The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-27
OUR BEDDING
 NEWS LETTER

Bedding, Oct. 26.-An agitation for betterment in local road conditions will probably be soon taken up by Hminary work in that direction hay ing already been done by Secretary Plump who was at the Ridge on Saturday conferring with residents relative to the matter. An idea he has in mind is the holding of public meetings at which addresses on tho subject will be made by speakers qualified to discuss it in all it's bear ings. The object is to awaken public sentiment and demonstrate how, through intelligent and systematic methods, marked and continuous im- provement can be effected without any great increase of expenditure over he talked gave their hearty approval to the proposition The notion that the selectmen might resent such a movement as an interference with their prerogatives as at least crit icism of their manner of caring for the roads prove4 to be wholly un- founded. They say they have no morbid susceptibili on the sub- ject, but on the contrary will well come any steps tending to highway or other public improvements. Prob ably Highway Commissioner Macdon-
 
 proposed addresses or to deputize some member of his staff to do So. It is not proposed that the town shall enter upon the building of such roads as the State builds, but that bad spots shall be treated in a way to give per- through proper adaptation of means to end steadily growing de- gree of excellence may be attained, all of which involves wide depart ure from the present haphazard ana practically unguided manner of doing things
 John B. Fellowes, who has bought from Harry Lounsbury 42 acres io- cated near Library Corner and through which flows the Saugatuck river, will. build a bungalow in the spring and lay a bridge across the river to afford access to 1t from the Little Fork highway. MT. Fellowes fore he found the site that suited him. The rumored price he paid for the property is $5,000, Most of 1t is rather rough land.
 J. B. Cornwall land family. who have been motoring in England dur to sail for home week or two ago, but deferred their departure on &C., count of the illness of Mrs. Cornwall Her ailment is heart trouble and she has so far improved that the homo sailing is fixed for about Nov. 1.
 It is learned that the price re- ceived by Thomas Ludway for his property at Pine Tree Corner was not $1,OOO as at first reported, but $500.
 A. G. Barnett, Sr.,. and wife Of Pittsburg, recently paid a weeks visit to A. G. Barnett, IT,. in Hometown. The elder Barnett is a retired iron manufacturer.
 Seventy hunters licenses have been issued by Town Clerk Sanford this fall of which only one went to a non- resident.
 James Blakeborough, for the past two years farm superintendent for D. S. Sanford will relinquish that position Nov. 1 and return to Bridge port.
 A. H. Dimond. whose wife died re- gently, has suffered another attack of cerebral hemorrhage, his second of the kind, and is in a precarious condi- ton.
 The whooping cough has abated among the pupils of the Center school and the attendance is again about normal.
 Marshall Sanford is having a tele- phone placed in his house
 John G. Stetson and family return ed to New York this week from their summer home in Pleasant Valley.