The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-10
STAMFORD
YaIne of a Man-Capt. Benjamin - A Silver Wedding - Coming of the Spring Birds Sunday Services - Various Personal Notes.

address on Monday evening before the
 Mems Club of this town at the resi-
 dence of Radford B. Smith. l The elevator boy at the StratfleId,
 and the girlsof 16, for whom a license l was recently issued for marriage at | the town clerks. office, have been
 united in wedlock by Rev. J. w. Egg
 gleston.
 | building new platform in Red Men | hall for the coming "Old Hickory | Schoo1' and the minstrel entertain
 ment. It is said the show will be a | very good one.
 | Postmaster Bristol observed Good
 Friday by closing the post office, and
 partaking of hot cross buns for break | fast.
 Capt. p. Bedell Benjamin said yes | terday that he never had any intention i of going to Bermuda, as has been an- l nounced in some of the public prints
 He has not as yet recovered from the | effects of the grip, and thinks he IS 1 better off at home than travelling. Thursday evening last Frederick $. Schnell, who is one Of the test opera | tives at the central telephone office in | Bridgeport, and who lives on Freeman l avenue, near Paradise Green, was very agreeably surprised by a large mum Der of his friends who came over from the city to celebrate his silver wedding. from the choir of St. Johns church, and there came by trolley and auto nearly all the employees of the South tern Telephone Company. They load ed the big table in the dining room with presents in the shape of hand some china, cut glass, silverware. and many other things which all women delight to have in a house. The chief from South Norwalk was present, and a good number of tthello girls added to the delights of the evening. There was a plenty of music and during the evening abundant refreshments were served. MT. Schnell says there is steady increase in the telephone busi- ness and the company counts upon having 100 additional telephones in stalled every month. Just now these instruments are being put into school houses, where they are much needed in cases of emergency. All the schools in Bridgeport have telephones with branch office at the city hall. The schools of this town are also provided with them. It can only be a question Of short time when all the schools in the State will have telephones.
 There were nine deaths in town dur ing March, three of which were in fants. The oldest persons who died were David B. Boothe, aged 95; George Martinburg, aged 80, and Theodore Judson, aged 75.
 Miss Keeler, a missionary worker, spoke yesterday before the Womens Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church.
 Mrs. Frank L.. Hanson has returned from a visit to Norwich.
 There are those who still think in-- surance rates will fall as soon as the recently purchased hose is put into the new fireproof house.
 John Bond is said to be himself again. His stomach trouble has pass ed away.
 in King street. is to be occupied by the DeForest family from Devon.
 In his last sermon Rev. MT. .Egg1e- Ston spoke of having seen this spring II I,s &1,.@ limb of a tree not far from the par sonage. Our local ornithologist, who is up in such matters, says the appear ance of the red-winged blackbird is sign of spring not likely to be decep- tive. Unlike the weather bureau the birds eldom make mistakes in their weather predictions, and this year they have arrived a fortnight earlier than usual. Robins and more rarely blue birds occasionally remain all winter in Stratford. seeking the depths of the woods and swamps, and the song sparrow is not an invariable migrant. But these birds cannot be regarded as characteristic of the winter season; so that when robin. bluebird, red wing and song sparrow are here, not as spies. but in battalions, as seen by MT. Eggleston, we may feel certain that spring has come. In truth the woods in winter are full of life. Think of the number of birds who come down from the north when the snow robs
 
 peckers, the noisy jays, the cheerful chickadees, the nuthatches never de- sert us, and on almost any day in the winter a walk in the woods up Putney way, or Shelton, will discover the juncos and tree sparrows, and perhaps the red-polls and other northern war blers.
 Dr. Packard will preach tomorrow at 1O:30 a. m. At 4 in the afternoon 1 the Easter cantata of 'The Resurrec- l tion'' will be given. i
 It is announced that Miss Marjorie | Briggs is engaged to Howard Crane of Newark, N. J.
 H. L. Bartram has been informed l that Theodore Roosevelt, while in Af- 1 rica, will try to hunt up MT. and Mrs. Knapp, who are missionaries some l where in the dark continent.
 Special musical services tomorrow | morning and evening at Christ church. |
 Alfred Wakelee has recently receiv- | ed a consignment of over 800 tons Of | coal. He thinks it ought to last near | ly all summer.
 Capt. Raw, who lives in Bridgeport, l will soon launch from Bede1Ps ship 1 yard power boat called 'fRosey R-''
 Two more rummage sales are being | talked about by a couple of our local churches.
 A new adding machine is being pro- noted in town. As few of the local 1 residents have anything to add, large | sales are not anticipated.
 MT. Orleman, the unfortunate milk l man Wno loSt ms house some tlne ago and has received money enough | to build a new one, is having the | laid for his future home.
 Miss McEswen, of Broad street, is l home from her retreat in New Ha- ven.
 The big wind of a day or two ago is said to have so rocked the light | house at Lighthouse Point that one of | the inmates was made seasick ySlis is a genuine fact and not one of MT. Judson's jokes.
 Jerome Mays orchestra will assist | in the Neiglrborhood church Easter ex- erciSeS tomorrow evening. The nlu- sical program promises to be of rare