The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-14
FAIRFIELD
Dangerous Air Guns - Library Report Poultry Exhibitors Home From Flor. Pleasant Personals.

Just now one of the uppermost top- ics in town is the handling of air or spring guns by small boys. It ap- pears that quite a. number Of boys have these guns since last Christmas, and that some of them shoot at every thing in sight A day or two ago a little boy named West was shot in the face and the ball came within a quar- ter of an inch of his eye. If the ball had penetrated the eye the boy would have lost the use of 1t. There is man in town who lost an eye from this cause some years ago. It is thought by some that the sale of these guns should be prohibited. Complaint is made that the boys shoot birds. and one man has been shot in the legs. That the guns are dangerous goes without saying.
 Yesterday William Glover arrived home from visit to an aunt who is spending the winter in Florida. MT. Glover has been passing his holidays in the land of flowers.
 John Burr of South Norwalk, was in town Tuesday on business.
 It is now known that MT. Brotherton, who met with an accident while ope- rating a buzz saw in MT. Forsyth s carpenter shop, will not lose any of his fingers. as was at one time re- ported.
 It is rumored that in the spring time
 
 erected on the beach at Little Bridge port. It is known that two or three lots of land have been sold in that vicinity, and the presumption is the owners intend to improve them.
 Rev. William Holman and family, of Southport. intended to go to New Ha- ven on Tuesday to attend symphony concert at Woolsey Hall.
 Mrs. L. M. Crossman is visiting her daughter. Mrs Newell. in Uxbridge.
 Mrs. Frank S. Child and Miss Mary B. Kippen attended the recent meet delegates from this town.
 The Library board met last evening when the semi-annual report of the librarian was read and accepted. Dur ing this time the number of readers, adults. was s,7s7; juvenile, 1870; visit average for the time indicated was 72, which is a slight increase over the same period in 1907 the daily average then being 67. The number of appli- cations filed was 1913. The number of accessions in books was Al. of which 61 were by purchase and 80 by gift. The choice of books for perusal by the townspeople is rather curious, as the following table will show: Gen eral works, 1.0S7; philosophy, 49; relig- ion, 73: sociology. 412; philology, 226; science, 160; useful arts, i07; fine arts,
 
 245; biography, IFS: fiction, 4,O05; juven- ile fiction, 1876. The daily average of books drawn from the library is 5S. It will be observed that fiction holds the first place as reading matter for the amusement or entertainment of the reader. There are those who think this kind of literature is not the best for the rising generation, or even for people of mature years. Probably the truth is that life is so dull and prosaic in this, as in other small towns. that the readers of books seek for a differ ent atmosphere and resort to romances which lead them into another world of thought and divert them from the prosaic humdrum of everyday life.
 Among the exhibitors from this town at the poultry show in Bridgeport are W. o. Burr, William E. Huse. Fred A. Burr Wakeman Burr Hill and Arthur Burgess of Greenfield Hill. w. O. Burr has received premiums for guinea pigs and black cats. The exhibitors from Southport are William Taylor and E. G. Post.
 It has now been definitely ascer- tained that the strange men in a long coat who disturbed the serenity of Southport on Saturday, "had been suffering from it's effects.
 The public is invited to attend the meeting of the Fairfield teachers on Friday, Jan. 15, at 2:40 p. m. sharp, in Miss Banks room in the new Post Office building. The teachers and others present will receive a lesson in drawing and one in business penman- ship. Admission free to all interest ed