The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-31
STAMFORD
The Coming Weddi ng- Returning te T0wn-Aunt Bertfla-F0Iks on the Sick List-Talk on Automobiles = Insurance Rates.

Invitations have been issued for the Peck-Ftairchild wedding which has | been anticipated for a long time. The ceremony will take place on the 14th I of April. at the residence of the brides father. MT. George W. Fairchld. the | well known jeweler of Bridgeport. The Jolly 12 Pinochle Club held a meeting last night. It was largely | complimentary to MT. Wildman who Is soon to leave town. | Next June Roger Briggs will gradu- ate from the Storrs Agricultural col lege.
 Miss Ruth Haven was able to be out for the first time last Monday. She | is still quite weak from her recent severe illness.
 l The many friends of Mr. Clayton Blakeslee were pleased to see him on the street yesterday. Appendicitis did not catch him this time. The Epworth league of the Metho- dist church will hold a business meet 1 ing tomorrow evening. | Tomorrow afternoon at the chapel I of the Congregational church the | Women's Aid Society will held meet
 ing.
 Miss Mae Bergen. who has just re- | turned from a visit to New York will soon. sail for a trip to Europe. MT. Fred Wildman has been looking | over the ground in Ansonia. He may i open a tonsorial parlor in that enter l prising city.
 An illustrated account of the Passion I Play will be given next Monday even- | ing in town. and should draw a fine ! audience. considering how quiet the | Red Men are. There was a Bible study meeting at | Putney East night. l A ease of measles has appeared in | the family of MT. George Roberts Bar mum avenue.
 Monday afternoon the ladies of the Mission League held a meeting at the parsonage with Mrs. F. N. Packard.
 The '.Birches" the country seat of | Attorney William R. Wilder, will soon | be occupied by his family and his
 neice, Miss Wilder. They have been I taking trip of several weeks in | Mexico and Cuba.
 k Charles Patterson. a young man we'll
 known in town. employed as a detec- tive for the railroad. recently died in | Norwich. He was nephew of Mir. | Frank L. Hanson. proprietor of the news emporium.
 | People who go to the post office now
 call Miss Bertha Wilkes f'aunt Berth7," :" | because a son has been born to MT. and Mrs. William Theis, the mother being Miss Wilkes sister. | The new fire hose building is going
 up very rapidly. and will soon be fln- isned. Then the new hose can be re- l ance rates will come down at once. A number of local grangerS have gone to Milford to attend the Farmers
 Institute which is being held in that town.
 MT. Robert c. Wheeler of Bridgeport, has bought one of MT. Radford B Smiths houses on West Broad street.
 Mrs Edward Bennetto has just cele-
 brated her birthday with a family din- ner party.
 MT. F. K. Job is coming to town in
 a few days to give a talk on "Birds.'' The dance of the Assembly club on the 18th of April is announced as the
 last one of the season. : Teaparty lane has recently been
 scraped by a machine drawn by four
 horses. Another sign of the near ap- proach of spring.
 MT. Frank Plumb has ordered a
 Maxwell car. He is now learning the
 ropes.
 Vacation in the public schools begins
 Fred Smith. Louis Peck. and F. O
 Palmer have all been on the sick list Mir. Palmer is better and will soon re- , sume his duties in New Haven where
 he runs a drug store.
 It is sign of good times to see the
 new houses going up all over town.
 A number of our popular young men are expected home for the Easter holi- days.
 Sergeant Haron of Fort Wright, and
 Sergeant E. S. Hall, Jr., have been visiting in town. the guests of Quarter
 master Sergeant R. D. August of King 2 street.
 Mrs. Adelaide Gunther is soon ex-
 pected home from Annapolis. | Miss Georglanna HaWley mas been l taken to the Middletown asylum by Sheriff Stagg.
 , MT. Reuben H. Root is home from
 Brooklyn. N. Y., with a broken arm the result of being hit by a trolley. The general opinion of the grange is l that the automobile has come to stay The great problem is how to contro . the fast speeders. And some would like to know how to make the machine
 go when the gasoline gives out, an6 , everybody is a couple of miles from | home.
 Among those who took part in the
 musical program at the last meeting o1 5 the grange may be mentioned Misse. , Beatrice Derby. Avery. Bloxsom ant
 Powers. also Herbert Sniffin and Ernes
 Vincent.
 Fo1ey's Honey and Tar cures cough.