The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-16
FAIRFIELD

FAIRFIELD
 Town TaiI<-Nfovements of Folks
 Current Events-The Chinese Elm press-Africa - Female Suffrage -
 Forestry-Direful Prospects.
 It is now noised abroad that not
 more than five new hands will be en-
 ployed in the large new addition to the Aluminium foundry, which is ap- preaching completion.
 There is a, rumor that two or three |jnew houses will be erected in the cen- | ter next spring. One of these will
 be MT. Boyle's fire proof garage. He
 must have some place to store his two automobiles. .... -
 It is expected that the Greenfield 1 Grange will meet this evening in it's | comfortable hall on Greenfield Hill. l If Mrs. Frank Girard really has 8 thusband and six children, and noth- 1 ing to eat the selectmen will natural- | 1y send her a. bag of flour some coal
 and set her husband to work upon the
 roads.
 i The ball of the truckmen tomorrow
 evening is known as the seni-annual l dance. The Home Made Bakery which
 is getting a good reputation as a ca terer will furnish the refreshments. The new: store in town is to be called
 the Fairfield Public Market. Who now
 says that electric lights will not be 1 forthcoming?
 Uncertain streets are to have names 1 tackled to them. This is a good move
 and shows that the town is progress l ing.
 But one free lecture having been de- l livered in Southport, thus far, it is 4 encouraging to learn that they are l PTyI-z 1 town was really hungry for something 1 intellectual.
 Since the snow disappeared and the bare ground came into sight, it is dis 1 covered that several farmers have al- ready done their spring blowing. They l took time by the forelock and plowed 1 last fall.
 Little Thorbold Larsen recently won 1 the first prize for pinning tail on a
 donkey. He deserves a Carnegie med
 al for such an act of heroism. How
 the tail got off the donkey does not appear.
 Mr. and Mrs Luke Whalen of Green wich spent Sunday m town with his l sister.
 MT. James Bergin is in town visit 1 ing his mother.
 The event of yesterday afternoon
 was the assembling of the members of 1 the Unquowa club at the library to 1 llSC0D to MTS. MllCIICl1 Ldlh OIL cur l rent events. There was a very gOodR at l tendance, and much interest was man. | ifested in some of the topics presented. l Mrs. Mitchell was fresh from the Fed l erated luncheon at the Stratfield, which | she said was very good. She began 1 by reading a little poem which clos ed as follows: ~
 eve seen lot of winter and I aren't 1 froze yet.''
 She first spoke of the effort the city | of San Francisco is making to get control of the Hetch Hetche Valley, not far from the Yo Semitic, for the purpose of supplying the city with water. There is opposition to this on the ground that to shut off the wa ter will destroy many beautiful wa i terfalls. Secretary Garfield, who is lacking in a sense of the beautiful and sublime, approves of the proposition. 3 MT. Joaquin Miller has recently writ ten in one of the magazines an article descriptive of this valley.
 Mrs. Mitchell recently met at din- ner party an American missionary woman who has recently returned from China, and she piled her with questions about the late empress, to ascertain if she was the real good old lady some people contend, and learned that the half has not been told about the charms and kindly ways of the dreadful one" Her history as it has filtered across the Pacific to us is quite true. and all the news we get from China is largely reliable. So much is mere newspaper talk noWa- days. said Mrs. Mitchell, she was glad to learn that Chinese news is bottom ed on facts. It seems. Mrs. Conger wife of the American Minister at the time Of the boxer uprising, has writ al China which will be published. From China to the Elm manuel movement in Boston is a far cry, but Mrs. Mitchell says, the move ment is spreading and that three churches in New York have opened clinics the latest being Dr. Percy lower Fifth avenue. The next topic was Prince Albert of Belgium, who is to become the future ruler of that little kingdom. He was described as bright, progressive young man, who is going to the Congo country himself to learn if all the stories about outra- ges on the natives are true or not Leopold, the young mans uncle, was spoken of as one of the most deprav- ed monarchs of the earth with the possible exception of the Sultan of Turkey. When we think of Africa, said Mrs. Mitchell. we think of no par ticular country. But the continent is to have a wonderful development, and even now railroads are being con- structed and steamship lines decided upon The three potential factors needed in the development of the country are honest statesmen, honest traders, and honest and conscientious missionaries. Tn many instances mis- sionaries cannot go first. as they would be in danger of being carved up! This country has no territorial interest in the land but it should help Liberia, and we ought to have large cornmer- cial relations with Africa and are largely responsible for the future of that country by reason of the slavery which once existed here and the vast number of Africans there are in the