The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-04
FARM BUREAU PLAN INTERESTS BEDDING
Movement Started There and Now Promises To
 Be Successful.
Special to The Farmer.l

represented at the meeting helo III Norwalk last Friday afternoon for the purpose of taking action towards se- curing "a, county agent as the head of a farm bureau for Fairfield county un- der the provisions of the Lever bill passed by the last Congress, the local delegation comprising D. s. Sanrord, Milo Osborn, Albert Williams, E. F. Sanford and Secretary c. H. Plump or 1 the Protective League. The move naent had its inception several months l ago at a meeting held at Grange hall l her under the auspices of Bedding Grange and the Protective League Since then the project has appeared 70 sIunnber although as@a matter ot fact various influences. including the l Grange ladies, were working for US Iadvancement. With the single excep- ton of Bridgeport every town in the county was represented at Friday conference which had been brought about by the FJorwalk board of trade.
 The lively interest and confident spirit shown by the gathering promises well ! for the success of the enterprise. Ali ter appointing a committee of ten to
 prepare a plan of organization tne' meeting adjourned to Feb IS when the committees report will be submitted I and acted upon The annual cost Of
 maintaining the proposed bureau is es- l timated at from 4s000 to $4,500 ana 70 obtain the financial support needed IS
 
 contributed by the national govern l nent one of the speakers declared that $1 800 was already assured. An efforI I will be made to secure an appropr1a- tion from the present state legislature, but private subscriptions mustzibe re- tlied upon for considerable of the l amount needed. The granges will | doubtless help and various corpora ] tions are also to be asked tot contrib lute. A Massachusetts man who was [ s- . Al <
 reau in his county in that state re- lceived support from many sources, a, l trolley company contributing $500- Support from banks, transportation lcompanies and other forms of business can be properly solicited, it is urged; because while primarily the bureau l will benefit the farmers other indus itries will indirectly share in the ben efts coming from increased agrfcul- turl production As has been re- marked there is no form of prosperity lnore catching than that which begins with the farming class. Since the enactment of the Lever bill& county I farm bureaus have been widely estab- Ilished throughout the country with highly satisfactory results, but the Inectfcut is that in New London coun- I ty. Secretary Plump is very enthu- siastic on the subject. declaring that these agencies are the great thing ineedful to bring town and city inter ests into closer relationship and one lpromotive of their mutual advantage:
 Being unable to reach satisfactory terms with the Bridgeport Hydraulic I Co. for a lease of the former Stephen Sanford property in Pleasant Valley, Ralph Rockwell sought another loca- I ton for a residence and his meat bus Illness and obtained a very desirable one on the Ridge. He has rented from
 Aaron H. Sanford for one year the lat l ter's house and adjacent buildings and
 will occupy them about March 1. MT. lSanford is to move to Bridgeport and lengage in the milk business. having talready purchased an established milk route in the city. The building at present used as a wood house on the Sanford place will undergo alterations to fit it for meat market Walter Lil1ey will continue to occupy the cot tage on the place anC Henry Wartoh will move from the Valley to the ten tement house on Meeker hill.
 The ladies of West Bedding have organized a village improvement so- 1siety, the second meeting of which
 was held this afternoon with Mrs. J.
 L.. Blackrnan. Mrs w. B. Claf1fn is
 the society's president. One Of it's first undertakings will be the laying out
 and identifying of the grounds about
 the West Bedding station, a project
 which has been talked of for some
 time but not accomplished. Subscrip- tions for the work are now being so- i, iIicited. The railroad company will be
 asked to place two lamps on the plot, the society agreeing if this is done, to furnish another.
 Not a, single petitioner appeared be
 fore the board of relief at their meet , ing on Monday, a fact which may have
 been due to the stormy weather. In response to a request from Commo-
 dore Luttgen a detailed statement of
 his assessment V aluation has been sent : him. He is listed for. about the same amount as last year less the $7 900
 which was then added on account of ) the failure of the assessors to receive
 a. list from him. This year he put in
 a list The second meeting of the
 board will be held on Monday next. ! The man Davis recently arrested in Waterbury on a charge of counterfeit
 ing made this town his headquarters
 while engaged in the same line of bus
 mess about twenty years ago. He
 then boarded with a family on Sunset
 Hill and had his workshop in the Elm
 wood district in Bethel The secret
 service men finally ran him down and
 he received a sentence of fourteen l Iyeats- His brother, who was arrested
 at the same tinne escaped punishment
 by turning States evidence
 The town has paid it's share towards
 the cost of the mile of permanent road , way built in the Georgetown section
 last summer, the amount being a little I 46SS IAe1l @7s0OO Wn1Cn was One-1OurCE ] Eof the total. This job used up the bal = ance of the appropriation to the towns credit and there will be no further U improvements of the kind until the
 legislature makes another appropria- r, tion and the town secures a share o1 J it by vote of a town meeting. This }. will probably delay actual expenditure
 until a year from the coming summer ? There is yet to be settled by the towr 9 its one-quarter share of a big bill fol : state highway repairs.
 = Zalmon Read has leased his resi-. \ dence and farm in the Umpawaus
 section to John Hawthorne, son of Ju = Han Hawthorne, the author, and broth . U aI ofI Der in,