The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-09
STAMFORD

| STAMFORD Homegrown-The Grand Matron- The Local F1utter = Lecture on Temperance-Iatest Personals. The woman known as "Dotty' who | was up before the court on Monday, | for intoxication, and bringing into | town a bottle of whislxey from the city, ana who was placed in the care | Of Sheriff Stagg until the money came | from her husband, said to be at Oys- ter Bay, with which she hoped to pay the fine and costs imposed. was put | the expected postal order did not ar | rive. It is affirmed that while in the ! lookup she lima gined she was in an African jungle and saw all manner of l wild things, such as monkeys and snakes. Curious what a stimulant to proves to be- Of course if the fine | ''Dotty'' will have to be taken to the | county Jail.
 Last night St. Johns lodge held a communication.
 | Clayton R. Blakeslee has departed Pa, where he will be employed by the Sperry & Hutchinson Stamp Com pany.
 | Rev. c. S. Bullock is making a hur- ried business trip to Cleveland, O. Measles have broken out in the fam fly of MacLaren Stevenson.
 The dance to be given by our local String Orchestra on the evening of the 18th is an invitation affair. and tick cts must be shown at the door. The first home grown strawberries of the season. on sale in town. came from the farm of Frederick Wilcox son, near Putney, and were consigned | to L. Bierce. They were at once dis posed of Another crate was receiv- ed today. These are remarkably ear ly when one considers how cold and wet the season has been.
 l w. N- Price who has been visiting | friends on Long Brook avenue, leaves
 town on Thursday for Idaho, where he resides
 | Charles Dosch is back in town from a prolonged visit to New York. He
 did the city from Grants tomb to | Prospect Park.
 When the grand matron of this State of the Order of the Eastern Star | came to town last night on a fraterna1
 visit, she was received by Mrs. Helen
 Cornelia Meachen, Mrs. Mary Jewell | and Mrs. C7arissa. B. Curtis. The meeting was held at Odd Fellows hall on the upper floor of the town hall, and at times it was difficult to distin-
 g7uish the Shepherds from the whist | players for St. James church. = Such great crowds have soldem been seen
 under the roof of the hall at the same time. The ladies who arranged for | the entertainment of the grand offic- CTS were Mrs. Cora Dorn, Mrs. Sabra l Wilcox, Mrs. Bond, Mrs. Harriet Mo sher, Mrs. Snow, Mrs. Edith Phillips and Miss Nellie Wakeman. Mrs. Belle Stacey was chairman of the supper committee, and the feed was pronounce ed excellent. Tho smell of the delic- ious coffee could be inhaled all over f17a Ir1i1 d5 l<r,n
 how to have good time. and the East ern Star shines no brighter anywhere than in dear old Stratford.
 Everything in town this week Is in a flutter and furry of excitement musical, social, and intellectual. Two l or three lectures of an evening. shows of all kinds, no end of neighborhood | gossip, cases crJwding into the local | run trying to catch up. No one need
 regret that two or three good things come at the same time, for then all tastes can be suited and the town is
 large enough to maintain half a dozen enterprises. To show how our best citizens appreciate a good thing when it is within reach. it is only necessary to refer to the very interesting lecture given a few evenings ago at the l-- brary by Prof. Jenkinson of Yale Uni- versity. Anything from Yale goes in this town! Recollect what crowds
 Prof. Porter drew last year to listen to stories about Kipling. Shakespeare and Wendell PhilHps2 Now we are to have a minstrel show for the bene- fit of the cemetery; talk on birds
 and feathers for the library; and a lecture on the Man and the Crowd" to help out the Women's Aid Society of the Methodist church. We do not know how some of our churches would be able to make both ends meet if the ladies were not all the time contriving ways and means to raise the financial wind It is dollars which make things hum. and dollars are sometimes con- sidered of more worth than a friend. Loan fellow s10 and see him cross
 the street to avoid meeting youi
 Next Tuesday one will be able to get pies, cakes, breads, and biscuit, all
 home made, at the town hall
 Hon. Stiles Judson was the toast
 master at the banquet given last night
 at the Stratfield by the Sons of the
 American Revolution.
 The annual Cupheag Club dinner will
 be held at Milford Point. George Smiths on the 2eth. The gentlemen
 who are to make the arrangements in-
 clude Charles F. Judson, Frank l..
 Curtis, William H. Crawford. David L.
 Rhoades and Charles E. Stagg.
 There was a bridge whist party yes
 terday afternoon at the residence of
 Mrs. Sidney s. Beardsley King street.
 Embroidery clubs continue to meet here and there all over town, and they
 are doing some excellent work well
 as enjoying the lunches which are
 served,
 It is almost time one heard some
 thing more about the proposed exhi-
 bition to be given by the Camera
 Club. Such fine proposition should
 not be allowed to disappear.
 One patriotic gentleman in town, in
 anticipation of the Fourth of July, has planted a flag pole in his yard.
 Mrs Nellie Wheeler has returned