The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-19
BEDDING
Special to The Times, 1,

Bedding, Nov. 1e.-Papers in the petition to be brought before judge of the Superior court by J. B. Sanford with the object of obtaining a. recount of the vote for judge of probate have been prepared by Attorney Paul Con- nery and hearing on the matter will probably be appointed before the end of the week On the petitioners side one of the rejected ballots will be credited to MT. Sanford. thus making a tie in case the result should not be otherwise changed. The peculiar due to the effort of the voter to ex-- actly copy the "X' as printed in the instruction at the top of the ticket. This type form of the letter has cross lines at the top and bottom and the voter appears to have achieved some thing like the figure "8'' in his at tempt Io reproduce them with his pencil. Whether the town is obligated to defend the suit on behalf of E. A. Judd, who was declared elected judge of probate, seems to be a matter of doubt It is recalled that when E. A. P1nkney secured a recount several years since in a contest for the office of selectman the town did not inter Vene Tn the matter. MT. Pinkney did not win his case, but the decision Wh1ch was the outcome amounted to an interpretation of the ballot law materially amending it as compared constructions
 Rather late in the day it has been dlscovered that previous boards of select1nen who sold school houses dis used Tor educational purposes ex- ceeded their authority. When con soilGat1on or town management of schools supplanted the district in
 heddlng there were public school buildings, two or three of which had already been closed owing to lack of pupils.
 This was dozen years or longer ago and soon thereafter five of these buildings were sold for from $15 to so9 each. Under the changed con- tne new Center schools continued in use, the others remaining as town property being the building on Sun set Hill and that in Georgetown known as the Boston school. Re- gently the seleotmen arranged to sell the former ito Joseph Sullivan and the latter to Michael Cennery.
 when the latter's son, Attorney Paul Connery, looked into the matter he announced that the selectmen. lack. ing authority from action by a. town meeting, could not give a valid title to the property in question, any more than they could, of themselves, sell ana make legal conveyance of the town hall. To meet the situation there has been called for next Mon oay afternoon special town meeting which is expected to authorize the sale Of the two school buildings re- ferred to and also to ratify the pre- VIous sales of the same kind.
 A suit brought by Rufus A. Lyon against Harry Aron of Ansonia, was scheduled for trial before Justice W. ., sanford on Monday, but went over from fro one the weeI 1a receipt of word Bridgeport that the defendant had expressed a desire to settle. The grounds for the action as set forth Tn m the complaint, are that the de- fendant, in the summer of 1917, ob- talned from the plaintiff six antique chairs and an antique mahogany stand on conditions which he has failed to fulfill. These terms were replacement of the old chairs by new ones and the return within a. reason able time Of the stand which the de Iendant said he wanted for copying purposes and for the use of which ne paid rental consideration. The pla1nt1f has received neither the stand and sued to recover their value, named at $59.
 In the annual report of School Supervisor Abbott recommendation waug school house be replaced bv a new and larger building with a suita- Die playground as an adjunct. He iurther recommended that the facih- tles of the Center school be increas ed to the extent of providing the pl1. pills with the first years training of the High school course. Neither prop osldon has been acted upon by the town school committee and no ac- tion is probable for at least another year. A modern two room struc- ture for Ompawaug is recognized as necessity of the not distant flu ture' but for financial reasons will nave to wait awhile longer. As to c ,nf curriculum the plan means the em- ployment of an additional teacher and has been once tried at an expense Which led to it's discontinuance on the Isscore of economy. the cost having proved greater than that attendant upon the same degree of instruction optalned by the pupils at High schools in other towns.
 Except for the final surfacing the trunk highway is now finished las far as Pine Tree Corner from the Bethel end and preliminary construc- tlon operations are now in progress | northward from the lower end near i ogden's Corner in Easton. The
 that section is being carried by trucks from the quarry near Putnam | Park, an expensively 1oong haul The | quarry opened at Jump Hill two
 years ago was expected to provide
 them ateria1 for the lower part of the 1 road, but the quality of the stone was found unsuitable.
 Meat Dealer Carson left his ped | ding car in front of L. c. Rumsey's nome last Friday with the engine
 running although disconnected and the brakes not applied During his brief absence a force supposed to be the wind set the car in notion and 1t i went over the brow of the hill and | down a bank with destructive results F. Britt Nash has added to his varied accomplishments the art of | making decorated pottery for which l he finds a ready sale. So far he is engaged in the enamelling process
 only, but plans by next summer to have plant for producing from the l initial stage to the finished work, A specimen of his handicrart shown al | the Episcopal church fair last sum mer was much admired.
 At a meeting of the vestry and