The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
STAMFORD
HILL RESIDENTS WANT
 ASK A FEW QUESTIONS.
They Want to Know When They Will Be Required to Pay Their Sewer
 Assessments.
Special to The Farmer.)

 face water this winter. and parts of the territory in that vicinity are still under water. The residents claim that the flood is due to culverts put in by the town and that there should
 be a ditch or drain to relieve the country and allow the water to reach the Tower grounds on Barnum ave
 nue. A resident of the vicinity hands it out as follows:
 we people up here on the hill are getting inquisitive. We want to know when we are going to get the draln-
 age promised to us long time ago. Look at those. houses over on the
 Broadbridge road. They have been living in. a lake all winter and some of the houses have three feet of wa ter in the cellar now. The. authorl- ties say that it will cost $500 to drain the street, but Gus Johnson says ne
 can do it for less than s1O0. Why don't the town let out its work by contract and save about half the cost. A team working for the town will bring about half the number of loads a day as it would for private parties. We have been watching things up
 here and we believe that if: the town was getting anywhere near the work it ought to for the money that IS spent, there would be no poor roads or spots where the people would nave to live in a like half of the time all because the town has dumped the wa ter from all over Gods creation onto got us in the sewer district and we. want to know when we are going to get that sewer. We live in Strat- ford but most of us came from MS souri. They say there has got to De two sewers, one for surface water and another for house drains. when do we have to pay? We don't want to pay our share for the sewers and have them built in the center at once and wait for years as We nave TOT Broadbridge road to be drained. some years back someone sneaked a Dlli through the Legislature making the whole town one sewer district. The general law provides that any number of individuals may organize district for sewers. light5 or fire department That did not suit here. The plan here is to make the whole town pay for lights for a few in the center who try to run the town. We are paving for the lights at the center and wading home in the dark through mud and water up to our knees. Parts of the hill are as thlckly set tied as Judson Place or East Broad way Of course, we come nome III condition to find our own doors with out a light and we don't need them to help the taxicab man find the key hole of the front door for us. Light ming bugs are due in short time now, and they will serve about as we'll as the lamps that have been To- cated around town.
 "The center got its electric hgnts and the great and wise committee appointed to locate them took pains that their own way home from the club 'wptffdi be well lighted. We, up Mere, would like to know how much sof the. $500 the, committee that was appointed to get sewers into the town has spent, and how they spent it e~tewnreo could not afford to drain Broadbridge road but it found $500 for a committee of our best citizens to spend as they saw fit. Perhaps the sewer committee will tell us whether are expected to pay our, assessnaent of 70 cents a. foot when the district is organized or when we get connection with the sewers. It looks very much, from the road, as if that one s'tlistrict law was passed to make the whole town pay for lm- prOvements for a few of our best citizens' who of course live around the center and who will be first connect ed with ithe sewers. It looks like a1 continuation of the old game which has been worked in Stratford for years to make the whole town pay for the benefit of a few of the folks at the center. We don't want every
  of what we pay for. If we are go- ing to have sewers we want them as soon as possible so we can get to our coal bins without hip boots on
 Perhaps some member 'of the com mittee will give the hill residents the information they ask for.
 Miss Margaret Gensheimer, the new -ly appointed organist at St. James Church, will render special musical program next Sunday at the morning service. The annual report of the much satisfaction. Two names were inadvertently omitted from the list of contributors to the annual collection, Mrs. Margaret Pagan, g, and Tim othy Ryan. $25.
 The annual masquerade of Lilley Camp. W. O. w., which takes place on Thursday night will be an enjoy able affair There is a good natured strife between the ladies and gentle men of the order in the matter of en- tertainments and the masquerade to be given by the gentlemen will be 1n- teresting on that account.
 Prof. w. B. Kelsey, superintendent Of the local schools and president of the Fairfield County Teachers Asso- citation, will occupy the chair at the convention to be held in Bridgeport on Friday, 26th inst.
 Tonight there Will be a dance at Prof Shaw's terpsichorean institute at Grange hall These happy dances have become very popular in town. stfs
 A large delegation from Oronoque lodge of Rebekahs will attend the de- gree work to be exemplified by Fidel- ity lodge of Bridgeport on Thursday night. The work will be the most complete and spectacular ever at tempted in this part of the State.
 Miss Mildred Fryer of King street, music instructor in the Milford schools, has returned home after pass ing the Easter recess in Washington in company with three other teachers. The ladies enjoyed a hearty hand shake with the President.
 Mrs. Harry Hunt entertained a bridge party at her home on Harris street. last night l3
 A series of tableaux called the Children of Literature'' will be given in Red Mems hall next Saturday ev- ening, for the benefit of the Stratford Library. The tableaux will represent child characters and scenes from standard literature. On the program are also solos by Mrs. Clifford Platt of Milford, and Sidney Colb'orne. Miss Gertrude Richardson, English instruc- tor at the High School, will read the stories on which the representations are based. Miss Louise Dufour and Miss Rhoda King will be heard at the piano. The program is one which will interest both old and young.
 Mrs. w. B. Bristol of this town is in attendance at the Fist annual con-