The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-02
TAX RATE MEETING FIXED FOR APRIL I5
Funds For New Georgetown Bridge May Also Be Subject For Action.
Relic Hunters Taking Frag- ments from Walls of Mark Twain Villa as Souvenirs.- Real Estate Sale Shows Up ward Trend.
BEDDING

BEDDING
 Bedding, April "A new bridge is required on the State road near the Gilbert & Bennett works in George town, the albutments of the present structure having virtually collapsed Highway Commissioner Bennett was recently asked by the se1ectmen to authorize the use Of funds from the accolint for State maintenance and repair to meet the cost Of replace ment, but refused because tho bridge was not comprised in the original construction work He offered, how ever, to sanction the diversion from the construction appropriation now to the towns credit for the purpose re- receive the assent of Selectmen Read and Stocking. both residents of the west side, because the diversion would lessen by so much the sum available for building the new State highway eastward from Georgetown. The se- lectn1en wish to put in a concrete or iron bridge, the estimated cost of
 which is from $400 to $500. If the State paid quarters of this the amount thereby taken from the ap- propriation would suffice to build ion1y
 a few rods of highway, but even that slight curtaiiment is disapproved of by a majority of the board as was
 the bohrd's meeting on Saturday Oth-
 CTS think that the chance to obtain.
 the greater part of the money from the State appropriation should not be
 lost and will try esto secure a. vote to that effect at the approaching town meeting the date for which the board
 has fixed for April 15. Should the 1a1-o v.I<, of 1oa 1,a oar cd out the abutments will be rebuilt at once, possibly wholly of concrete, and temporary superstructure of timber and plankfng put on to be suIbse-
 quently replaced by iron or concrete. In this way all the expense would not have to be met in a single year.
 The board was mostly occupied at Saturdays session in making up the list representing the. towns military enrollment. For taxation purposes this has been displaced by the per- sonaI tax, enrollment, but is still re- quired by statute in order that the adjutant general may know the num- Der Of citizens between the ages of Is and 45 who are subject to military duty. As the return should have been made in January, the board did the job rather hastily, relying for guid-= ance on the voting list and their per eonal knowledge regarding individ- I was about 200, which is substantially the total of stheepersonaI tax list Tn regard to the program for road re- pair work First Selectrnan Read made it known that he had engaged San ford Osborn to- operate the road ma atuck river. Joseph Sullivan and A.. H. Sanford will take care of the ter ritory east of Little river. Selectman Stocking, who is fn charge Of the dis trict lying between the two streams has not yet made his arrangements, but has been talking over the propo-5 sition with Lew Warner.
 When the better condition [of the roads brings a return of auto travel it is probable that the Mark Twain place will prove as much of a Mecca to these tourists as it has been dur ing several seasons past So large percentage of the motorists passing over the Ridge asked for directions to / Stormf1eld that the storekeeperss facilitate the giving of the desired in formation The concrete s.ucco Of the Clemens villa has in places loos- ened sufficiently to permit the detaeh- ment Of fragments and last season these were carried off by visitons to an extent estimated at several bush els. Tn .1nnocents Abroad,'' Mark Twain devoted a chapter to a fresh recital in his own peculiar vein of the old tale of the unhappy loves Of Ab-t erlard and He1oise. He made it plain that he considered the lovelorn abbe a rather despicable individual and rid icuIed relic hunters who bore off peb-s b1es and other memenfoes from the graves of the couple in a Parisian this constant despoilment calling for the yearly carting in Of several loads of gravel. At the time Of writ ting the chapter the author was an inconspicuous journalist and prob ably did not anticipate the subse- duent fame which would cause souv- enir hunters to pick to pieces the walls of the home which he built for his old age
 A New Jersey woman, name not an nounced, has purchased from Henry cated at the lower end. of the Glen which Mir. Rogers acquired several years ago from the estate of Abel Beardsley The farm comprises about 130 acres. MT Rogers paid about $4,o0o for the property and will receive for it in the present transaction about $S, 500
 young, man named Watson, one Of two agricultural colIegians recently by A. L. Livermore to super intend his farm operations, was taken to the Danbury Nhospital on Monday evening SuIIeT1nS> the fracture of several bones of the foot and also of a fracture above tnt ankle. He re- ceived the injury from getting the. foot caught in the fly wheel of a gas oline engine.
 Herman Smith has added to his poultry plant equipment a mammoth brooder having a capacity for 900 chick& It Is in icompartmtnts so as to provide for successive hatehings as they come from the incubator. Mr. Smith has now about 500 chicks
 The concrete bridge on his grounds which Harry Lounsbury built two or three years ago at a cost oe $50 was by frost and freshet so that temporarily he has to drive to and from his premises over the land