The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-04
FAIRFIELD
Growth of Business = The Aluminium { Works The Boys SmOker-.A Hockey s Contest -Rarebit Party-Books and s Clubs. {

M It is pleasant to know that at least one manufacturing plant in town is so rushed with orders that it is necessary to build a large addition and to that End work has already begun. The !. .aluminum foundry on Main street is putttng up a room 120 by 60 feet. to ! be used as a foundry. It is hoped to have the plant ready for occupancy by fhe middle of March The new room will sbe used for @ foundry and will contain 12 up-to-date- furnaces, 8 new Engine, an air compressor and sand : blast machine. Whereas 50 hands are now }employed it is expected the num- Ser will be increased to 65 or 70. Be- sides this large room new stock room will be built and a commodious office and a,large fire proof vault in which 10 store the patterns, is to be made. Most of the work now done at this plant is for the manufacturers of au- fornobiles. It is estimated that 75,000 new machines will be built during the present year. A good deal of work is also being done for the government, the hand wheels for manipulating large guns being made of aluminium. As to the hands employed wishing to find rents in town. 1t is thought they prefer to live ine Bridgeport, since there are more conveniences in the city than in
 
 The St Thomas Athletic Club held reunion and gave gymnastic exercises a few evenings ago. at the hall in the lear of the. church. which Father Cole man has kindly placed at it's disposal. The young men present included John Murphy, manager. John Stanley, John Roland, John Bonney. John Mullins, yohn Smith. Thomas Murphy. Thomas Sweeney. Thomas Griffin. Morse Sulli- Nan.f Willie Shanley, Teddy and Harry Anderson, Louie Book, James Dalling, George Bonney. Eddie Shanley, Arthur Bennett, Christian Grovesnor, Edward Reynolds, William Granville, and oth. CTS. Refreshments were served and there was music by Anderson brothers.
 Mr.; LcuIs Morehouse returned to the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn yesterday. :. The annual meeting of the Fire Com pany will be held tomorrow evening for the election of officers for the en- CT routine business. It is thought the old officers will be reelected
 On Friday the Bridgeport High School hockey team played game with the Fairfield O. A. c. Club, on tho o. G. Jennings pond. The game was halves. Bridgeport won, to 0. The Q. A. c. Club boys were Andrew and Dave Huntington. Howard Smith, who played very well. HOyt Perry, who was the star of the occasion, John Donald scn. Ernest Thomas. and Edward Kicker.
 It is estimated that on Friday even- ing no less than 100 of the boys and girls of2the town enjoyed skating on the. O.. G. Jennings. The party broke Up at about Il D. m. After the skating the Misses Theodora and Nellie Wheel CT gave a large Welsh rarebit party to their young friends at the Wheeler residence on Main street
 4 The game of hockey is all the rage in town. having eclipsed the popularity of polo. The big stock of hockey sticks at Boyle's have all been disposed of.
 Miss Eleanor Warehouse and Miss Elizabeth Betts and MT. and Mrs. R. F: Curtis, all of this town, were among those invited to the large Grippen re- ception- in Bridgeport
 f Miss Mary B. Kippen has been ap- pointed by the Red Cross Society to receive the contributions from the people of this town for the Italian re- lief fund.
 IA New York librarian who visited our local library a day or two ago re- marked that when a book had been taken out ten times in the city it usually came back with the covers ruined. This seemed surprising to Miss Wakeman. who says that for the Memorial library it is no uncon- | mon, thing for a book to be called for 1 79 or 86 times. and come back in good | But then life is not so | strenuous. in town as it is in New 1 York;
 One week ago to-day the Unouowa | Club will hold it's fourth afternoon | meeting when Miss Loretta Perry will | give a sketch of Prince Bismarck; Mrs. Frank Perry will speak of several German chancellors, including Caprivi, | aohenlohe. and Won Buelow and Mrs. | Mitchell will read paper on Ger many as World Power"
 Friday last Mrs. Dr. Frank $. Child 1 at the parsonage the ladies | of the Eunice Donnie Burr chapter of | the D. A. R's. Mrs. Child is the regent |