The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-01
Bedding Officers Will Bring Suit
 Against Collector
Selectmen Vote to Follow Recommendation of At
 torney Shaw
Ida Tarbell Lectures on Ma po1eon = Bedding Man $ Battle with Two Big Rep tiles.

INGQQluEs JuAC IT AC TCCOlIiLAChAo-
 tion of Attorney Shaw that suit be
 brought against ex-Collector E. T
 Gorham to recover the $1, 400 repre- senting a shortage in tax accounts occurring during the three years of MT. Gorham's collectorship was form ally approved by the selectmen at their meeting last Saturday. AS the former collector claims to owe the town nothing, but that on the contrary there is due him a balance for his of ficial services he will contest the suit to the uttermost. The action will be instituted in the Superior court as soon as the towns attorney can pre- pare the papers. There are SO many contending claims involved and the books of both the collector and town treasurer were so imperfectly kept that the proceedings must develop an abundance of complications.
 The remainder of the tract at the Saugatuck river glen which Miss Frances Warner bought a few years ago from Joel Perry recently passed to the ownership of Duncan Gay to whom 1t was sold by Charles More house of Weston directly after the latter had acquired title from Miss Warner. There are about 30 acres in the tract, mostly wooded, and MT.
 
 timber. MT. Gay has built fine res fdence and barn close to the river on another parcel of the tract includ- ed in the original Warner purchase. His wife is one of the two Coker sis ters whose action in coming from North Carolina to seek home in Bedding was prompted by reading in the papers that Mark Twain had To- cated here.
 Without any opposition yesterdays special town meeting voted an appro- priation of $1,5O0 for the building of an addition to the Hill Academy un- der the new arrangement by which the academy practically becomes a part of the public school system. The oc- casion would have been opportune for a report from the committee which was appointed last October to submit a plan for enIarging and improving the town house. Evidently the committee believes in making haste slowly as they have not yet even held a meet ing. The case may drag along as did the town vault matter which was prolific of discussions, theories, and spats between officials for a period of three or four years before anything was done. Then ventilators were put in at cost-of s5 and the trouble was remedied and lot of theories inci- dentalIy exploded. The town house committee are the selectmen with Town Clerk Sanford and J. B. Sanford as additional members.
 Sanford school ball team defeated the Newtown Highs last Saturday, 8 to 6. At the end of the first two innings the visitors were 5 and the Sanfords nothing. On Memorial Day the Sam lords won from an improvised town team, 3 to i. The latter included Dr. Smith, Ford Osborn, Sam Shaw, Ray rnond Cunningham, Herman Smith. Messrs. Jones and Pierson of New York and a gentleman from Wash fngton, D. c.
 The largest audience of the Sanford school lecture course was that which gathered last Friday evening at the M. Tarbel1 on Napoleon" It was her first local appearance as public speaker and her lecture had the same delightful lucidity and forcefulness which characterize her writings. She dwelt largely on the military side of Napoleon's genius. sketching analyti- cally some of his campaigns and reaching the conclusion that the world had not produced his superior as a strategist and commander. The main defect of his character was a ruthless disregard of the rights and welfare of others. This however was a trait often belonging to great men and to men in general.
 Osborn & Barnes, the contractors. | expect to complete the construction of the Ridge road about the first of July All except POO feet of the four tel | ford sections have been laid. The | length with six inches. of approximate l ly near gravel. The surplus dirt from | the grading will be utilized by sthe | town for repairs on other roads near |