The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02

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 - ployeS, but have c1rta1led the scope Of operations and send out no bot
 tied cream as formerly, eonfining the
 work to pasteurized milk
 Frederick Russell, aged 17, son of Baggagemaster Robert w. Russell. of the Haw1eyviIle station, was killed by a freight train on the Highland divi-
 sion about two and half miles west of the station, on Saturday afternoon about 1:30. The youth had been ae-
 sistdng around the station and was re-
 turning from this junction point after
 preparing the switch lights for the
 night when it is thought in boarding
 she moving freight, he missed and fell
 under the wheels which passed over
 his body longftudinal1y, managing it
 horribly. The freight did not stop. It
 is not knowns but f& is thought he was
 dead before the entire train passed.
 Word was sent to Dan bury to have
 the east bound passenger train which
 arrives in Haw1eyviIle at 2.30 to stop
 and bring the body to the station
 Wh1ch was done. The medical exam
 111er, Dr. w. H. Kiernan, was notified
 ana viewed the body and after asccr- la1ning the facts as related above
 gave permission for tke removal of the
 body to the home Of his father close by The funeral will occur Tuesday afternoon after Coroner Phelafa. vvho came today, makes his findings The unfor tunate victim of the bad prac- tice Of boarding moving trains was a promising High school youth, liked by everybody who knew him. The dis tracted parents are conooled with by all the neighborhood. and the whole community sympathise with thefn in this misfortune. The law shouid not permit minors to engage in hazardous 1aNroad work.
 Dr. Charles H. Peck of Mount Pleas ant contributed $5 to the Sandy Hook oand, Saturday, by check which was gratefully acknowledged by Treasurer John O. Pitzschler
 George Fobey who has charge of the town roads in the northern section has been on the work with taaro and two men continuously since May End and is practically on the last 1sY,a r,f his task A nasty survey of the cost Of the work done by him conpared with the same roadway work under the old Blackrnan system shows a. saw ing Of approximately one-third to the town, while the testimony of the r,ao- pie of the neighborhood goes to show that the work has been thoroughly done. and the road beds put in excel lent condition.
 The adjourned borough meeting sat- urday at 10:50 a. ma., had a few sur pr1ses. The Janitor of the town hall forgot there was to be a meeting. likewise Charles F. Beards1ey. the bor- ough clerk. He left no minutes Of the meeting, nor records, but Burgess Ar thur T. >NettIeton produced a. dogs cared copy of the Newtown Bee of the week of the annual meeting and put dts report of the annual meeting of the borough as a. good and sufff- cient record to do business on. Treas urer Leonard had not filed his report l Of last years borough expenses with the clerk, so was able to read from the original report in which he paid the sum of $428 to the water company for the use of thirsty hydrants, on l Dec. IA, 1912, when there was no con-t tract existing or implied between the | borough and the water company Ask | ed if he knew when the fiscal year | of the borough began or ended, re- | piled in the negative. The new war den c. G. Peck did not know; neither 1 did the three borgesaes making up the | meeting. Finally Levi c. Morris of i the water company said May 1st. He judgedl this from the time the water | company made sure to get theirs. By 1 this time the sh1fty, evasive answers Of the borough and water company of
 1cials nett1ed the sole objector to these tactics, who dennanded as a tax payer to. be treated fair, or else he l would sit down and simply take notes. | Then they began to play the game according to HoY1e. Now came the great surprise The new warden who 1 was nominated and elected as an anti water company man showed that he | was the most pronounced pro water company man of the bunch. He un- dertoolx to decide all points of order which arose under the delusfon that as warden he was the standing mod orator of the meeting of borough free r men. Then chief objector Corbett re- peated his threat of non- participation in the meeting if all the laws of de- bate and parliamentary tactics we're to be thus outraged. As he was the only voter present participating not a borough official, or Btockhoider in the water company it would not do to be without one plain taxpayer, so af- ter nasty nSaltation Of the water company group 1t was voted to make the warden the chairman of the meet ing Armed with this new authority, l he completely turned turtle to the be- lfefs held by his political sponsors ana adherents. Ignoring the claim Of 1ie- ganty of the ten year secret contract put over by the old beard of warden | and burgeeses, he ruthlessly abandoned his profession in favor Of H lower hy- drant cost annually, and sought to l clinch the nail which is supposed to | fasten this secret contract on the bor- ough, by pushing through the budget of the treasurer calling for a two and | mill tax to make the wa ter conapany's stock 8 gilt edged | financial proposition. Then A. T. Smith for the water company moved to adjourn which was done. Then ev- | erybody gathered on the sidewalk and i thrashed the whole doings over again, 1 the adherents of- the water company | staving longest of all Some of them | are getting cold feet,'' said one of 1 the Newtown summer colony to your | scribe referring to the lingering l groups, "and wish they had a contract | that will stand. They evidently fear | what the public utilities commission | will say about it.''
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