The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-14
BOARD OF TRADE MAKES
 IN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
At Last it is Decided That Selleck Property is Unavailable for School . Purposes. Which Most Every
 one Else Knew Before.
STAMFORD
Special to The Farmer.)


 Trade. that mighty power which holds thdistilkalenf1t 1tAe .towniin it's palm. my last-night at the town hall and coe Znued its work for the building upaOf a Greater Stratford." Presi- | dent Elliot W. Peck was in the chair. i He announced that the legal advisers of the board had decided that the High School because it. could not be made to answer the requirements of the State law governing the con- struction of public schools. The big gest part of the people of the town have known all the time that the pd and sainuei aeW Beardsley, the D@Rbcratic member of the Town school committee. stated plainly, when the plan was first presented. that the be used for school purposes. In the face Of all this the board went ahead until an overwhelming sentiment against the project was manifested. This is probably the actual reason for abandoning the plan. This ends the matter and the people of the Hunt ington road may rest easy until an other. barn can be hunted up for them. President E. w. Peck. F. S. Boards ley and Frank B. Conine each offered to provide twelve trees every year for three years. The offer was accepted by the board and the public improve ment committee was given full con- trof of the matter. The selectmen will be asked to obtain the annual bounty offered by the State which will l be a nucleus of a fund to be used in | replanting the streets of the town with trees Selectman Fred Nettleton, who has himself been criticised more severely 1 than any previous official for his road wore, was on deck and roasted State l Highway Commissioner Macdonald for T his manner of doing the work on the State roads. sSelectman Nettleton ac~ cused the commissioner of neglect. in making repairs and also neglecting to oil the roads. In the light of the fact that the selectman has recently been awarded the contract for sprink- ling the streets neglected by the com missioner, at a good round figure. his criticisms seemed fatuous- Others in the town would have liked to put in bids had they, known anything about it. but the commissioner was not crit icised for this. Selectman Nettleton stated that only IF men were at work on the Ferry road when there should be 50. After the meeting a resident of the vicinity said he counted over 50 mon there yesterday. Selectman Net tleton was allowed to air himself and no action was taken.
 STRATFORD. BRIEFS Leroy Ladd. who is summer resi- dent of Stratford, is chairman of the refreshment committee of the famous Tippecanoe chorus which will have It's mann's shore house next Monday night MT. Ladd was one of the members of the original company of singers which organized twenty years ago to sing in the campaign for Ben 1amin Harrison, the Republican candi- l a~A~ RA~ n a from General William Henry Harri- son, who was called .'Old Tippecanoe" during his campaign with Tyler as rudAing mate MT. Ladd has always chefus and asserts that as time goes by1he sSfdor of tie members does not able sand the orga aniEation bids fair to be Sef laSting d any in this vicin- ity% The dinner next Monday night is expected to exceed all previous ef- Mayor Clifford B. Wilson, Ex-Mayor William H. Marigold and Judge Ed- ward P. Nobbs are to be the guests Of the evening. All of them are pop ular in Stratford. regardless of poli- ties and the town will be lfberally represented at the dinner. a
 Thomas Wilkes new bungalow on Wood avenue Is progressing with the prospect that he will occupy it in the
 Joseph Yates who tilas been laid up wishiiar dangerous wound fin his left foot, is able to limp around town again. Some time ago heavy drill dropped on his foot and made seri- ous wound. There was danger of blood poisoning for a. time, but this has fortunately been avoided.
 The motorman of the Shelton car due here at 9:45 was treated at Tut ties drug store last night, having cut a deep gash in his right hand on the.
 tov lnV 0 dressed by Dr. A. B. Park, and the motorman continued his trip.
 The Packard Automobile Company which has been looking about the country for an expert chauffeur to send to Europe as a demonstrator Tor the company in its invasion of the European market, has chosen Howard Ladd of this town for the work, and a contract has been made by which Mir Ladd will leave his business here the Packard forces on the 27th and expects to be absent three months. The record of MT. Ladd with the White steamer people for nine years drought him to the notice of the Packard company. During these years MT. Ladd never has had a serious ac- c.dent. He has been chauffeur for Mrs. H. J. Lewis here for fixe years, and recently went into business on his own account, opening a garage in
 
 d success Mrs Ladd will remain here and manage the business with the assistance of two experts in auto mobile work MT. FLadd was select cd for this responsible position through a comparison of records in the possession of the automobile com panies which gave him clean slate. The position was eagerly sought by many expert chauffeurs and the selec- fion of Mir. Ladd is considered sig nal honor.
 Those people who have made criti- eisms of the triangular park recently laid out at Main and Center streets, with the understanding that the stock was bought in town and that the park is the result of expert landscape art ists. have another guess. The com nittee of the Board of Trade in pur- suing its policy of aiding home indus trv after the subscriptions were coll Ies.ted and a verbal contract had been made with a local nurseryman, went fo New Haven and bought the stock now in evidence in the park and laid if out to suit themselves( ignoring the tree warden and the local dealer in trees. The committee of the Board af Trade is alone responsible for the park. From what source it obtained it's authority to go ahead regardless If the town official in charge of the trees. has not been announced. So ;f <ho nork 10Oks like cabbage