The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-25
LIVE NEWS
 FROM BEDDING

 n Bedding, May 25That resort must be had to the courts for the straight II ening out of the financial tangle over M tax accounts has been for some time If apparent. the only doubtful point be- \ ing the line to be followed The Sug- Fl gestion that ex-Collector Gorham and II Town Treasurer Hill become the par 1! ties to the contest was not to their ii notion and it therefore remained for | the town to take the initiative in or f der that it might be determined which of the two was responsible for the ori- | ginal shortage in tax receipts of about fs1, 400! Attorney Shaw now advises the ! selectmen that MT. Gorham be made the defendant in a suit by the town kand this recommendation will prob- ably be endorsed by the selectmen at ! their meeting next week. Should the town fail to win its prospective ac- tion against the former collector the E only other chance of recovering the ! money will be in a suit against MT. ' Hill. who has returned to himself from the treasury the s1.141 which he paid to the town in May of last year un- der the supposition that he was liz able for the shortage. The subsequent finding in his favor by Accountant fSoule provides him with fairly good Idefense should an effort be made to II dispute and therefore if the town fails in its case against MT. Gorham the kprobabilities are that it will lose the ks1, 400 and also the amount expended lin the effort to collect it.
 | Last Friday evenings lecturer in 1.-the Sanford school \course was Law kyer Sam Scoville of Philadelphia, a sgrandson Of Henry Ward Beecher and son of the late Rev. Samuel Scoville ! who filled a long pastorate in Stam- ford. When not busted with the law tAttorney Scoville occupies himself Elargely with the study of snakes. He Eis writing a monograph on the sub r ject and snakes were the theme of his lecture here. To illustrate the lecture lihe brought along bag of live snakes which were docile under handling in | consecuence of having undergone chilling process in Mir. Sanford's ice Elouse The lecturer told his audience Eamong ether things that snakes were ] the subject of many popular mlscon- | ceptiors The snake, he said, had no taggressive disposition towards human lbeings 1t only wanted to be let alone fand would never attack a person ex- cept in retaliation or through the in- ! stinct of self defence The next day Mir Scoville accepted MT. Sanford's invitation to go to Kent where the school boys had a baseball engage 1nent He explained, however, that the ball game was to him less of an lattraction than the fact that Kent was a rattlesnake country. On the journey fnorthward in a motor car one of the tparty espied a big black snake by the EToadside. Of course MT. Scoville could enot ignore such a prize and alighting Efrom the car he approached the rep tile in the most conciliatOry manner, intent on its capture. Then 1t was Ethat hfs theory of the unaggressive lcuality of the snakes disposition re- E~na jnIf mn ks1e come within striking distance than tthis particular snake sprang at him lwith such vim that its head came in ,contact with his chest. Clutching the lsnake firmly by the neck he managed Eto deposit it in the snake bag al- tthough not without some difficulty as line reptile struggled fiercely in an eff Hort to wrap it's coils about his legs. iIt proved to be a prize worth captur- ling as it measured five feet, and three linches. On reaching Kent MT. Sco- iville did not finger at the ball field ,tain which is famed as a haunt of rat ttlers He returned about the time the tEame was over, proud and happy over fthe addition to his collection of three Hive rattlesnakes, the largest of which i1nea sured three feet two inches.
 Among the other queernesses of the tRidge road job is a parag graph in the sEpecifica tions which consists mostly Of H7ctfon It refers to the grading and ,after stating that the road was grad led several years ago directs that Iwhere this grade has become lowered lit shall be restored. AS matter of tfact there was never performed the
 <rading alleged. The erroneous as peumption is of no particular import lance but it shows that the State high Iway department sometimes gets twist led on matters regarding which it iehould be accurately informed. The contractors have nearly finished lay ing the stone for the telford sections lof the road The unstoned section op- tposite Belle Sanford's residence has ,so got upon the nerves of the neigh eborhood that private subscriptions are fbeing sought to make it's construction uniform with the telford on each side
 The contractors offer to do the work
 at figure representing actual cost hor little less.
 The special town meeting to appro- 6riate money for building an addi-
 tion to the Hill Academy under the plan to make the academy virtually
 "a part of the public school system has
 been called for next Wednesday at p m The sum to be asked for is Is1 200 of which s1,00O is for the build ling and s20O for heating apparatus. No
 opposition to the project so far ap- pears.
 From 20 to 9 suits against delin- quent taxpayers are in preparation by Collector Duncan. He will further Hook up the cases of three parties who claim to have receipts for the amounts still charged against them. One of fhese is John Koltz who was debted with three years taxes. He admitted LQ.sH.-------------