The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-23
.FAIRF HELD IN NEWS REVIEW
proximately $1,5O0,OO0 of Property Hydraulic Go. Proposes to Take Lockwood Farm By Condemnation Proceedings.

2. Fairfield, Jan. 23.-A numb Der or interesting facts have been ascertain ed by the tax assessors of this town as shown by the abstract made from the tax lists. The number of tax payers is 1860. Those who, reside in town are listed for s3,691,740, while the non-residents are listed for S1,- 4S2,660. The dwellings in town num- Der 1,162, and are estimated to be worth $2,392,355. The town con- tains 1e,561 acres of land, worth neat cattle, 240 carriages. coaches. etc. The value of the automobiles and bicycles is set at $4.320. The household furniture is worth $35,- 900;. money at interest is s72,700: of capital employed in merchandise and trade is 32l,76o: in manufac- lures. s63.000. Some of the non- residents. owning property in town. are listed as follows: DeVer H. War tate, $26. $50; Mary F. F. Wells. $2S,- $50, Charles M. Taintor. s27,ss5; Edward Sandford, $13,160; Chapman Ropes, $2O,000; the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., $41.soo; G. L. Beecher. s12.s75: A few of the individual follows: Mabel Osgood Wright, $13,- Frederick Sturges. ST., $93,46O; Clapp Spooner estate, $26,460; Henry c. sturges. s4s,O6o; Matilda M. Sher- wood s21.s7o; Agnes Murray estate. s1O,535; Mary Glover Mills, s12.170; and Josephine Brown, $14,765.
 Simon Bradley, has been in New York looking over the automobile auto truck for the business of his dog biscuit plant
 Judge E. S. Banks said. a day or two ago, that he was by no means sure he would be. able to lecture be- fore the Grange, as has been an- so. He expects to be in Hartford every Tuesday night, and therefore could not be at Greenfield HILL If he addresses the Grange the date will have to be changed.
 One week from Tuesday the Read ing Circle of Southport will meet with Mrs. Simon Sherwood.
 Sidney Morris is recovering from an attack of blood poisoning.
 Iva King is to read before the Grange the first Tuesday of next month. N.
 Mrs Louis Hay is sspendins the week end in Springfield, Mass.
 >. Henry Knapp. of Holland Heights. aged 6 years; % while cutting cut ,,i corr corn
 
 badly injured. He may lose his
 Mrs. Charles Jennings has the grip.
 avenue is i'll with pneumohia-
 in the Pequot library by Henry Helm, on Aerial Navigation" He Is a practical meteroloEist and aeronaut- ist, and comes with a good Boston the recent great balloon race from
 Mrs. John Henry Jennings left town a few days ago for Charleston, s. C., to spend the rest of the winter with Mrs. Smith.
 field Hill celebrates the anniversary of its organization, with a banquet and address. A large audience is anticipated.
 Stuart R. Pinkham and F. l.. Mills of Southport, were visitors at the
 Some 16 feet is to be added to the width of the road at Cary's corner, in Southport, which for a long time has been a dangerous place especially for automobiles. Il
 Ten additional hydrants are to be placed about town, by the Bridge port Hydraulic Company. It is said this will be done without additional cost to the tax payers. First Select man Fox has the credit of securing this arrangement.
 Owing to the death of the mother of the wife of Prof. Bowers, of the Greenfield Hnl school, and his ab- sence at the funeral, there was no school Thursday and Friday.
 It is expected that Cricker, Roos- ter and Mill rivers will supply the 1 new reservoir, to be known as the 1 ''H Hemlocks," which the Hydraulic company proposes to build, along the | Black Rock turnpike. It is to be | three miles long by one wide, and is | to supply Bridgeport, as we'll as this | town. The company desires to pur- chase some 35 acres of the Lockwood 1 farm, and proposes to resort to con- demnation proceedings. Tn the tax list the farm is valued at $2,o00.