The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-15
FAIRFIELD
Shooting Match Bancroft's Grafton - Current EventS-TOwn Officers..New
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There was a good deal of clay pigeor
 shooting off the beach on Friday. Mir Southey of Bridgeport. and party O. l friends. took part. The popping O
 guns could be heard on Main street but no fear of the Japanese was ex | pressed. even by the most timid since | the latest news from California is very 1 reassuring.
 MT. Darlington Beeman is in towr l for a few days from Harvard. and MT samuel Glover was home from Yale for the Lincoln holiday. MT. Louis 1 Morehouse comes back this week fo1 l the Washington holiday. Judge Perry read Bancroft's oration on Lincoln at the library hall on Fri day evening. and not in the afternoon as has been published. in a manner which delighted the large audience Rev. MT. Beeman's reading of Tom Taylor's ode to Lincoln. which was first printed in Punch was listened to with very close attention Altogether the exercises passed off to the satis- faction of all concerned. It is seldom one sees such a large audience in the library hall.
 The circulating libraries for the various schools of the town having been renewed and selected with care they were distributed last Friday.
 MT. Arthur J. Hull had fortnight 6 delightful hunting experience in the mountains of North Carolina.
 Mrs. Abram Banks is said to be the oldest living woman in Greenfield Hill. And but few of the dead are older.
 Mrs. David Smith. who has been sick. is imrroving
 The first spring boarders from the city have arrived. MT. and Mrs. Hoyt, and have taken board with Miss Emily Jennings. Rose Hill.
 TNo went to Bridgeport to attend ban quet
 The Misses Hawkins gave a valen- tine party on Thursday evening"
 It was the Friday Afternoon club which Mrs. George H. Smith entertain ed. There was 8 collation. and favors were given to all the ladies.
 MT. and Mrs. w. A. Hoyt who have been in New Jersey for a couple of years past intend to return to town.
 A week from tomorrow. at the Pe- quot library. Miss Worstell. of New York. will bive lecture on the Zoolo- gical Garden of that city.
 Miss Mary Wells of the post office recently spent a, day in New York.
 This afternoon the Unquowa club met in the library to listen to a talk on current events by Mrs Mitchell of Westport.
 It is thought the Friday Afternoon club will soon follow the fashion and take luncheon at the Stratfeld
 Postmaster Pickett's daughters have had the measels. and Mrs. Pickett has been down with the rheumatism.
 pr. E. P. DisbrOw has gone to Balti- more.
 It is amusing. to read that Dr. Child new book on Fairfield will contain "a view of the town officers" We hope so. First Selectman Flo xwould make O f11I1 tro nd so would Town Clerk Flint. Nor should MT. Acker of the board of as< sessors be left out. nor MT. Hawkins of the School Board. In fact. if a9 the town officers are embalmed in Dr. Child's book. it will make a handsome auburn.
 3 Prof. and Mrs. Hargrove have been visiting in Norwalk.
 Why is it that all the new baby boys who arrive in town are "bOuncing?" Is it something in the salt air?
 Rev. Frank s. Child preached at the Olivet church in Bridgeport. yesterday
 The following new books have just Arsene Lupin. by Maurice Leblanc; Wind in the Willows by Kenneth crahame; Last Voyage of the Douro, Isabel. Randall Parrish: Great Miss Driver Anthony Hope Hawkins; My stery of the Yellow Room. Gaslon w nOlC dIL1ly, w. U. IlOWSllS and others; Egypt, Robert Hichens.
 MT. John H. Sherwood. of Pequot avenue. S4 years of age. was in town on Saturday. His son married 8 sis ter of Judge Banks. MT. Sherwood is the father of Nellis Sherwood. and it will be recollected that he raised the largest pumpkin which has exhibited at the Greenfield fair last fall. He is l quite enthusiastic over the brilliant i success of the Farmers Institute at | Greens Farms held on Lincoln Day. MT. Sherwood voted for Abraham Lin- coln both times when he ran for presi- lent.
 Friday evening there was an enjoy able dance n the hall at the old Pickett building.
 Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright came up from New York on the 11:90 train Sat lrday, to spend Sunday in town.
 MT. Benjamin Betts was in New Ha- ven on Saturday. looking over the fa cIiODS prOc0riaS