The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-19
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 ing SidewaIks-Lectures-New Books The report that the c. O. Jelliff Manufacturing Corporation has pur- chased in Bridgeport a plot of land which may be utilized for a. plant for the concern. has aroused considerable curiosity in town. and the telephone has been kept busy calling up the firm for further particulars. From an in- terview yesterday with gentlemen at the factory in Southport. it can be stated that as yet no definite plans have been formulated. but that the firm is simply looking out for the future and having some money to in- vest decided to do so in Bridgeport. It is not at all improbable that sometime the establishment may be moved to the city. There is much expressed dis satisfaction with the high taxes which have to be paid on property in this town, and at the same time residents, or at least some of them. in the South port district. feel that they are neg lected when it comes to making im- tQ OI1 GHc ulSuWdyS, tAIIu lO1 other purposes. It is claimed that taxes are not so high in Bridgeport. If the firm should move to the city, it could be better accommodated in the matter of getting supplies and in ship ping. The loss from a business point of view would be considerable to the town. for a good many Americans are employed as well as Italians.
 A complimentary dinner will be rendered to representatives of Fair field in Hartford. Judge Banks and Commissioner Pease. at Lehmann's Shore House. Seaview avenue, Bridge port. on the evening of the 22nd inst. at 7:30 D. m. The expectation is that the dinner will be very pleasant af- fair. attended by many of the leading citizens of the town.
 In the near future the Democratic Town Committee proposes to get to- gether and enjoy a supper and clam bake. There will be good speeches and pleasant social time generally.
 The boys of the Oneida club are daily taking foot races around the square" and on Wednesday MT. Win field Thomas came in ahead. They are practicing for the race with the St. Thomas Athletic club which has chal- lenged them for the purpose.
 Mrs George H. Russell was one of the quilting party at the Stratfield on Wednesday.
 selectman Fox is improving the con- dition of the sidewalks in the center of the town, especially those which run past the business places. He thinks pedestrians are as much entitled to good roads as men who ride in auto- mobiles, and if the highways can be kept in first class condition and oiled to keep the dust down. there is nc good reason why sidewalks should not be hard and dry. To this end mer Q crushed trap rock on the foot paths leading past the stores and shops from Bett's store to the Post Office and be- yond.
 There is said to have been big crowd at the rooms of the Board o1 Relief on the last day of it's session Some had to wait half day before their turn came.
 As Miss Mary " Worstell of New York has not as yet delivered her lee. ture at the Peauot library on the Geological Park in the metropolis the audience could not have been interest ed, large nor small. She will lecture on the evening of the 21st inst, at { D. m., and the next evening Rev James F. Cross will lecture at the same place on Eskimo Life.'' Twt good lectures on successive evenings is something quite unusual for thi! section of the town.
 
 garded as the banner school when i comes to being a patron of the travel ing library. During the last two O. three or four months the scholars o that school have read 535 volumes Tn character of some of the books reat was as follows: Fiction. 268; history 59: literary. mostly poetry. 29: ant traveb 27.
 There is now on exhibition i'll thu hallway of the PeQuot library a ser1e of some 50 large photographs of thu colleges in Oxford. England. Thes are very interesting and beautiful, ane we'll worth looking at by those Wn' wish to form some idea of the beaut. and antiquity of this great seat O learning.
 Mrs. c. o. Jel1iff entertained tht Kings Daughters yesterday afternoon
 The Ladies' Reading club has beer discontinued for the present. so it i
 The following new books have jus been added to the Peduot library Rovhood of Lincoln. by E. Atkinson Lincoln and the Sleeping Sentinel. b! L. E. Chittenden: Round the Fir the i4th Amendment. H. E. Flack Documentary History of Reconstruc tion. w. L. Fleming: Proceedings Q International Congregational Council in Edinburgh: old Boston Boys ant the Games They Played, J. IL. LoVett Women of Florence. I. del Lungo Abraham Lincoln and Men of War Times. A. K. Mcclure: With the ba. ll Fleet, F. Matthew's: Sword of Dunoee T. Peck: Sir Richard Escombe, M Pemberton: Psychology of Inspiration G. L. Raymond: Poems. F. Thompson McAllister and His Double, A. Tram Apollo of the Seaman, Fl. ITehcll Thoughts on Wholesome Living. R W Trine: Ocean Life in the Old Saliln Ship Days, J. D. Whiddeh: The Ere Life w. Wilson: Adventures in tn Open Polar Sea. T. ". Knox: Life o Abraham Lincoln for Boys and Girls c. w. Moores.
 Fo1ey's Orino Laxative cures consti patton and liver trouble and makes tn bowels healthy and regular. Orino i superior to pills and tablets as it doe not gripe or nauseate. Why take any