The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-24
WAFER GO. BUYS
 SANFORD PROPERTY
Deal Important In Its Bearing On Company's Aspetuck
 River Plans.
Price Not Disclosed But Guess ed to Be About $15, Red- ding's Last Year Expendi- lures Heavy.

Bedding, Sept 243The stephen San ford property in Pleasant Valley which the Bridgeport Hydraulic company sought to acquire last spring from Mrs. Mary and E P. Sanford through condemnation proceedings, has now come into the conpany's ownership by purchase Their first move towards obtaining it was made nearly a year ago By the transaction Just com pleted they obtain upwards of seventy acres, and a considerable number Of Buildings. or the land embraced in it's condemnation suit eight acres were recently sold to Misses Fox and Wa terman and in the present deal MT Sanford reserves six acres located on the hillside near the Charles sanford place.
 The price paid by the Hydraulic company MT. Sanford declines TO state and there will be much local guessing as to the figures There are various reasons for the conclusion that $15. 900 would not be a bad guess. One ground for this conjecture is a report on fairly good authority that during the com demnatfon hearing or soon after the company withdrew the suit MT. San ford made them an offer to sell at $16, 900. If he did make such an offer he kept 1t strictly to himself. Other grounds are the rumors as to the fig ures the condemnation committee had virtually decided upon. It is asserted that two Of them had settled upon SIS, ,0Oo and a third upon $14.0o0. The actual award might have been com Spronrise between these sums but just before the fnal meeting at which their finding was to be reached the company withdrew the suit their alleged req son for 50 doing being that they were determined not to pay the amount un- derstood to be favored by majority Of the committee. It is therefore a reasonable presumption that they have secured it for less. Mr. Sanfords vaI- nation, as he gave 1t at the hearing,
 was S24.ooO while his counsel argued for S28,O0O. The five Redding wit nesses called by the company varied between $14, 900 and about $17, 900. It is a condition of the sale that the buyer takes possession on the first of April next.
 The towns disbursements during the past year reached the largest total in it's history, a fact partly due to a number of unusual expenditures. One of these was the sum of S, 369 on ac- count of the Lonetown state road, the cost of which was $d3,472 Another was about $400 for the Georgetown bridge and a third damages of $500 paid in settlement of suit brought on account of the accidental killing of Mrs Barn111a at a defective bridge Road and bridge repairs cost $5,584 and the towns share of payments for state road repairs was $260. School expenditures amounted to upwards of $8, GOO but partial reimbursement by the state brought the net cost to about $5 60O This was $500 in excess Of the appropriation, the estimtes being ex- ceeded by reason of unlocked for increase in the number of pupils at tending high schools in other towns The poor cost $1, ,231 while the state tax called for $1,647 and the county tax for $110. Interest payments approximated s1, GOO. During the year the town bor-. rewed $6,5O0 of which $3, 800 has been repaid Tax receipts from the 1919 grand list were $15,584 and from the previous lists $1,555. There is now in the treasury s, 100 against $2,300 a year ago,
 A properly prudent person is Oscar West, colored, of Danbury. William E. Kealy, driving the horse he had hired from Miss Ella Ostling of the Ridge, met West on the street in Dan bury and asked his help in selling the animal with the promise of a commits sion in case of success. They repaired to Roxey Arbtelfs livery stables where West offered the team for $65. The l stable keeper said he did not like to deal with strangers whereupon West djselaimed all responsibility or previ- ous acquaintance with his companion and induced Kealy to sign a written statement to that enect which was duly witnessed by a bystander. After much dickering a, trade was effected by which Kealy received another horse and ST. Of this West received $2.5o His suspicious increased from