The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-18
BEDDING

at the Center Methodist church next Sunday afternoon the members will hold a meeting to discuss a proposed partnership arrangement with the Center Congregational, a project which was brought forward two or
 three years ago, but did not then pro
 gresS beyond the talk stage. The
 plan does not contemplate a merger
 of the two churches through the ab- sorption of one by the other, but only such degree of union as will permit of one pastor for both. The reasons which impels the Methodist church to take the initiative in the matter are financial, a decreasing membership
 due to deaths and removals causing lack of sufficient means to meet the rule of $1,200 salary as the minimum for resident pastor. For the past two years the pulpit has been sup piled from the Georgetown church and but one Sunday service held. The annual income of the Center Metho-
 dist is now between $500 and S7OO
 about half of which comes from en-
 doWment funds, and there seems no way of raising enough more to make
 up the $1,200 required to secure a settled pastor. Consequently many of the members think it preferable to
 join forces with their Congregational
 nelshbors sufficiently to share with them the services of a minister who
 would be close at hand instead of living at a distance. The Congrega-
 tlonal folks are said to be agreeable
 to the proposition. Should the Meth
 ou1StS vote in favor of it the approval
 or the Conference would be essential
 to carrying the arrangement into ef-
 feet.
 More protesting taxpayers appeared
 before the board of relief hast Mon
 day, among them being Attorney S. C: Shaw. The assessors had listed
 his gymnasium at $2,O00 an increase
 or $500 from the previous year, and
 ms garage at S3,oO0, an increase of
 $1,5OO He said Assessor Gorham as- sured him that the gym building was not listed in 1919, but this statement ne records diSproved. Adoph Goep- piers grievance was that his 1916 Ford, which was assessed in 1919 at ] S10O, has this year been listed at S4OO. He was deeply pained to learn rom the relief board that they could do nothing for him because of his de- nnquency in failing to put in a list. The two Ford cars belonging to Mar GUS H. Burr and his son Arthur are l on the books at $500 although as | young MT. Burr informed the board | the sum of $500 would buy them
 OanleI w. Green remonstrated re-
 garding the $500 and $500 valuations i on his barn and house and made comparisons with the figures on other
 buildings in the neighborhood to sup | port his clalm- It was argued by D.
 F. Bronson that the assessment rate | placed on 115 acres of wild land on ! the west side which he owns was above that on other tracts of similar | grade. The session of the board on Monday next will be the final one for i the reception of appeals.
 | Members of Bedding Grange enter | tained at their hall last Saturday evening with a double feature shown which kept the large audience at an ! almost hilarious pitch of merriment l throughout the goings on. In the pantomime Wild Nell of the Plains" ! Mrs. Frank Meehan had the title role and was pursued by Injuns and other
 millions, becoming milder and more i scairt until the climax was reached with her binding to the stake as a | time by a noble, gentlenlanly Injun). | Lam Warner was a cowboy; Ruth l Rumsey, Lady DeVere; Gus BerquisI, ! Sitting Bull; Jesse Sanford, Bull Dur | ham, and Mrs. A. H. Sanford a
 sIuaw- As the action unfolded Mrs. L. 1 s. Warner read a description of it to l piano accompaniment by Stephen ! Sanford. The Peddlers' Parade in troduced about 20 characters. Each 1 was coStumed and otherwise made up" in great style and each gave a l rhymed description of the various ! wares offered. About everything was Thomas Reid made a great hit with l his recitations and a song in which
 he showed himself a comedian of real | quality.
 + While James Dayton of the West
 Side was taking his wife to New I York hospital a few days since he was himself overcome with an acute | attack supposed to proceed from gall
 stones. He subsequently, reached the ] home of Judge Henry Dater, his | father-in-law, in Brooklyn, and at l last accounts was slowly improving. Judge Dater. who has a summer l home in Bedding Glen, is in a Brook
 lyn hospital, seriously i'll with heart | trouble. MT. Dayton was in war ser | vice as an aviator.
 | Awakened by smoke early We'd | Tl1nrnInO last week | Patterosu, who lives in the former l 'Idna Goodsell place. descended to | he kitchen and found lively blaze l which had started from the chiYn-