The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-23
COSTLY CINDERS MAY COST VOTES
 ID BEDDING MAN
War Department Gives Official Sanction to Herr SchOch'S
 Rifle Club

Bedding, Sept. 23-Coa1- cinders make
 an excellent material for road surIac--
 ing. but when their carriage cost Is
 $1.7O a load their use becomes an eA-
 travaxance Because a good many
 citizens feel that way about It ana De-
 cause First Selectman Reed has been
 using cinders at the cost mentioned
 some of those who formerly voted for him will not do so in the coming cleo
 tion There are other reasons for be- . Iieving that he will not command the
 full. support of his party, one being
 the fact that the roads in his section are believed to have been neglected in
 comparison with those in the other
 sections Another handicap he bears
 is his action last year in informally pocketing commission of $25 for sell ing as the agent of the town, the Sweeney property at the Center. His associates on the board did not know that he had held out $25 in making re- turns on the transaction until the fact was disclosed in the town meeting by the agent who had acted for the pur- chaser and who wanted the record corrected lest he should himself become the subject Of suspicion There was nothing criminal about the selectnan- act and perhaps he was equitaoly en- titled to the fee he took, but his man rer of taking it was clearly irregular and there had already been so many irregularities by town officials that the
 public was tired of them. Further
 more there is an incident relating to
 Mr.. Read in connection with the re-
 cent wholesale abatement of taxes
 which does him particular credit
 The abAtements comprised one on his
 farm t6 the amount of about s, repre- senting sums due for poll and military
 taxes on the lists of 1e07-S Inasmuch
 as claims of tIiis class had become out Iawed they were abated in bunch,
 HF q, F1a
 people view the circumstance, how
 ever. a nice regard for the moraEties and proprieties would have impelled
 che first selectman to remove the charge against him from the books by paying 1t even if the statute of lirnita- tions did serve as a bar to it's enforced
 collection Considering these facts the Democrats feel confident of electing both their selectnan eandida-tes- They are M Joseph Sullivan and Walter P. Rowland Both have >eompetently
 served the town ;;. selectmenS and there is no flaw in their records.
 During the fiscal year which closed Sept. 10 the town borrowed SS!5o0 and paid off temporary loans of $6,500 and tracted the previous year There was in the treasury g, ,133 as against s1. .116 at the corresponding period S year ago so that the unfavorable balance Is about $1, 900. The treasurer's disourse- nents were ss1. .G93 and the receipts 2 rom taxes i$z0,S1o- -s-1nSs ScnCOi cOIIl- nnittee kept slightly within its appro- prtation Of $6,0o0 besides returning to. the State $216 which was half the sum due by reason of excess payment , the previous year resulting from an
 error in the school Anumeration.F Roa d
 repairs cost $6.018 of which $657 was
 expended in August and September, and bridges $744 State roads called for g, 39O of which sum g, ,152 went fer new construction work in Georgetown
 About half the charges of. $10O by Dr.
 Mansfield health officer.-were for in
 vestigations of reported eases of hoof and mouth disease among cattle last winter and most of the other half
 arose from the scarlet fever epidemic. aOther expenditures were Paupers, s$1 PSI interest, $785; official salaries and expenses, s993. 90.
 The quality and diversity of local Farm production was vel reflected in the anual exhibitiSp held by Bedding
 grange last Friday afternoon and eve ming. In size and general interest the show fully equal1ed that of last year, athe entries numbering about 15O, and SEhe attendance was large. The exhib- sone for apples Three samples of corn shown by Herman Smith showed the Comparative effects of as many kinds zof fertilizers. The Masters Shaw ex- lhibited goat, chickens and a horse sand colt, and there was a large table devoted to specimens of needleWork, smany of them remarkable for taste and skill. The various exhibits were judged and premium cards awarded
 for the best
 z Tn a suit to force collection of a freight bill for about $400 the New
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