The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-17
PIERCE co. GETS L0NETOWN STATE
 ROAD CONTRACT
Figures of Local Concern Much Lower Than Those of
 Other Bidders
BEDDING


 The B. D. Pierce Go. of Bridgeport has been awarded the contract for building the hometown state road at about $1o,0Oo. The bid of Sanford Os- born Of the Ridge was about $2,000 above that figure. By the terms of the contract the crushed stone which will form the upper layer Of the ma teriaI put inG is to be of trap rock Work is to begin within ten days af- ter the signing of the contract and the job must be completed in 50 days. The contract papers have not yet been. received here for the signature of the selectmen, whose approval is one of the required formaIities, but are daily expected When the job is paid for there will remain of. the sum which has-beenses allotted to this town for state road building about $1, 700 Com missioner Bennett has promised that the balance of the appropriation should be applied towards building the road between the Center and Georgetown, but $1, 700 would pay for the construc- ton of only a few hundred feet and will probably not be put to use unless augmented by another appropriation which must come by vote of town meeting Whether the commission CTS promise was designed to be a pledge of future appropriat lions for the Georgetown road project does not yet appear and probably Information on this subject will be sought So that the town meeting may act with a knovl- edge of where the money is$tos De spent That the proposed appropriation might meet with enough opposition to be withheld in case the money is to go for the Georgetown project is merely a possibility The Hometown road will be the most expensive piece Of con struction the town has had done.
 special town meeting has been called for Saturday afternoon of this week to act on proposition for leas- ing a field in Georgetown as a public park and in the event of the accept ance of the offer of the land in quesE ton to elect by ballot committee of three to serve. as park commissioners. The selectmen issued the call for the meeting upon petition signed by twenty Georgetown residents. As has been explained in this correspondence the project is an outcome of the con- troversy over Sunday ball playing in Georgetown and should the action of Saturdays meeting be favorable will admit of Sunday playing being legal ized It is expected that Rev. MT. Wise, leader of the Sunday observance movement will rally his forces in an endeavor to control the boWn meet ing. The other sections of the town feel little interest in the controversy and will probably leave the issue to be mostly decided by Georgetown voters.
 While walking in Pleasant Valley. last Sunday afternoon w. W Hewett,. clerk Of the Ridgewo1d Inn, saw srnoke coming from a small outbHildingl on the premises of Charles M Thonpsen. Live coals in 9 box of ashes had start. ed a blaze which was eating through. the floor A brisk wind was blowing in the direction of the main house and but for the fortunate arrival and NFa- TT6a+f n quenched the flames with a few pa1ls of water, the Thompson summer home would probably have been destroyed as all the family were absent at the time. After putting out the fire MT. Hewett wrote the following expleTa- tory inscription on the wall: Please excuse the mess have made here. did 1t becauseN the building was aosa fre.''
 Some of the Pleasant Valley people are hopeful that the changes decided on by the Bridgeport Hydraulic Go will be less sweeping than present reports indicate. They say they do. not see how sanitary considerations reuI1ire the removal of the pond on the Heggaman place or that of MT Esther Waterman 8 little further down the stream as no polluting water drains into these ponds from the ad- jacent premises and both now serve a useful purpose as a means of water supply for the summer homes of the owners. If these ponds are to go it is surnised that the removal of the pond on the Livermore farm will also be decreed as it Is upon stream tri- butary to the Aspetuck river. The full and, final program of the water company in reference to these matters is yet to be announced Messrs- Ste phen and E. P. Sanford have not yet received a reply to the proposal to L in the valley to the water company. They decline to say what were the Ag- ures named in their offer but run1or. has it that the sum is about $20,- 900.
 Owing to the unpleasant weather last Saturday evening the lawn festi- val of the Catholic church was con tinued on Monday evening when, as on Friday night there was a. very large attendance and a pleasing activ-; ity in all the departments. On the opening night the crowd comprised about 60 from Bethel. one delegation of 20 having transportation in a farm wagon, drawn by four horses. The pa ssengers were perched on the rig gfng which had been plentifully up- holstered with hay. The net pro- ceeds of the entertainment were about s175
 Moses Baker of the Ridge was one of the half dozen employees who lost considerable clothing and other per sonal effects in the fire which last Sat urday forenoon destroyed a shack used to shelter the hands and horses en- gagged OF a steam sawKniIl job conduct ed by Ralph Rockwell in Easton near the Refding line. The men did mot know of the fire until they went at e dinner hour to the building which was tfren nearly consumed. Most of the men lost all their clothing except the working garb they had on. Several watches and razors and a quantity. of horse feed were included in the losses The fact that the paddock left on the door was found a rod or so from the ruins gave rise to the sus- picfon that the fire was of incendiary origin.
 The civil service examination to be held at Dan1oury August for 8 local SterSIlirl