The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-27
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 It is at least a little odd that at the very time John Bond, who keeps the resort on the banks of the Housatonic Where young men are trained for prize fighting, is arrested for selling liquor without license his wife, Julia E. spirituous and intoxicating liquors at Lower Dock. And five citizens of this town, electors and taxpayers, have signed the application. Bond was arrested Saturday afternoon by one of the State police on a warrant issued by Attorney Clitus King of Fairfield. He was brought before Justice Wakeman at 2 o'clock yester- There were two witnesses in the case, and the evidence was sufficient to en- sure a conviction Bond himself can not obtain a. license, having been con are one person it looks strange, to say the least, if the wife can obtain a li- cense to do that which the law refuses to let the husband do.
 Tomorrow afternoon the case of Will liam Ventulett, who keeps a boarding house near Avon Park, will come up before the court on the charge of sell ing liquors without a license.
 Another of those perplexing truant cases came before the court yesterday morning, when MT. Spader was charg- ed with not sending his boy to school
 a youth of 15 years. Spader had been duly notified by the secretary of the Board of Education, but he failed to pay any attention to the notice. Tru- ant Officer Potter called upon him and advised him to send his son to school he was hauled before the court. But even this did not move the parent to comply with the law. At the exami- nation yesterday it was made mani
 that he has a large family, and that the boy was working to help eke out sn existence. The boy, who appeared to be unusually bright, said he was employed at a place in Water street in Bridgeport, making cigar eases at which he earned $4.9O a week. But the educational authorities were of the opinion that he had not received a
 in the 5th grade when he left school.
 The upshot of the whole matter was
 the father was required to pay SIP costs or go to jail, and the boy went his relatives in order to save his fa- ther from being shut up.
 There is another case of truancy on the calendar, one Peter Bergen, being charged with not sending his daughter May to school.
 Yesterday forenoon, at the Stratfield, a number of clergymen, some 20 in all,. assembled as members of the Pas tors ASSOc1atlOn to ESrGn 10 an aO- dress by Prof. Harlan Beach of the Yale Divinity School, who has recent ly completed a world tour of the mis-
 sionary stations, having been sent out for that purpose by the university.
 This town was represented by Rev.
 Dr. Packard and Rev. MT. Cornwall of Christ church. Rev. MT. Brown of the First Methodist church presided, and among others present were MT. Dillingham; of the UniversaliSt church, Rev MT DaVenEOrt of the People s Presbyterian church, Rev. Henry Woodruff of Black Rock, and many
 others. Prof. Beach gave a very in teresting and instructive talk on the
 great unrest which is apparent in the non-Christian countries, both political | ly, educationally and religiously. He said little about Turkey, since the papers are now full of the accounts of | the revolution in progress in that coun- 1 try, and he simply alluded to the po- htical situation of India China and Japan. As regards education he spoke | of the wonderful desire there is among
 the people of India and China to learn what is known as western knowledge. | He said it was fact that at one time | China had 13,0O0 students in Japan, | but as they returned radical free
 thinkers and almost anarchists. China | was educating its young men at home,
 and now there are but 800 Chinese
 students in Japan. He spoke of the
 wonderful progress Christianity is
 making in Corea, and said the whole people seemed to be full of the story | of the gospel and its spirit. He told some remarkable facts about the Christian movement in India, especial | ly the colony of 1,5oO established by | Ramberta Pundita, we'll known in this | country, since she has visited Amer ica. If there is one spot on the earth ! where the people are all full of the
 spirit of Christ, and where they all pray at the same time. it is in the set | clement she has founded Unfortun-
 ately she is very deaf, but she can do | anything a man can. and she is very | learned Her pupils learn sanscrit,
 and Greek, an1 Pref. Beach added that
 they are much better scholars than can
 be found at Yale. Speaking of Pales- 1 tine and Jerusalem, Prof. Beach said 1 disccuraging for any output from mis-
 sionary work. He says Jerusalem is
 filled with fanatics The address | was very witty, and listened to with Geep attention. After the literary ex-
 ercises, a number of the clergy ad- 1 jourre6 to one of the private dining
 rooms and partook of a dainty lunch con. The association agreed to pass
 a resolution asking President Taft to do all in his power to protect the | Christians in Armenia This was done
 at the request of the Armenians in | Bridgeport. G Both Democrats and Republicans &fn
 this town voted for Gov. Lilley. and
 the day of his funeral all political par i ties remembered the man by placing | their flags at half mast. It was rec | ognized by the plain folks that Gov. | Lilley was honest and fearless man, and such a one will always command
 respect. Among those who attended his funeral were Hon. Stiles Judson, Sheriff and Town Clerk Stagg, Judge | Peck, Fred Palmer, Clayton Blakeslee,
 and many others. The Knights Tenn
 plar would have gone in a body if | there had been Masonic ceremonies at | the grave. As it was they remained | home.
 There is said to be barber in town | who has been at his post for 21 years. | A launch is to be launched next | Wednesday by Roger and Allen More | house. The time is now fast ap-
 preaching when all the. launches will take to the water, and many merry parties of selectmen and wittye ladies will mosie up and down the river by