Republican farmer., 1919-02-28
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)

number Of appeals to about twenty. Those heard on Friday were John Ma lone, Albert Gorham, Michael Flood and W. H. Hill, the latter for the Seth Todd estate. The ground of all the protests was the S15 uniform rate for inferior land. Decisions on all cases will be reached by the board before the end of the week. They will grant reductions on some appeals through 9 belief that the $15 rate applied to them was excessive. It is probable that they will also consider several instances not the subject of complaint to them where they are inclined to think that the $50 rate fixed for the best grade of land was too low One of these is the Fred Wood farm on Sunset Hill and other tracts are under consideration for a like cause. Some reduction will be granted Commodore Luttgen on his land which the asses sCrs raised about $2 500 to a figure in excess of that fixed by the court de- cision in the recent litigation. L. Q. Peck and wife entered no appeals LSlis year, the assessors having made their valuations about the same as the court appraisement The changes made by the relief board are expected to leave the grand list at practically the total reached by the work of the assessors.
 The milk producers of sais section feel considerable interest in the pro-
 jects for establishing in Bethel a plant for the reduction of milk to powder form, although this interest has not reached a sufficient degree to impal them to subscribe for shares of stock | in the company that is being organ ized to conduct the enterprise. Most
 of them are investors in shares of the Farmers Dairy Co.,, which has 50 far failed to yield dividends. Hence the shyness about responding to the invi-
 tatiOn to extend financial aid to the Bethel scheme. The latter is to be capitalized a $40.0OO and a consider
 able part of this amount has, so it is claimed, already been pledged. Its promoters make representations
 which certainly sound well They
 claim to have a new process by which all the nutritious elements of the milk are combined in the powder whereas by previous processes the
 butter fat was left out and the pro-
 duet had to go forth labelled as a skinned milk preparation. If present
 plans and promises naterialize the
 proposed plant will start opera tions
 in from three to four months hence.
 with a daily consumption of 125 cans
 
 cents per quart the year round is
 made for milk and furthermore the
 company offers to take it from tke
 producers premises. The latter clause is in itself a strong induce ment to the producer. Bridgeport is absorbing less milk than it did a few months ago and the project of an ad- ! diional nearby market with the de- livery requirement no longer a pro blem looks highly attractive to local
 milk makers.
 Last Saturday supplied a cause of
 grOuchiness to those served by rural
 delivery because it was a day of blankness as to mail with the situa- tion aggravated by the fact that the
 hiatus extended over the day follow ing. The grouch was deepened by | the fact that the mail came as usual
 on Saturday as on other holidays. to the comparatively few supplied through the local post offices. There are in the rural sytesn calendar four of these dead days. but why 1T should be so in these progressive times no 1 one can offer a reasonable e1cpIana- tion. Admitting that the regular
 carriers should have these days of rest there are deputies available to
 maintain an unbroken service. Not only can they be called upon. but it would seem they should be called ! upon if only for the sake of being l kept in practice. If the widespread resentment produced by these need less gaps in the service could be con- centrated and translated into quick action by pressure on congressman or the postofice department the desired reform would probably have been ef- fected long ago. The trouble is that people get mad when a mailIess dav comes around, but their irritation
 wears off before tha first impulse to | do something develops into action. ] Then, with the next dead day, the i futile process of getting mad and get l ting over it is repeated.
 John Schneider and Charles Martin 1 of Georgetown went to Canada last fall and enlisted after the failure of i their effort to be accepted for enlist ment in this country. 4 few days ago letters from them to their home folks announced their arrival in Si- | beria. as members of a British army contingent.
 The promissory notes which the Farmers Dairy Co. put out last fall to i cover belated milk accounts thev i were owing have been extended for i two months so as to fall due on May l II. Receiver Mckay wished to apply l the funds at hand to declaring a divf- 1 dend on the notes the present month. l but the plan was not approved by the i court Present prospects are said to | favor the full payment of the notes in May.
 1 The concluding entertainment in the Georgetown Community series of six will be given on the evening of March 1 2- The course has been a success l financially and in other respects. 4 whist for the benefit of the Red Cross was given on Wednesday of 1 last week at the home Of Miss Belle Sanford on the Ridge with Miss San l ford and Mrs. Cyrus Brewster as the hostess.
 Chester Sanford, formerly of Red
 ding Ridge, has moved into the house recently built by him on a side street in the upper part of the BrookIawn section, Bridgeport.
 i The operation which Zalmon Read
 underwent at a New York hospital last week was a minor one as he has since returned to lis home in George 1 town