The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-01
WESTPORT
Those Bath Houses = Streets Oiled = Clearing up Delinquent Ta1es-Trin. ity Yestrymen-SchOol Entertainment Personal Notes.

Two burning questions which have excited the town for sometime, since the building of the town hall, viz, the
 bath houses at Compo beach and the odlfng of the streets, have at last been settled to the satisfaction of all con- cerned except the owners of the bath houses. Like Fairfield it takes an extra or special town meeting to dis -ose of such weighty matters, and at the recent town meeting 1t was voted to empower the selectmen to remove the individual bath houses at the beach. and to erect a row of new ones which the public will be permitted to make the beach look more tidy and re- spectacle. and the town can control the bath houses and prevent any un-
 conventional behavior. It was re-
 bad and rude boys, as well as men, used to show themselves in public, much like their ancestors in Eden just
 after or before the fall. This was a to be abated. To get rid of it the selectmen will do as they do in China, tear the houses down. The amount of oil purchased was 1000 gallons at a this on Main and State streets has
 been already accomplished. Some say the Fairfield wagon was used and some think the apparatus came from Nor Wclh. AL dA tNe1CS luS experiment. lS a practical and economical one, and the oiling will save the town consider able expense, and keep the dust laid all the time. The town is also. en- books, and if it cannot be had in any other way, it will be added to the taxes on private property. All this indicates progress and business methods. This town ought to be as up-to-date as its
 neighbors, for it is estimated that the summer visitors are the life of the place during the season, and anything which will attract and hold them is
 worth considering. '--.}s The following gentlemen have been elected vestrymen for Holy Trinity church for the ensuing year: Messrs.
 A. s. Hurlbutt. Wm. G. Staples, Vim.
 L. Taylor, Merritt Gault. Frank E.. Sturges. Charles B. Guyer, Willis S. Lehn. Leslie Sniffin, D. B. Bradley and w. F. Penney. The other officers are as follows: Senior warden. William l.. Coley; Junior warden. Samuel Gault; clerk, Samuel A. Purdy; treasurer. Daniel B. Bradley, and exton, Edward Lehn, Jr.
 Mrs. Jessie Radcliffe asks for di-
 vorce from her husband. Asa Radcliffe. on the ground of assertion. He skip ped out in April. 1905, two years and six months after marriage.
 Last evening the children of the Bridge street school gave an entertain
  the grounds in good condition. The
 affair came off at National hall, and consisted of drills, a cantata called "A Day in Flowerdcm," with sale of cream and cake.
 Some of the beach bath houses have been taken to Norwalk. where they 1 will do service the coming summer. The tax accounts for the last IF years are to be adjusted and wound up. It is thought this work will occupy the spare time of the selectmen for the next four months.
 Memorial services were held in the
 Saugatuck M. E. church on Sunday | evening.
 On the 18th inst Chi,dren's Day ex- ercises will be held in most of the | churches.
 Miss Long, who has been away from | the library for two weeks, is home again.
 Joseph Albin has returned to the | trolley company as a conductor. Mrs. M. E. Roberts of Stratford has | been in town.
 MT E. T. Bedford of the Farms is having his house improved by MT Thomas Forsythe, the contractor of | Fairfield.
 MT. L. o. Billings has bought the painting business of MT. w. F. H Rev MT Strayer. who has been ill was again able to preach last Sunday | in his church at the Farms. | Alfred Lawson, of Danbury, Is the | new drug clerk in town. The members of the Compo Engine | company will have for uniform the | red shirt, leather belt and cap. A savage bull dog recently bit MT. | Bradley Baker, an aged veteran. MT. A w. Farquaharson. of Jamacia | West Indies, is visiting in town.
 The cost of the new bathing pavilion | to be erected at Compo beach must not be over $1 ,0O0
 | Miss Hazel Els has returned to her home in Charleston, S. c. l W. T. Driscoll. of Norwich, is an- | other new drug clerk in town. | MT. and Mrs. Cornelius Godfred. of | New Haven. spent yesterday in town | MT. John F. Daley is no longer em- ployed by the Lees Mfg. Co.