June 22-The town naVlne rejected the offer of eX-Collector Cor ham for a settlement of his accounts by the payment of SITS the sum de- manded from him last spring, he has made second compromise prOposl- tion which is now under consideration He proposes, in the later offer, to make good the entire shortage of $1, 400 less the $200 due him for salary and the S400 of credits which appear on the town treasurer's books in his fa- vor but are not entered on the rate books handled by MT. Gorham. He also insists upon being allowed the benefit of about S700 in rate book cred its which Accountant Soule eliminat- ed on the ground that the books had been 'doctored'' by the placing of the figure one It the left of several en- tries after these had been set down by the treasurer. MT Gorham does not admit the fictitious nature of these disputed entries and asserts that if the figures have been falsified the job was. done while the books were out of repudiates the latter theory, declaring that he first had the books from MT. Gorham and there has since been no alteration of the figures. Attorney Shaw, to whom Mir Gorham's present offer has been referred recommends that the former collector be settled with on the basis of the existing fig ures in the rate books and that the s4o0 of unduplicated credits on the treasurer's books be ignored. This would make MT. Gorham's indebted ness $960. The plan of Attorney Shaw deviates from the findings of Expert soule in the particular that the lat ter gave MT. Gorham all the treasur> er's credits and denied him the al- legedly false entries of the rate books. The attorney has not yet examined the rate books, but will be asked to do so in order to form an opinion as to whether the disputed "ones" are so manifestly fraudulent that they would be likely to be so found by judge or jury. The determinations of this question involves a gain or loss to the town of several hundred dollars and the selectmen believe that 1t should not be too hastily decided. At Saturdays meeting of the board 1t is probable that a decision will be reach ed as to whether Mr. Gorhafn shall be sued on the basis of the Soule re- port or compromised with according stos his own terms or the plans advanc- ed by the towns attorney.
 In a conversation over the phone last Friday with Highway Com. Mac donald's office the latter authorized the laying of 180 feet of telford to fill in the gap near Miss Belle Sanford's 8 residence. Why the matter was left undecided so long no one can say. To have left this stretch of dirt road be- tween the stone section on either side would have been bad blunder. The crowning blunder of the whole job. however, is the grade raising at the top of Giles hill by which a slight betterment in the grade of the main road results in an almost impossible grade for the hills two parks An auto which negotiates the hill will certainly have qualified as a climber while transportation of ordinary loads by team will be a serious proposition. The plan of making a new layout for the hills southern fork in order to gested, but it is hardly likely that this will be dorfe The situationSrais- es an interesting question. It has al- ways been feature of the highway departments contracts to provide for the restoration for practicable use of any approaches to private property which were caused by grade changes in the highway undergoing improve ment. In this instance the damage is not to private property but to pulp lie highway. Why, it may pertinently be asked, should not the State also amend the grade of the cross road so as to leave it as good as it was for merly. To accomplish this there would be required a fill extending be- yond the bottom of the hill at a cost for the whole work of probably not less than $1,200. If the town were in a fighting mood over the case it might desire to go to law to secure this result only, as it happens, the Constitution of Connecticut debars suits against the State. If conditions are to be remedied therefore the town
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 At the parish meeting of Christ church on Monday evening the resignation of Rev. W. H. Jepson as rector was presented and accepted. A committee consisting of A. G. Bar nett, D. s. Sanford and W. c. Sanford was appointed to secure a temporary pulpit supply and also to engage a new rector subject to the approval of the vestry and Bishop Brewster. D. S. Sanford gave notice of his de- clination of the office of parish trea- sureH to which he was elected at the annual parish meeting in his absence and J. w. Teets was chosen as his successor Mr. Teets asked time to decide about accepting and the meet ing adjourned for two weeks in ac- cordance with his request.
 Bills against the town for the kill ing of sheep by dogs are mounting up. Last Saturday night the flock of on the State farm a t was attacked and twelve of them killed. The bill of damages is $50 and the farm has had two other like claims, one of $4S and one of $20 within the present year. There is also Comomdore Lutgen's recent bill of $40 for the loss of four Dor sets. In none of these cases were the dogs detected.
 4 boy employed by Albert Williams of hometown left a fish hook with line attached in the cattle drinking trough last Friday and one of MT. Williams horses quaffed it down. the line dangling from it's mouth giving evidence of the mishap. The horse was taken to a veterinary who could do nothing. The animal is still alive and seemingly none the worse for the barb in it's interior, but is in danger of blood poisoning
 A bungalow which was originally planned for a chicken house is being built by Commodore Luttgen on the premises of his daughter at Sunset Hill. It is designed for his grandchil- dren, a boy and girl in their teens.
 As Hezekiah Nickerson with his