The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-02
WESTPORT
The Sunday Closing-Water for the Schools New Sidewalks - The Recent Fa;r-At COmpO Beach -lnteresting Personals.

IL IS real OellSht to ylS1t NlllaSe | where all the business streets are oil- | eG, and there is no dust. This is the | case in this village and the people are re ejciclng that they have gotten rid Of
 tue spattering and mud producing | water cart. Besides the cost is much | jess The road from this town to the Fairfield line is now in an excellent condition and has Q thick coat of oil
 which should last until the snows como.
 The closing of stores on Sunday is ! still being agitated. The merchants | whc fai: to obey the law, and object | to closing up. are two Italian frlut dealers one of whom has an establish nent close by the library and the other keeps place at the western end Of tle bridge There is state law against keeping open shops on Sunday and board Of oe'rC tmen or con- stable with the lequ;site amount Of backbone can easily enforce the law. Parents throughout the town will be glad tD know that the School board las decided to have bubhling foun- ta3nS of water ir e-ery school house. l This is city water. Of course, and as it will he constantly running it will always be fresh. At present but three of the schools have such foun- tains.
 The large tent for the out door gos- pei meetings has arrived from New
 York and has been pitched on the lot opposite Nr. Fred Kemper'S house. The clergy of the town are active in promoting the meetings and a large attendance is hoped for. All who can sing are requested to volunteer for the choir.
 man named Charles R. Palmer, chauffeur for a summer resident, wears cork leg and recently went in swimming witt; it. Becoming detach- ed from MT. Palmer, that gentleman came near sinking. A heroic rescue brought him to the shore and the floating leg was subsequently, recov- cred.
 Charles H. Taylor of this town, aged 46, recently died at the Aims house in Norwalk. He leaves a son and daughter.
 A long bit of concrete sidewalk is being put down from Compo street, on State street out past the residence of MT. Hurlbutt. It is being done by the Women's Town Improvement As sociation. Now if the garbage recep- ticalS and the ice cream tubs can be of the fruit store on Main street, cor ner of State. that part of the town will be much improved in looks and smell.
 The Saugatuck Cash Grocery has concluded to go out of business.
 At a recent town meeting, rather thinly attended, the proposition to provide a system of sewers for the cussed. MT. Paul Nash, of Stamford, civil engineer. estimated that the cost would be about S14,000. Nothing definite was decided.
 It cost the boys who robbed the Greens Farms depot of a slot machine the sum of s38.26.
 Among those who helped to make the lair held on the lawn of the Con- gregational parsonage last Wednesday a success the names of Miss Wilcox, MT. Harold Saxton, MT. Frank Os- borne, and MT. Fred Hubbell should he mentioned. Over s1O0 was received fr,- to be put down in the high school building and the outsides of the West and East Saugatuck schools are to be painted
 The ladies of the Village Improve ment Society held a meeting this af- ternoon at the library, to decide what to do with the money raised in ex- cess of $500 which was pledged for the pavilion at Compo beach,
 Gerald Coffin has found employment in a Bridgeport garage.
 MT. George H. Boyden. principal of the Staples High school; is at the Harvard summer school taking course in chemistry.
 MT. John F. Godillot now has one of the best automobiles in town, big six Stevens.
 vacation.
 Tomorrow the Sunday school of the Methodist church will go to Roton Point for it's annual picnic. On Wed the 1lCn lnSI. Ine fIpISCOpdl Sunday school will go to the same place.
 Rev. and Mrs. Mackenzie are report ed to be in New York state for couple of weeks.
 The Mems Civic club proposes to issue a souvenir phamplet of the town.
 Mrs. Neil Mitchell and daughter have been visiting in West Haven.
 Earl Barlow of Port Chester is visit
 There was a large crowdSat Compo beach yesterday, and the Sunday be- fore it is stated that 2.000 people wis ited the beach. The old bath houses are still in evidence. The much talk ed of Minute Man. crouching behind a stone wall, has not yet been made, so he cannot be "unveiled"- this sea son. It is quite a job to make a full grown man in bronze worth S2,000.
 Charles Hall, after visiting here has returned to New Haven.
 MT. and Mrs. Dwight Filley of AL bany are visiting at Compo Beach.
 MT. James A. Smith was recently thrown from his carriage while out driving: The horse became frightened and bolted. MT. Smith is able to be out again.
 MT. John Walter is having an ad- dition built to his house on Chestnut hill.