The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-12
WESTPORT,
Proposed Statue for the Beach-Re- yised Course of Instruction-Trades and Civics-Personal Mention Prizes Awarded.

There is on exhibition in the window of the Herald office a rather crude and very small model of a. proposed bronze statue or monument, made py a local artist, which if carried out to completion it is intended to erect on
 Compo Beach. It will be recollected that When Gen. Tryon of the British army marched upon Danbury in TIT and burned that town, he landed at
 Compo Beach. It is to commemorate
 where he and his men were driven
 back into the sea, that monument
 is to be set up. According to the
 model made by MT. Webster a minute man is crouching on his knees behind
 a couple of boulders which are used as a breastwork, and he has in his hand a long old fashioned gun and is
 aiming at a soldier. The fault to be found with the design is that the
 boulders hide the figure if it is ap-
 preached from the front, and when
 seen in the rear the face of the sol dier is hidden. and most or his form
 The figure and its pose and expression
 should be the essential feature of the
 memorial, but as now represented both
 of these are hidden from the public
 No good reason exists why the bronze
 soldier should not be crOuching or
 standing upon the buolder, or there might at least be space between the stones wide enough to enaple one to
 see the man. The whole monument
 
 of this has been given by Roder1ck F.
 Curtis Thus far the work is West port enterprise, and Danbury has had nothing to do with it.
 Mrs Oscar Smith is back from St. Louis, where she went to VlSlt a SICK sister.
 William Northrop is back at the post office after a fortnights vacation Edward L. Lehmare and Selleck Warren are in the Adirondacks for a couple of weeks.
 C. E. Hanford of New York is in town
 brated her 18th birthday by entertain ing number of her friends.
 Mrs. Borden of Bridgeport has been visiting Mrs. Neil Mitchell. Kenneth Mackenzie has been spend- ing his vacation at the Episcopal rec
 tory.
 MT. and Mrs. Leroy Meeker have re- | turned from a visit to Greenfield Hill. | been visiting Dr. Putney in Milford. | Willis and Percival Banks and Miss | Airline Gault have just graduated from | a business college in Stamford. People are complaining of the
 amount of malaria in town, and are
 unable to account for it. There is no stagnant water about, and few mis-
 quitoes, yet MT. and Mrs. Hyatt and MT and Mrs. John Gault and others ' have been sufferers from the con- ] plaint.
 | Miss Ruth Mcfarland who goes to
 school in Philadelphia, is home for the summer. | August Ritzmann and his brother | from South Dakota, have sailed for a | two months visit to Germany and | Switzerland
 | MT. and Mrs. Walter Donohue have | returned home from North Carolina | Supt. Wheatley has arranged a | course Of study for the schools of town | beginning with the next school year. | The study at the Staples High school | in the English course, besides the com- position and rhetoric. will include a | drill in business letter writing and
 forms. also in spelling, and during the | first year the course in algebra will go as far as ratio and proportion. A | course is to be introduced called | Trades and Civics'' in which about 3( l professions will be taken up and dis I cussed- The rest of the course for the first year bnsists of elementary Latin