The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-01
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Telephones and Schools - Infant in a Wefi-Leciures to Teach.rs - Died fer Love-A Big Auto Trip.

lOT LOYe-A pig AutO IT'D. }, Owing to opposition from unexpected
 sources the Board of Education has
 to three of the school houses of the town. It never was the intention to have these instruments used by the ! scholars for all sorts of impOrtan, messages. It was thought to be a good and necessary thing to have a large school connected with central, so that
 in case of need parents, or the school | board, or a doctor or even the fire de partment could be communicated with But it seems the time is not ripe for the people of this town to take this
 practical and forward step. One of i the opponents was the Wo1nen's Club. l That institution thought it was better l to have the children weaned from home, and it's influences at least for a few hours, and not tied to their moth- , er's apron strings. They did not want
 an easy way of communication up for l the children to converse with parents. 1 And then the local paper thought it
 an unnecessary expense, and so the 1 vote was rescinded. A few years
 from now, when every school house in i the state has it's telephone just as
 much as it has a blackboard, or flag,
 or teacher, those who have opposed l this movement will smile at their tim- i idity Dr. Stearns rather favored the innovation, but the majority prevailed. Because the remains of an infant ! were found in the bottom of a we'll a
 few days ago, where it is supposed to , have been for a month, there Was no good reason why the town should be l aroused True, revolting crime was committed, but it is not to be sup | posed that the parents of the unfor- i tunate infant were respectable Chris
 
 l mystery, and is likely so to remain. Similar crimes against nature are by no means infrequent and more may be expected so long as there re- mains in any community a large class l of poverty stricken, uneducated per sons degraded people. It might be a good thing for the townspeople to put l screens over the tops of their wells The teachers of this town, of all grades, some 21 in number, assembled in the Board Room on Friday after noon to listen to a. talk by Supt. Wheatley upon COr7nonsense Didac- tics, or the art or science of teaching. A few local delegates attended the
 meeting of Pomona grange at Danbury day or two ago. There are IF granges
 in the county and 125 patrons.
 MT. Michael Royea has bought the old Walter Meoker property, of about 50 acres. It is regarded as one of the best farms in town.
 Rev. Charles Cornwall preached in Trinity church yesterday.
 MT. Percy Sturges is home again to his duties after & vacation.
 Next Wednesday the whist party for the benefit of the high school grounds will be given by MT. and Mrs. Fred Salmon.
 About 30 members of the Current Events club attended the last meeting at the residence of Mrs. Everett Tarl- ton.
 MT. Henry Downes has been arrested for assaulting Joshua Meyers, and old man who lives at the town farm.
 The late John Bailey is thought to have left an estate valued at about S50O0.
 There will be a farmers convention in the chapel of the Greens Farms church on Lincoln's birthday.
 MT. Dick Horan is now night man at the Saugatuck railroad station.
 The Benefcient society of the Con- gregational church has elected the fol- lowing ladies for it's officers: Mes danes Charles F. Taylor Isaac B. Wakeman, B. l.. Woodwarth, M. H. Cooley, $. B. Foster, F. B. Hubbell, and the Misses Mary E.. Coley, Nina Wakenlan, Katherine Taylor, Rather inc Wilcox and Millicent Foster.
 MT. Oliver H. Jennings is home from his trip to Virginia.
 A book called "The Nearer and the Farther East,". will be studied the com ing year by the Mi lionary aua iiiary so- 1 ciety of the Congreg gational church.
 Miss Lorraine La Estes has found em- l ployment in Ohio.
 MT. Louis Pennell has given up his 1 place at the Bradley axe factory.
 It is thought the work on the inside 1 of the new town house will be com 1 pleted the latter part of this month.
 Mrs. Mary Crossman is visiting her d~,--r,Anr 'r Moeso oh1setts
 Reports to the effect that MT. Joseph ta l.as been sick, are without 
 A race track is being prepared at the farm of MT. E. T. Bedford. to- be ready for the spring events.
 Rev. George E. Bishop has been wis., iting in New York.
 A good number of the teachers of this town are attending the lectures in South Norwalk given by Prof. Charles H. Judd of Yale, on Applied Among those who go down on the cars are Prof. George H. Boyden, principal of the Staples High l, school, Miss Ruth Hall, Miss Jessie Bourne. Miss Rachel Schoenblum, Miss Mary Judd, Miss Emma Scudder, Miss Mary Cassidy, Miss Linda McMahon, Miss Sarah Parsells. Miss Rose Coyle, Miss Eva Bowen and Miss Ida Love 5IOFC. All tIlc lSdCuCIS dppOc@I lO more than usually interested in the lec- lures.
 Mir E. T. Bedford and family have reached California.
 MT. J. Augustus Lees and MT. John B. Godillot have joined the Bridgeport Automobile Club also MT. w. D. Dick son,
 MT. Banks of this town wants a bill passed at Hartford giving authority 'or volunteer fire companies to con- rol the wearing of their uniforms.
 The supposition is that the late John Bailey, a farmer of this town, com 1 nitted suicide because he was tilted oy a New York woman who would not marry him unless he made over to Ter all Of his property. This consist d of small house, a few acres of and and some cows. Rather than do his he took his own life. The man vas 65 years og age and in the employ # A. T. Burr.
 On the 18th inst, Aspetuck Lodge, Knights of Pythias. will celebrate its Eth anniversary. Those who are to ] rrange for the celebration are Messrs. Charles Harris, B. W. Gorham, G. A. |: >arrow, Geo. E. Bishop and W. F. H. Preston.
 Hiram Mckinley has found work with the Bridgeport Locomobile com any. There were 9S deaths in town ast year, 64 births and 20 marriages. to all accounts the Sauga- . uck bridge continues to be in "a bad