The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-15
STAMFORD
Safety Fnses-CIergy in Town-foIks on Vacation - A Turk Shower - Young Ladies' Outing. Three Months Marriages-Personal Notes.

| WI VI SUuQI NUtSSs | Telephone men have been at work for day or two past putting in safety | fuses wherever there is a telephone, as protection against electrical storms. If the fluid should strike a telephone wire it would first burn out the fuse. and be conducted to the ground by extra wire. l Miss Ruth Haven will leave on Mon | day for a visit to Yonkers, N. Y. Father OConnor has been entertain ing Father Regney of Seymour and | Father Murphy of Manchester, who | was Father OConnor's old pastor. Father Murphy is now visiting the cottage of his parents at Trumbull l Beach.
 Rudolph Heig has found his lost skiff, which f1oated up to Derby. Sixteen gallons of ice cream were or dered for the garden fete this after noon and evening. Many people are present from Bridgeport, and all are having good time.
 William Rosenthal is visiting in Bal | timore.
 l Mrs. Charles B. Davis has been on | the sick list.
 It is said the new school house and l the new factory will boom building l lots on Barnum avenue. Robert Shackleton has been visiting Her pert L. Bartram. On their way to Scotland Wm. Beard | and family will make a stop over visit at MonSon, Mass. The newest social event was a pack age social given on Tuesday evening at the residence of George w. Fair child. The smaller the package the more valuabl the gift. All the Methodist children are in Beardsley Park this afternoon. Alfred Wakelee will build on the Hastings property which he so recent 1y bought.
 Miss Phoebe Nett1eton has been vis- itfng on Long Brook avenue.
 Mrs. Elliott w. Peck's Sunday school girls have been having a very enjoy able afternoon with their teacher. The Misses Buck of South Main street have gone to the Berkshires. Miss c. Shaw, who is employed by the D. M. Read Co., is taking her va cation at a place called Hill, in New Hampshire.
 E. B. Murphy is doing some house painting at Walnut Beach.
 The curb on East Broadway is go- ing down at a fine rate. Shortly we hope to see the curb on Main street.
 People in town gre asking what Turk shower" can possibly be. It is announced that some very good folks have been hoping for one.
 The picnickers at Beardsley Park leave for Stratford at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
 There is a rumor that well known young lady in town, a recent graduate of Vassar college, will be one of our school teachers next fall.
 Miss M. T. Beers, the young lady who SO ably assists MT. Hansen at his news emporium, has been visiting in Milford, and entertaining the Alethea circle.
 The young ladies of the Bridgeport Land & Title Company recently had an outing and came over to town as the guests of MT. and Mrs. Harold Lowell, in their new and coSey quar- ters on Harris street. It will be rec oil cd hot ell lxv ried Miss Hine, and has but just re- turned from his enjoyable trip to the Adirondacks. A few of his guests were Edith and Florence Allen, Ger trude and Ethelfieda Lowndes, Lila Judson and Miss Mcclellan.
 Julian Clinton is feeling much better in health since his return from a cruise with Kenneth Peck to New London.
 Miss Roster, who works in mission field in New York, and who spoke at the Bethany Mission last Sunday, has returned to the big and roaring city.
 William Mallory is rejoicing over the idence.
 S. E. Bliss of the Holyoke post of flee, has made a brief visit in town. He was delighted with the system and promptness of our local office.
 Those who have the matter in charge are discussing sites for the new school houses.
 Herbert Doolittle is taking a fort
 
 There was a very enjoyable enter tainment on Jackson street, recently, when MT. and Mrs. E. B. Murphy had a small house party.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Hayden after brief visit in town, have returned to Newark, N. J.
 There were 13 marriages in town during the past three months. which is an unlucky number. But two took place during the lovely month of May. Five happy couples who could not wait until June got married in April. There were but five real fashionable weddings, with bridesmaids, flower girls. cut glass and silver, and a trip up the Hudson.
 Some old out buildings in the rear of the Benjamin house are being de- molished, evidently with the intent of preparing the grounds for removing the main building back from the street.
 During the coming college year Rob- ert Lewis will act as assistant in the biological laboratory at Yale Univer- sity.