The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-27
STAMFORD FINDS A NECESSARY MOVE DePand on Funds by Influx of School Children Exceeds
 Appropriations. SLASH ALLOWANCES
 FOR DEPARTMENTS Damage Done Roads, By Poor Weather Cause of UneX-
 pected Expense.
Especial to The Farmer.)


 Stratford, June 27-Because of the treTpendous~ influx of children during the last year and the outlay of money necessitated the board of finance at it's meting last evening instituted a retrenchment policy. More rooms have been added to schools. more teachers employed and more supplies consumed so that there is now a de- Nfcit of $3,5OO in the appropriation for schools. The roads of the town have been damaged by the indictment weather, also.
 Clerk Harold c. Lowell was in-j structed to notify the heads of de- partments to effect the following saw ings from appropriations made their departments: Police department. $500 from $1,O0O; legal expenses, $1OOl from $500; charity, $500 from s4,0O0; repairs to auto chemical and fire house, $1OO from $500; cutting brush, $100 from $50; cleaning streets, $50 from $125; fences, $50 from $2O0; l crosswa1ks, $15O from $20O; bridges, $10O from $20e; planting shades, $10O from $500; survey of maps for high ways, $2O0 from $500; mosquito ex- termination, $10O from $500. The matter of transferring appro- priatioHs was deferred until the close 1 of nextN year. The board of select 1 men recommended at a recent meet l ing that $500, which was appropriated for a hose tower for the fire house, be changed upon recommendation of Allen D. Judson, chief of the fire de- partment. Chief Judson suggested that the money be used for repairing | the steps of the town hall and re- modelling the town lookup. Perrnis- sion was given the selectmen to take l $25O from the miscellaneous and con- tingent fund and repair the town | lookup.
 The board recommended $500 for next years appropriation for the re- pairing of Bruce avenue extension. It 1 was voted to allow the selectmen to take $15O fronn/th miscellaneous and contingent fund for the repair of the same thoroughfare.
 | Clerk Lowell was instructed to notify | all other heads of departments not mentioned at the meeting not to ex- ceed further their Appropriations. The members present at the meeting were | Elliott w. Peck, chairman; Samuel w Hubbe11, Judge Howard J. Curtis William H; Fryer and First selectman James Lally.
 Charles Graham was elected sachem of the Okenuck tribe of Red Men al the annual election of officers held | last evening at the wigwam, Church street. Other officers elected were John O'Briep, senior sagamore; Mar tin Knapp, junior sagamore; Ivan L MorehoNse, prophet and Frederic L. Bevans, captain of the degree team Four candidates received the adoption hunters and warriors and chiefs de gree last evening at the meeting. The i meeting was, largely attended. Corr and venison were served.
 A very quiet wedding took place Friday June 23, when Miss Florence Walton, daughter of MT. and Mrs
 John Walton, became the bride O. John Mcclure, son of MT. and Mrs Tn onas Mcclure. Rev. Ernest c Carpenter, pastor of the StratforC Methodist church, performed the ceEe mony. Both persons are widely ac
 quainted in Stratford. MT. McGuir, l is, a clerk.
 The Woman's Aid society of tn, ! Congregational church will hold a dol
 lar party at the home of Mrs: Bron
 son. Housatonic avenue, Friday, Jun'
 30.