The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-21
4 PARTIAL VICTORY ON MAIL SCHEDUl. E
Bedding Committee Succeeds In Getting the Morning
 Service Restored.
Very Grateful For Help Given By EOnqressIalan Donovan New Grand List Lower Than Last Years.

Asaz.z. s5. Bedding. Jan. 2i. AS asresula of thes visit made to Washangton last week. by D. S. Sanford and H. s Eadnes | extlsens.4 dissatIs6 fed with l the recent oia aazssse inl, the star ute Scfsedu1e the alssaH wagon running be- I Tween the Ridge and " est tsedeargs resu1uned morning trips last Monday. ! EVhus the committee won 8 partial viss- 4ory. but whether the two daily trips will be restored on April remains 10 be decided Congressman Donovan writes that he Is hopeful that this point ggdH also De conceded, but the coGnxnittee are in doubt When they kaeached Washington Senatof Mclean warned them not to expect too muchs sxpladning that the department was Idntent on economy and that his own < efforfa to secure further acconlInod axons for a village only eight miles eron Hartford had met with failure. sIn a subsequent interview bebWeaen { the visitors and Assistant PostmasteT sRSeueMaI BIakeslee, the head of the 1 foSrffla eIaxs division the matter yves zone over thoroughly, the official en- 5 leavoring to convince the committee < tlnzf an evening seFydce combined with Afha morning service afforded by the srnra1 delivery gave rather better ia lfilte1es than tho old arFangement- The S1isnznzKsiftee had another point of view, eser,s and with seeming reluctance
 alHeasee finally granted their pc the extent or u121A1115 a440 s1lnxe nrom an evening to a morning I 4ssr5Efsses leaving in abeyance the mat HHr <ze 1gtnrning to a two trip schedule \ Am ffAe spring. Tine former arrange asIzt a1y which the rural carriers caE- flted b Bethel mall matter in closed q f5ouda1eS was also dfscorEting1ed- The 7s5ot1x1fkl6e arc highly asppreciatdve of EsAhs aaaABtazee they received in their 2 1lsElszon from Congressman Donovan fs1as z1r- Sanford expresses it he was ixriust certeosls, forcdble and 6iDlo- znszt1c and no one could have shown a t41a0Ho heEpGm or syanpathetic dls5pos1-I Raioa On Thursday morning Messrs- Esaxz1ord and Barnes were among the ana shook hands with President Will s,son-
 4zsst Saturday noon one of the San- sd1d Csboruss horse teams took fright Eco pkx61ng engine at Pranrhvilae. &TurS1ffon and .Andnew Dykeunan the sirfver gvas thrown out from the bum ping of the wagon against the roaaaide fence raf1a1g A rear wheel E Se the truck passed dzagonaIEy over tlze upper part of his body, tearing a0oee A setAen of sca1p st the top of the fprshead and inflicting a severe in Jury on the back of the head When ptcke1 up he was HzleoEascious and blood was flowing from alis ears and nose TkFo doctors who were called concluded that he had suffered Drain concl1ssicr and would not ssaEVdye- He was hurried to Daazba.ry hospital in pr Ma1sae1ds eDxto- Ous the trip he had two B1ief spells Of cozsctollsness ( noxae of which he pEoEestsd against going to the hospital and in the other asked for a cigarette Subsequently, he made an nm aexz,eested rally and his frecovery now assured 5s Like the others In Mir. Sau9ordss employ Dyke man is insured agaInst the require n1ents of the Connpensatfon Act and thes insurance comzaany will pey his a-EE S-s IA ES4 wages during the period of dlsabnaty a1ter the AnsE two weeks a1Ts to a pe- Eiod Of u1ne wsazns
 On fhe last prev1ons occasion when i4aes1s3seazxe the Equal Franchise I1eaEusa Of this town joined in the cam 2 fpafgn with a nzmerousty signed peti- ddd4a. 1AaH1osxgh a. start towards reviv- anss fne elasals was made last Novennr Eber Ene Inoven1ent progressed no fur ff1sr th1n Che oibta1n1ng of signatures and consequently the organization, one may be said to eadst, Is taking nc a,are n the presen4 legaslattve strug- rz1e rfss cssassa fsoszsvsF 11Is.s a strone 2 ndExscate d1a Representattve 6 c Shaw as dt had 6o1zr years ago in L. Q. Peck at that time one of the Reddang rep resenha44ves MT. Shaw is tne new chairman Of the. Putnam Park com. 1nlttsa and aaso second on the Houss coznrnfttee on education. The Putnam Bark commission have informed him in answer to his dnqufry that the, wish an appropriation for taae coming 1.-two years Of $5,008 winch is tlas au1oaZnt granted two years ago
 Tne trustees of the Mark Twain es tate have filed their annual repor- with Probate Judge Sanford. It show tha2 kEae income for the last year wa. abozxt @4000o which closely approzd G1ats the precetinss years revenue and of which the sole beneffciary i
 Ha Clara GabziloYzttsch daughter Q the late Saznsrs1 IL Clemens. Of tn income $16,000 ts derived from the roy allies coming from Mark Twain books of which Harper Bros. are tn Y511bMsheTs. The aI1luaI returns iron tfese royalties have kept at this fig s1Fe since the aMthorss death.
 Con1piIastfon of the towns grand lis for fhis year was conpIeted Tuesday The total is $1s735 418 as against $1 735. 9s8 last year "a, decrease of $515. Thi 4s f1ae surprfsing feature of the situa ffnn as it was assumed that nes abuf1d1ngs would give an increase c from $25.oO0 to $4o 900 The assessor. Eng7rss are yet to be reviewed by tn fl0oard of relief, but while the latte Fbody has authority to raise as well a lower valuations the net result of il I9abors are usually towards subtrac lion ratEler than addition Last yea the relief board cut off $22,982 from th list as it came to them, the exenT tfons granted war veterans account lne for most of the reduction Tn eyar the assessors cut down the va
 nations on property owned by res
 dents to thesarnount of $46,215 and add
 ed S45,664 on the property of nor residents. It is likely therefore, tIs
 most Of the appeals to the relief boar
 will come from non-residents La.
 year these appeals were mostly b
 residents living on the east side of tf
 town
 Owing to a series of nishaps u
 household effects of Rev Reymon
 Cunningham, the new rector of Chri
 Episcopal church, were nine days