The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-28
STAMFORD
Mems Club Bad Bays = That Town Meeting Letter from New Mexico Big Birth Rate = Coming Events.


 The next meeting of the Mems Club
 will be held on the evening of Feb. 8
 at the residence of John W. Thomp- son. The speaker for the evening will be Judge Alfred B. Beers of Bridge port.
 Mrs. Susan E. J. Hudson. who usu- ally spends her winters in Italy. is this
 winter at Old Point Comfort. in Vir-
 street is in the hands of a care- taker.
 Sheriff Charles E. Stagg has joined
 the Bridgeport Auto Club.
 The town post contains a call for a
 town meeting on the 2ds of February.
 in the evening. signed by all the se- l lectmen. and for the purpose of seri-
 ously considering the building of new house out of concrete blocks, for the purpose of sheltering 500 feet of hose;
 for putting a telephone into the town clerks office and for other important
 business. It is hoped there will be
 large attendance of the citizens to
 consider these important matters and if the new house is built as now seems quite likely, 1t will be an ornament to the business district of the town. Will liam A. Stagg Is an expert manufac- turer of concrete building blocks. so there will be no need of going out of town to get the material, or for the employment of a foreign contractor. That the new hose should be protected from fire, as well as from water, goes without saying. If the new block is erected on the vacant lot between the
 Reed store and the town hall 1t will act as a screen to keep the public from staring at the cooler every time a poor drunk is placed in durance vile. As to the telephone there can be no two opinions about that. Every house should have one and they ought to be put in all the school houses.
 William Chamberlain has given quite a large contract to Pritchard, the plumber.
 Miss M. B. Stratton has arrived at St. Augustine. Florida.
 There was to have been last night at the town hall an adjourned meet ing of the selectmen and the various fire committees to take some definite action regarding the status of the fire organizations of the town.
 c. D. Mills has been appointed his- torian of the Okenuck tribe. If he records the doings of all the meetings, the dances. the camp fires, the visits to Milford, the feasts of corn and venison." and the biographies of all the Chiefs and Grand Sachems. he will have to sit up nights.
 On Feb. 6, which falls on a Satur- day, the local basket ball team will play match game with a team from Ansonia.
 A letter has been received in town from Maunsel Jones. cousin of Miss McEwen of North Broad street, writ ten from the town of Roswell. New Mexico, which stands on the Rio Hon. l do, near It's junction with the Pecos | river. He says the weather is warm as it Is in the yards of Judge Curtis or Dr. Cogswell. As he writes, the children, some 300. are marching into | a school house at the beat of a drum. | Many of these kids come to school three and four on the backs of the i, same horse. and three horses make a | string" The town is composed of whites. Mexicans. Indians. Chinese, and cowboys. Chickens are raised all the year round without protection, and just now the people are making their gardens and lettuce Is up with leaves an inch wide The houses are so thin- Iy built that one can hear all the neighbors say. which is great com fort. When Mir. Jones has singing at his house he can hear the clapping of hands all over the town. with requests for more. He sends his regards to all ,ld friends in town.
 Mrs. Davis of Boston. who is visit Ing her daughter. Mrs. Adams. in White street. is critically ill with pneu- nonia.
 News of the death of Mrs. Susan A. McEwen, widow of the late John W. Close, of Cranford, N. J., aged 20, has been received. She was the daughter of the late Samuel McFwen. who used to live in the old McEwen house in East Elm street. She was the last of the McEwen family of her genera ton.
 Next Wednesday. at the stratfield. Mrs. David L. Rhoades and Mrs. Frank M. Patterson will entertain at luncheon the Stratford Bridge Club.
 A lumber yard. so it is stated. Is to be opened on East Broadway by Al. 
 Next Monday evening Clayton Blakeslee will hold reception in hon. or of his birthday.
 It is quite astonishing to learn that on July 14th II girls and three boys were born In town. That was a red letter day for an increase in the popu- lation. During the year 57 new girls Glr lNOr a sffnOyI