The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-03
STAMFORD
Things to be Thankful For = Curbing Main Street-A Wedding-Lectnres and BaSeball-A Coming Drama - Refreshing Personals.

MISS Ethel dOughton Of this town
 has won the Alice Kimban English
 prize at the Yale School of Fine Arts. I Give. the girls a chance and they will | hold up their end even with the boys, I in the matter of intellectual attain. | ments.
 | With a near prospect of having gas 1 brought into town; with an agitation
 for a trolley service on Barnum ave nue; with our young men and maidens winning honors and prizes at Yale l University; and with the laying of the ghost of the annexation of Hollister Heights to Bridgeport, there is much
 for which local residents can give l thanks and say Amen
 l It will very much improve the ap-
 pearance of Main street if all the prop
 needed for the curbing of that hand | some thoroughfare. This should be | done from Hard's corner to the busi-
 ness section of the town, say the post l office. And when the curbs have | been placed then have the gutters paw
 ed with cobble stones, and the space | between the gutterS and the present
 macadam also macadamized. Not un- | til these things have been done will
 the street be in state of completion.
 It was a mistake not to treat such a fine boulevard alike from curb to curb at the beginning of improvements. | We hear that Frank Sammis will
 soon engage in the real estate and in Surance business.
 | Mrs. Nellie Wheeler was recently WIS., iting in Broclton.
 | Mrs. Josephine A. Hines has issued invitations for the marriage of her l daughter, Eleanor Eudoria Camille, to
 MT. Harold Charles Lowell. the we'd l ding to occur on Saturday afternoon,
 June 19, at o'clock, at Christ church. | Two or three other weddings are ex-
 pected in town during the rosy month of June.
 | More recent visitors have been in | town, including Clifford A. Peck, Walter Sheen, Edward Whalen, Mrs.
 Charles Carey, and others. Stratford avenue is to have a store house three stories high, 54 by. 67 feet,
 which will be built for George B. Nothnagle. He does well to build in | this town which will before many years be absorbed by the adjoining city.
 The initiatory degree will be con-.
 ferred by Oronoque lodge next Friday evening.
 | last evening.
 G. Travis wants to open a place of liquor business across the street from
 his present position. He has applied | for a transfer of his license No. 52, | and has got the names of five good, l true, and honorable citizens to endorse his application.
 Now is the time for those interested ! to put in position the new watering trough for all kinds of beasts, at Para disc Green. Draught animals are de- pendent upon water to keep them in good condition. They cannot order a glass of beer to help them get through the day.
 Some of our young ladies who came to the old home to pass Decoration Day were Miss Grace Wakelee. Miss Etta Yates, and Miss Mildred Fryer. There will be another lecture in town on Friday evening, when Rev. George p Farrar will give his The Man and the Crowd''S at the Methodist church for the benefit of the Ladies' Aid So- ciety.
 The mother of Charles Swarrow. aged 93 years, came down from. Sher- man to spend Decoration Day with her son.
 The Cupheag club holds monthly
 meeting this evening. There will al- ing Association at the conference room, corner of Stratfcrd and Central ave. nues.
 Miss Florence Warehouse has been Frank E. Clark of Bridgeport, and Charles Hart of New York. As usual a big baseball game at New Haven will draw to that city many of our townspeople. A few who hope to go over to see the Yale-Princeton con- test are Frederick and Robert Lewis, Henry Wells, Keeler Wilson, Allen Wilson, Vernon and Ivan Morehouse, and a number of High school boys.
 The glorious weather of Decoration Day is still talked about in various sections.
 MT and Mrs William Skinner are in town from New York for the sum- mer.
 The ladies of the order of the East ern Star propose on the Sth to give supper and an entertainment to the grand officers of that organization. Nothing will draw a crowd quicker than Stratford supper.
 Some of John Bonds prize fighters can frequently be seen on our streets, striding along like young Goliaths, rotating their shoulder joints and mak- ing lunges at imaginary contestants, much to the amusement of all the small boys, the alarm of the maiden ladies, and the amazement of strang- CTS who happen to be passing It is funny.
 MT. and Mrs. Robert Brandt of War wick avenue have been visiting in Meriden.
 More dramatic entertainments are in preparation for the delight of those l The latest play to be staged is called the "Spinster's Return There is a quiet rumor that the Evening Star Re- bekahs are rehearsing in full dress. Is it not almost time some one took up the cause of the spinsters in a low ing and serious manner, and gently | protested against stirring them up all the time and hurting their. feelings? l arc very well to do, quiet, inoffensive l bodies, and if they do return to town | with husbands which they found in | Alaska why should anybody laugh at them?
 This evening number of ladies and | gentlemen will play whist at the old Dayton house, the residence of Mrs. | Julian Clinton.
 If it is stormy next Saturday after | noon, the proposed food sale at Mrs. | William Blamey's will be postponed | until it clears up. |
 Mrs. Bristol and Mrs. Curtis have re- turned from a visit to Southington.
 A number of our well known local | residents went to Derby yesterday to | witness the marriage of Miss Harriet | Currey Williams to MT. George Bar | tram Coe, son of MT. and Mrs. David | Coe of this place.
 George Beach of Putney died a few | days ago, leaving widow and four |