The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-27
NEWTOWN

sNewtown, Jan. 27-The Girls bas-
ketbaH team of the High School met
the Danbury High School girls at the
town hall, Saturday afternoon, and
we're losers in holly contested game
| The score was 81 to 16. The lineup
of the local team was: Sarah Beers,
r. f.; Ina Driscoll l. f.; Jessie Beers.
| c.; Alice Smith, l. g.; Anna Greenblatt.
r 6. A return game will be played
in the near future to retrieve New
towns record.
The male basketball team of the
High School played a return game
| with the New Milford team, Saturday,
at that place and won The score
was Is to g.
mettSaturday for the payment of cur
rent bills against the town for jan
uary. The total amount of bills pre-
scented and allowed was Sbout normal
The ladies' auxiliary of the Jewish
Farmers Association of Fairfield
county held a largely attended meet
in Newtown. yesterday. The fedora
tons organizer, Louis Basker, report
ed the doings of the late convention in
New York city, which were taken UP
and discussed with avidity. The prop
osition to send out lay teachers into
the homes of the Jewish farmers to
teach the young the salient facts of
Judaic teachings, the wisdom of its an
Gent lore, and the traditions of the
Jewish race, thus preserving the flu
ture generation of American Hebrews
in the faith of their fathers and make
them all the better Americans, was
endorsed heartily, and it is expected
that in the near future Miss Eva
Pear1man, of Philadelphia, the agent
Of the federation, will be here to lee
ture on this subject, and get the plan
in operation here. thus removing one
of the chief causes of complaint among
our Jewish contingent of Newtown's
population. The officers of this
branch of the auxiliary are all well
colony of Fairfield county: Mrs. Harry
Garder, Stepney, president; Mrs. Sam
uel Nalevky of Newtown, vice presi-
dent; Miss Eva Carolewitz, secretary;
and Mrs. David Shopic. treasurer, both
the latter of Newtown. The meetings
are held at the various homes of the
members, and are the occasion of So
cial enjoyment as well as for the up
lift of the Jewish people.
Although not yet advertised, the
Board of Relief for the town will
for the performance of its statutory
duty. In view of the fact that the
State Board of Eua1ization of Taxes
has added a round half million of dol
lars to the grand levy of Newtown, in
the past ten years, it would seem that
some move should be made by the Of
ficials to square the town assessment
list with the estimate placed upon our
lenge the accuracy Of the States val
uation of our property. For local tax
alton purposes we are worth in round
numbers s., SOC, 900, but the State and
county taxes US on valuation Of ST.
DOC, 600. We are like the bird which
thinks its body lis unseen while its
to be hoped that the Board of Relief
will carry out the plain provisions of
the law and assess our property as the
law directs. Our taxes would be no
higher. as the tax rate could be re-
duced from Is mills to II mills and
raise the same amount of taxes, if
our assessments were proportionateIy
increased. For years it has been
known that certain classes of prop
erty, notably large parcels of land in
the borough held for speculative pur-
their just proportion of public ex-
penses. There is no justice nor equity
in taxing poor mans home on a list
of less than Ia of an acre bought at
the rate of 81, 600 an acre at it's full
valuation, while the original parcel of
twenty or forty acres of which it once
formed part is assessed at $40 per
acre. This is one abuse that should
be stopped, and now is the time to
begin. The Board of Relief consists
of the following citizens: Charles NJ.
Beresford, Richard Egan and William
B. Glover, and the public look to them
for relief from the intolerable condi-
tons above, as well as other abuses
long patent to the averave taxpayer
Mrs. Martin J. Donahue, of New
York, arrived Saturday night for a few
days visit with her mother, Mrs. T.
A. Egan, of Church Hill street.
LUCENT Pierron of Mile Hill road
went on a business trip to Bridgeport,
Saturday, returning the same even
Zig.
There will be a meeting of the Holy
Name Society, Tdesday evening, at
their rooms in ST. Marys hall, Sandy
Hook. Rev. J. P. Dolan will lecture
on the History of the Irish Race in
This Country, and a cordial invita-
ton is extended to all to attend. This
lecture is one of a series to be deIiv-
cred this winter, and the public are
in for a treat, as all who have heard
Father Dolan will testify.
Also of the Montana editor. in the
early days, who closed his description
of a Iynching affair with the Iaconic
adoption, "And when they had hung
him they went OUT