The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-22
GEORGETOWN IS WINNER FOR NEXT
 STATE ROAD
Com. Bennett, Thought West Side Project Had Best
 Claim.
Redding's New Grand List Shows Increase Over Last Year of About 6O,OOO.-Sud- den Death of Former Red- ding Pastor.
2 Special to the Farmer.o

5a610QO1nS, Jan. ZA--oGl0CIAAA0'A4 CA 1As~, accompanied by s. H. Osborn and Se- 1ectman Stocking, accompanied by B. B. Banks, went to -HaTtford last Thursday for the purpose of conferr1ng with Commissioner Bennett regarding the next job of state highway con struction in this town. The two de1- egations held disagreeing views on the question of location, each being equip ped with arguments for their respec- tive localities. Naturally, Mr. Barnes favored Nthe Putnam Park and MT Stocking the highway leading from Georgetown, through the Glen, to 1 Redding Center It happened that the | Georgetown couple reached MT. Ben nett's office first and used such per-d suasive arguments that when MT. learned that the case had already been decided against him Consequently, there was no general discussion of the matter such as had been looked for ward to- While the commissioners decision is disappointing to the east side section, it does -c+ eacasion much surprise as MT. Bennett virtually com mitted himself to the Georgetown proect when he came here last sEring and made choice of the hometown precedence. At that time he said that should there remain anything from the funds then available, 1t would be used to start the Georgetown improvement. The LOneLOWn JOD re- ouired all the funds to the towns credit at that time and a, few hun dreds in addition from the subsequent allotment of $500. What is now available will build less than half of 1 the four miles of the Georgetown road and when that work is finished the claims of the other crosstown route known as the York road, will be strongly urged by the west siders, so
 that it looks as if the Park road job would not be reached for several
 years. The ordinary repair work
 done by the town is inadequate to keep it in proper condition and owing ! to the heav5s traffic it accommodates an effort may be made to have 1t per
 manent1y improved without waiting for state aid In that event the town would. of course have to bear the en- tire expense. It is intended to begin work on the Georgetown road early next season, starting at the village and
 progressing eastward
 | The destruction by fire early Tues
 day morning of Judge Sanford's store
 and former creamery building at the Center would, a, few years ago, have l been of more serious import toi the lcommunity than is now the case, be-. plant. for the local dairy interests. <, Dozens of farmers daily carried milk 1 there and were paid for it on the basis | of the butter fat~it contained, the per centage of such fat being determined I by the BabcockS tester. Before MT. Sanford built the creamery in 1887 l several Unsuccessful efforts had be&n made to start one as a cooperative enterprise. Local farming conditions were in a period of transition. The production of hay, grain and the fat tening of cattle had been growing less ! profitable and butter made by individ- ual effort was losing favor with the consuming public on account of com 1 petition from the factory made arr ticle. The Sanford creamery some
 times turned out 800 pounds of butter lin a day and it's average daily pro- duct through the year was not far from 300 pounds. This output grad Eua,lly decreased by reason of the-grow- ing demand for milk on the part of Bridgeport and other cities, the farm CTS finding sales in these markets more I profitable than returns from butter T making. As coIsseqdence the I Centery creamery discontinued busf- ness in 1907. The towns present pro- ductfon of milk is larger than ever and it can also be said that the meth ods pertaining to the production are lsteadily being bettered in respect to I the quality of herds, feeding and san
 itation. And the demand for the
 milk seems to increase faster than the increasing supply.
 Tax Collector Demean is working up
 the personal tax list-by authority of
 the selectnnen. Under the amended
 law the tax becomes due this year on February 1, and there are fewer
 causes for exemption than formerly physical disability, such as formerly relieved the citizens from the military tax, not being one of them. Quite a l number have protested to MT. Demean against being placed on the list but he explains that he is being guided by the provisions of the law as it now
 reads and that those who think they have cause for grievance can appeal l to the seleetmen.
 Mrs. Elnora Whitehead suffered a fracture of the hip last Saturday as the result of an outdoor fall on her premises in Pleasant Valley. She was , taken to the Danbury hospital on Sun day. The grand list of the town for the } present year as shown by the tax ab- stract which has been filed at the ) town clerks office is s1,735. SsS. Last years list, as sunrevised by the board
 of relief, was $1. .673. .428.
 Rev. H. B. Wing, pastor of the West 2 Bedding Methodist church, will retire from active ministerial work in April
 next, on account of his advanced 1 years. Subscriptions are being sought
 among the members of the church to
 provide a larger salary for the in
 cumbent named by the Conference as
 his successor.
 The committee heads appointed to
 solicit subscriptions for the Danbury
 hospital held a, meeting in Danbury
 today to which the s'he1pers'' have
 been invited. The members of these
 committees are designated t.cap-
 tains'' and they and their aids are hopeful that the plan of raising 8 to- tai of $40,000 by the present campaign will be successfully accomplished.
 MT. and Mrs. Albert A. Gorham of
 the Center were among those who at
 tended the State Grange session in
 Hartford last week.
 , Extraordinary bargains in warm cloth coats at lowest prices ever quot ed for new desirable goods in cloth
 sport coats,s long caincFilla coats, long