The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-30
STAMFORD
On te Washington-The Conference - MeasIes-Mr. MilIer's Sermon-Com. ing Back to Town-Interesting Per. Soaal Mention.


 Next week. with a party of friends and relatives. MT. Frederick Bradley Lewis will take advantage of his va cation from Yale, and make his first | visit to Washington. MT. Harry WilcoXson has returned | from a weeks s0journ in Washington, where he attended both houses of Con- gress and listened to some of the de- l bates on the tariff problem. He also | visited Mt. Vernon.
 Miss Frances Russell. our popular librarian, is quite ill with the grip. Miss Lowell is in attendance at the library.
 Dick Sherwood. of Southport was in town on Saturday with his new Pack ard automobile. calling on old friends. Mrs. George K. Wilson is now well enough to sit up little each day. There was an interesting meeting last Sunday morning at the Methodist church when in a very short space of | time S2o0 was raised for paying the
 pastor's salary. One family gave $40 and gentleman prominent in the ] church subscribed s30 The yellow warning notice that various house have been ouarantined on account of the measles can now be seen on the door posts of the resi- dences of Rev. c. g. Bullock. Great sagamore Peck. Miss Bennett and many others.
 Many people in town were speaking yesterday of the very good sermon de- livered at Christ church. Sunday even ing, by Rev. T. H. Miller of Bridge port He gave three reasons why men do not go to church, and pointed out three reasons why some clergymen fail to fill the church.
 Prof. Samuel Colladay of the Berk- ley Divinity School Middletown preached in Christ church last Sunday morning.
 The Oronoque gentlemen will work the 3rd degree on Friday evening. a pc h 1o cra of relatives and friends Monday morn ing at St. James to attend the mass for the late Christopher Keegan. The automobile question was discuss ed up and down at the last meeting of the local grange and there was a rumor that a gentleman would be asked to give his views automobiles from the clammer's point of view. The shutters which have guarded the doors and windows of the Porter resi- dence on Church street all winter, have been taken down and the house has resumed it's normal appearance. It looks as if MT. George A. Porter had returned to town will in a few days. MT. John Graham. Jr., secretary of the Stratford club. has had one of h S photographs published in New York paper. The scene was in BeardSley park and represented a clump of birches.
 The Lenten cantata which was to have been given last Sunday has been
 
 Frank Foster of Danbury, the Coe boys of Waterbury. and Fred Yates of the same city passed Sunday in town
 Already local people are in the fields digging dandelions for greens.
 While in Baltimore MT. J. Henry Blakeman spent considerable time in the new Walters art gallery one of the finest in the United States. One room is filled with old masters, a ma- joritsyof the pictures being repr esenta- tions of the Virgin and the Christ child.
 MT Alfred Crow who sometime ago sustained a severe injury by falling, has been brought home from St. Vim cents hospital.
 The front or facade of the store of Plumb & Bartram is receiving a new coat of paint.
 The services at the Bethany Mission on Sunday were conducted by Rev. A.
 Mir George Dahlin is home from StorrS college.
 MT. Howard Cone is fast recovering from his recent complaint.
 One of our local embroidery clubs recently met with the Misses C1arkson at their residence on South Main street.
 In a few weeks from now MT. Frank Plumb expects to be driving about town in a new Maxwell car.
 Indeed, that much-talked-of water main should be laid along California street as soon as possible, and there ought to be a hydrant at Dorman's corner
 MT. Park. who has been i'll for some pharmacy.
 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bond expect hereafter to reside in Providence. R. I.
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