The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-06
FAIRFIELD
Another Town Meeting-Ajax Chemi- caLGuests at the Artlic-The Gel
 sbratton on the Green.


 Another Town Heeting-Ajax Chemi- l caEGuests at the Ar1ic-The Gel
 ebratton on the Green.
 /ng for another special town meeting flo be held Saturday, at the town hall, lat o'clock p. m. The meeting is for tthe purpose of issuing bonds for the town to fund the whole or part of the lexisting floating indebtedness This fis estimated to he from $So,ooO to $so,- IO00 Also to consider the proposition Ito increase the appropriation for the 1t is understood that the School Board has the legal authority to draw for the amounts expended. 1t has been thought better to get leave of the town to do
 schools have been some six or seven hundred dollars more than the annual anpropriation. The third question
 mentioned in tho warning is the prop psftion to exclude traction engines from the highways of tho town It is known that at least one farmer uses a traction engine to draw his wood to market, and carries quite a number or cords of wood at one time. It Is thought this practice fnjures the roads {
 Mir. and Mrs. Clifford Jennings of Virginia. are visiting relatives in town
 Miss Louise Sherwood of Westport has found employment with F. M. Roscoe, as bookkeeper, at Southport.
 F. E Northrop was in New Haven 1894. IS ''snU 'n'
 Saturday, last a passing train set fire to a. pile of railroad ties in Jennings Pit. Greens Farms Help was called for from the Southport fire depart ment.
 beach, many of whom remained over the Fouth, include Miss Mildred Bax- ter of South Norwalk; Ethel M. Beers of Westport; G. F. Schemp and wife, II I,r, oor7ns md Miss Katherine Hanscom, of Bridge iport; MT. and Mrs. E. TaImadge and MT. and Mrs J. Coe. of South Nor walk: H.,1A- Lamb of Bridgeport; At torney O. W. Harrison of Washington, D. C.; Ms. J.. M. Holmes of Bridge port; and the following from Danbury Mrs IL c. White, William White, O. M. Day and MTs l.. s. Schwartz. o.| on the historic green yes terday to attend the customary cele- bration of the Fourth of July. Every thing passed off in the most satisfac- tory manner, and there was no dis lturbance of any kind. The Wheeler & Wilson band played patriotic airs during the celebration, and afterwards gave a concert for an hour. Dr. Child had charge of the exercises. Rev. Allen. Beeman made the opening prayer and was followed by Prof. Pinckney Hargrove who read the Declaration of Independence Rev. pr; Chiid in in 1n- South .orwalk. spoke of the fact that Roger Ludlow, who settled Fairfield, Bought from the Indians the land which lies between the Saugatuck river and the river which borders Norwalk. And among other things he gave the andians a certain number of looking glasses for the sQuaws, Jews harps, | axes kettles, fathoms of wampun1, to- bacco etc. So there is a historic re- .lation between the two towns. MT. Edgbert spoke of the two ancient towns and said that their friendship | reminded him of the stong, 'fSilver Threads Among the Gold" Each l town has had it's Gethsemine. Each | has been desecrated and devastated by the British, and on the edge of Fair | field was fought the last battle of the | Pequot war. At the door of the church which he breaches in Norwalk | there was a time when two men kept | watch and guard on the lookout for | India nss