The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-04

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 Mrs HaIle!t's Will = Taxes Reduced $70,000 -feeting of the D. R's-
 Woman Suffrage-Talk on Diplomacy
 Personals.
 Whether there will be a contest in | the courts over the codicil to Mrs. Hal lett's will, is question for time to | determine. It depends upon the action | taken by the beneficiaries in the orig
 1nal will. The document as it stands | is regarded as a remarkable one. Be- | fore the trustees of the Bridgeport | will doubtless get the best legal advice | which can be had. If it is decided that
 the codici1 was the result of undue in-
 f1uence. then it will fall to the ground, and the original will become effective. | There is rumOr that the case will be | taken up to the higher courts. Miss Beers of Stratford has been
 visiting in Southport.
 It is thought the next Farmers In | stitute at the Greenfield Country club | will be both interesting and instruc- | tive. MT. Nellis H. Sherwood, Presi- | dent of the club, is busy with the pro- | chairman of the committe on refresh I ments- The meeting is to be held on | Thursday, the 18th inst
 | The fact that there is talk in Bridge port about building a new High School house, only interests this town in so | far as it is patron of the High | School. It is less expensive for Fair | field to send it's boys and girls to the l Bridgeport school, than it would be l to put up a new building and maintain | a corps of teachers. The new city
 school huse can be made large enough
 to accommodate the out of town pu- 1 pills.
 1 The old maids of Southport are to give one of their Conventions to- | morrow evening at the Washington Park Methodist Episcopal Church in Bridgeport. The original convention 1 was given in Stratford.
 News has been received by MT. Ham 1 mond from his sister, Mrs. Connors,
 who lives in Florida, that a cyclone in | that state recently took the roof off | their house.
 MT. Richard Sherwood is in Wash | ington for a couple of weeks He | went over to the capital city several | days ago.
 | The Sunday school teachers of the | town have been invited to go to Bridgeport this evening to listen to a
 lecture at the First Methodist church. It is surprise to the towns folks | that as many as from three to four hundred men could be found in these | hard times willing to pay S1 each to witness a bout between boxers. MT. J. F. Cogan appeared in town yesterday with a new cart for the | transportation and selling of oil. He | is an independent peddler.
 | Charlie Donovan, who used to be at | Och's restaurant is now employed at | the Seaside Club in Bridgeport 1 It is understood in town that the | Board of Relief has reduced the assess
 ments on property to the amount or | some S70,000. A town meeting for the purpose of laying tax will be called
 probably next week.
 | The Bremen held one of their regu- | lar business meetings last Tuesday ev- 1 ening. It is known that Chief Seggel | has been confined to his home for some time with an attack of rheuma- | tism, and other complaints The Foresters held a meeting last | night for the purpose of transacting | routine business
 1 Some fifty gentlemen who came | down from Bridgeport to attend the l bout on Tuesday evening, were much l disturbed when they found an extra | fare was demanded from St. Thomas
 church to Perrys hall. The result was | they walked the distance rather than | pay.
 ' | will hold a meeting next Friday af- | ternoon-
 One of the latest students to arrive 1 in town at the Hargrove school is Mr. | Holloway of Indianapolis.
 l The Misses Grace and Bessie Child | spent Monday in New York. | Tuesday afternoon the members of | the Eunice Donnie Burr chapter of the | Daughters of the American Revolution, | took trolley and went to the resi- dence of Mrs. Harold Bullard, Poplar
 street, Bridgeport Owing to the illness | of Mrs Frank S. Child, who is the Re
 gent Miss Emma F. Wakeman, vice
 regent presided. The exercises con-
 sisted of number of piano solos de l lightfully played by Mrs. Clara Beers | Gray This was followed by a paper | read by Mrs. James Burroughs. on | Mrs. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, the ] wife of Alexander Hamilton. The | paper proved to be very interesting | and dealth largely with the social GUS | toms of the day, and the dresses worn l by the ladies of the period. Mrs. Bur l roughS wore for a portion ot her cos | tune handsome lace veil, over 100 1 years old and handsomely embroidered 1 draped over a velvet dress. Her or 1 naments were pearls. She was pre- | sented with a bouquet of cut flowers. l A social hour followed supplemented | by a bountiful repast- A few Of the l ladies present were Mrs. C. B. Jen- | nnigs. Miss Annie O. Morehouse, Miss Kippen, Mrs. Conrad Buckingham. 1 Mrs. A. B. Huntington, Mrs B. O. I Bulkley, Mrs. James Hurlburt. Miss 1 Loretta Perry. Mrs. F. H. Brewer. Miss 1 and Miss Emma Brown, Mrs. w. O.. Burr, Mrs F. A. Burr, Miss Bessie | Betts, Miss Louise Burr and others. 1 Continuing her discourse before the I IInquowa club d few days ago Mrs. l Mitchell spoke of the rapid increase of | the movement for woman suffrage and