The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-17
STAMFORD
The Garden Fete-The Silleck House Sermons on Sunday-The Business of Pronoting..Failed to Pass-Fancy Dances Where Our Folks are Stop ping.

The Ladies' Aid Society which held garden fete on the Cogswell lawn last Thursday evening, took in over $50.
 the owners of the Sillick property would be willing to sell for s1S,O00. This might be a very good investment for the town, which, in the matter or school houses, should look ahead at least 50 years. The grounds about the SiIlick house are all that could be de- sired, and the location is the best which can be had
 Two sermons will be delivered to- m morrow at the Congregational church by Rev. pr. Packard. In the morn ing 'The Value of a Man. in the ev- ening Bearing Other PeopIe's Faults" The Sunday school will be held at Il a. m. in the Chapel. At Christ Church, tomorrow, there will be Holy Communion at o'clock
 n the morning; sermon atF1o:30 and Sunday school at noon- Rev. MT Farrar has not as yet gone upon his Methodist church he will preach on the "Enlarged Life,'' and in the ev- ening his topic will be: 'The Dark Companion" There will be a class and the Epworth league will meet at
 The usual services will be held in all the colored Baptist churches, in the Bethany Mission, ana at the NelSn- borhood church.
 On the 2sth of this month the Epis- cipa1 church will give a picnic to it's young folks at Beardsley Park. Be fore going to the park there will be a trolley ride to Fairfield and back.
 MT Ivan Morehouse of this town has become a member of the bar.
 There is a report that Dot Sum mer," has been in town. A bit of dot winter would be very acceptable.
 iS at TJi0b1an6 Lake for few days.
 Mrs. DeLorme has been visiting in town.
 MT and Mrs. Julian Clinton are in North Adams, Mass.
 It is said the Pootatuck Yacht club is a good place to take ones supper, if the day is hot and a breeze is blow ing.
 Deacon P. P. Ravens house is much improved in appearance since it re- ceived a lighter coat of paint. 1t used to be of a very dark green color. ~ It is said that only one of the young lady graduates from the high school has been successful in passing en- trance examinations to college. This is too bad. If the secret gets out some good people may abolish the high school.
 Miss Marjorie Silliman has made a brief visit to New York Miss Eda Falken is likely to return to California early in August. A friend will probably go with her. The Bethany Mission people will go to Walnut beach on the 4th of August. Three sisters and three brothers, of the local grange, are to have a com petitive talk on the evening of the 24th. We bet on the three sisters. The men will have to put up the ice cream. Both MT. and Mrs. R. Dana August, have left town for an outing, going to |spoints along the coast. Percy Lewis is at Fishers Island. It was Thursday afternoon that Miss Minnie Beers, iwho so efficiently looks after the Hansen news emporium, en- tertained the Althea club of Milford. The Syrett family has gone to Brins- more Park, New York, for an outing. Among the ladies to whom much Of the success of the recent garden fete is due, credit must be given to Mes dames Frank L. Curtis, Philo Ravens, Robert Sammis, Robert Wheeler. John Miller, Frank B1akeman, Charles Johnson, Thomas B. Taylor, Charles Silliman, George K. Wilson, Margaret lDeLacour, Joseph Gum and Maynard Smith. The young ladies in attend ance were Misses Mara Falken, Ruth Haven. Elsie Smith, Harriet Blake man, Frances Blakeman, Arlene Cur tis, Helen Smith, Amy Talbot, Alice Curtis and Alice Judson, and Miss Packard.
 The Devon Sunday school held it's picnic last Wednesday.