The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-28
MTGHFIELD COUNTY NEWS.
Gets Carnegie scholarship.


 Thomas 6. Thompson of Torr1nEtoz1, who secured a fellowship in the Uni- yersity of Washington in Seattle last year has been notified by the Iron and Steel Institute of London, Eng land. that he has been awarded the Carnegie Internal Research Scholar ship, amounting to 100 pounds, for his thesis on ssPrevention of the Corrosis Of Iron and Steel by Passivifying Fac torss' MT. Thompson is the hrstl ap- plicant in the United States to receive this scholarship in two years. although six are granted every year He is now eligible for the Carnegie medal for scientific research.
 Common Pleas Decisions.
 In the court of common pleas. Mon day. Judg SWoodrun gave his decision in favor of the plaintiff to recover, for work and material to the extent of S7383 in the case of John DeMichaei and Brother of Torrington against John Brini of Danbury In the case foreclosure Judgment was granted for s6oI 50 and Frank F. Tarkington was authorized to sell the property on May 10 No answer to the complaint was filed in the case of Gorne1ia R. M. B. Smith against Joseph Atch1nson-
 Bad Fire in Norfolk
 Tn the Wood Creek district of Nor folk about 900 acres were burned over Sunday The HllIhurst, a large summer hotel was threatened and the Norfolk fire department was called out A shift in the wind saved the building Two hundred men were pressed into service by W. A Spau1d- ing warden, but the herceness of the blaze in the woods prevented them controlled when it had burned down to the marsh lands. A considerable part of the property burned over be Iohged to pr. E. Fl. Peaslee of New York, a. summer resident.
 To Lower Tax Rate
 An Interesting meeting of Torring- ton borough voters was held Monday night at which the alleged railroading Of revisions of the Borough charter through the Legislature was warmly discussed. When the committee on cities and boroughs reported Iunfavor- ably on the charter and the charter was shelved,. the proposed revision was adopted without dissent, and little more was thought about it, until the Borough board levied a 4-miH tax and then added and extra 2-milI tax for lextraordinary expenses. The presen- tation Of the estimated budget for i'm provements in the borough provoked a heated discussion of the right of the lI.esislature to give the power to the l discussion ended with 8 vote to re- jecfan of the proposed street improve 1nents, sewer construction and pur- chase of new equipment or the fire departTnent, al of which was to be cov- cred by a 2-miH tax This means. in effect that there will be no money in hand to provide for any of these inn provements during the present year. A vote was offered instructing the two representatives in the Legislature to secure the repeal of House Bill 1s4 wflcih deprived the voters of the power to lay their own tax assessments. This vote was passed, but rinasmuch as 1t wa not included in the call to the meet ing and as the representatives are not elected by the borough but by the town, the vote was powerless except as an expression of sentiment. On the question of acepting the proposed gift Of Mrs. Laura Cole of $40.oo0 as a trust fund the income of which is to be used after her death, and that of her husband for the relief of indigent per sons over 50 years of age, the meeting voted to authorize the borough board to accept this gift
 State Police at Work
 State Policeman Bridgeman and Yer eli wer in Norfolk Wednesday de- stroyfng the liquor seized in the raids last week and settling up the cases They also paid visits to other places