The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-15
FAIRFIELD

Music on Danbury Road-A Bunch of l Keys-A Neighborhood Volcano-A Real Breach of the Peace-Search- ing for Teachers-Peace Day. The residents of Danbury road came
 in for their innings yesterday in Jus
 tice MacAlpine's court at the town hall.
 A number of hardworking, industrious
 Hungarfans and Germans have abiding places on this popular drive to the | beach. and they form a little neighbor-
 hood by themselves. However like the | Garden of Eden their little farms and in, and finally on the 8th, which was l Sunday morning, affairs reached a
 crisis and complaint was made that
 there had been a breach of the peace | and a threat of assault The case
 was John Sutmore vs. Charles Reyes,
 and Attorney Clitus King appeared for | the prosecution, while MT. Reyes had Attorney Joseph I. Flint for the de- l fenSe. The case was called at p. m., l and dragged along for several hours,
 one of the great points in dispute be- ing whether Reyes did shake his pitch | fork at Sutmore, as alleged, and if he
 did whether he was near enough to do
 harm to Sutmore by running him
 through with the sharp tined instru-
 ment- In Another point about which
 whether the witnesses told the truth, | or were untruthful. Even in court 1t
 is sometimes hard to elucidate the | truth after a severe cross-examina- | ton.
 The story was to the effect as mar
 rated by the prosecution and it's wit | neSses, that MT. Reyes has the habit | of coming home at all hours of the
 night, Saturday included, and that he
 gets up at unearth1y hours to work on | his place. He is a very jolly man and | shouts, hollers, whistles, sings, chops I IL I. .
 pig pen and plants potatoes, making | a great deal of unnecessary noise, and
 arousing the whole neighborhood. On | this particular Sunday morning it was | of his yard, and going to the middle | of the street. shook a pitchfork at MT. Sutmore and used very impolite and
 unneighborly language. MT. Sutmore
 having killed his 'doggie'' and he said | that he swore at him. He admitted | that MT. Reyes did not hit him at
 all, eff he had ne never live any more"
 A large array of witnesses testified | that Reyes is a very noisy fellow and
 that he has the disagreeablea habit of | filling the air with his vocal efforts,
 much to the annoyance of the good
 people of the road who would be glad | to take a quiet nap of a Sunday morn
 ing. Mrs. Crosswick was emphatic in | asserting that Reyes may be heard | holIering at all hours of the night, he
 is such a jolly fellow while saving
 wood or planting potatoes by moon | light. Mike Angel gave his testimony
 and so did George Riddle as well as | others.
 When MT. Reyes took the stand he
 said he made no noise; he did not open | his mouth; he never shook his pitch
 fork at MT: Sutmore; he was shaking out the bedding of his various beasts,
 and he pounded the barn to warn the | horses not to kick, and he pounded | the pig pen to keep the pigs quiet. It | was shown that he had had trouble
 with many of his neighbors, and that | few Of them were friendly. MT. King | in summing up contended that there | had been a technical assault; and he | thought some of the witnesses were far from telling the truth. MT. Flint | was of the decided opinion there had not been even technical assault.
 Finally the charge of assault was dropped and Justice McA1pine fined the accused costs and s1 for breach | of the peace. In delivering judgment he said there had been a nefghborhood scrap and both sides ought to have been treated alike.
 There is a report in town that from | 8 to 10 hands have been laid off from work in one of our largest manufac- turing plants.
 Yesterday the Oneidas played a. game | of baseball with the team of the Sta | pies High School at Westport. A
 number of young ladies from this town went down to see the game. The Wynn family has arrived at it's cottage at Pine Creek.
 Tomorrow afternoon the Stratfields
 from Bridgeport will play a game with | the Fairfields.
 The Wilkinson family came up from New York yesterday to their beach cottage, the Breakers
 The topic of birds was discussed in | the schools for a. while yesterday aft | ernoon, and later the children cleaned up the grounds and planted flowers
 and shrubbery. The girls at the cen
 ter school said they got little help from
 the boys and had to do most of the
 work.
 School Supt. Henry w. Sake of New Canaan, spent Wednesday in town visiting the schools. He expressed
 himself as delighted with all he saw and heard, and spoke very highly of the method of teaching.
 J. c. Knowlton from New Haven,
 principal of the school in the Winches- ter district, spent Friday morning in
 town looking for teachers. The principal of the Model School of
 New Haven was visiting the teachers of this town, looking for a model teacher for his school.
 One of the best teachers in Fairfield
 is being considered for a position as a
 teacher in the Danbury Normal school.
 and the chances are she will nave. the
 place offered to her.
 A teachers meeting was held in the Pickett building yesterday when Supt Wheatley called attention to the fact
 that the annual school exhibit will
 take place at the center school on the
 2Sth, when work from all the schools
 in town can be inspected, and it is
 hoped the public will take> the oppor-
 tun1ty to see what is being done. Teachers are to hand in their requi- sitions for supplies for the coming school year by the time of the ex-
 hibit.
 Peace Day will be observed in the schools on the 18th. Educators are coming to the conclusion that patriot ism as taught today leaves the sup posed patriot frequently faithless to his rearest duty, and on the other hand makes the geographical boundary lines of his native land the limit of his love and sympathy. The idea of patriotism must expand and strengthen in two directions. It must help purify and defend the nation by overcoming the constant enemies that are within, while sby justice and good will it must prevent people from becoming occa- sional enemies without. The peace program will consist of hymns read 1 ingS and brief addresses