The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-09
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 OF BEDDING

Bedding, Feb. Q-There was a full |, attendance at the opening session of the Board of Relief last week. Not all who appeared asked for reductions and only a few of those who did sup ported their application by the claim that their property had been listed by the assessors at a figure above It's value Most of the objections offered were based on alleged inequalities as shown by the test of comparison and these inequalities. it was pointe out called for revisions in order to effect a proper equalization. A striking in stance of these discrepancies was the valuations placed upon various par corner lot owned by Henry Sanford was listed at $500 an acre. while the adjoining lot owned by Sanford H. Osborn. was down at s10o per acre. The next lot. owned by Herbert Barnes. was down for over s200 per acre and the six acre lot of Dr. Anna M. Reid. just above. was in at $1,00O or over $150 per acre. The assessors had valued the Sanford Osborn house at $2 300 and the Barnes house at $S,- 300. The relief board seemed to be impressed by the claim that these val liations did not harmonize and decided to look over these parcels with view to making changes. A written appeal came from Mary J. Scribner who in her return to the assessors had fixed
 
 She was unaware when she appealed to the relief board that the assessors had lowered her figures to $650. The relief board seemed to think the lat ter sum too low. A letter from L. O. Peck gave notice that he would ap- pear at a future meeting with a re- quest for reduction. Some of the callers asked how Assessors Blackman and Osborn had appraised their own property The abstract showed that
 TDN were in at s1.s00 and 96 acres at S2.o80 This year the houses are in at $2,500 and 115 acres at s3.25O. Last year Mir Osborn was down for two houses al 2.700 and 192 acres at s1.S50. This year the two houses are 8 coo and tion Of the Gilbert & Bennett Co. is s366.300. The total grand list as com- piled by the assessors is s1.621.105. but exemptions and relief board reductions will lessen this amount. The net grand list of last year was s959. 600.
 Since the town made formal demand upon Treasurer Hill to pay the s74S charged against him by Accountant Soule. the treasurer has written First Selectman Sanford asking what the HIilrs) counter claim of s1141 for al- legged overpayment- MT. Sanford re- piled that he could not say until he had consulted the other Selectmen and probably taken further legal advice. If the board acts as at present ad- vised it will persist in the claim it has made upon MT. Hill and decline to recognize the counter claim until it is legally or at least more conclu- sively established than at present. They say that while MT. Soule's find ing is favorable to the treasurer the accountant describes it as only a prob ability sustained by a preponderance of the available evidence and not as finality or something established be- yond question. It is an established paid over last May was due the town either from himself or ex-Collector Gorham. To straighten out the tan gle litigation would seem to be neces- sary and whether the town. the town treasurer or the ex-collector initiates 1t makes no material difference
 The delirious souealings of an es- caped pig which had been caught and was being taken back to the zen stirred up Reuben Wheeler's dog to frenzied pitch of excitement. on Mon day last The dog was bound to get into the game. and being unable to reach the pig in his masters arms buried its teeth in the calf of MT. Wheeler's leg making an ugly gash. Having just got out after long siege Wheeler feels that he is having his share of troubles. but says that as soon as he can again get out and handle a gun the dog will no longer be enc of them.
 As an illustration of the increase of land values in Bedding. Harry Lounsbury told the other day how Floyd Bouton acquired a few years ago and recently disposed of six acres which was part of his fathers estate. Being unable to get an offer for the tract the other heirs agreed to turn 1t over to Floyd if he would pay the conveyance charges. Last summer MT I,ounshury as agent for MT Bou-