The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-22
BEDDING TO HAVE NEW SCHOOL GIFT
 COSTING S25, 900
Late Edwin Gilbert's Plan to Be Executed by Gilbert &
 Bennett Co.
Special to The Farrher.o

Bedding, July 22.-Should favorable action be taken by the stockholders of the Gilbert & Bennett Go. at their an. nuaI meeting next Tuesday a project long entertained by the late Edwin Gilbert will be carried to entire fulnl-5 ment, this project having been only partially realized by his bequest of a s1 $. coo trust fund to Wilton school dis trict No 10. It was his desire to eS- tablish a school for the benefit of the children of Georgetown and vicinity, most of whom attend school in the dis trfct referred to-, and in the execution of the plan he was prepared to expend between S40.OOO and s5e. coo. He went so far as to buy a site tract of several acres. When, however, he submitted the proposition to a. town meeting here it was received so indlfTerently that his own interest in it cooled and only revived afterwards sufficiently to find expression in the bequest men toned Wilton district No. 10 is made up of areas in Wilton, Bedding and Weston and to avoid separation in conformity with town line boundaries which the school consolidation law called for the district, by a subsequent special act of the Legislature, was made an independent one with full au- tonorny. Recently the need of a. new school building became apparent land a special district tax to provide one
 
 the Gilbert & Bennett directors decid- ed to furnish the building at the com pany's expense, thus accomplishing the design of the eompany's former president That the stockholders will approve this decision is considered a certainty The proposed new school will have eight rooms, just double the number in the present building, and in construction and equipfnent is intend ed to be first class. It's location is to be son the Bedding side of the, town line. the site selected being now. owned by the company and comprising ample. space for play grounds Its natural advantages are also much superior to those of the present schooPs location. The number of Bedding children at tending the school last year was about. s0
 the John M. sulliyana property to Charles Perry of Weston. The new owner will not assume charge of the store until Aug. l and may have asso-, ciated with him in the business his brother who now holds. a position in a Norwalk bank. Joseph Busser is to. remain a lessee of the blacksmith sop. Frank Sullivan, resident member of the firm of Sullivan Bros, intends to make a change of occupation by starting an auto passenger and ex- press service between Bethel and Bridgeport by way of Bedding Ridge. making one round trip daily.
 Collector Muennfeh is sending out supplementary notices to all taxpayers against whom charges appear on the books requesting them, in case they hold receipts other evidence of payment, to produce such evidence during the present week. Otherwise it will be assumed that the present record of indebtedness is correct and those who fail to pay the end of next week will have liens placed on their porperty. In the case, however, of deIinquents the 1913 list liens will not e filed until Sept. 15. In the last two weeks there have been no dfscIos- ures having the effect of adding to the previously established shortage in the accounts of the former collector.
 There are labor saving methods ot doing things and also, necessarily, the reverse. An example: of the latter would seem to be the carting of gravel upon the Ridge road. For the upper