The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07
STRATFORD
Strong Temperance Talk The Coming
Play Lecture On Kipling-A Grange
Visit-Card Party - Pleasant Per.
S0na!s.

Since Father OConner delivered his
powerful address at st. James on the
selling of liquors illegally and espec-
tally on Sunday, warming the parents
of his parish to look after their boys
and girls and keep them away from
the baseball games of a Sunday at
Avon Park, he has received many
Communications and concentrations
of men have been to Father O'Conner
and told him that their husbands were
drunk in Avon park of a Sunday, when
they should be at church. The new
pastor of st. James feels strongly on
this matter, and he proposes to push
his efforts to some definite conclusion.
He says he is not in town as a hire
ling but to protect the spiritual and
temporal interests of his people, and to
promote the welfare of the whole town.
1t is known that the public prosecutor
is in full sympathy with Father OCon-
ner, and if there is not local authority
enough to close illegal saloons he will
do so to the best of his ability. Faith
er OConner would have the liquor sa-
looms investigated as we'll as cases of
smallpox or scarlet fever, for he thinks
they should be quarantined or put out
of commission just as effectively as a
appeared.
Isl and T. will be at the Housatonic
Grange on the evening of the 18th
inst, when the new play is given. 81
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thinks he is right. This is the title
of a little after piece, or skit, which
will be put on the stage at the conclu-
sion of Prof. BaNter'S Great Invention.
in preparing this play, and it's produc-
ton is being regarded with deep in
terest.
The gentlemen of the Mems Club
which is to meet next Monday evening
at Mr.. Spall's on East Broadway, will
be pleased to learn that Rev. Henry
Hallam Tweedy, now of New Haven,
where he has just moved his family,
will take for the subject of his address,
Rudyard kipIing. This is sure to be
treated in an interesting manner, and
those who heard the same topic dis
cussed at the library last winter by a
Yale professor, can compare notes.
The Dunbar family proposes to build
a home on Freeman avenue.
Mr.. Bennetto is having an addition
built to his house.
Our local grangers who went to Mil
ford to pay the farmers of that town
a fraternal visit, report a big time
with much that was good to eat. They
were treated to a paper on Dickens
with readings from his works, as well
as an interesting program of music,
and an address of welcome from Ma
than E. Wells, the worthy master.
Sunday next being the centenary of
the birth of Tom Paine, Rev. Mr.. Bull
lock will deliver an address appro-
PIRATE to the occasion in honor of the
man who wrote the Age of Reason
and Common Sense.
Z Mrs. Alice DOrman has sold a lot at
the northeast corner of Elm and Broad
streets, to Mr.. Buck of Buck & OAR
ling of Bridgeport, who will soon be-
gin on the site the erection of a house.
Among the guests at the card party
and supper given on Wednesday by
Herbert Doolittle, were the Misses E.
Brown, A. Finn, B. Wood, c. McCul-
Tough, NJ. HenneSSey and MeSsrS. j.
Casserly, E. Berger, s. Stokes, Mrs.
George Smith, William Hughes, H.
Mallett, C. Leavenworth, E. Wilcox, c.
Little and ]. Erving.
Mr.. l. E. Peck is home from his re-
cent visit to New Britain.
The Cupheag club held a meeting last
night.
Miss Eliza Graham is to sing in the
First Baptist church of Bridgeport
The Beardsley hardware store has
got a telephone-142S, ring IL.