The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-17

Bedding, April 1.-The building of 1 the hometown first and the balance of | the appropriation, if there be any, to
 be applied to the construction of the l Georgetown road is the decision of 1 Commissioner Bennett which was an l nounced on Tuesday afternoon after 1 a. final appeal in behalf of Georgetown had been made to him in the morn ] ing by Representative Stocking, B. B. Banks and w B. Hazen- Evidently l the decision was reached through an an1able desire to divide favors be- tween the two sections of the town as 1t is a departure from the depart ment's former rule of first linking the centers of population and of finishing one job before taking up another, in stead of following the piecemeal meth cd which ex-Commissfoner Macdonald began with and abandoned. MT. Ben
 nett's choice of the hometown road was almost inevitable, but that he should have given preference to the Georgetown road as between the two crosstown routes will occasion surprise and criticism of his Judgment, as the highway to the West Bedding station
 is a post road and also has consider
 able commercial traffic. neither of
 which conditions exists in the case of
 the Georgetown highway. It now ap-
 pears that the building of the Put
 nam Park road will be long deferred.
 which is a great pity considera-
 tions of public safety as well as con
 venience. When the inevitable auto
 tragedy occurs at one of the narrow
 bends there the commissioner may re-
 gret his failure to take preventative ac-
 ton in time. The fault of present
 conditions really lies with Macdonald,
 who, had be done his duty would have
 built the Hometown road two years
 ago and the Putnam Park road last
 year.
 That personal tax delinquents, those
 of last year as well as those of this
 year, are to be prosecuted if they fail
 to pay within another month, was the
 decision reached by the @electmen at
 a special meeting held last Saturday.
 All are to be sent warning notices by
 Collector Duncan. The board also in
 structed the collector to notify all who
 owe property taxes the lists of 1909
 and 1910 that suits for collection will
 be brought against them unless they settle within 30 days. Nearly all the
 arrears for the ten years previous to 1910 have been cleared up, but there remain some half dozen unsettled cases c1usfoI1: l<,f In some of these the prop-d erty will not sell for enough to meet the liens and other charges.
 The trouble in the Crouch family, which was seemingly adjusted, has broken out again and on Tuesday warrant was issued for the arrest of Fred Crouch, charging assault, breach of the peace and abusive language. The terms of the recent compromise pact provided that Crouch should pay S5 weekly towards the support of his family and that: four of the six cIlil- dren should visit him every Sunday afternoon. They did not go last Sun l day owing to bad weather, and to- wards evening Crouch went to the house his wife occupies to see them. | To- iR na0fhnF--in-I9W hOIted | the door against him and on being l refused admission he forced an en- trance and made, 1t Is alleged, v1o- I lent scene in which he used threats and abusive language to Mrs. Taylor. | The complaint on which the warrant ! was issued was the fifth of the series. | A hearing took place yesterday after noon before a justice and resulted in | the defendant being found guilty of abusive language only. He was fined s5 and costs and upon his promise not to repeat the ofense, judgment was suspended as to the fine and he was allowed to go free upon payment of costs
 The former John Close property on t1ne Ridge was sold this week by pr. | Annie M Reid to Herbert s. Barnes, whose residence and big poultry plant | adiofn it on the south. The cOnsbd- | eration was $4 0O0. Dr. Reid paid about $3,O00 for the property a few years since and has expended consid- erable in improvements on the interior land which will give MT. Barnes thel room which he needs for his poultry business.
 All of the seven dogs on A. L. Liver more's place were taken sick few days ago, apparently from poisoning, and two of them, Ayreda1e pups near Iy grown, have since died. A dog be- longing to Mrs Kate Favereau sick ened with like symptoms, but surv1ved,i The case seems to be one of malicious 
 Although Harry IIounsbury is the nc cminaI defendant in the $1, 900 suit brought by Joel Sel1eck, Jr-, to re- cover for a real estate map which ne leaned the former, the real defendant is the Mark Twain estate. The map was turned over by MT. Lounsbury to Albert Bige1ow Paine as an aid to the survey and mapping of the Mark Twain property, and in some unex- p1ained way got lost. An ofner or s1O0 to compensate Tor the JOSS was refused by MT. Selleck. Why he val ues the map so highly does not appear, as he makes no claim that it Is essen tial to determine the boundaries Of any land owned by him.
 More road building, about two miles of it has been started by Commodore Lutteen on his estate on Sunset Hill. eanR of forty Italian Iaborers who are to work on the job arrived last Saturday and took up quarters in shack of 40 by Is feet which had been o11t un for them by Builder McCol- lam The road will start near the group of four artificial lakes created Dv Commodore Luttgen and extend northwester1y to connect with pub ic thoroq1ghfare. It is the third of he nleasure .drfveways constructed through the three or four hundred acres lying east of the hill.
 Judging from the eager way in which %bob" calves, that Is, calves rom one day to week old, are be- ng ntcked up hereabouts by Bridge port dealers, that ctty's appteite for ] immature veal is keen and largely .bsorpttve As traffic in this delicacy