Republican farmer., 1919-03-07
BEDDING
Special to The T1mes.)

IeI made additions of $7,T5O for resi- dents and $2,563 for non-residents- The reductions were $S.S60 for resi- dents and s1,235 for non-residents. some of the principal additions were: Contracting firm of Osborn & Barnes $4,VV0 on two motor trucks; Fred
 Wood, $l000 on land and S4GO on 1 house, Included in the reductions were $2,700 to Commodore I,uttgan on oulId1nSs, $2,490 on land and S100 on sheep; estate of Seth Todd. S1 GOO on land; Christopher LoveIey. S2sn on Iand; Redding Ridge. S45O Several of those who appealed from the s15 rara on lower grade land received conces- SIohs and in the case of MT Wood tiIe board decided that the S50 rate on some or his meadow land was fnsuf7 Gent to raise the figures. The sT,a- tIsLI town meeting which will fiy>Tba It'A Fale Tor the present year is to he LieIo on the afternoon of March % 10 hAH levy on the grand list will yield $23, 515. Provision must be made Tor taking care of 5000 town bonds W 'llch mature during the year and the method adopted will probably ho form. III 9oliie
 Mrs. Martha Osborn. 7vfdon, .. 1 Henry s. Osborn, was at last scoo,,,,4-
 in precarious condition at T51a-t. 1 lngton, D. C., where she has Taar, AFlng for several months in coD,,o,,1, WIth her stepdaughter. Miss F7aa1o,S 1 the latter holding a clerical war v,-orl- posiAO-l in one of the gr0varr,,7ar7- experiments Mrs. Osborn was +al,a,
 -StE5L Flday with a slight shock which
 1ilecIed one side of her body. but Jeff coIlscIousa2ss and power of speech lloI ma. On Sunday there came 2 7eCoIIu attack which brought rncon
 sIIo uShess and caused the gravest aS i = GiIeIslons- Meanwhile H. Sanford Osnorn had gone to Washington from 1 his home on the Ridge to he naar | the patient. On Monday Mrs Os- porn regained consciousness and i there was otherwise 8 slight improve ment in her condition. The attend Ing physicians, however, hold ont onIv SHsht hope of her recovery. She is
 , sister Of Probate Judge J. B. San
 lord and about 60 years of age
 Al the meeting of the town school
 comm lttee on Tuesday there was sub ln!tIeo proposition that the Ridge SShooI De closed and the pupils trans ported to the Center school for in
 structon. The plan has the, sanc- ton or both Secretary Hine of the
 State Board, and School Supervisor Morris whose district includes this town. In its favor it was urged that the Center building had sufficient room for the east side children and that lnasmuch as no additional teach-| CTS would be needed tIre measure vv9 one or economy. To D. s. and ". (. Sanford, the east side mem bers or the committee, the proposed change was an entire surprise The latter said that the Ridge school now represented three former districts and that to transport the children tO the Center would require at least another team. The long distance from the remoter points of the east side terri tory constituted a. serious objection on grounds of general practicality and there was also to be taken into ac- count the danger to the health of the children especially in winter At the close of th2 discussion Mir. San ford's motion that the matter be tabled was carried, thereby killing the scheme for the present at least. The State Board representatives and the local boards are plainly at odds on the question.
 Unless there comes another hard freeze there will be a considerable ice shortage on the east side the coming summer. George & Banks has been the main purveyor for those who do not put up their own supply and both his large storage houses are quite bare. He delayed harvesting in the hope of getting ice more than six inches thick and is likely 10 have none whatever. H. Sanford Osborn. Fl. s. Barnes, L. o. Peck and Commodore l. Luttgen are others who also waited too long.
 The divorce suit brought by Mar garet Todd against. John Todd on the grounds of cruelty and intemperance will, it is reported, be withdrawn as the result of a compromise by which the defenant agrees to provide an al lowance fo the wife's support She also asks the custody of their two children. In her petition the plain tiff seeks alimony and in connection with the claim alleges that Todd is
 worth $500 He is adOptive grand son of the late John Todd, wealthy lime manufacturer, and was bequeath- ed by the latter the homestead prop erty in West Bedding subject to the life use of the widow, who still sur wives. The property is worth per haps $12,0O0 or $15, 900 and Todd has no present other means, although his father was the principal heir to the lime makers estate. The plaintiff in the pending divorce suit is young Todd's second wife, he having parted company with her predecessor by di- vorce process While the second courtship was in progress Todd acci- dentaIy shot his present wife, then Miss Gilbert, by the discharge of a fowling piece through his careless handling of the weapon.
 The work of blasting out the high ledge which borders each side of the narrow roadway on the Center-Ridge hill just east of the Methodist church has been starteft by Selectnan War ner. It is one of the four permanent improvement jobs arranged for last fall and when finished will remove conditions highly dangerous for auto travel
 The U. s. Treasury Department has appointed John Muennich chairman of the Bedding committee on the sale of War Savings Stamps for the cam paign of 1919. He will soon name his associates and get under way a cam paign which it is hoped will yield re- suits as satisfactory as those obtained last year.