The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-07
PERSONAL
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'T had a fine trip through the sunny South. but it is good to get home again just the same Frank Miller.
 .'This is a typical Spring day, so fine and balmy."-E. B. Peck.
 "No frost for me! Aren't the warm May days coming?"--Ed Nevins.
 Nothing to it."-Fred Fallon.
 Didn't you promise to be a good boy and mind your other?"-Dave Jack. And little voice piped out, 'I will"
 If you want to know what's all over town, ask Joe Waters ?"-Harry Neal.
 My father is still in the South and will stay until the first of May. He writes. that the temperature was S9 one day last week, and that degree just suits him."-Fred Curtis
 'We are determined to break up this crap-shooting evil among the youths of this city. if it takes all summer. Supt. Birmingham.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Miller are at home again after a several weeks trip through the South.
 The numerous friends of MT. and Mrs. c. B. Read. will share in their: happiness over the convalescence of the little daughter Muriel. who was threatened with typhoid fever.
 Ernie Lush left here yesterday for Niagara. where he will play on the college baseball team, as catcher. All the boys wish him the greatest sue cess. and will watch his career with much interest.
 The Antlers have an important meet ing this afternoon. at o'clock, in Con- cordia hall. 1S9 State street.
 If more of our women had the cour- age to refuse to wear the unbecoming hats. now seen in the millinery shops, fewer flights would be met on the York. and other notable Americans abroad. positively refused even to try on. hats resembling inverted peach baskets. or outlandish Cossack hats when visiting the Paris shops. for their Spring headgear. q should look like a fright if wore one.' said Mrs. Fish. "and I've no intention of doing so. "I'll go back to the 1908 styles.'' This de- cision of Mrs. Fish, is acquiesced in by all American women in Paris and smart French devotees of fashion, who refuse to take the advice of the mill liner and convert themselves into ugly frights. The French shops have stacks of these undesirable hats on hand, but they are taking comfort from the fact, that the-i whole lot will probably be sold to American buyers, and they will finally be dumped into American stores, where women will eagerly pick them up as ''bargains'' at 79 or 9S cents each. f1attering themselves that they have the very latest Paris, creation.
 MT. Max Stein walked into the third precinct station. shortly after two o'clock this morning. and announced that some bold Straggler had invaded his premises. taken off coat and hat, and gone to sleep under his bedroom window. Two officers accompanied Max to his home on Norman street. and there found the early prowler en- toying the sleep of the Cun) just. He was rudely awakened, and hustled off to the comfort of a pine board in the station house and will probably face a charge of -'plain drunk in the City court, this morning.
 The Ice dealers are serving their customers with the Spring schedule of prices. An advance of ten cents per hundred on all deliveries is noticed. No cent pieces are to be sold, and no Sunday delivery.
 Dr. J. F. Haid is one of the latest recruits for the Automobile Club. He has under consideration the purchase of a fine new car. and spends his spare time in trial trips in the different makes.