The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-27
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)

nuDDer or appeals 10 S3DOuI 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 a belief that the S15 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 sors raised about 8, 500 to a figure in excess of that fixed by the court de- cision in the recent litigation. l.. o. Peck and wife entered no appeals this 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 this section l feel considerable interest in the pro- iects for establishing in Bethel a plant for the reduction of milk to powder form, although this interest has not reached a sufficient degree to 1mpel 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 so 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 at $40,0OO and a consider able part of this amount has. so it Is claimed, already been pledged. Its promoters make presentations 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 1 butter fat was left out and the pro l duct had to go forth labelled as a 1 skinned milk preparation. If present i plans and promises materialize the : proposed plant will start operations | in from three to four months hence, with a daily consumption of 125 cans 1 or 5000 quarts. An offer of eight 1 cents per quart the year round Is made for milk and furthermore the i company offers to take 1t from tISe 1 producers premises. The latter | clause Is in itself a strong induce
 ment 10 the producer. Bridgeport Is i absorbing less milk than it did a few months go and the project of an ad- 1 ditional nearby market with the de- l livery requirement. no longer a pro- h1er,1 iCA +o
 milk makers.
 Last Saturday supplied a cause of | grouchiness to those served by rural | delivery because it was day of i bIankness as to mail with the situa- tion aggrava ted by the fact that the | hiatus extended over the day follow
 ing. The grouch was deepened by ] the fact that the mail came es usual 1 on Saturday as on other holidays, to
 the comparatively few supplied l through the local post offices. There
 are in the rural sytesn calendar four
 of these dead days, but why it should
 be so in these progressive times no
 one can offer a reasonable explana-
 tion- Admitting that the regular
 carriers should have these days ot
 rest there are deputies available tc
 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
 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 postoffice department the desired
 reform would probably have been ef.
 fected long ago. The trouble is tha
 people get mad when a mai1less da,
 comes around, but their irritation
 wears off before the first impulse tc
 do something develops into action Then, with the next dead day, tht
 futile process of getting mad and get ting over it is repeated.
 John Schneider and Charles Martin
 of Georgetown went to Canada las
 fall and enlisted after the failure o1
 their effort to be accepted for enlist
 ment in this country. A 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 l Farmers Dairy Co. put out last fall tc ! cover belated milk accounts they were owing have been extended fol = two months so as to fall due on May
 H. feCelNer MCKAY WlSh6d 10 apply l the funds at hand to declaring a divi 7 dend on the notes the present month , but the plan was not approved by tn, = court. Present prospects are said tt
 favor the full payment of the note = in May.
 The concluding entertainment in tn,
 Georgetown Community series of sir will be given on the evening of MarcH , 2. The course has been success , financially and in other respects. A whist for the benefit of the Re- i Cross was given on Wednesday O l last week at the home of Miss Bell, Sanford on the Ridge with Miss San l ford and Mrs. Cyrus Brewster as tn | hostess.
 Chester Sanford, formerly of Red | ding Ridge, has moved into the hous .. recently built by him on a side stree ; | in the upper part Of the Broolxlawl | section, Bridgeport.
 } The operation which Za1rnon Rea, underwent at a New York hospita l last week was minor one as he ha l since returned to his homo in Caoroa