The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-17
BEDDING ASSESSOR
 STAYS OFF THE JOB
Because He Can't Abide the Way the Others Do Their
 Work
So It's a Duo Instead of a TFio-- Winter Road Outlay Fast Com
 Sgming Appropriate
Special to The Farmer.)

(SpScfal Co The H2fner.)
 Reading, Dec. 17.-Last year our board Of assessors were in a state of inharmony regarding the policy of valuation as to east side property, the dissentient member being A A Gorham. This year MT Gorham and Edgar T. Field, the new member, are in accord and constitute a. majority, while M. B. Burr seems to be playing the solo part, or rather no part at all There has been no open disagreement over valuation methods whether. the tendency shall be upward, downward or statiOnary-but after a half days sservice with his colleagues at the start MT. Burr seems to have aband-, oned the ojb and the two others are, going along without him. It is under stood that MT. Burr'S adoofness is due to his dissatisfaction with the way his associates performed their work on their initial trip. The three journeyed by. auto through Pleasant Valley and to that remote corner of the town, where is located the home of Pnilo Lyon. There 3A1essrS. Gorhan and Burr alighted to make an inspection of the property, but MT. Field remained in. the car. The homeward trip was made without any particular sizing up of the property in review As MT Burr's appeals for greater thoroughnesss went Unheededs he took un1brage thereat
 
 strong and lasting to make him ? non participant in the subsequent do-s ings of the board. Afessrs. Gorham and Field now circulate by team in- stead of by auto and partly perhaps by reason Of this more leisureIy man ner Of conveyance are doing their in spection and interviewing work rather more thoroughly than at the first They are about half through with their task. q
 The grave1Iing of the Putnam Park road has been completed as to both the Bedding and Bethel sections con stituting an Improvement which will be highly desirable when the new ma teria1 Becomes thawed and. packed The present effect 4ds to make the road almost impossible for heavy loads and bard going for any kind of team, and consequently most of the Bethel travel now goes by way of the Sunset E1iH route despite the disad- vantage in respect to grade. People are asking why the gravel was not put on before freezing. weather came as there was plenty of time in the interval between that period and the annual town meeting. In former years the same poor Judgment has been shown Altogether the winter outlay for road work on the. east side will leave comparatively small amount for regular repair rehuire- ments next summer. The Park road has taken about. $500, the recently completed bridge in Pleasant Valley $50 more and tSelectman Barnes has just contract with a, Newtown man named Cray to blast out a ledge at a bend on Mel1en's hill for $100. To clear away the stone will cost about $50 more The lower section of the same road is being deeply gravelled or rather sanded y probably another .s15O ob. At the same rate of expepdi- ture throughout the town the 5000 appropriation will be very much shrunken by spring.
 The local telephone system is mostly restored to working order again after being out of commission for a week. Restoration. work ont the. long dis tance lines remains far from com pIete. Alcrass Sunset Hill the re- IIac ernent of the cross pieces was be- gun Monday after new poles had been set in place of the three that were de- nnolished Partial communication had strewn along the sround. Nearly as bad as that on Sunset Hill was the wreckage of the long distance line over Great Hill in Sanfordtown- The destructive effect of the storm on trees is much more marked in some parts of the town than others: Across the kFidge especially the tops are dis Inasted and lover branches rent in a way to give them grotesauely rag ged appearance. One good sized tree had every branch broken off so that there remain only stubs close to the trunk.
 Having received notice of accept ance from Rev. Raymond Cunning ham of the call recently extended him by Christ Episcopal church the vestry and parish took confirmatorY action at a, meting held last Sunday. The vestry were in receipt of a communi- cation from Rev. MT. TTbbetts. rector of the parish at Hoosae Falls which MT. Cunningham now serves, askink that the later be allowed to remain there until Easter both himself and wife possessed qualities which made it difficult to satisfactorily replace them at short notice. To this request the vestry returned a refusal couched in properly courteous terms and MT. Cunningham will enter upon his duties here on the second Sunday in Jan uary, the date he had fixed
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