The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-24
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 New Water Mains-Ahout Flags Church Serv1ces-Uncle Sam's Farm Lecture Last Night-Talk on Birds-Personal Movements.
 A force of men was at work yester- day, until the heavy rain prevented, digging trenches on Broadbridge road for water mains, which are being laid by the Bridgeport Hydra ulic Company. fornia street. and then the much talk ed-of hydrant will find a position at Dorman'S corner.
 Capt. A. Bedell Benjamin spent yes- terday in New Haven s.+ Rev. C. S. Bullock arrived yesterday from Cleveland, O. He was in that city during the recent cyclone which swept in from the lake and caused a He saw. women picked up by the wind and carried across the street like bits of cotton-and possibly there was a good deal of cotton in the packages. Rev. George l.. Colburn, formerly of Milford, was a guest in town over Thursday at the residence of Robert Brandt, Warwick avenue. He left yes- terday morning for Winsted.
 As c. W. Smith wishes to occupy his house on California street, the Rev. c. | s. Bullock will look for another rent. The scarlet fever scare has Subsided. | It is now quite a week since a new case has been reported.
 | The discovery has been made that Tanners brook may be a. breeding place for misQuitoes. It should either | becovered with fine wire netting or damned so as to prevent it's being sluggish.
 A gentleman in town who knows the
 proper thing says that when a U. S.
 flag is placed at half mast it should
 first be run up to the peak, and then lowered. And the same ceremony
 should be observed when it is taken
 down. which is always at sunset. The l flag should never be left floating all night, not even on a school house. pr. Packard will preach at the usual hour in the morning, and Rev. MT.
 Beard at 7:30 in the evening.
 At the Methodist church tomorrow Rev. George E. F'arrar will preach at l 1O:3O, his theme being Doing Business | for God" In the evening the subject
 will be Christ and Joy At the Ep- worth League, meeting at 6:45, Mrs.
 be Our Spiritual Birth" MT. Far
 rar is of English descent, on his fa- ther's side, but was born in Frankfort, | Indiana, and was once a member of the St. John Conference in that State.
 Like all Western people he is glad to come East.
 Considering the storm there was a good audience last evening at the lNelghDOrnOOQ church to listen to Rev.
 MT. Bullock's lecture on Uncle Sam's
 Farm" The fact that it is full of laughter and smiles from the opening
 word to the closing sentence is a req
 York where MT. Bullock has been de-
 ivering it in the past winter on the
 regular course of the Board of Educa-
 tion- It is a humorous dealing with
 the figures of the census of 1900 and the later statistics of the country. In
 it every conceivable subject is touched
 with a delft hand that brings roars of
 laughter from the audience. MT. Bull
 lock said, Uncle Sam'S great farm did
 rot come to him all at once but has
 been a gradual increase of possessions
 The original. piece of 421O00 square
 miles cost about $75.0O0,000 or 2S cents
 dependence. The land which he
 bought from France in 1903 cost cents
 an acre; and from Spain in 1919 about
 12 cents an acre. Texas cost cents
 an acre and Alaska 2 cents. The land
 in the Panama. zone has cost $1, ,125 ar
 acre. with something like $360. .000, ,00t
 for the canal. Uncle Sam added noth.
 ing to his farm by the Civil War, bu, the struggle to protect his title hal cost in pensions alone more than s.. ; 900, 900, GOO. The true valuation of al the assessed property in the II States in the Confederacy was but $5.202, ,166.- 200,
 Twenty-four million of Uncle Sam's
 family, said the speaker, are of schoe
 age. These, if placed shoulder tt
 shoulder, would make a straight line from the northeastern corner of Maine } to the southwest corner of California : But if we take out the boys and girls who are denied the privilege or choos ing to neglect the opportunity of al
 education offered them in something : more than the A B c of knowledge ? the line would reach only across thu
 one State of California. Many fact
 were given regarding the folks wh' are in jails; the productions of tn
 country from the farms; the grea work of the post office; the railroa. l system; the rivers of the Unit1
 States; the number of passengers car ried, etc. He said that Uncle San
 has within recent years taken to tn
 automobile the best of which are mad 5 in Bridgeport. Of the ,OO0 now ii f use 76, 900 are owned by farmers. who's e only complaint is that the thing won
 l breed
 Donald Falken has recently been wis g All of his very many friends were gla , 1 to see him. It is understood that h has a very lucrative and responsibl z position in New York in connectio 0 with the Pullman Palace Car Company
 1 He is we'll qualified to become rail
 | Mr. Moffatt, the millionaire railroa e magnate of Denver, Col.
 : Tonight at Grange hall the publi
 expects to hear an interesting dis . 1 course on birds from Rev. MT. Jol 7 There was time when great out cry was made about the English spar e row and an attempt was made to sho' s that it did much damage to crops an i, ought to be exterminated- But tn :. trick was how to do it. Much tim a and money was foo1ishly spent by tn
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