The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-24
BEDDING
Special to The Times.l

aiASeS Arom the 1act that the district
 loan managers sliced from Bedding
 and annexed to Ridgefield the village or Georgetown, the former towns
 most ponulous community and repre-
 sentlng in property more than one
 third its grand list. Chairman w. c.
 Sanford of the Bedding finance com mittee and M. Connery, chairman of
 the Georgetown committee, labored 10
 secure a change in the arrangement,
 but without avail. Nevertheless Red
 ding, in its shorn state, came across
 with s40000. thereby exceeding it's ftuota by upwards of $12,OO0. Of this , amount about $1Oe0O comes from res
 ldents of Georgetown who were anx- louS to correct the apportionment in- Justice and to that end took pains to Ldeliver their subscriptions to the Red dlng Instead of to their own local committee. The astonishing feature CT the situation Is that Georgetown
 should have taken out not far from
 SlOO.O00 of the bonds. A big lift to- wards this achievement was Riveu
 From the two hours stay in the place last Thursday of the War car con
 taining American soldiers returned
 rom France and an assortment of
 war making material. The exhibit
 drew large crowd which was bonn
 oarded with bond buying appeals. The
 result was subscriptions to the amount
 of $40.O0O.. Many of them were ob-
 tained through matching propositions
 that Is the offer of individuals to take
 certain sum if another man would
 do the same. There were fears last
 week that the loan campaign would
 locally prove a comparative failure
 and hence the overwhelming success
 achieved causes great rejoicing and
 brings to the town an honor flag.
 Judge Kellogg of the Superior Court
 mas handed down a decision of the
 suits in which Commodore L.uttgen
 and Mrs. l.. O. Peck sought to re-
 cover from the town for taxes alleged
 to have been excessive in conseouence of the over valuation of their real es- tate at Sunset Hill by the assessing boards. The case had been heard bv John w. Banks as a committee of the superior Court and was sent back to hlm at the Instance of the plaintiffs Tor more comprehensive pronounce- ment as to certain points at issue. Both reports submitted by Referee Banks were in favor of the town and | a second remOnstranee against the | amended report was argued by plain | tifrs' counsel before Judge Kellogg. The latter now gives judgment con- | rirming the referees finding on all | essential matters. The plaintiffs have l therefore lost their case unless thev carry it to the Court of Errors and. Oht1iO a oP that tribunal. One effect of the de- cision is the taxation of triple costs against the plaintiffs. The litigation has so far cost the town $769 of which s5Co represents counsel fees to Messrs. Lockwood and Shaw.
 A bill for S53 was recently presented to the town by John Muennich to se cure compensation for damage done to his car one night early in this month In an endeavor to force it's passage uD the hill west of Bedding Center. The road had been heavily -op dressed by Contractor Banks with ] red clay which the rain Converted
 nto sticky mass almost impossible of navigation. After two new tires had been ruined in the effort MT. Muennich gave up the job and left the ,ar by the roadside. Both the select nen and MT. Banks disclaim respon- iibility for the damage. A lawyer advises MT. Muennich that he has A good case against the town and he nay decide to bring suit. The samo l 'ort of top dressing material has been productive of much trouble to auto sts in previous seasons.
 The recent destruction of the D. & sanford barn at the Ridge and the me in hometown occupied by John 5urtis lengthens without breaking as o knowledge of the cause the Ipng ist of like fires which have occurred n the town in the last few years. There must have been q dozen If hese and in not single instance has ne nature Of their origin been dis lCsed despite ebme work on the cases y outside detectives and a still stand- ng offer of $500 reward for the cap- ( ure of the suppositious firebug. The 5urtis barn was locked when the fire z roke out in the interior during the bsence of the family. So was the / arn or J. B. Sanford when 1t burst nto flames In the night several years ! go One other of D. S. Sanford's our fires and the H. S. Barnes barn : ire happened in the daytime and in Ione Of them was there brought to l sht single clue suppol ting any par lcular theory as to the originating ause. The general belief that most not all the fires were criminally set c nay be wrong guess L
 Most of the milk producers on the ast side of the town who have been 2 cling to D. F. Hebert of Bridgeport ecentiy shifted their contracts to A. q !. Edwards of Stepney. The change as little or nothing to do with prices. Q ne enective fnducement in the Ed ards proposition being an offer to ake the milk from the producers 4 remises. Previously the dairymen ad tn transport it to the Ridge The F reater part of the milk put out In . nls section goes to the Farmers, Salry Co. As the company is to pas- eurize the milk handled bv MT rd- 'ards some infer that he is acting as ? he company's agent. Mir. Herbert atains number of his former cus- ome9s here. 4 Although there are some eases ot 3 panish influenza in town the disease as not yet become prevalent. Josenb p ishop of the Center, one of the vic b ms. is improving. Gerald Olmstead a Umpawaug Hill has the pneumonia ts nd is being cared for by his father p
 trained nurse being unobtainanlA D idney Lockwood of Danbury ts also d own with pneumonia at the houe op D
 >. A. Gorham at the Center. An ther pneumonia patient Is Mrs. Henry l VoIton. Joseph Heatley of the Ridea eturned to his home this week from le Danbury hospital where he had - aan 11nder cara fnt the inhnnnrn q