The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-15
BULL MOOSE VOTE
 KEY TO SITUATION
As It Goes So Will Go Choice of Redding's Representa-
 tive Candidates.
Provided of Course That Vote is Not Vanishing Quantity Local Interest in Burr & Knapp's Failure = Drouth Conditions Serious.
Special to The Farmer.)

e1ecting their represent candi- dates. Predictions on this score could be made more confidently, however, were the size and disposition of the Progressive vote known Tn 1912 the total Bull Moosers showed a strength of about thirty for Roosevelt and their congressional candidate and an analy- sis of the returns made it apparent that this vote went to the Democratic nominees on the representative ticket This was because the new party had made no nominations for this office and in several essential points their declaration of principles coincided with the Democratic platform The same conditions exist in the present campaign and the only question in doubt is the number of Progressives that remain and whether their action will be in accord with their principles as it was in the former election. In regard to popular strength it is esti- mated that the tickets Of the two par ties are about evenly matched. w. E. Hazen. one of the Republican noni- nees, has already served two or three terms dn the legislature and was all ways faithful to the interests of the sInterests,'' a circumstance which will certainly not better his chances this time. s. e.. Shaw, his associate noml- nee, has had no legislative experience. possesses community and is Of average strength in respect to availability As to Charles Sanford, one of the Demo cratic nominees, his record entities him to be claSsed as considerably above the average. he having been elected se1ectman for no Tess than fourteen times, becoming first select man when the town went generally Republican. T. M- Stocking, his run ming mate, served in the last Iegisla
 ture and was last year the minority member of the board of se1ectmen. It is believed that he will make an excel
 lent run in the Georgetown section where he conducts a store business.
 No one hereaboute recalls a worse
 drouth than the one now prevailing
 and the continued absense of rain in
 contradiction Of promising signs and
 official forecasts tends to make the situation truly discouraging Wells that never before failed have become
 dry and in the Center a number of residents are bringing water from the
 Saugatuck rdver for their horses and
 other live stock. Little river is dry except for occasional pools and some water has been let out from the Put nam Park pond to supply drink for cattle dependent upon the stream. Meadows which started up well after. the summer moving yield scarcely any pasture owing to the whitening of
 the grass even before the frosts fur
 ther impaired its feeding value. Un- less relief comes soon through abund- ant rains conditions will become really serious.
 A considerable number of Bedding people are interested in the affairs of the failed firm of Burr & Knapp through ownership Of mortgages pur- i chased from the firm. Of course the
 security Nof these obligations remains | xI--
 some loss from interest payments
 made to the firm by the mortgages
 and not turned over. It does not ap-
 pear there are any local depositors, the class Of creditors which will suf-
 fer the chief loss. Just before the
 failure there was paid to the firm $l GOO dn settlement of mortgage on Georgia, property held by Mrs. Ste phen Sanford. She had accepted a. five per cent. interest late on the loan in consideration of Burr & Knapp giving 1 their personal guarantee to strengthen the security. This fact may possibly have an effect opposite to that intend ed by making the claim general in stead Of a preferred one. 1t being one of the many legal points which await settlement in the winding up of the l firms affairs.
 One of the incidents at the town
 meeting last week was an inquiry. as l to whether the town treasurer had
 complied with the instruction of last years meeting to place in the savings banks the Dennison cemetery fund of 1 $2O0 and the Merchant cemetery fund Of $400 These trust bequests had been expended by the se1ectmen for current expenses in accordance with local precedent and the meeting desired to 1 repair the error. The error had not
 been repaired because the town treas 1 urer had not been informed of the di-
 rective vote intended to accomplish that result. Another fast which came out at the meeting was practically the total disregard by the selectnen of
 The recommendations made by a spe- l cial committee which were designed to secure more businesslike methods as I to vouchers and other accounting de- tails. There were twelve of these rec l onmendations and the incoming board will have no excuse for Ignoring them,
 as they have been entered on the led l ger in a plain round hand with an admondtory line of reference to them at the top of the other pages in the volume.
 1 Clarence sturgis of Southport has turned over to Builder NcCo1lam the 1 plans for the bungalow tobe erected on tsThe Hemlocks'' site in Pleasant 1 Valley. Its dimensions are to be about 40 24 feet and MT. McCollam will
 start the job at once
 Harry Lounsbury received this week 2. letter from Albert Bigelow Paine 1 who was caught in Switzerland witt 1 his family by the outbreak of the war
 MT. Bigelow writes that conditions l where he ds located are normal and i comfortable and that he will pI'olone 1 his stay for an indefinite period.
 The selectmen will meet at the towK
 house tomorrow (Briday0 for the pur- pose of making voters, remaining ir
 session from to 5. They will be 1T session in Georgetown for the same I purpose on Tuesday next from 10 to 4
 Mrs. Harry GTasnuk died at the I home of relatives in Brooklyn lasi I week from Bright's disease. She has 1 been for several years one of the l towns summer residents. occupying I iwth her husband a bungalow whicI