The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-08

quiring that there be set aside yearly $1,0OO sinking fund towards meeting the towns funded indebted ness as the obligations reached ma turity. It seems they had not for the excellent reason that they could do so by borrowing the money and to pay five per cent. interest for funds with which to retire bonds bearing 8 E per cent. interest wouldn't be financial wisdom. It was further explained that the sinking fund resolution was designated to correct the towns for ner tendency to yearly add to its permanent debt through laying an in adequate tax rate and that the object of the measure had been attained to a considerable degree inasnuch as 1t resulted in reducing the funded debt from $32,ooo to -$23,00o, the present amount. The subject was disposed of by a resolution instrucung the select l men to keep on with the good work when the state of the treasury per mftted.
 Acceptance was noted of the new highway layout fixed in connection with the building of the concrete bridge in Georgetown. Wallace Will Hams said that the change damaged his property by 1essening it's highway frontage and he considered the addi- tiona1 land be acquired from the abandoned road insufficient compen- sation. He further intimated that he might press a claim for damages. Henry J. Kennen asked for ex- i plantation of the item of the town re- port showing that s325 had been req | 1ized from the sale Of the Sweeney property. He stated that to his per sonal Knowledge the purchasers paid $350. Se1ectmen Barnes and Stocking said that they could throw no light on the matter as the matter of selling the property had been left wholly with First Se1ectman Reed. As the latter was not present the meeting finally adopted the report subject to correction.
 The facts in the case came out af- ter the meeting adjourned, being frankly disclosed by MT. Read him self. He said that $35o was the sum paid for the property and that ! be retained $25 as a fair conmissio on for his services in bringing about the transaction. While he considered that he was justly entitled to- the $25s he realized that he should, have re- ported all the circumstances before 1 his colleagues and with their approv- al obtained the money in the regular form and manner-that is by the | drawing of an order in which the na- | ture of his service was. specifi ed. 1 There was no wrongful intent on his part and he deeply regretted the er- TOT of method.
 SeIectnan Barnes, when interview l ed about the incident, also expressed regret that his colleagues claim had l not been passed upon by the board l in the regular way. They would, he said, have undoubtedly given 1t their | approval as MT. Read handled the | transaction to the towns advantage and expended considerable time and l effort in so doing. For some time the best offer obtainable for the property was $150, but MT. Read held l out dickering and seeking buyers un- | he 7oT7 than had been looked for. The prop erty represented advances of $500 made by the town which more than I got it's money back outside the mod crate sum which MT. Read paid him self by way of compensation.
 k A suit for trespass in which dam ] ages of $100 are asked has been | brought by George s. Banks against John Peters. The case was return able last Saturday before Justice Pink I ney3 but-~on motion of defendants | counsel was continued to Oct IT, During the summer Peters cut the l grass from about an acre of river meadow. land to which the plaintiffs ownership had previously been undis- puted. In his complaint MT. Banks 1 values the grass at $10, and the rest of the $10o is represented by 123 small trees which Peters is alleged to 4 have out.
 I To acquire title to ten and one
 
 Mountain section in Weston, George 1 Adams, the purchaser, had to arrange terms and obtain conveyance from the forty-ffve owners wno are 1ocat- ed in several States, including Rhode 1 Island, Florida and Kentucky He
 has been at the task for more than two years and brought 1t to close on
 Tuesday when Mrs. George s. Banks
 conveyed to him her interest in the
 property. The land was formerly
 owned Jointly by two Weston resi- dents named Patchen and Cole. Up
 on their death it passed to their heirs without division. There were 45 in
 number and widely scattered.
 The report of the trustees on the
 Mark Twain estate of half a million
 was due in the latter part of August, } but has not reached the probate court
 here owing to inadventure ascribed
 to the disturbance in Europe. A copy of the report was duly mailed to Mrs. ] Clara GabriloWitsch, only surviving g
 child and heir of the late author, who
 lives near Berlin, but it failed to reach her. On being appraised of this the trustees mailed her another copy of the report the fate of which re-
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