The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-04
JOEL THORNE HAS
 PLANS ID BUILD
 ON BEDDING RIDGE
Towns SeIectmen Make Clerical
 Appointment I'm a Pe- culiar Way.
Especial to The Farner.)


 estate in the Ridge section is so close Iy held that transactions in it, which are usually associated with building projects, have special interest. A prospective deal with the probabilities strongly in favor of reaching a com pIeted transaction relates to the cor ner property east of the Ridge school house and south of the residence of Jesse L. Sanford, tract of fourteen acres owned by Mrs. Robert Nichols.
 A fifteen days option upon it has been secured by Joel Thorne of New York with $2,O00 the purchase price. That Mr. Thorne has about decided to exercise the option would seem to be indicated by the fact that he has had Builder McCollam outline the founda- tion for a residence on the corner plot of the tract.
 As to the style of the house. should he conclude to build there, he is un- decided between a bungalow and a 1 two-story structure. Adjoining the proposed building site on the south is Of the Nichols tract less than two acres are meadow, the rest being rough land used for pasture. %
 Is or is not w., H! Hazen clerk of the board of seIectmen in the sense of having been duly and legally appoint
 
 and Read, the Republican members would doubtless answer that query in the affirmative while Mr. Sullivan cannot view the matter in the same light.
 This is the situation: Just after the board convened Hast Saturday imme- diately following their action of qual- flying by taking the oath of office MT. Sullivan offered a motion that Town Trfasurer Hill be appointed the boards clerk. This motion First Se- lectman Osborn, the chairman, disre- garded with the explanation that him. self and MT. Read had already decided upon MT. Hagen for clerk. Then if MT. Hazen is clerk, responded MT. Sullivan, etwhy is he not here attend ing to his duties,?'' Mir. Osborn said in reply, that the new clerk had been cause not known to him. This closed the colloquy, but MT. Sullivan pro- ceeded to ponder somewhat in this fashion = How can the board elect or appoint a clerk without a formal vote to that effect?'
 "A private understanding between Messrs. Osborn and Fcead cannot be sufficient unless my ideas the sub ject are all wrong. And anyway the other two members can have reached such an understanding only in their capacity as private individuals be- ately after qualifying Furthermore it is no way to do business and sus- pect that they shut out my motion be- cause they wished to avoid embar- rassment of going formally on record as making a choice between two Re publican candidates There were submitted two tax receipts, one show ing payment of $21 by Miss M. D. FsowIer and another A payment of g by Lewis Edwards neither of which
 
 1ector Duncan. They will be sent to the American Surety Go. for recogni- tion s additions to the shortage made good by the company.
 At the monthly meeting on Monday evening of Fire Go. No. 1. F. M San ford and A. G. Barnett joined as sociate members. To Chief Cunning ham was referred. with power to act, a proposition that the fire district be !diveded into sections so that the To- caIity of a. fire might be, more plainly indicated in sending out the alarm. A committee consisting of Messrs. Rock well, Muennich and Osborn was ap- pointed to ascertain if the residents were willing to render sufficient fnan- cia1 support for the purchase of an other chemical engine. Should there be a negative report from the com mittee at the next meeting the Center will be excluded from the fire district by making Little river tits western boundary line. The Center people have had several months in which to come in or stay out under plainly un- derstood conditions and the depart ment feels that settlement of the question should not be longer delayed D. V. B. Heggeman, the Brooklyn banker, donated $10 to the department last week, the contribution being in addition to the $20 he had previously paid for a full share menbershfp.
 Incl P Williams with a persistence which seems almost vindictive. His latest misfortune is the wreckage /by Tues days gale of the si1o he had just com p1eted. It had been blown down twice before while partially erected but the third demolition is of the entire struc- ture and caused serious damage to the materials. The corn grown for the filling of the si1o was cut several weeks ago and still lies spread out in the field, it's feeding value meanwhile growing 1esS- zfIThe wrecked SilO re- placed one which was' burned in the spring along with MT. Williams other farm buildings. The barns have since been rebuilt but their construction was much delayed by the withholding of the insurance money and soon af- ter the loss had been adjusted MT. Williams had to pay s400 for 4ailroad freight charges on his milk which the buyer of the milk agreed to pay but defauIted upon.
 Miss Marie, daughter of Mrs. John Malone, was married recently to Mi chael ~J. Murphy, a New York letter carrier, and the couple came to the brides former home here last week in the course of their wedding trip. Last Thursday evening they were the re- cipients of a serenade and on the fol- lowing day gave a reception which was numerously attended by the l brides Bedding friends. The couple will make their residence in New " ork.
 The men in khaki seen about the Ridge and other parts of the town last week were members of a party of U. s. engineers enga ged in a sur vey undertaken for the purpose of correcting the military map of the southwestern part of the State They