The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-07
BEDDING RESIDENT TO TRY AND SAVE
 VALLEY PONDS
HYDRAULIC co. AGREES TO CON- sIDER REQUEST OF N. F.
 HOGGSON.
Stephen Sanford To Stick to His Price For Land Water Co. Seeks
 Other Items of Interest.
BEDDING

of which was recently decreed by the
 Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. Last Satur-
 day he had a conference on the sub-
 Ject with representa- tives of the com
 pany who said the matter would be taken under advisement and a decision
 reached before long. Even this was
 regarded as good deal of concession, as the company's previous attitude and
 tone on the subject had been quite
 peremptory MT. Hoggson believes
 that the main pond, which he is spe- cially destrous of retaining, can be pur-
 flied so as to meet all sanitary re- equ1rements and afterwards left free
 from contaminati ton. This pond is one
 of the attractive features of the val
 ley's landscape, spreading as it does
 on both sides of the highway with which 1t is nearly on a level About
 half a mile above is located MT. Hogg-
 sons beautiful summer home. There
 are no dams on his property to be af-
 fected by the company's elimination
 policy and the removal of the Sanford
 dams below will not shut off his water
 supply from the river. It would, how
 ever, lower by. several feet the water in the stream below his premises so
 as to render practically useless the bank wall which he has built at one
 side of the stream for a distance of about eighth of a mile. His inten-
 ton has been to build a companion wall on the other side, thereby making
 canal to replace the former tortuous channel which in places spread over a brush grown marsh. In his present endeavor to save the ponds he is there
 fore moved by scenic and Sentimental
 considerations, sentiments which are shared by all the valley residents. The
 sale proposition made to the water i company by Stephen Sanford, the own CT of the dams, still awaits a reply. MT. Sanford says that he will make m T-RdT7 ir1 I, 1,a-
 named and that if the company does not come to his terms the award of damages will be left to the courts. Official notice has been received by the selectmen that the amount of the State tax which Bedding will have to
 pay under the levy made by the last | legislature is a little over $1,60O.- Pay
 ment is due on Nov. 15 and provision
 for meeting it will probably be made at the annual town meeting in Octo- Der by the addition of an extra mill to the tax rate. Either this must be done or borrowing resorted to- For the past two years no direct State tax was levied against the towns and three years ago the amount of the tax | assessed upon Bedding was only about l $500. The rate was only one-half mill whereas it is now one mill and in the 1 interval the grand list has grown from about g, ,0O0, GOO to $1,6O0, GOO.
 1 The prospects indicate a larger en-
 rollment of boarding pupils for the coming term of the Sanford school | than at any time since it was estab-.
 lished This is not surprising in view of the fact that the school has taken 1 rank with the best preparatory schools i in the country. There are also 8, num- | Der of applications for day pupils and MT. Sanford, the proprietor, has decid- these to $10O from $50. Even at the | higher rate there is small profit from | them, as their inclusion calls for an additional member of the teaching staff. MT. Sanford, however, does not l like to deny the advantages of the
 school to the community.
 The funeral of Msr. Lydia Rarnum, who met her death in West Bedding last Thursday by being thrown from her carriage, was held Sunday after noon, Rev. MT. Wing of Norwalk and Rev. MT. Tongue of Redding Center
 conducting the services The Injuries
 which caused Mrs.a Barnum's death were internal four ribs having been
 broken and displaced so that they punctured the lungs. The top of the
 buggy was up when she attempted to
 turn the team around on the bridge
 and thereby her view was in a, meas
 ure shut off from the danger which confronted her.
 Through the Sanford real estate agency the Waugh-Blanchard cottage
 
 York family for the rest of the month with an option covering September.
 The owners are at a resort the
 coast of Maine. Last Saturday B. s.
 Southern, the distinguished actor and
 husband of Julia Marlowe, the equally distinguished actress, looked over the
 place with a view to renting it, but went away without coming to a de- cision.
 The selectmen and others are won
 dering what caused the B.. D. Pierce fCo., the contractors, to delay starting
 on the construction of the hometown State road. The final contract papers were signed two weeks ago Wednes-
 day and the terms called for the be-
 ginning of work within ten days with sixty days the outside time limit It is said that Highway Comrni issioner
 Bennett is very strict in holding con factors to the time and other stipula- tions of their agreements, his policy in
 this respect being in pronounced con- traet with that of his predecessor.
 The banns for the approaching mar riage of J. Patrick Sullivan and Miss Margaret Reynolds, both of Sunset Hill. were "caIled'' in the Bethel Cath oIic church last Sunday. A sister of the bride-e1ect is the wife Of former Se1ectman Joseph Sullivan, brother of the prospective groom.
 The large barn erected by Albert
 Williams of hometown to partly re- place the buildings destroyed by fire in the spring was finished this week.
 It is being used for the storage of hay and he will at once begin the con- structien of another barn for his stock.
 He is gradually replacing the choice dairy herd of 45 cows which was lost in the fire, having purchased last week a carefully selected bunch of IA Hol- steins.
 Fully 800 visitors were at Putnam Rrid h.. uting two big auto truck loads and
 Danbury and Bethel the rest in autos and carrya1ls. The P1umtrees school
 district picnicked at the park on Mon-
 day.
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