The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-15

singing ana gymnaStic exercises. The music fund was considerably aug mented.
 Much credit is given to Judge Peck Tor so arranging charter matters that the reople of this town can get gas, and as was announced some 10 days ago in the Farmer, the Bridgeport Gas Light Company having got con- trol of the old Stratford charter, the laying of gas mains will proceed at once. The new offices of what is now called the Stratford company, are N. w. Bishop, president; George W. Rob- erts, secretary and treasurer; and these gentlemen with the addition of MT. Sanford Stoddard, directors.
 Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Cogswell spent yesterday afternoon visiting friends in Brid dgeport.
 Next Thursday evening the Ladies Aid Society will give another one of their delicious suppers at the chapel Of the Congregational church.
 MT. David Coe has received a letter from a friend in Bigpine, Inyo coun- ty, California, in which the writer says: T will send you a brief de- scriptfon of our county which we con- slider the greatest on earth. We have the highest mountain peak in the Uni ted States, and standing on that peak one can look down on the lowest de- rression in the United States both in the same county. We have vast areas where the ice is hundreds of feet deep in the hottest part of the hottest and
 
 we have places where the temperature at midnight reaches 120 degrees and of course is much hotter in the day time In this portion we have thousands of acres of beautiful fields of alfalfa, grain, timothy, clover, potatoes, etc, and in another, portion of the county there are hundreds of square miles where no vegetation grows and the eyes are almost blinded by the glitter of beds of pure salt, borax and various compounds of soda as it occurs in na- ture. The weather now is delightful and my crops are growing splendidly, yet we have not had a drop of rain since March 10 nor do we want any until next December, when the noun tainS will gather their crop of snow for next years irrigation Our hills sheep and our wiley produces the finest garden, farm, dairy and poultry products, and our honey is unsur- passed. Our mountains contain ledges of gold, silver. lead and copper as well as numerous kinds of minor metals and valuable stone including noun tains of fine marble. And this is the place that Roosevelt meant when he wrote to the Congressional Land Com mfttee in regard to the effort of Los Angeles to parslyze us. He said in part: ''The opposition from Owens Valley though genuine Is but from a few settlers and must be disregarded as against the interests of g. great city like Los Angeles" Our Congressman, a Republican, commenting on the "butt in'' from T. R., said: "There is only one thing Roosevelt has not tried to regulate about the session of Congress. and that is the bowels of the members" But under Secretary Ballinger we are getting a square deal and Los Angeles is getting all she needs and more. It looks now as if we would go ahead in fine shape and develop into a marvelously rich and happy commonwealth people by men of energy, brains and high ideals.
 Several smashups in town have re- gently been averted, owing to the fact that the autos. the teams and the troll leys managed to pass each other with out collfding. These things happen ev- cry day.
 in town from their wedding trip. They are mbers of the grange, and were married a. few days ago.
 There are already in town 107 sub scribers for gas when it comes.
 The many friends of Mrs. Elizabeth Peck are delighted to see her in town again; Mrs. Arthur Meloy has enter tained the Women's Foreign Mission ary Society; Mrs Edgar Beardsley has been visiting in New York; Frank Wilmont and Percy Lewis have been in town; Miss Jessie Wood and Miss Mildred Freyer are both expected home from their schools in a few days.
 Miss Alice M. Breck of this town, is soon to marry James A. Bundrick of Meriden.
 Recent notable visitors in town in clude Paul Gooden, Clarence Bilton and wife, Rowe Wheeler James Albert Wales, Mrs. Thomas Clinton. Mrs. Frederick Honniwell, and De Witt Beardsley and family.
 Several are said to have attended the Mary Clapp Wooster, which gave a luncheon not long ago somewhere in New Haven. All who went had a very enjoyable time, and their friends were very glad to see them.
 There is a frightful runor that the state board of equalization has raised the tax list of this town $650,O00. And the times are hard, and many people have to scratch to get living.
 Lots of good folks are running over to Bridgeport with free coupons in their hands.