The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-17
STAMFORD
women's Section

IA Disgraceful Quarrel-Street or no
 Sfreet-That Candy Store-Prizes
 Int Whist-AIen in. the Niinstrels-A
 Good Supper.
 A fine exhibitfon of human nature. on the part of a land owner. was made | In the justice's court on Saturday, i when the room was filled with foreign err of various nationalities who had come together to air their grievances and obtain satisfactfon. The case was that of Mrs. Butler against William to be one of those neighborhood guar rels, where there was q use Of lanEu- axe not authorised by law. and al threat to assault Attorney James A. Marr appeared for the defendants. and Mre Butler relied upon Grand Juror ERhoades to prosecute the case. Mrs kButler owns. or at least lives. in a ehouse which stands on land purchased Of MT, Greeurod. She supposed there ewas a. etreet laid out on the south side of the lotMhere her house stands. and said in court she had been told so by the seiectmen of the town. MT. Green rod denied this and remarked that the selectnen could Ego to -, the very hot place. which MT. Rhoades said was not very respectful to the town au- thorities: The trouble was this-Mrs. Butler drove some stakes into the ground. and ran a string from one to the other. to indicate the boundary for a sidewalk which was to be built in front of her house. MT. Greenrod claimed the stakes were on his ground: that he had never authorized a street to be laid out in front of the Butler house. and that he proposed to dig on
 the very spot where Mrs. Butler was
 standing. He pulled up the stakes, ordered tthe old woman" to go into
 her house, and said he would use the
 string for a fish line According to
 the testimony of Mrs. Butler. and an-
 other lady witness, the defendant said
 ufany= shameful things to Mrs. Butler, questioned her moral character. and
 shot off his mouth in a reckless man.
 ner. much to the disgust and scandal
 of the neighborhood- Attorney Marr
 attempted to show that MT. Greenrod,
 or Greenway. as the case may be, was
 on his own land. and therefore he had
 a right to pull up the stakes. which
 were on exhibition in court as part
 of the material evidence. The prosecu-
 tion produced maps to show that long
 ago a street had been laid out where
 it is claimed by Mrs. Butler. MT.
 Marr repudiated the maps. and said they were not on record and could not ! be authenticated- He intimated that the parties interested had caused them to be filed. But all this was not ! relevant to the indictment-the breach of ,peace.s Even if Greenrod was on i his own land he had little right to say Peck found him guilty of abusive language and breach of the peace. and fined him 8 on each count and the costs. There appears to be a tendency use abusive language. say insulting things to women. and cause a neigh Eborhood scandal. This sort of business has happened more than once in town, | as well as in Fairfield. MT. Marr as serted that regarding the title to the land in question, he proposed to go to the Superior court. and have all clouds kremoved. Some people call the street Jim dispute .Moffatt street. and MT. 9reenrod suggested that Brady"
 would be Q good name for the pro- | zOn Tuesday evening, May 25, at Red Men's hall. Rev. B. J. Craft. of Christ church. Bridgeport, will give a Shakes 1 the Guild of Christ church. this town. lf Probably the gentleman who an-
 nounced that Rev. c. s. Bullock would preach yesterday at the Neighborhood lchurch, was mistaken and did not Know the facts. MT. Bullock has been in the west for a week or more
 The announcement was made some lime ago that a candy store would be
 opened in the Porter building. It is
 this which has been pronounced ca
 myth as the place has been let for
 another purpose. It is quite true that
 an fee cream parlor and a soda foun- tain will soon be installed in a room
 not far from the barber shop. but the
 proprietor did not wish to have the
 fact mentioned as the premises are un-
 der lease for the present to another
 occupant
 The. coming of tailor. or a candy man. or a street organ. or a moving van, is not of so much consequence to the growth and prosperity of this
 ancient town, as to set any one by
 the ears.
 The next meeting of the Housatonic
 grange will be in charge of Worthy
 Flora. Anna M. Spaulding.
 ToT in xuhn haUa haPn buying patent fluid for silver plat
 1ns, have discovered that it does not
 hold good The trouble is the pesky fhing won't stay put: It is an ex-
 ceIIent device for gettings silver from
 ff1e pockets of the innocent.
 "A s gold piece is one of the prizes