The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-31
OUR VIEWPOINT >.,
 ;, NEWS LETTER

Newtown, July 31@About a score or men attended the special town meet ling. Saturday afternoon at the town hall The. meeting was warned by the selectmen to take action upon a pro posed appropriation of $2,00O to nnlsh' the work on the Sugar street road as laid out and approved by the state highway department. Already the town was obligated to pay $2,0OO as It's quarter share under. the contract With Kellogg. and Gregory, signed ey the selectmen nearly year ago. The |contracting firm failed in business be- fore completing the work, and High way Commissioner Charles J. Bennett turned over the completion of the road to Contractor John Aborig of New Haven. The latter worked only long enough to use up the unexpended balance left by Kellogg and Gregory in the state and town fund of $S,O0O. It. was then estimated that $2.000 more would be necessary to complete the section originally laid out by the high way department. and an appeal was made to thestown for it's share. Hence the town meeting. Notwithstanding this is an important matter, general apathy among our taxpayers prevails. Of the score or more present at the meeting only a few had any idea what to do, and the appropriation was vot- ed perfunctorily. By dint of persist ent questioning by George F. Dun- combe, some of the foregoing facts in the road muddle were brought to light, through the efforts of Supervisor Will liam c. Johnson, who alone seemed to have mastered the details of the financing by the state and town which compells the town to assume its share of a deficiency of $2.00o on road work contract supposed to have been definitely fixed at a town meeting sev- eral months ago. The selectmen were justifiably incensed at the lack of in- terest taken in the matter. The weather and the exigencies of the hay fields are the general excuse offered
 by the farmers for their obsence from town meeting on this really important occasion. Newtown should wake up. Dr. William L. Smith, a recent grad uate of the University of Pennsylva-
 mia. whose home is in Bridgeport, is spending a vacation of a week with MT. and Mrs. M. J. Lynch of Gas
 street.
 w. H. Clark, the Bridgeport plumb CT, is the owner of a new car which will remove him from the ranks of
 railroad commuters to which he mas belonged for several years since the advent of his family in Newtown. The Sandy Hook baseball steam played the North Ends of Bridgeport
 at the Knoll field yesterday afternoon.
 The local team won by a score of to 4. Conger and Conger were the bat
 tery for the home team.
 Mrs. Jerry Lynch of Bridgeport wal
 a Sunday guest of friends in Sandy
 Hook.
 | MT. and Mrs. Robert Scholley o1
 Shelton and daughter, Miss Lillian.
 and Dr. and Mrs. H. A. Roberts oi
 Derby autoed to Newtown. Sunday ] calling on MT. and Mrs. T. J. Cor
 bett.
 The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Costello
 of Bridgeport, widow of former Select
 man Timothy Costello, took place Sum-
 day. the automobile cortege arriving
 where large concourse of former
 Newtown friends had gathered. Mrs ! Costello and her husband. Timothy
 Costello. were among tho pioneer Gel tic families in Newtown, raising g large family of children, and both were widely and favorably known
 The husband died several years agC
 and the widow sold the family home
 stead few years ago, removing with
 her daughters, May and Nellie Cos
 tello, to Bridgeport. where they pur' chased a home and have since lived The other children living are Henry
 Costello of Newtown Charles Costello
 of Passaic, N. J.. William Costello o1
 Bridgeport, M. F. Costello of Gler
 Falls. New York, and several grand children.
 Dr. Joseph Keresy left Saturday fol | a vacation of two weeks to be spen1
 in the Wilds of New HampsAira