The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-02

Two or three people in town are | thinking of going over to Washington | to MT. Taft take the oath to SUD- | port the constitution.
 The local baseball club held a meet | ing last night.
 Arthur Knapp will act as foreman for Sidney Mills at Paradise Green, experimenting his market gardening. Among those who witnessed the mar | riage of Miss Eva Benjamin and MT. William Cranston last Saturday, were Miss Elsie Cranston of Summit, N. J., Miss Emma Goodwin who lives at the Benjamin house, Mrs Whitehead, the Misses Cornelia and Celia Curtis, Miss MyrtiS Fairchild, Mrs. John Anderson Schofield, MT. and Mrs. Clarence Swan and Craycroft Schofield. The bride carried a. lovely bouquet of white bride roses, and wore pink roses in her hat. The flowers gave the needed artistic touch of color.
 Theres is a. rumor that some of our local people will go to the adjoining city this evening to listen to Col. Geo. A. Bayne.
 25 men were seen in the body of Christ church last Sunday. And it was Lent at the same time.
 The number of the new telephone placed in the town hall is 142S-23. This will be a good thing to remember if at any time a citizen wishes to make a will in a hurry, or call up the town clerk, see the judge of probate, or learn where the flre IS. There was an assembly of St. An drew's Brotherhood last evening in the chapel of the Episcopal church. Rep resentatives from Bridgeport chapters were present.
 All who are interested in the ath- letics of the High school will be pleas ed to know that the food sale last Sat urday realized the sum of S27. Mrs. Thornbury's paper on Dickens at the Grange on Saturday evening is said tO have hpRn excellent and infar- eSting.
 A gentleman recently married in town has taken no less than three Stratford girls for wives His two first wives were sisters. and his last is said to b a cousin of the first wives.
 He certainly has a good reputation in the family into which he first mar ried.
 The color of Miss Benjamin's dress on her wedding day is technically known as toque-a delightful shade of gray. As Mrs. Cranston it is said in town that she will come back and live as always in the old Benjamin house, although her husband has a fine resi- dence in Summit, N. J., and a law of flee in Hoboken.
 The officers of the Corinthian Club plan to dine together next Saturday evening at the Stratfield. The gentle men are Willard Baldwin, president; Burt Jewell, vice president. Theodore Tompkins, secretary, and Henry Mea-
 
 janitor.
 Frederick Beach and family have finally departed for Florida, going by steamship by way of New Orleans
 That mystery lunch at the Oro- noque lodge last night turned out to be a clam chowder.
 Six new houses are being built at Laurel Beach for the ensuing season.
 Herbert Rartram has recently been in New York.
 Now and then a lot on Hollister Heights or Barnum avenue is sold to some out of town people.
 It is again announced that Rev. A. V. R. Abbott is 80 years old and very sprightly. He thinks little of walking five or ten miles on a stretch. Re- gently he took up the cudgels in de- fence of Wendell Phillips, who uttered such diatribes against Lincoln and the Government during the war. MT. Ab- bolt says Phillips was a good Christ ian and very tender of his wife. But that does not exonerate him for what he said against Abraham Lincoln. All Prof Phelps pointed out was that MT. Phillips was narrow minded, provinc- ial and unfamiliar with the situation. He wanted slavery abolished even if the Union was disrupted. And he wanted it done out of hand as quickly as the sun rises in the morning. MT. Lincoln did not agree with MT. Phil lips: He was wiser than the Boston abolitionist, and he never indulged in the unseenly language which is to be found in the Phillips speeches.
 The three pupils of the High school who have entered the competition for the prizes offered by the Colonial Danes of New Haven are Elmer Sim mons, Louise Barnum and Elmer Cavelti.
 Tomorrow at 7:45 D. m. the men of the parish of Christ church will meet at the chapel to organize new Bible class.
 At least one stratford lady went over to Bridgeport on Sunday to witness the laying of the corner stone of the Peoples Presbyterian church.
 The library is in about S100 as a re- suit of the course of lectures.
 The funeral of Mrs. Mary A. Bristol was held this afternoon. She is sur vived by two sons-Charles B. and George Davis. She lived on Long brook avenue, where she had long suffered from pleurisy and heart trou- ble. It is said that many of the old people of this town are rapidly pass ing away
 MT. and Mrs. Hiram Smith are home from Florida. and in a few days we may look for MT and Mrs. J. Henry son George A. Porter, Earl Porter and other members of the family will ar rive from California
 It is said there were 31 quotations from Dickens at the last meeting of the Stratford Grange.
 Rev. MT. Coon of Ansonia preached In the 1St Baptist church last sun day.
 Rev. MT. Bullock's theme last Sun day was Man and the Dignity of Man.
 Two of our local Embroidery clubs will be entertained this week.
 A genuine surprise in the shape of an engagement is soon to set the town 1 by the ears Many good folks have put their guessing caps. And ' Cupid is said to be sending his arrows in ha 1 nf K inc str some of them fly over to LongbroOk avenue.
 Tea and waters will be served at the whist to be given by Mrs. G. O. Lines tomorrow afternoon at Columbus Farms.
 Owing to a felon on his finger AL fred Loury, who is at college in | Quincy, Ill.,, has not been able to play | baseball of late.
 Edward Chamberlain proposes to have a house built during the coming