The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-19
OUR BEDDING
 NEWS LETTER

Bedding, Sept. 19-The voters of the | second voting district, which comprises to secure the accommodation of a pol~ ling place of their own for the coming town eiction, Whether the law is with or against them in their contention is a subject on which the lawyers dis l agree. Last August the law firm of Hurlburt & Davis adivsed =E. A. Pink
 ney that under the statutes the second district was entitled to a separate polling place. John H. Light, attorney general of the State, gave opinion to the same effect. The .se1ectmen Shaw, the towns counsel, who decided after a thorough review of the law bearing on the subject that the dis trict need not be furnished with a polling place at local elections. Sub- sequently MT. Light, after examining
 MT. Shaw's opinion. reiterated his
 town voters will review their former
 application to the selectmen and if
 again turned down may bring man damus proceedings to compel complf-
 ance with their wishes. The select
 men say they wish to do the right
 thing in the matter, but feel that it
 ney to act contrary to his advice.
 The proposed petition to secure a
 vote on license here at the October
 election has not n1aterialized. Under
 the present law such a. petition, to be
 effective, must be signed by ten per
 cent of all the voters and be presented
 to the selectmen twenty days before. the date of the election. There are about $50 voters in the town so that 8 signatures would be needed and the time for presenting the petition has now passed.
 The recent sale of the Siebert prop erty, located in Bethel, on the north slope of Sunset Hill just above the Bedding line, gives a set back to the project of establishing a local golf club Commodore Luttgen and L. o. Peck started the undertaking this seas on and secured for it satisfactory as surances of support mostly from the summer, residents. They had in view the purchase of the Siebert place ass it
 would furnish both club house accom- odations and the land needed for inks. The price, however, was more than the projectors cared to pay and while the transaction being in the balance other parties stepped in and bought the property. It was intended to make Of the golf club a stock corporation with a capital of 2,508. The project will probably not be abandoned.
 A change Tn the ticket named by the Democratic caucus last Saturday night was necessitated by the refusal of Robert H. Rider, one of the selectman II nominees to be a candidate. The town committee filled the vacancy by the selection of Eugene Adams and could have made no more satisfactory choice. MT. Adams has filled the office for several terms and always capably and acceptably. of the Center school which l the hiring of another teacher or the discontinuance of the | first year of the High school course l vii not be made After a thorough l canvass of the situation by the school 1 committed, Supervisor Parker and Miss 1 Nichols the teacher, the latter con cludedg that the present arrangements | could be maintained without addition | al teaching help.
 The Bedding fire department had it's | first call to service on Monday evening 1 when telephone subscribers on the 1 Ridge section received notice from Central that there was a fire in the residence of Aaron H. Sanford One of the chemical engines is stored on | Mr. SstIford'sx premises and was haul ed out in. readiness for action. A sec nnd engine which is housed by D. $. Sanford quickly appeared on the scene | and the third, kept by Marcus H. Burr. was on the way by horse power, when had been put out. It was only a | ara- hut so1oe of the burning