The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-03
BEDDING

A.
 last month to Barnet Goss of Bridge port has again changed ownership, having been sold by MT. eGoss on
 Monday to Emory P. Sanford of Red- ding. Since Mrs Goss decided that she would not live on the place her husband has been intent on selling and parted with it at a. consid erable sacrifice- The present transaction Transfer from MT. Barnett, including
 &5 head of Aberdeen beef cattle, tractor and farming implements. The new owner will take possession at Pnnilk production. Aaron H. Sanford may become his partner in this enter prise. E.. Sanford conducted meat 6usiness in this town for several and proprietor of store at West Redding. The net result of the board of re- ief's remission work on the grand $1ss50,zS6, an increase from last gears list of about S23,0O0. The \ 5zrgest single reduction was that kranted A. V. Frost. whose valuation Was lowered to s20,OOO from $2S,0OO. Prof. Franf Abbott obtained relief of $3Z5, Commodore Luttgen 5000, Ella Hoggson $1,000, the Misses Mcdonald $2o0 on house, w. A. Lounsbury $500 -on land, and Marcus Burr $500 on K two autos, and D. w: Green S1O0 on FnBarn. To what extent the present fig 5dres on the grand list accurately rep 4asent those decided upon by the as |#9essors- no one can say, as the falsIh- ftatfoAs discovered by the relief board |<sfe1ate only to the small number Of 't Entries brought to their attention by eappeals from property owners.
 IL Randolph Bradley has rented his afatnn to Ralph Rockwell, reservins for his own use the residence and snal1 tract adjacent. The lessee will engage in dairying and continue to r-f rfez I1n m Ridge.
 N Through the recent decease of Mrs. \ EE1izE Osborn of Derby the Emily Hill { place at Bedding Ridge passes by in ' 9fheritance to Joseph R. Harvey and x lhis sister Mary, who will shortly oc- Y cupy it. The rest of the considerable sfproperty which had belonged to Mrs. TDsborn was derived from her late fhusband and upon her death the own E sership reverted to the husbands rel sztfves.
 Redding-The usual revision work 4kuf the board of relief was this year 3tscompIicated by the apparent perver- sssion in some degree of the assessors Erecords, this perversfon having been effected in some instances by entry of figures other than those agreed .spon as the proper property valua- +ipns and in others by a. change In thSso original entries by the process of 1erasure- and substitution So serious a rnein did the relief board take of 5these Irregularities that at a confer :ence on Mon day evening they decided to prepare a signed statement for the Iboard consists of W: G Sanford. B. SB. Banks and w: E. Hazen- The as Esessurs are Albert A GorhaIn. E. M tSanford and Joel Godfrey. All the ycIerfcal work of the latter board was Edo1re by MT. Gorham and the rec lords. consisting of the tax lists and Ethe abstract made from them, nave
 Who made the alterations that shsEye given rise to the present scan sdai Is naturally the first inquiry. E MT, Gor-harn. appearing as a volun- tary witness before the board of re S1tef declared under oath that he did
 nsot but that on the contrary he made
 accurate entry of the amounts agreed
 iY,on by his board and did not subse- suuentry tanper with any of these flg-
 sIres Acceptance Of this dlscia1mer
 as the truth IsaNsS only .st the s,rre,,ii rneoFy
 tfousIy done by soma person who
 and snected the alterations without igained access to the Gorham house
 ing of entries which, though
 unchanged are erroneous because
 not in accord with the decisions of a
 nnla5ority of the board, the issue creat- ed is one of yeracity between MT
 CSorham and his colleagues. The relief
 board in their report do not spec1fl- SscalIy place the responsibility upon sof irregularities Among those not - touched upon are raises made on the
 and his wife. The former was in :creased 1000 on land and the latter iS2O00 on buildings whereas Messrs
 sanford and Sanford state that they sauthorized no change from last year $ figures. Assessor Sanford recalls thaF ! MT. Gorham advocated an increase or
 MT. Pech's barns and upon his be-
 ing outvoted the whole matter was of I,Sf ,-sx
 valuations decided upon. It came ou
 in the course of the evidence giver
 tby the assessors that when a certain
 staxpayer's list was under considera. E ttfon MT. Gorham ejaculated, ''Soal
 him."
 Also that in the case of a womaz
 property owner for whom a reduc
 tion was urged MT. Gorham's com
 ment was, "Why should we reduce
 her, she's got plenty of money An
 other interesting case was that O
 opinion of the review board was list ed too low by $2,000. When Mrs
 Ross was informed of the proposed
 increase she made no objection, eX plaining that last fall she signed
 without examination, a list presentet
 to her by MT. Gorham. He told he
 the list he offered was all right, re
 Quiring only her signature.
 Assessor GorhaIn has been a lead ing figure in local politics for man,
 years and is present chairman of tn
 Republican town committee and q Senate doorlleeper at Hartford. HI Craftsmanship is one result of tn
 bitter factiona1 fight which broke ou
 about 8, year ago among Bedding Re
 publicans and resulted in the victor of the Georgetown crowd over tn wing led by Attorney S. c. Shaw. sz4Sseo Tshe statement issued by the boar of relief is as follows:
 To the Citizens of Redding: At tn @ sscompletion of our labors we deem
 proper to give an account of ou fwork This seems the more desirabl & because: 1st, There have been an uu usualIy large number of applicants fo relief; and, secondly. because, afte careful consideration of each case O its merits involving a com mparison (
 the valuations of adjacent propert.
 and after asking the assessors fC
 their reasons for making changes W
 have in nearly every instance, rt :. .=tore,d the assessments to the figure