The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-27
OUR. VIEWPOINT
 NEWS LETTER
Special to the Farmer,.)

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 Newtown, Sept. t27-At the session of the se1ectmen and town clerk, Sat urday, for the admission of voters, 20 were admitted. Of the number nine were Democrats, five Republicans and six refused to give political prefer ences Besides the foregoing. the registrars added several names to the roster of electors of former voters who have returned to town but struck from the list a larger number who have died or removed from town in the past year, so that the number entitled to vote this fall Approximates last years number
 The selectmen have drawn an order for s5 .ooo to be paid the bank for a part of the $1OSB0O borrowed by the town, acting under the special meet ing when the matter of rebuilding the bridges in Hanover and South Center was brought before the voters. The payment of this large sinstalment was made possible by the efforts of Tax Collector John F. HouHhan, in col Iecting such large proportion of the current years taxes. as well as back taxes, but 1t is unfortunate that the payment could not have been made earlier so as to appear in the annual report of the selectrn en for the fiscal year ending August 31. It is given here in these columns in order that IL town meeting. and in justice to the board of selectnen who paid as soon as the money was available.
 The case of Fred Boughton of Bethel came up by continuance, Sat urday, before Justice F. H. McCar- thy. For. want of evidence, Boughton was discharged.
 Arthur Beard is buf1ding an out side chimney on the Corbett S Grove store dn Sandy Hook in order to com ply with the fire regulations of the New England Insurance Exchange.
 Besides the election by ballot of the l regular town officials, the voters will be called on at the annual, town meeting, Monday October 4, to vote on the constftutt ona& Rmendment com corning legisIators mileage, the license question: and the ever press ing desire for consolidation of schools Non this latter matter the women will exercise the right to vote, as we'll as vote for members of the town high school committee, and of the board of school visitors. It will re- quire eight boxes to comply with these various privileges, but 1lo one apprehends that any of our feminine voters will be confused by the null tipHcity of boxes and drop in a bal lot for school consolidation in the box for excise curta1lment. It is under stood that the full body of female vot- CTS will exercise the privilege of. the franchise this year in town and are now taking a great interest in the outcome.
 Miss winnifred Paetsch returned from St. Vincent's hospital, Sunday, and is now at her home with Miss Mary Harrigan of Sandy Hook
 The committee of Sandy Hook busi- ness men who took up the matter of housing the employees who are expecting to come to town with the opening of the new plant of the E. B, and s. B. Co, about October 1, have handed in a list of private families accommo odate these mechanics so that with the accommodations already af- forded by the hotels and boarding houses it is believed all will be ho1s- ed comfortably. Capital, it is said. will also be forthcoming to build new houses, as soon as the permanency and extent of the new population is known. Sandy Hook seems to be in for a boon," and a return to the days of its importance in Newtown Miss Mary Roche, and Miss Lena Blake of the office force in the Rem ington-Arms plant. Bridgeport. were Sunday guests at their parents homes
 Daniel J. Keane, a. senior in inc academic department of Yale Uni ycrsity, is visiting relatives in New town and Sandy Hook for a few days
 Miss Helen Keane from the cenfer school in Washington, Conn.,, spent the week end with her parents in Sandy Hook
 William -Loughran, Jr., a graduate of Manhattan college, is spending a few days experimenting the closing