The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-16
TAX SHORTAGE IS
 PAID IN FULL BY
 SURETY COMPANY
Inventory Value of III. $. Os- |, born Estate Placed at
 About $66,O0O.
Special to The Farmer.)

can Surety Go. the town has received a check for $2,376, the full amount claimed by reason of the shortage III the accounts of former Tax Collector Duncan In all particulars the com pany accepted, without an exam1na- ton of it's own, the figures submitted by the selectmen. These consisted mostly of results obtained by the town auditors through an 1nvestfsatlon or the records, the balance of about $500, with the exception of about S125, be- ing represented by receipts produced by various property owners whose
 payments had not been entered upon the collectors books. The $125 was made up of three unpaid bills which had been left unsecured by liens oW- ing to the collectors negligence As the properties to which they pertalned had meanwhile been sold it was reared that these claims were lost to the, town and therefore the insurance company's recognition of them came as an agree able Surprise. The settlement IS ac- companied by an agreement that any errors of detail which may yet de- veIope shall be adjusted in accordance with the facts. The company has 1n- creased it's attachment on Duncan's property from $2,500, the sum original ly sued for. to 5000
 The Republican caucus Saturday evening ratified without exception and in record time the selections made at the conference held by a handful of the party leaders a week before. Fol- ford H. Osborn and Za1mon Read; as- sessor B. A. Pinkney; board of re- lief B. B. Banks and Marshall D. Sanford; town clerk. J. B. Sanford; town treasurer, w. H. Hill; collector of taxes, John Muennich; constables, D. R. Warner, W. E. Banks, Harry Os- born; grand jurors, Lemuel Sanford, Christian Miller, John H. Hohmans;' ; fauditor, E. A. Pinkney; registrars of voters, L. Warner and Augustus Chur- chill; town school committee, E.. A. Pinkney. The nominee for town clerk l is the present incumbent Of the office and a Democrat
 No advance program had been ar ranged for the Democratic caucus on Monday evening and the proceedings dragged until a lat hour, not because Of contests but owing to the diffusion of 11ncu1tivated preferences. The ticket named was as follows: Selectmen, M
 Joseph Sullivan and Walter P. Row land; assessor. James L. B1ackman; board of relief. W. C. Sanford and Robert J. Rider; town clerk, J. B.. Sanford; town treasurere William A Bloomsbury; auditor, Rufus A. Lyon; collector of taxes, William A. Grouse; grand jurors, D. S. Sanor:a Joel God frey, Alexander ASchall constables James Delaney, Frank Rider, >NicoS o lsSanteneIIo: school committee, J. B. Sanford; registrars of voters, E. M. Bradley and Nicolo Santenel1o.
 The inventory on the estate of the late Henry s. Osborn which was filed this week by Judge Woodman and H. s. Barnes. the appraisers, shows a to- tai valuation of $57, ,S59.5J classified as follows: Real estate, $29, ,349; personal $2, 090.50; choses in action, $26, ,429. Of the real estate some of the principal items are: \ Homestead and 20 acres, $8,00e; 27 acres opposite homestead S2, 700; house and lot in Georgetown, $1, 259; 33 acres of sprout land in Hope we'll, $9s5: 10 acres sprout land in San fordtown, $200; five houses in Bethel, $10, 500; three houses in Danbury, $4,- 500. The choses in action comprise the l following: Notes, $15. .728; bank depos- ! it's, $725; one share retheI Bank stock ,$100; town of Bedding bond, $6 900; one share Farmers Bank of Danbury $l25; 52 shares N. Y., N. H. & H. rail- road at 54. g. sos; book accounts, s144
 The persona property consisting of house furnishings and farm imple- ments is appraised at $2.O90.50. If the New York and New Haven stock were now worth what it was a few years ago the estate would show a valuation larger by nearly $S, ,000
 Another hard luck experience has befallen George P. Williams of Lone town. Shortly before the fire last spring which destroyed his barns and big dairy. herd the failure of a stam- ford man to whom he supplied milk caused him a loss of between $40o and $500. This was bad enough but he SUD- posed that particular chapter had been closed until a few days ago when he received from the New Haven railroad a bill of about $4oO for the transporta- ton of milk to the defaulting Stain ford dealer. In accordance with the usage customary in such transactions the understanding had been that the buyer should pay the freight Being unable to collect from the receiving end of the line however, the railroad fell back upon the shipper. MT will
 Hams sought legal advice on the sub Ject and was Informed that as the law stands the claim against him is a valid one. Consequently his only a1- ternative is to pay
 Misses Amy Blanchard and Ida Waugh have sold their cottage on the lower Ridge to pr. Andrew B. eCohn of New York who. with his family has been occupying it during the pres ent summer. The house is one of the oldest in town and had one roof ex- tending nearly to the ground and otl- CT marks of antiquity pr. Cofan be- longs to the staff of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research of which Dr. Abram FIexner is the head
 It is understood that he paid between $6,0 900 and $7.000 for his new home
 Joseph Hill announces his intentiSu to pass the rest of his life in Reddinr During his recent stay in Massachu- setts he buried a sister who was the sole surviving member of the family excepting himself and expended sev- era1 hundred dollars on cemetery me morials for relatives. His application for a further allowance of back pen sion is now pending and he feels con f1dent that it will be granted. Should the claim, which covers the entire pe- riod since his honora bIe discharge from the service, receive recognition 1t will mean an award of several thou sand dollars. He says that were some of his old generals, Sherman Hawley. Banks, Williams and Abercrorn bic among them, still alive he would have no difficulty in getting the endorse
 nents neded to establishh his claim. llr,,.c. l.o