The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-05
BEDDING

The first chapter of town road repair
 work being now finished an opportun-
 ity Is afforded of comparing the results
 achieved under the new system with those to which we have been accus-
 toned. It is not too much to say that viewing the situation comprehensiYely
 a decided improvement appears. Su-
 pervisor Bloomer has made good in- dividually and vindicated the new method. For one thing a great ad-
 vantage has been gained in respect to Spronptness. To have the roads all worked by the first of June is omething never before known in the town g history and while MT. B1ooner
 describes the working only a pre- liminary process such as, could be ob- tained by the use. of the road ma chine alone the joh will compare we'll in thoroughness with what has for merly passed as a completed one. He will now go over the. entire field again patching up the defective spots with gravel wherever it is obtainab1e and Improving the drainage. In coTsfd- ;ering the comparative advantages, however, the most notable, perhaps, is the element of cost. The whole or the spring work has been done at an
 outlay of about $1 300 which is un- doubtedly a record achievement for the money. It means in fact that a
 saving has been effected which equals and probably exceeds the amount or the SuD6fV1SOTS salary dDd AAC4ODS the new departure is really meas
 ure of economy instead of being, as many regarded it, one of needless ex- travagance MT B1oomer has yet about $2, eco at his disposal provided.
 as seems to be probable; that the $l,- COG spent by the seIectnren last fall is | deducted from the Hast annual appro- priation of S5,0O0. With this addi- sticnal s. coo there could, of course, be
 had correspondingly better results
 The special town meeting last Sat urday afternoon quickly transacted the business for which it was called, this being the giving of authority to the selectmen to remove the defects standing in the way of a clear con- veyance of the former John Close prop erty to H. G. Barnes. = Besides the
 Parmlee mortgage of 1844 there lap-
 peared on, the town records two other
 unreleased mortgages against the
 property. one of them being to the late
 John w. Sanford and the other to
 the late Aaron Sanford. The select
 three.
 In the conflict which has been going
 on for some time between Fred Crouch
 and Mrs. Taylor, his mother-in-1aw,
 the former emerges as the victor.
 When Mrs Crouch left her husband last spring taking with her their six
 children the husband declared that the
 breach was due to Mrs. Taylor's med
 dlesome influence. The mother-in- law hired the house to which the wife removed and when Crouch called there a. few weeks ago and made something. of a scene caused his arrest. Mrs. Taylor was a little slow in paying
 the advance rent for the month of June and Crouch improved the chance
 to. suppIant her as lessee. Michael
 Flood, the owner of the house, being. evidently in sympathy with the hus- band in the controversy Crouch then
 ordered Mrs. Taylor to get out and she got. A reconciliation between husband and wife quickly followed and
 the reunited couple had their first
 meal together on Monday evening.
 The case has provoked a, great deal of
 outside discussion and divided the community into arsurnentative and
 disagreeing factions.
 school committee, held on Monday,
 June 20 was fixed as the date for sclosing the public schools. In all of
 them the closing will be preceded by
 an entertainment and an exposition of school work If these exhibitions
 are up to last years mark they will
 be of highly interesting and satis-
 factory character. For the coming
 year the two present teachers of the
 Center school have been re-engaged
 as has Miss Jennie Mcdonald of the
 Ridge school A Miss Knapp of Beth
 el has been hired for the Umpawaug
 school to succeed Miss Carson, resign
 ed. Miss Rider has also resigned as
 teacher of the Boston school and the vacancy is so far thrilled.
 The fact that the local telephone exchange has been deprived of a resi- dent trouble hunter causes pronounced dissatisfaction and there Is talk of
 giving expression to the sentiment in a petition of protest. For a long peri od telephone users here suffered wretched conditions of service, but since the lines were reconstructed and an exchange established at the Ridge a year ago there has been no reason for complaint. Until now the ex- change faz had. a. itnemau- of -itS-4oVvn