The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-18
STAMFORD
Robert fairchiId.. Check from Mrs. Woods Cost of Graduating Coming Dec. oration Day-That Tailor POota. fuck Dances-LocaI Notes.

| A few days since George $. Goddard, | State librarian of the Connecticut
 State Library at Hartford, wrote a letter to Miss Frances B. Russell, to | the effect that Robert Fairchild of | StratforG was a delegate to the ISIS | Constitutional convention, and was | one of the clerks who signed the pro-
 ceedings and the official copy of the I constitution. MT. Goddard asked Miss Russell if she could, without too much | trouble, secure copy of his auto | graph, which we can use to attach to the Journal of the 1918 constitution | which if is proposed to place in the ] cornerstone of the new library build ing in Hartford. It so happened that Miss Russell has in the library num- Der of manuscripts from the pen of | Mir. Fairchild, and she was able to
 send to MT. Goddard a genuine auto gra ph.
 A day or two since Mrs. J. A. Woods | of Stratford avenue, endorsing the stand taken by Father O'Connor for l the preservation of the Sabbath and | the upholding of law and order. sent him her personal check for S25 to- wards the building fund of St. James. AS the days for graduating exercises ! at High schools and colleges are fast approaching, it may not prove unin- | teresting to learn what it cost a prom | inent citizen of this town to graduate from Yale college in the year 1793
 Robert F'airchild kept a minute ac- count of his expenses in a memoran- | dunn which is preserved in the library. These are the articles he bought, and the prices paid for them that he might 1 appear on the stage and receive his di- | pionla: ''To one hat. IS shillings; one ! breast pin, 6 shillingsj to cloth for coat, 60 shillings; for breeches, black satin. 15 shillings: to dove colored satin
 for vest, IS shillings, five pence; for silk gloves. ' shi1lings pence; for one
 cravat, shillings pence; one pocket
 handkerchief, l shilling 10 pence; one | hf lrr1O On buckles, IA shillings; silk stockings, 20 shillings; one pair ditto 15 shillingS; 14 buttons. large, for coat, 12 shillings; 8 small buttons for coat, 6 shillings: shoes, 10 and pence; one piece of Nanken, shillings."
 There are about 75 graves of veter- ans of the Civil War in this town and Putney to be decorated on Decoration Day. To this end J. w. Thompson
 has purchased 75 flags and they will
 be placed on the graves of a Sunday
 morning. If speaker can be obtain ed it is probable there will be some exercises at the foot of the Soldiers Monument on Academy Hill. MT. Conine of the famous nurseries sent yesterday quite a large consign- ment of ornamental trees to Hon. G. w. Wickersham for his place at Cedar hurst, N. Y.
 It is now said that the man who was fined for abusive language to Mrs. Butler was named Sam. Grinrod. He
 
 The dances for the season at the Potatuck club will occur on the 31st Of this month; the 11th and, 18th of June: the 5th. 18th. 23rd and 3oth of July; August 6, 13 20 and 27th and the last one is set down for Sept. 6.
 Mir. and Mrs. Warren R. Briggs and Mrs. H. J. Lewis. passed Sunday in N. Egermont, Mass.
 The Ladies Aid of the Methodist church contemplates holding a package social next Friday evening with Mrs
 Harry Griffin. Sutton avenue. Men were at work all day day or two ago preparing the hall for the coming minstrel show, which opens on Wednesday evening. All the seats have been taken. The hall will seat some 900 people.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Wheeler have a little daughter born on Saturday.
 The new tailor has arrived in town and makes a brave display of samples in his shop window. The ominous leg end "When?' can be seen on one of the windows. It may be a month
 from now; and it may be never.
 Haymakers monthly meeting tomor- row night.
 ironbars has been placed in the lock- up where the cripple escaped few weeks ago.
 The officials of the Methodist church propose to organize next Saturday ev- ening a Boys Club. All boys are ask ed to join.
 The leading prizes for the coming St James whist will be a box of cigars, 10 pounds of beef and a B gold piece.
 No one is surprised to learn that there has been in town for many years Village Improvement Society. To affect ignorance of such an organiZa- ton, is to ignore facts patent to all the rest of the citizens. The Shakespearian reading for the benefit Of the Enffd of Christ, church, has been postponed until the evening of the 2sth inst
 The unfortunate unkonwn man who