The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-26
TOWN OFFICIALS
 QF BEDDING GET MISE IN SALARY,
5 sident Obtains Crop of Fall Bearing Straw
 aAS berries. p'

4 Redding,x Oct 25-Twenty- four cit
 ixAns attended the adjourned town
 meeting last ttSaturday and in the main
 voted approval of the finance com
 nlAttee's budget and other ,recommen- dations including salary increases for the selectmen, town treasurer and
 town clerk. Int the case of the latter onicaal. however. H. s. Barnes raised the point that; the proviso that he
 should. act as clerk for the selectmen infringed on tho Jurisdiction of that body who had authority to appoint their own clerk. Consequently the
 meeting made the town clerks sal-
 ary 3100, an increase of $50. Should
 tho selectmen decide to make him
 their clerk he will get $50 more. As
 one reason for raising the first select mans salary to $200 from $75 it was
 urged that Wilton's first selectman re-
 ce1ved $500 and that most other towns
 in Redding's class as to population and grand list paid salaries above the
 new scale proposed A slight devia-
 ton from the committee's report was
 made in the matter of public watering
 troushs. For each of these hereto
 fore maintained by individuals s
 each was paid annually, Often the
 troughs we're out of commission for a good part of the year. It was there fore decided to discontinue the former
 eubsidy and to appropriate $1o0 for
 troughs to be maintained by the se-
 lectmsn, the idea being that they should be permanent affairs of con-
 crete, located at points to best serve
 the public convenience, The pre-
 vious annual outlay for this aceefnmo- dation has been under $20 The meet ing also voted to postpone the fixing 6f the tax rate until the completion of Ffhe next grand list, following which a |apecial town meeting will be held |upon call of the selsctmen, The busi- ness of Saturdays meeting was car- ffed through with practically no eppe- Gttion. Those disposed to grumble lover the salary lifts have only them- selves to blame as by getting together land attending the meeting they might khave made. their beiated protests ef- I&scttve,
 Mrs. Caty Ann, widow of the late William Burr Hill, died on Monday at lths family homestead in Georgetown, laged 81, Her health had been stead lily failing since an attack of pleurisy b few months age, Her maiden name kwas Seiieck and her childhood home tnear Daabury. Her surviving chil- ldren are Mrs. Walter F, Rowland, Rdrs. Charles Merchant, Mrs, A, IL. lTreadweil, Mrs. Fred Kicks and Ma )fl1aaiel Hill. Another son and a
 AaaghteF are deceased, The funeral Iwas held yesterday with services at lths hems,
 An Interesting session was the an- kauai exhibition by the pupils of the tCea<eF school held last Friday even nbG. Fhe exhibits were of the usual lordeF, comprising a goodly showing k0f flowers, fruits and vegetables grown fby the pupils and also specimens of kfheir art and needle handiwork, the kwieie being up to the standard of tforfner years. Mir. Homan of Darien, lene of the state boards inspectors. lnaade an interesting address of counsel lAad encouragement on the agricul- ltarai side of the work and Rev. MT. tWoolwerth also spoke instructively lhnd eHtertainin&iy. A capacity gath bring was in attendaaee and at eollec- fttO1A CaAAAOA VI U \0 ttA0 60AAA P3CflOuSly Ia*aiiab1e for distribution in prizes. The Republican and Democratic town committees, reinforced by active twerkers of the two parties, held meet l}ngs on the same evening last week. Ito canvass the situation and plan lWork for election day and during the lfime intervening. Such conferences have for years been held by the Re- lpub1icans preceding every election, but are new feature with local Dem- lOcrats and may be accounted an en- icouraging indication of special inter-
 est and activity. At their last caucus
 1t was voted to hold a public rally in observance of Wilson Day" the 28th, but the conference referred to re- Eonsidercd the matter and reached the conclusion that activities of another
 Kind might be substituted with more satisfactory practical results. Fifteen new voters were made by the registra- don board at their meeting in the Center last Friday and ten were added fo the list in Georgetown on Tuesday.
 Returning homeward from church
 3ast Sunday evening several persons noticed flashing light shifting from lpne window to another on the second 0oor of the home of the Misses Mo- ---------------.- ----. -------- ----