The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-25
RED[)INC
Especial to The Times)

Especial 10 Inc I1GlSSJ
Redding, Jan. A-The tax abstract
just completed by Town Clerk San
ford, shows the grand list for 1917 to
be $1,79,7S5, an increase over the pre-
vious year of $37, 134. OF the total
about $4,000 comes from the ten per
cent addition imposed as a penalty
for failure on the part Of property
owners to return lists. In general the
increase wholly represents raises in
the valuation of property owned by
non-residents, the assessments for this
class amounting to $S70, 26S as against
1926, ITO last year. Residents will be
taxed on $1,4O9,000 whereas last year
the figures were 81, 414, 53S. The Gil
bert & Bennett Co. are listed for $685.
100, an increase from the previous
year of $2,4O0. The board of relief
will meet to hear appeals on the first
Monday in February. Giving heed to
Georgetown's request for representa-
ton on its board the selectmen have
appointed B. B. Banks to the vacancy
on the board, although the late Mar
shall Sanford, whom he succeeds, was
resident of the Ridge. Mr.. Banks
was a member Of the last board and
could have had a denomination last
fall, but chose to be a candidate for
selectman instead and his defeat for
that office leaves him rree to return to
his former position.
At the annual parish meeting of
Christ church last Sunday Charles
Sanford was elected senior warden
| w. c. Sanford junior. warden, Benja-
min Bassett treasurer, and D. S. San
ford clerk. Members of the vestry
chosen in addition to the above were
| A, G. Barnett, E. P. Sanford and Philo
T. Plat.
A slight relief has come to the
| local sugar situation this week, the
Ridge store having enlarged the
quantity obtainable on single orders
to two pounds from one pound. In a
phone talk on Tuesday with the head
quarters of the National Refining Co.
Merchant Muennich received assur-
ance that in two or three weeks con-
ditions would be restored from near
famine to practically normal. He also
learned how it came about how one
Bethel dealer has been able to obtain
plentiful supplies throughout the
shortage period. The explanation is
that when the refining company some
time ago held back a large quantity
which was about to be shipped to
Russia the Bethel man secured
enough of it to give him a big ad-
vantage over retailers in general.
The water company has set up a
lshingle machine and steam engine in
Pleasant Valley to work up some OF
the timber which they are cutting on
their woodland in that section. Some
of the wood on their Sanfordtown
property is being cut and hauled by
their teams to Bridgeport for fuel, and
larger Quantities are being forwarded
from their forest holdings in Easton
Those in the Ridge and Center sec
ttions accustomed to rely on coal have
been mossly forced to put up with q
scanty allowance obtained in meagre
instruments and in some instances are
forced to resort to wood necessitating
a change in stoves and furnaces. II
Georgetown Connery Bros. early laiG
in a stock sufficient for the needs OF
the householders in that locality.
Charles H. Plumb of West Redding
whose activities in public welfare
movements have made him vel
known throughout the county, is or
i the verge of a nervous breakdown fol
lowing a considerable period of fail
ing health and has gone away for res
and mdIical treatment. His position
as chairman of the publicity commit
tee of the local war bureau has beer
temporarily filled by the appointment
of Rev. Mr.. Cunningham.
Rev. W. S. Woolworth, Jr., son o
I
tional church, has received motto
: from the Foreign Missionary Boar
of his appointment as one of a bant
of fifteen selected to work among tn
. Mohemmedan population of Turke,
upon the conclusion of the war TIL
fifteen are to be the advance guar
of a force of ITO men and womel
which it is planned to send to tn
Turkish field, the period opening wit
peace restoration being considered es
pecially opportune for Christian pro
paganda on a large scale. Youn
Mr. WoolWorth is an enthusiast in thi
branch of church service and his ap
pointment on the original staff of fit
teen is one of the first to be made. H
was ordained to the ministry las
wear following his graduation from
the Union Theological Seminary O
New York and during the summe
filed a temporary appointment a
pastor of a church in Canada.
Stephen Benedict, former we
known resident of this town and sub
seuuently living with his son in Ney
Milford, recently had one of his leg
amputated at the Waterbury hos
pital. The amputation was necessi
tated by gangrene developing from a.
| injury.
The condition of Ebba Erickson, tn
Georgetown girl whose burns conse
} Quent upon the explosion of an OF