The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-13
FAIRFIELD
A Blood curdling Romance = Was the GrI in the Woods Measles SubSiding "A Talk on Modern Germany The Struggle of a Great NatiOn.

Struggle or 9 ureat NalI0n.
 were taking a deep interest in the un known stranger who dropped down upon them, and sought for lodgings, there was thought too to be good
 ground for a blood-curdling romance in Fairfield. MT. Max F. Blau, of New York, was out on still hunt for his sister. It was supposed that she had
 been stopping in Stratford, and many letters had been sent to that address, but they never got any further than
 .ne posLof1Ice. A visit to Stratford was made and the services of Sheriff Stagg and Constable Beardsley engaged in the endeavor to locate the missing young lady. They went to the house, so it is affirmed, where the young woman had been stopping, and were told she had gone off with man nam ed Richards who worked in Wilson Brothers saw mill in Fairfield. The result was MT. Blau came to this town and with Sheriff Burr, proceeded to the office of MT. Wakeman and want ed writ for the arrest of MT. Rich ards. As there did not appear to be a good and sufficient cause for the arrest of that gentleman the writ was with held. A visit was made to Richards and he denied all knowledge of the girl. There was a rumor that she had been
 
 and MT. Blau became quite excited. Rumor says he was afraid his poor sister had been murdered, and cut up after the fashion of affairs of that kind at the present day Finally tele phone was sent to MT. Wilder, the ,as- sistant prosecuting attorney of Bridge port, to learn under what circumStan- ces a man could be arrested who had done nothing. It was ascertained that Q man might be put under arrest as
 suspicious person, provided there was any ground for the suspicion. For runately about this tims the girl was found in the Richards house in Strat- ford. where it was suspected she had been stopping, and the curdling TO- nance was nipped in the bud.
 In a chat with Dr. Donaldson yeS- terday he stated that the measles have about run their course in town for the want of material to work upon. The disease is gradually dying out, and but a few cases are left.
 There are now so many rush orders at the Fairfield Rubber works, that the plant has to be kept running until 10 o'clock at night.
 It was reported yesterday that Mir. Washington Turney who lives on Main street near Benson's corner is very seriously ill. He is an old and well known resident of the town.
 "A Score of Years,'' Rev. Dr. Child's recent anniversary address, has been printed by the church, and it makes a very handsome and inertesting pam phlet.
 A goodly number, of ladies attended the meeting of the Unquowa club at its meeting at the assembly hall of the library, including Mrs. Samuel Wheeler, Mrs. William B. Glover, the Misses Hinckley, Mrs. Deyo, Mrs. Lo- retta M. Perry who is just home from her trip to Vermont, Mrs. L. G. Smith, Miss Keogh, Mrs. F. H. Brewer, Mrs. Hubbard, Miss Sinclair, Mrs. J. H. Wakeman, Miss Hewitt and Mrs. Os- borne The address on Modern Ger many by Mrs. Mitchell, was very in- teresting and instructive. She pointed out it's strength and it's weakness, in dicating it's difficult position among the nations geographically and making ex- tended comments upon the Bismarck constitution; also dwelling upon the character and habits of the Kaiser and the recent difficulty between him and his people. The new Germany gives one the impression of tremendous ac- tivity and vitality, of change and inn provement. One is astonished by the signs of present-day enterprise,-the smoking chimneys, the roaring street traffic, the busy shops, the brilliant lights. In the last ten years Berlin has brown more rapidly than Chicago Expansion and prosperity are every new buildings and factories new ships, new canals, new ! railroads. The German. of to-day is | alive to his own powers, his interests l and his weaknesses and he is making a l hard struggle along the lines of human 1 development He is fully alive to ev- cry world condition, establishing banks 1 and business in South America, buy ' ing islands in Spain; extending his l oOInnipS in fric9 hOnino 2hSOrt ! Austria and possibly Asia Minor, building large new navy and putting ] his manufactured products into the | homes of every nation on earth. The l of German industries is sci | ence, and thorough technicai educa- 1 ton. AS an illustration of this coal | tar was an industry almost unknown l 30 years ago. Since then 800 patents | have been taken out on it's deriva tives, and in 1898 this former waste l material yielded over $17, 900, 900 in pro- ducts Notwithstanding all this no l other nation to-day is perplexed with such weighty and difficult problems, l both external and internal as Ger many. It is torn by diversites of op:n questions. In the cities there is fierce socialistic and revolutionary spirit and opposed to this is the con- of the landowners. Ger many needs a large and sensible mid de class.
 The Greenfield Country Club will give another social entertainment next Thursday evening, with games, music and refreshments.
 MT. Simeon Pease is the treasurer of the Connecticut Mckinley Association which proposes soon to give banquet at the Stratfield.