The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-18
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| With the public school system of the | town, were further considered and in | the main essentials brought to a con- | clusion at joint meeting of the acad- | emy trustees and the town school com- | mi4ee held on Thursday last. As fin l ally decided upon the general features | or the arrangement are those already | outlined in this correspondence. The l town will take a lease of the academy l building for term of ten years, hav- I ing the entire use of the present struc- ! ture. for public school purposes. It | will also build an addition, 12 by 25 feet, for the use of the academy pu- l pills. Besides this the general manage ment of the academy affairs and in- | come will be turned over to the town | school board as far as may be done | under the terms of the academy's en- dowment. The town pays for heating and other running expenses and as one of the considerations in return re- ceives the full privilege of the acad- | emy tuition, the academy becoming in | effect a higher grade school of the towns school system. So marked and | obvious are the benefits which the town will derive from the arrange l ment that no expressions of disap- proval are heard. On the contrary the plan commands general and hearty appreciation. As soon as the agree ment is phrased in legal form and signed by the contracting parties a special town meeting will be held to vote an appropriation for building the addition.
 If farmer should dig ditch, part ly fill it with stone and cover without providing an outlet or discharge faci- lities he would become to his neigh bors an object of ridicule or commits era atiOn or both. Yet this is precisely what is being done with two stretches n State the RidCo their termini at the downward slope back ing up against a solid wall of earth and having no provision for the es- cape of the water drained through the stone base although drainage is pro- vided for at intermediate points. The inevitable consequence will be an ac- emulation of water and a quagmire as was the case with a piece of State road of like defective construction built at the Center several years ago. After the bad conditions which re- suited had been endured for some time the town remedied matters by putting in a drain. The defect men, toned is not the only remarkable fea- ture of the Ridge road engineering. Opposite the Muennich and Teets houses a considerable cut was made with the manifest object of improving the grade. The money thus spent would be much better expended in in
 
 struction, but aside from that con- sideration the grade improvement, so far as effected, is no real improve ment because the descending grade adjacent is being raised four inches making the net result practically what it would have been had the grade of the cut down section remained as be- fore And still another instance. Near the home of Miss Belle Sanford the specifications called for tile drain, the trench for which would have to be excavated through a bank for a distance of 100 feet. Less than two rods further down the conditions per mitted a trench only 15 feet in length. By telephoning Highway Com. Mac donald, Supervisor Sanford obtained official permission to take the shorter way. Just above is another puzzle of the job, this being 150 foot stretch of dirt road left between two there is neither ryhme nor reason, as far as anyone can discover. When the Ridge road stands forth as a whole in all its patch work completeness it will surely resemble Man in being fear fully and wonderfully made.
 Conveyance to Miss Cornelia Tall mage from Mrs. Kelley and her son of the former Fairchild place in San fordtown was made on Monday, the for the old house and 30 acres of rough land being about s1, ,oO0. Miss Talmage will repair the house, which is now hardly habitable. Lately there has developed quite demand for property in Sanfordtown. | which has heretofore not felt the To- cal real estate boom to as great an extent as its sister valley, Pleasant ] Valley, the only new residences boast l ed by the former being the pretty | summer home of J. B. Cornwall and | G. A. Talmage's picturesque cottage. Not long ago Henry Kennell was of- fered s4,000 for the former Col. cor ham place which he bought ' or 8 | years since for s1.600. There have also recently been several offers for the Eli Treadwell homestead which is held by the Treadwell heirs at s4,0oO.
 From Marcus H. Burr, A. l.. Liver more has purchased for $500 eleven acres of woodland which includes the ravine lying below the old Oakley place. The tract adjoins MT. Liver more's main farm which borders the Easton line and has admir- able natural advantages for being made the site of an artificial lake. The only drawback is that the brook which flows through it sometimes goes dry in the summer season.
 The time is at hand for a second spraying of the orchards and most of those whose trees have received ear-
  dose applied to combat the coddling moth and the canker worm. This should be done immediately following the fall of the blossoms. The chemi- gal employed is arsenate of lead. The canker worms destructive work on foliage does not begin to show for two or three weeks yet but the eggs are now being laid and the present application of the arsenate solution is expected to kill the larvae as they hatch and begin feeding. Apple trees show a fairly good blow this season although not equal to that of the good fruit years before the insect and fungus enemies of the orchards be- gan to lessen productiveness.
 With the Sanford School ball team his season it has been mostly case ,f wins in contrast with the rec ,rd of former seasons. They met the at the Ridge last Saturday md defeated them, to ?.
 Mrs. A. G. Bodie of West Nutley. Y. J., has rented Mrs. Seth Todds louse for the summer.
 A boy baby came to MT. and Mrs. Tommy Ludway on Sunday last.
 Deputy Sheriff Banks has taken the agency for the Oliver typewriter.
 Bedding Grange paid a fraternal ,isit to Greenfield Hill Grange Mon- lay evening and were entertained with , dance and supper.
 Because of the discharge of two of heir number most of the Italians on he Ridge road job quit work and the own last Friday.
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