The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-27
BEDDING

are Delng made by Supervisor Bloonler to start an active campaign of road work as soon as the conditions are favorable. Last week he engaged ex- Selectman Joseph Sullivan and A. H. Sanford to work the roads on the east side and Center sections of the town, the plan being to begin opera tions about the middle of April or per haps little earlier. All the high ways west of the Center the super visor will handle himself His agree ment with Messrs. Sanford and SuIli- van is on a basis of days work, but he is thinking of having some of the less traveled side roads cared for un- der contract. It is believed that this method will give fully as good results as the other and at considerably less cost. If the plans mapped out by MT. BIoomer are fulfilled according to pectation all the roads in town will be repaired by the first Of June, consummation greatly to be desired, but one that has never yet been ac- comp1ished. Heretofore the pressure of farm work invariably caused an in terrupt1on of road repairing early in the season, and as a consequence many of the highways received no at tentton until fall.
 About three quarters of the total due from the personal tax levy has been paid. Those who have not paid by April 1 become de1inquents and are subject to prosecution. The law re- quires that the collector shall report a list of such delinquents to the prose cutting authority in order that they may be proceeded against. Here the conmunic nicatfon will not have far to travel as Collector Duncan is himself the prosecuting authority, being the towns only grand juror. While he has full power to act he wdl1 probably refer the matter to the seeIctrnen and be guided by their wishes as was the case last year. Then the selectm en, after pondering over the problem, de- cided not to order prosecutions owing to their belief that the net results would show loss. The town gets only Is per cent. of the amount col leeted from the tax and as 1t must pay for the deainQuents the loss there by incurred added to the expense of enumeration and collection leave a balance on the wrong side of the &C., count.
 The Episcopal church had hand some Easter adornment last Sunday with flowers donated by Commodore Luttgen from his greenhouses at Sun set Hill. Service was read by A. G. Barnett, Rev. MT. Boone, the rector, not being strong enough to ofHciate. Since his return slast Thursday after a long course of hospital treatment in New York he has been a guest at the Sanford school. His improvement is very slow, but the doctors who have been treating him believe that gree of health.
 Four female deer, apparently two young ones and their dams have been making themselves quite at home in the Sanfordtown section during the last three weeks. One Of their feed ing grounds is 9. patch of rye on L. c. Run1sey's farm, and before leaving the locality they usually sIake their thirst at George Banks pond. The other day they came close to Con stable Downs residence and obligtng- 1y stood still while Mrs. Downs snap shotted them. Then they took to the highway and followed it for a consid- erab1e distance before returning to their fields. Their headquarters seem to be in the Den woods.
 For each of three successive weeks there has been an interment in the Ridge cemetery, the last being that of Mrs. Arthur J. Todd, formerly a resident of West Bedding and 1atter1y Of Danbury. Some weeks ago she suffered a slight shock, but her final illness was brief. Her. husband and two daughters survive her. Her fla ther was for two years pastor of the Center Methodist church and both par ents are buried in the Ridge ceme- tery.
 The Center school, which was closed
 
 scarlet fever, reopened yesterday as the infectious period of nine days had passed without developing any new cases of the disease. The Berquist children, whose illness caused the pre- cautfonary measures to be taken. are nearly recovered
 John Moore, a former we'll known and highly respected resident of the town, died in Newark. last Saturday, aged ss. The funeral was held on Monday with services at the Catholic church in Bethel The deceased was wife of the well known builder, and other surviving children are William, living on Long Island, and Chester, of Newark, N. J. With the latter MT. Moore made his home for the last few years of his life.
 Word has been received of the death last Thursday at her home in Shaw nee, Oklahoma, of Mrs. Kate Jeffreys, Laughter of the late Michael McDon- a1d, of this town, and sister of Peter Mcdonald, the well known coal deal CT and contractor of Bethel. She Is survived by her husband and one child son. The remains will be: brought on for interment at Bethel.
 Charles Howard, who lives in the former Seth Rider place in Umpa- waugh, has bought from Mrs. Cornelia Moore a tract Of about one acre for a building site.
 The pupils of the Sanford school have lately been holding a. weekly fire drill, the main feature of which is the getting out of the chemical engine kept on the premises.
 Among the over Easter visitors to their country homes here were the DunneT Hoggson and Driggs fanail- ies.
 Among the reminders of spring was the reappearance of the auto in large the local hiGhWaVS last Monday.
 Mrs. Robert Ferry, who was in 8 critical condition last week following an operation at the Danbury hospital, is out of immediate danger and slow Iy improving.
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