The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-22
FAIRFIELD
Town Meeting Tonight-The Lone some Four-ChemicaI Engine Supper to Yale Students-Rogers Funeral Train-Personals.

Town Meeting TOnight-The Lone
 some Four-ChemicaI Engine
 Supper to Yale Students-Rogers
 Funeral Train-PersonalS.
 Considerable speculation exists in town regarding the outcome of the town meeting to be held this evening. There is a wild rumOr that the trolley cars will come up from Southport full of voters and that something spicy may be anticipated. We do not share this feeling. If the selectmen need the small sum of S1,500 to enable them to SC on prS-erving the highways, 1t is expected that the town will readily grant the request. Whether it will ap- with some $500 in the treasury, or re- maining unexpended, is another pro- position.
 The ball given on Thursday evening by the Lonesome Four" young maid ems who find the town pretty dull. fill e6 Perry'S hall to overflOwing, several trolley loads of young people coming out from Bridgeport. The floor was was by Spiders orchestra There was a plenty of soda water to drink. A few of those present were Mary and Anna Neary. MT. and Miss Parmlee. Smith. William Granville. John Stat tery, Albert Risley. Joseph Smith. John Carroll, Paul Smith. Vivian Tucker. and Miss Stokes. Dancing be- gan dDOuC Q O CHUCK anu continued un- til midnight.
 Yesterday at ten minutes of one o'clock the funeral train of the late H. H. Rogers. of New York, passed gage car. two coaches and two parlor cars. It was drawn by engine S136. and went at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
 Last night the Fire1nen's Committee voted to purchase an Ajax chemical . engine for the fire department as soon as funds can be procured. To this end subscription papers will be circulated. An engine of the kind is bound to come sooner or later. and it is thought better to get it by private donations than to ask the town to appropriate the money.
 Patrick and Herbert Smith are get ting their motor boat ready to put in commission.
 MT. and Mrs.<H. E. Rowland came to the homestead yesterday from New York.
 Miss Ethel Donaldson will return on Monday from Springfield. Mass, where she has been for two or three weeks past.
 The Oneids expect to play the Staples High school either on Monday or1Tuesday next.
 MT. and Mrs. Morris A. Beers are back in town from a visit of months to Florida For 13 weeks MT. Beers was very i'll with typhoid fever at the F1agler hospital in St. Augustine.
 Judge John H. Perry gives notice that creditors of the estate of the late Mary C. Wakeman of Southport, may have six months in which to exhibit their claims.
 MT. Keith Morris has come back from New York. and is boarding for the present with the Misses Lees, on Sasco Hill.
 MT. Edward Sandford has been add ing a new dining room to his house.
 Frank F. Trippe of Greenfield Hill is now working for Mrs. J. K. Robinson . William Metcalf and family will soon occupy the Eli Wakeman place, Banks NorthsDistrict-
 A son has been born to MT. and Mrs. Kalma Lengyel.
 At least 20 young ladies, all dressed in white. waited upon the tables last night at the supper given to 36 Yale students who came to town to give concert at Perry's hall for the benefit of Hope Chapel A merry time was had and a dainty supper was served The young maidenS, were Amy Child, Kathleen and Deborah Glover, Louise and Helen Forsythe. Iva King, Sadie Deyo. Maud Perry. Marion Donaldson, Rachel Pickett, Amy and Elsi; Jen- nings. Louise Everett. Marion and Grace West. Eva and May Doves, Francis PeaSe of Greenfield Hill, an6 Dorothy Smith.