The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-08

E. H. Smith were the principal speak
 CTS for the supervisor system. They
 contended, and no one really denied
 the assertion, that improvement in
 road conditions had been effected from
 the first ten months trial of the new
 method. Some localities had benefit
 ted more than others and the desired
 state of betterment had by no means
 been achieved, but a noticeable super
 iority over old methods and conditions
 was manifest, showing that the new
 step was one in the right direction
 Then why, they asked, make a retro
 gressive move to a, system having a
 record of continuous failure? Some
 men in the same position might have done better than MT. BIoomer, but the task he undertook was a hard one and he had made good to at least a meas Urable degree.
 It became apparent during the de- bate that the retiring supervisor made. figure in the controversy. Some evil dently wanted an assurance that he would get the job for another year and others were quite as anxious for ms elimination Derisive cries of
 Eight hundred dollars a year. for what?" showed the feeling of a few in the audience. To use an oIdtime rural expression it stuck in their crops that any man should be paid $500 for the soft snap'Is of merely 'IOSSA14S JUL n0 pest argument from the opposition was that put for ward by Francis Malone when he said that the real question was whether the supervisor system had given the town the worth of the $2,30O which it had cost in excess of the amount ex- pended the previous year. While MT. Ma1oneis logic was good his figures were inexact, the actual comparatfv increase having been only S1, 300. Prof. J w S1mson, who contributed a series of talks to the discussion, caused some surprise by announcing it was through his efforts that there had been obtain ed the $10,00O now being laid out in the building of the hometown state road. The professor was apparently sincere in holding this mistaken idea.
 yea and nay vote on the issue of supervisor or no supervisor proving indecisive, Moderator s. c. Shaw or dered division of the house The tellers who undertook the difficult task of counting the confused and swayiny masses disagreed in their enum eration and a yes and mo" ballot was then taken. The noes won, 63 to IT.
 The remaining business of the; meet ing was quickly dispatched. A 12 mill tax was voted. For repair of roads and bridges the coming year $5, 800 was voted, showing liberal disposition in appropriated $5,O00 and for state road construction $2O,0OO. The compensa- tion of assessors, members of the board of relief and town auditors was fixed at $3 per day. To finish the hometown state road, 400 feet of which remained unprovided for by reason of the increased cost of the changed style of construction decided upon for a part of it, $1, 900 was appropriated. Its expenditure will be arranged for by the selectmen with the approval of Commissioner Bennett under a new provision of the law designed to meet emergency cases. If arrangements had to be made with another contrac- tor the work would cost much more owing to the expense of getting a plant upon the ground. In answer to nurmurs of impotence from George town citizens regarding the crosstown road on which they are intent, First Se1ectman Sanford said Commissioner Bennett had informed him that in fu- ture the localities where state road construction should be undertaken