The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-18
Condemnation Suit
 Nearing Its End
Arguments To Re Heard By Committee in Bridgeport
 Next Monday.
Costly Work by Commodore Luttgen to Better a Hill Roads Grade. Methodist Minister to Engage in Farm ing.
} Special to the Farmer. }

Etedd1ng, June 18--ArgumentS III the lcondemnation case brought Nbya the Bridgeport water company against E. F.. Sanford and his mother, are to be
 made on Monday next before the com mittee which has been hearing testi- n1onyi at intervals for several weeks past regarding the value of the prop. erty in question. At the committees last session the principal witness was H G. Schodeld, for many years city engineer of Bridgeport and also for merly engineer for the water conn pany. From measurements taken by his assistant to determine the capacity 1 of the two. water powers included in i the property MT. Schofeld appraised one of them at $2,400 and the other at $1.SoO. None of the previous witnesses had placed their value so high. Fol- 1 lowing the arguments, which will be made by Sanford Stoddard for the water company and by S. c. Shaw and John s. Pullman for the respondents. the next step in the proceedings will be the committees report of it's finding to the superior court This finding is final unless the court should reject | it by reason of it's being shown that | the committee was preJudiced or in leompetent or had not followed the rules of law applying to such cases. There is also the remote possibility of an ap-. peal by either party to the superior court on some question of law In the similar case of the Crafk brothers of Esaston, there was no committee hearing, the form of the procedure for the appointment of committee being attacked by the. respondents counsel Before the superior court had passed on the issues raised in the initial stage of the controversy the parties in interest effected a settlement by which the Messrs Crafk agreed to accept $15.500 Their original price was $1s.0OO
 The funeral of Mrs. John Aduennfck, whose sudden death last Friday morn ing saddened the community was held ] on Sunday afternoon, with a large at tendance. Rev. MT. Boone of Christ. church and Rev. MT. Gilman of the Center Methodist church. conducted services at the residence, the former reading the Episcopal ritual and the latter making a brief address. Tn his remarks he spoke of the, deceaeed as 1 one suprenaeIy devoted to her home duties and said that while this was a highly coInmenda6le trait, women owed 1t to themselves to give due share of I their time to other activities, social recreative and religious. The nurner- l ous and beautifu1 floral tributes tn-l cIuded offerings from all sections of the town and from Bethel. Interment was l in the Ridge cemetery Mrs. Muen- lnich's name was Ellen Tobin and her former home Brooklyn, where her lmother now lies seriously lll
 The succession of heavy blasting re- ports heard early in the morning from the direction of Sunset Hill are oeca- stoned by the road building operations lof Commodore Lsuttgen at the park. l into which he has converted the ex- tensive section formerly known as the East Woods Through this territory The had already constructed about eight miles of fine road. One of the lstretcf1es built last summer went # known as Pine Mountain and was an Iexpensivef piece of work. The grade. however was pretty stiff for autos and lso the commodore is now making an other road half circling the elevation and proving a much easier grade. The road with which it is to connect at the summit will be extended to meet the public highway northeast of the park. About 40 men are employed on Ithe job.
 Center Methodist church, has a strong inclination for farming and since com ling here last fall has been seeking to Eacqufre a. farm of moderate size. A flew days ago he secured from AIexan- der Scha1I a two years lease of the Iattersss property just below Redding l Center It was formerly owned by lthe late Aaron Squfres and later by Henry Rupf and comprises about tF1ir- ty acres. MT. Gilman will move to the
 
 .lage in September. The lease agree Inent includes a purchase option (which may be exercised at any time lvvithin the two years. This season
 Mir Gilman started poultry raising with two or three fancy breeds and intends to largely expand his opera ltions in that line.
 Luther Seeley has removed from ISanfordtown to the home of Thomas
 Bennett in Weston where the couple
 will keep bachelors hall together. The former will present claim against the estate of the late Mary Jane Scrfb- ner, with whom he lived during the past eleven years, for money advanc-
 ed and for services. He claims to
 have receipts showing a total of about
 $500 on the former score.
 The probate inventory of Mrs. Scrib-
 ner's estate shows a total of about $2,-
 900. of which $1.750 represents real es-
 tate. $50 household effects and the bal
 ance savings bank deposits.
 A massive family monument is fo
 be erected in the Ridge cemetery with ling a few days by Daniel G. Wood o1
 Sunset Hill In the same cemetery
 is also to be placed monument al
 the grave of Mrs. Carey
 Senator L. O. Peck was a passenger
 on the steamer Vaterland which ar.
 rived at New York last Saturday Ar.
 thur w. Stours his farm Asuperinten.
 dent, has moved to his own place 1T
 Newtown, but will continue to Iool after the Sunset Hill farm until his
 successor is obtained.
 The storm of Monday night had . widely puzzling effect on the local teIe. } phone service, nearly all the lines be. ing put out of action. To aggravate } the situation restoration work is pro. ceeding with unwonted and irritating slowness
 Ferris Read has sold part of his mil I freighting business to Andrew sPtekt , of Easton, but is still taking to Bridge.
 port about 50 cans daily. Frank Will t Hams is running across the Ridge motor truck which carries 70 cans iron } Brookfeld to Bridgeport.
 II A top dressing of gravel heavy 5 enough to correct the billowy surfac,