The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-04
NEWTOWN

First SSleCtnQ2n w n. C. JOnnSO1l has received orders from Highway Commissioner Macdonald to proceed at once to cut and improve the grade on Church Hill. A cut of at lea st three feet wide will be made, and the earth so removed wiN be used for fill ing as far east as Wakelee's garage This work when finished will be Of ever increasing benefit and blessing to our tovnSpeopIe and beasts of bur den for tl1e hill as it now stands is a. hard climb for teamsters or those also called the commissioners atten- ton to the advisability of extending the abutments at lCarmody's bridge to the north about ten feet, thus elina- mating what is now a narrow and dangerous roadway, where within the past year several accidents have oc- cured. This work will be taken up closely following the Church E1ill work, and is in line with permanent i'm prov eTnents to our highways marked out by MT. Johnson the year just clos ing. Selectnaan Johnson has been re- quested to keep a record of daily traf- fic on this highway for the week com nencing Sunday, Oct 6, and report to the highway comm fssdoY1er the mum Der of Connecticut autos and motor trucks as we'll as all foreign cars passing over this particular lime, which is the main highway between Water bury and towns east, and Danbury on into New York State. This record is wanted with 2. view. to making this road a trunk line
 
 frost and freshet the past year the ex- pense of repairing the town roads has been unusually large. This drain up on the treasury together with the fact that over s13 900 of the 5000 which the town was supposed to have on hand a year ago, has been used to pay bills due Oct. 1. 1911, places the town in position where 1t will need to borrow money to provide for necessary expenses the coming year or until the taxes begin to come dn next May. Newtown is not alone. New Milford, Monroe, Bedding, Roxbury and most towns in the State long since used up their road appropriations, but we doubt. if any of them have more sub stantia1 permanent road work to show where it will do the greatest good to the greatest number than Newtown, and best of all the money thus spent has gone into tine pockets of not a. few, but many. taxpayers and brea d. winners at home. Thus the people of NIewtown are assured that the town s money has not been given away, di- vided or wasted, and that full value has been received for every dollar spent, and First Selectman Johnson has earned in one year of service the full appreciation of all right minded residents and the people are with him.
 shocked Thursday morning by the sudden death of William Waterhouse an esteemed resident of that vicinity The deceased came into the house
 
 self in chair, dropped dead from heart disease. He was n years old and is survived by a wife, one son, Irving, and two daughters, Miss Alice Waterhouse and Mrs. Reginald Smith.
 The funeral of Sylvester Dibble, Who died suddenly at the Danbtfy hospital held alt the HawIeyville chapel Thurs day at D. m., Rev J. H George of ficiating. The deceased occupied the position as baggage master at the 1nVVilIP sta ti0Y 0f the N H. & H. road for nineteen years, and was young man of very reliable character. There is a general regret in, the entire community at his sudden demise. He was Al years of age and is survived by his wife, one son, Ray n1ond, and a half-broltier, Edgar Ddb- ble, of .Easton, Pa The burial was in Lands End cemetery.
 The following letter to Patrick IF. Cannon. fire chief of the Newtown fire department, will again demonstrate the generosity and public spirit of W. T. Cole, president of the Fabric Fire Hose Co.,. as follows:
 MT. Patrick H. Cannon.
 Chief Fire Dept, Newtown, Conn.
 Dear Chief
 observed at a recent fire that you and the boys were veIry much handf- capped, due to the lack of proper con- trol of water coming from the two outlets of your hydrants, not only en- dangering your equilibrium the roof at the play pipe, but incurring unnecessary delay and embarrassment. am sending you with the compli- meTIts of my company, two hydTant gates, the use of which will enable you to control one or two outlets.
 W. T.. COLE,
 President
 MT. Ryder purchasing and real es- tate agent for the N. Y, N. H. & H. R. R., has been in town recently and in company with selectman s. A. Blackrnan is looking up owners Of property along the line of the High land division.
 Mrs. P. T. Cannon has returned from several days visit with friends in Bridgeport.
 NOMINATED FOR SENATOR
 PlalnviIle, Oct. 4-Tflonas B. 4&t- water, of PlantSYille WAS nominated