The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-16
BEDDING TAX RATE
 IS MADE I2 MILLS
This Will Provide S20,OOO Cur- rent Expenses Budget
 Calls For.

Papers Served in Water Co.'S
 GOnd emnatiOn Suit For
 Pleasant Valley Property
 State Farm Sells Jersey
 Stock.
 Redding, April 16-Iitchheld county. Brewsters. N. r.. and other distant points. were represented in the large attendance at the auction sale of cows held yesterday at the Gilbert state farm in Georgetown. The object in getting rid of most of the farms s dairy herd was to make room TOT the short-horn cattle, this breed hay ing been chosen because of it's excel lent milk producing qualities and be cause they are unexcelIed for beef pur- poses; and because the Connecticut Agricultural college wishes to encour- age eastern beef raising. The ten thoroughbred Jersey cows sold yester- day brought from $130 to S140s the top price being $142 Seventeen high-class grades averaged about $100.
 Tie shoft-horn herd purchased in England is expected to arrive at the farm within a few days. All the stock sold yesterday had recently been injected with tuberculin and proven free from tuberculosis.
 The special town meeting held yes terday afternoon was lightly attend ed It was voted to lay a 12 mill tax after estimates had been submitted showing expenditures Son the year would amount to something like S2O,- 900 and that a 12 mill tax would pro- vide this sum. The largest items in the budget were s5.8o0 for roads and $5 900 for schools. NO effort was made to fix rate lower than the one adopt led and none Brought forward the ex- pected proposition that the state high way appropriation be drawn upon to help pay for the new bridge in George town.
 James AIdrich will terminate his connection with the Sanford school at the close of the present term, having accepted an offer from the large pre- paratory school at Laporte, Ind, the same In which Prof John Ward Stim- son Is the present art instructor
 The marriage of MT. A1drich and Miss Esther Tarbell will be solemnized in June at the summer home of Miss Ida ETarbell, Easton
 Papers in the condemnation pro- ceedings which were brought by the Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. to secure property in Pleasant Valley owned by the late stephen Sanford, were served on E. P. Sanford last Friday. Tn the. hearing to be held at Bridgeport next Tuesday on the appointment of ap- praisal commissioners. MT. Sanford ana ms mOL4oEz VIII De <{S Attorneys S C. Shaw and John Pull man The property desired by the water company includes that adjacent to the Aspetuck rive CT on both sides of the highway and eomprises alto gether neaIay y ninety acres, with the, three waiter rower sites. slaughter house, barnsz and other structures mum abering dozen buildings in all When the water company negotiated last falEfor the purchase of the prop-' erty the price named by the late Mr. pany. regard led as exeessive and hence its resort to court 1Justment- The ponds and several of the buildings in vo1ved by the proceedings were deed-s ed by stephen Sanford in the early part of the winter to his son Emory By the former twill. which has re- gently been filed for probate. all the properfy Of which he died possessed, is bequeathed unreservedly to his wife so that the parties with hom the company now has to deal, are the wid 2 low and F. F. Sanford It will prob ably be several months before the controversy is finally determined and neanwilile MT Sanford will continue. the meat business az at present
 The Center and the lower George town sections were stirred up on Sun day evening by fires, that in the for ner locality being achimney blaze at 1.-the house of Miss Margaret Hill In hometown and the one in Georgetown, a field fire which ranged mostly over the former Charles Merchant proper 1 ty, now owned by Catherine Drier A. mum erous party under the direction l lof Deputy Wardens Hermann Smith and c. O. Dudley cornbatted success fully the Georgetown blaze which ran through a considerable tract Of wood land and consumed the dry grass of f7c a l slight Miss Hil1,s neighbors turned l lolit and subdued the chimney fire which for time threatened serious 1 conaeuuences.
 l During the week road repair work has been in progress on the west Iside and between the Center and San- Ifordtown with Sanford Osborn and Lew Warner as the operating direc- I tors. Today the latter relinquished d j the road machine he had been using Iso that Messrs- Sullivan and Osborn could make start in the Ridge secs ton A third machine. which was I discarded last year as oIItworn. is to be repaired and placed in service
 Henry Carroll, the locomotive f1re- jman killed last Saturday in a train ac- cidenf between New Britain and Hart T ford, was a son of John H. Carroll Of West Redding. The latter has been
 for many years a section hand on the I iNorwa1k & Danbury line. Young Car- Troll was z5 years old and the accident which caused his death resulted from l the spreading of the rails. 4 l The Methodist Conference assigned i Rev. J. M. Dodson recently of Scran- l ton. Pa. to the pastorate of the West I Bedding church recently vacated by Rev. MT. Wing. MT. Dodson and I family are now moving in to the West j jRedding parsonage. By appointment tof the Conference Rev. MT. Gilman Twill continue as pastor of the Center Methodist church. He recently pur- I chased a horse from E. M Sanford.
 The Ridge Episcopal church was lbeautifully dressed with flowers fol lEaster, the adornment including a pro- Illusion of Easter lilies and roses from