The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-30
WESTPORT

Father Duggan said on Saturday that the attendance at the fair for the benefit of the Church of the Assump- tion had been simply phenomenal, and that all classes of people had shown themselves very generous. The fair will continue the three last days ot this week and will close on Labor Day, one week from to-day. Next Thursday evening MT. Thomas Mc- Quillan of Norwalk will give a mov- Cheagh of the same city will sing. On Friday evening there will be singing by the Masters Ren1lin and singing and dancing by Miss Marie Remlin. On Saturday Miss May Williams of South Norwalk will sing, also a lady from Bridgeport.
 According to the peach growers of | town the crop this year is much less | than it was last, but the quality is good. Apple trees are bad all over suffering from the attacks of the scale. This is particularly true of the old trees. Young trees appear to be | thriving.
 Most of the recent exciting topics in | town have gone with the passing of summer-the battle of the bath houses the closing of fruit stores on Sunday; ing of automobiles. Nothing serious has happened along these lines, and | no lives have been lost. It is true good deal of sewerage runs into the | rlVer aDOVe the Dr1QSe, ana the tue | washes it back and forth. There ap- pears to be no help for this unless | North Main street is moved or the | river forced to stop at the bridge. Meanwhile the Village Improvement society is doing good work, and the handsome concrete sidewalks now ex- | tend from the bridge to Compo street. A drive way is being constructed for carriages from State street to the | western side of the Congregational church. A handsome retaining wall of | field stones has been erected along | State street in front of the embank- ment which was removed to allow a | side walk to be built past the grounds of the Congregational church. One of the attractions of the lawn | fete to be given on Wednesday and | Thursday the 1st and 2nd of Septem- Der, by the Village Improvement So- ciety, is called the 'humanoscope." It will be very like moving pictures with songs, only the film has been elimin- ated, and the figures that move are real human beings and not their shadows.
 A few days ago the owner of an auto stopped in front of the Westport hotel to have a tire repaired. There was a bag with considerable money left on the back seat. When the own CT was ready to leave he found the bag had left before he did and there was no clue to the thief.
 MT. Waiter Allen won in the last race given by the Compo Skim Club There will be further excellent races on Labor Day.
 MT and Mrs. Orlando I. Allen are visiting Dr. and Mrs. w. s. Putney in Mrs. Frederick Weed is visiting Mrs. Charlotte Budd.
 MT. c. B. Dolge is expected home from Maine this week.
 pr. John John McCudle is the new manager of the local baseball club.
 MT. Homer s. Beers is home from Mexico.
 Both Judge and Mrs. D. B. Bradley and Town Clerk and Mrs. Hyatt have recently been entertaining friends from out of town.
 MT. Charles Patton has left the beach and returned to New York.
 A society of artists has been organ ized called the '!Silvermine Group" so named from the studio of Solon H. Borglum in Silmermine, Conn. Quite a number of New York artists have been passing the summer in town, be- sides those who reside here the year around. An exhibition of the work of the members opened on Saturday and will continue on the 4th, 5th and 9th of September. Silvermine is a little place between Norwalk and Canaan. Among the members of the club are H. Daniel Webster, the sculptor Of this place who is making the Minute ladies: Solon H. Borglum, D. P. Erin ley, Howard and Cornelia E. Hide brandt Addinton T. Miller, G.. R. Thompson, Austin Lord and E. M. Adhe.
 Mrs. c. F. Taylor is home from va rious vacation trips.
 A married man named William Hord, natter of Bethel, has been Compo beach with a girl but Is years of age, named Marjorie Hubbell, who was his sister in law. The constable and the police of Norwalk rescued the
 
 capped. The Hubbell family is still hunting for the man who induced the girl to go to Compo with him.
 MT. George w. Washburn, pain from the roof of a coal shed in East Norwalk. He was taken to his home in Saugatuck. but was not seriously injured.
 some 15 bathing suits have been stol- en from Compo beach.
 Thomas Mullins has been fined $10 and costs by Justices Purdy for intox- ication and resisting an officer.
 @On Labor Day the home baseball team will play a game at Fairfield with the Fairfields in the morning, and in town at 3:15 return game. Hast Last , evening at vtn the p,Mnt Methoaist eaxs an address upon her experiences in Africa. MT. John Duncan, of New Ha- ven, baritone, sang.
 Rev. H. w. Mcguire, Of Bayonne, N. J., preached yesterday for Rev. K. Mackenzie, Jr., who is too i'll to take charge of services just yet.
 ''The Story of the Pink Rose," was given last evening at the Saugatuck Methodist church. The Ladies Aid Society of this church will serve a dinner in the hall next Thursday from H12 until o'clock.
 Rev. John c. Whiting of New York preached in the Congregational church yesterday.
 MT. Kenneth Mackenzie, ST., cele- brated his S0th birthday a week ago. Many of his grandchildren were pres ent.
 The Misses Wynne of Brooklyn are in town until the middle of Septem- ber guests of Mrs. S. M. Ahern.
 Postmaster Harris is taking a 10 days vacation.
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