The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-24
VIEWPOINT MAY HAVE BOARD OF
 FINANCE SOON
Clergyman's Project Will Be Discussed at Coming
 Town Meeting.
Special to The Farmer.)


 Newtown, Aug. 24.-The agitation for a town board of finance took on form and shape this week when Rev. Timothy J. Lee of the Congregational church announced his intention to bring the matter definitely before the voters at the town meeting in Octo- Der. Mr. Lee while pastor of the church for several years, always kept his voting residence in New Milford whence he came to Newtown. As a resident of the town he has taken part in public meetings in the past in a way his friends approved. His power to push things to a conclusion was retarded by the fact that he was not a voter in the town nor. borough. This drawback will not continue as he intends to be made voter of New town in September. To signa111e his advent into the electorate of New town, he proposes to show the f1;- payers the wisdom of establishing a board of finance similar to ones in Stratford, Shelton, and other towns with whose operations he is familiar. Newtown handles about $40,000 an- nually, and its official expenses are greater than those of any other town in the state of approximately the same valuation of property. The towns ex- penses are growing by leaps and bounds.
 "In towns with a proper board of finance no such condition is confu- sion of its finances occurs,'' is what MT. Lee ayers. Each department of town government has fixed appro- priation and cannot exceed it except in emergency, and money cannot be shifted from one fund to another by any hocus-pocus system of finance" A budget including the actual costs of town affairs will then be an actuality instead of hit or miss calculation.
 B. J. Thrall, IT,, spent Wednesday in Bridgeport.
 Walter Glover is assisting James Peck, who handles the freight and output of the factory of Curtis & Son.
 Pootatuck grange will be the host for the Fairfield County Pomona, Sep tember 6. Last nights meeting of the grange was taken up principally in considering ways and means for the event. H. N. Tiemann, ST., was made chairman of the reception committee, w. B. Glover chairman of the trans portation committee. Mrs. Frank Nit chell is the chairman of the entertain ment committee with the following sisters as aids: Mrs. W. B. Glover, Mrs w. J. Mclaughlin, Mrs. H. N. Tiemann and Mrs. J. H. WebDer.
 The degree work will be exemp1ified by the visitors in Grange hall at 10:30 a. m., the public meeting will be held in the, town hall in the afternoon, while the feast will be served in the rooms of Trinity Guild. Altogether the affair promises to be a notable one for the grange in this section of the state, as prominent members of the order have signified their. intentions of attending. Every phase of the sub- jects agitated by the grangers will be taken up and elucidated by prominent state officials of the order.
 Mis-; Alice Windsor of Lordship Park has been a recent guest of Miss Dorothea Allen.
 Rev. Frederick B. Barnett of Ridley Park, Pa., is spending part of his va- cation in Newtown with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. F. W. Barnett
 Miss Sarah B. Fairman and Miss Grace Osborne of Bridgeport have spent a week at the Fairman home in the borough.
 Mrs. George F. Duncombe has re- turned from visit with relatives in East-n.
 Thomas F. Bradley of North Center has as guest his brother, M. J. Brad ley, of Springfield.