Republican farmer., 1919-07-11
BEDDING
Special to The Times.)

without dissent expressed in any form | 1t approved an appropriation of S20, 900, | the maximum amount, for the build
 ing of State Aid roads. Both West | Bedding and Georgetown being well represented the conditions existed for a controversy between the two sec | tions as to whether the money should l be expended in improving the mail
 routes between Library Corner and
 Bedding Station or in extending the
 present mile stretch of State road
 | from Georgetown eastward towards
 the Center. hometown might also have put in q. claim for the compile
 tion of it's improved highway up to
 the Bethel line, but one even
 started a discussion which in any
 event could only have been profitless
 and inconclusive because the ques-
 ton of location rests entirely with the State highway commissioner. Content with the provision otherwise
 made for its trunk highway the Ridge ! section will probably ask nothing
 from the appropriation voted by the
 meeting.
 | While the business specified in the | call was quickly disposed of other | matters pertaining to the roads con- | siderably prolonged the session. In | quiry was made as to whether the | annual town meeting had included in | it's appropriations the usual allotment | of 1000 for permanent betterments | at selected points. Town Clerk San | ford reported that the record show | ed no such appropriation, an omis- | sion which was plainly an oversight
 A method of remedying the defect
 was found, however, in the fact that l the repair contracts had been let at 1 figures which left a surplus of S2- | OOO from the general appropria ton. | The prevailing opinion being that this | sum was available for social road i'm | provements. Peter Osborn offered a | motion that the entire S2,0OO be laid | out in West Bedding where the | highways, he said, were in a deplor- | able condition. This suggestion finda 1 ing no favor it was voted that $1,OOO 1 be used in different localities to be l designated by the road inspectors and | the selectmen in accordance with | previous custom. Further inquiries | elicited the information that the se- l lectmen had withheld from Zalmon | Read, contractor for the west side | section, half the amount that would | have been due him on July 1 had he | done his work in satisfactory man | ner. Messrs. Banks and Stauffer | the other contractors, were paid in | full because, since the inspection : made about the middle of June, they | had compiled with the orders of the | committee regarding the additional | work required to remedy defective | Conditions. The directors issued to | MT. Read in this respect had been en- trely unheeded. Consequently the ! selectmen decided to notify him that | unless the work specified was per 1 formed within the next ten days the | town would do it at his expense
 Exceedingly welcome news was the 1 announcement that bids are to be ! opened today for award of the con- ! tract for building the trunk highway
 which will provide the east side of | the town with a continuous line of | good going to Bridgeport and Dan 1 bury, boon awaited for years and made the subject of prospects and promises heretofore unfulflled The | length of the line to be newly con- J structed is something over II miles | and the type of construction will be ! three-inch bituminous macadam ! over stone base. The work will be | the subject of a single contract and 1 the fifgures submitted in each of the ! proposals are expected to approximate i $500, 900 for the job. Whether there | Is time limit condition requiring l completion of the contract during the | pL FStHL SGdSOA dOeS not vet appear | Osborn 6 Barnes, the local firm of i road builders, did not put in a bid | for the contract they are fully oc- | cupied with a contract in Litchfield ! county.
 | Through unfortunate negligence in l the matter of mailing personal invi- | tatons to all the towns World War ! veterans to take part in George | towns celebration of the Fourth only ! a few of the service men attended and
 helped what had been intended to be | one of the most prominent and inter-
 esting features of the affair was | lacking. Otherwise the celebration was an entire success and a fine ex- | ample of the community spirit whole | heartedly manifested. The parading | procession of school children, Boy Scouts and decorated autos was more | than half mile long and the subse- ] quent program of exercises at the ball park during the day and at the | school building in the evening went | off most satisfactorily. American | ism" was the theme of the eloquent I and patriotic oration delivered by 1 Judge Keough of South Norwalk | The speaker was one of the early | volunteers for active service and rose | to the rank of captain.
 | Prepara tions for the towns well ! come home celebration to the return | ed soldiers to take place at Putnam | Park on August were further ad- | vanced at a meeting of the commit | tee held yesterday afternoon. The | ladies committee on refreshments are | planning to provide for the Bethel 1 State Guard and other invited guests | 10 the number of 100 or more. The
 American Band of South Norwalk, 22 | pieces, have been engaged for the oc- 1 casion. Lieut. Gov. Wilson will de- | liver an address and present the 1 medals to the veterans. A ball game | between teams of local players is
 also talked of in addition to the ath- l letic competitions previously sched-
 1 uled, but unless the youngsters wake
 up this part of the program will not
 amount to much as there have so far
 | been very few entries. Those wish | ing to enter for any of the events