The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-05
FAIRFIELD

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 Gift of Books-Nearly Serious
 Accident nt-The Murray Place Closed
 Local Items.
 At the tea given yesterday by Miss
 Kippen for the benefit of the Fort
 present among others. Mrs. Frank $.
 Child, Mrs. A. B. Huntington, Mrs.
 Benjamin S. Bulkley, Miss Annie o.
 Morehpuse, Mrs. w. O. Burr, Mrs. F.
 ham of Mill Plain, Miss Bessie Betts,
 Miss Emma F. Wakeman, Mrs. H. E..
 Rowland, Misses Harriet and Char
 lotte Glover, and many others. But
 for the threatening weather the at
 tendance would have been larger. Miss Louise Burr poured the tea, and in one
 of the drawing rooms there was fine collection of cakes, home made candies,
 and fancy articles, for sale
 The new novel by Mrs Mabel Osgood
 Wright. ''Poppea of the Post Office, is in press and eagerly awaited by the
 authors numerous admirers.
 The Library Board held a meeting on Tuesday, audited accounts, ordered Q few new books to be purchased, and accepted a gift of some 200 books from MT. Winthrop Perry of Southport. The
 major portion of these books are works of fiction.
 Something like 100 invitations were issued to the friends and neighbors of MT. and Mrs. Simeon Pease, for last
 evening, the occasion being the silver wedding of our popular County Com missioner. Mrs. Pease was Miss Cora Banks and was married in 1884, June 5th. since which time the husband and wife have been residents of Greenfield Hill. MT. Pease, besides being County Commissioner, is one of the Repre- sentatives from this town to the state legislature. He is also an enthusiastic
 worker in the Congregational church, and a prominent member of both the | Grange and the Greenfield Country club. The Pease house was profusely decorated for the event, the parlor in
 white. the billiard and card room m | blue. the dining room in pink and the | ball room in white. An elaborate supper | was served:s addresses of congratula- i tion were made, and dancing followed | to the music of Eckart's mandolin or | chestra. Among the gentlemen invited | with their wives were: Sheriff Sidney | B. Hawley, Selectman E.. B. More i house. Town Clerk Joseph I. Flint,
 Judge Whitman F. Mead of Green
 wich, Judge Elmore s. Banks. Dr. w.
 H. Donaldson. Judge John w. Banks,
 Postmaster E. w. S. Pickett. Attorney Glitus H. King, Dr. E. L.. Banks, Com
 missioner Brophy of Ridgeheld. w: K | Bennett of Norwalk, John T. King, 1 Moses E. Banks, w. H. Pease, o. c. Jennings, Thomas Forsythe, George T. | Mccarthy, David Osborne, and John l Boyle, Albert J. Mefr1IC or 6TluSepoTt, l Attorney Greenstein. J. w. and Frank l Pease. and many others.
 What came near being @ serious ac-
 cident was narrowly 'averted about l o'clock on Thursday evening, when a l team driven by MT. Kowalsk1 coll1ded | with an automobile containing Col. | Miller of Huntington and a party of | ladies. Those who saw the collision | say that Rowalsk was driving down
 Broad street towards the square, and that Col. Miller was going along the | main street from Southport. Instead | of turning the corner at the library, | as most automobiles do, he proceeded up Elliot street. The shafts Of the
 Kowalski buggy ran into the body, of | the auto, and came very near injuring 1 it's occupants. The body was badly | damaged, but the machine was not put out of commission It. IS sald the
 horse was cut about the neck. Yesterday Sheriff Burr, and some | other gentlemen, went to the Murray
 place on Greenfield Hill, and diSpos- | sessed the employees of Mrs. Murray, | who were indisposed to be discharged. | A lawyer came on from New York, | and ordered the proceedings The
 house has been. boarded up and care | taker appointed to look after the prem | ises. Matters have not gone along to | the satisfaction of Mrs Murray, who | is old and feeble, and lives in New York, and she finally decided to close up the house and discharge all hands. | There were rumors sometime ago that | her private secretary, who had pow CT of attorney, had been too free with the funds at his command. He was | discharged, and now all the rest have been turned out.
 Miss Eleanor Morehouse went to | New York on Friday for week end | visit with friends
 | The attention of school teachers and | parents is called to the fact that quite | 9 number of children have got the | habit of lounging or playing about the \ depot, and near the railroad tracks. | This is Q dangerous place for children, | and it is hoped the proper authorities | will warn them to keep away from the | station.
 The graduation exercises of the cen | ter school will occur on Tuesday, the | 29th of this month. | A few days since Mrs. Samuel Bulk
 ley entertained quite a number of rela- | tives at her home on Greenfield Hill. l. MT. C. H. Hutchinson has joined the | 14th Co. Coast Artillery Corps.
 Miss Maud Prentice. Greenfield Hill.
 will go to Northfield to attend the commencement exercises. | MT. and Mrs. Louis Olds of New | York have been visiting in town.
 | train which leaves Bridgeport at 12:34
 and passes through Fairfield, will be | discontinued. It is said petition is | being circulated to have the train con | tinued.
 l Mrs. Pickett and her daughter Mabel
 recently spent a day in New York | Men and women continue to drop in-
 to the office of the town clerk to pay | their taxes. Up to date the sum of | SAP, ,675 has been paid, leaving not far | from s12,O00 still to come in.
 1 One daV this week MT. Boyle sold