The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-20
STAMFORD

Tonight's Lecture - At Seaside Ball.
 Fire Matters Rummage-A Prayer
 for Temperance Clothes for the Poor
 Mrs. Hudson.
 The event in town this evening vii
 be the lecture by Mrs. Ward, an Eng
 fish lady, on Shakespeare at Home
 Since this town was settled by the English, and is named after Shake
 speare's birth place, it is highly ap-
 propriate that the proposed lecture
 should be given. All the flower od
 the town which has not gone to Palm
 Beach, or to Bermuda, or to California.
 or some other winter resort will be present.
 The services of Lent will begin on
 Ash Wednesday at Christ church, with
 morning prayer at 10:30 and evening | prayer at 7:45. On Thursday there will be services at D. m., and on Fri 1 day at 7:45. The usual services at the regular hours will be held at the church tomorrow.
 This town was brilliantly represent
 ed at the Seaside ball on Thursday ev- ening by two of our handsornest and ian Falken of King street, in a robe of point d'esprit, and Miss Mara Fall
 ken, in silk Organdie over pink. Miss Mara came down from New Haven on Thursday afternoon in the express to Bridgeport, for the sole purpose of at tending the ball.
 It is thought the old fashioned cus- tom of putting tinbers into chimnies is dangerous, and if not abandoned may cause the fire underwriters to in- crease insurance rates. Since the va rious fire companies in town have at last, after long and strenuous efforts, become consolidated, the good people should wake up and clean up their back yards, rebuild their wooden chim- nies, and do what can be done to pre- vent combustion, which is another word for fire.
 There is great rejoicing among the gay fire laddies' now that Allen Jud- son is the new chief, and some time next summer it is proposed, to blow off the pent up excitement at a shore dinner. There will be a popping of corks and a cracking of jokes.
 It is noticed that Sheriff Stagg has not been seen about town for several days. This is mysterious, and evil doers had better lie low.
 The foundations of J. A. Doyan's chimney recently took fire. As a. dear old lady said it was fortunate the fire did not burst forth in the night or the whole Porter block might have burned to the ground.
 The rumnage sale of the Neighbor- hood church on Friday at the town hall was a brilliant success. A large amount of clothing suitable for both men and women, boys and girls was donated, much of it in excellent condi- tion. Parents sent in very good cloth ing which their sons and daughters had outgrown. And it was noticed that the big merry widow hats, which are such a nuisance in churches at lectures and places of amusement, are being discarded as rummage. The prices at this sale were very noder- ate and there was good opportunity for poor people to invest in a ward robe. One gentleman bought a vest for 10 cents which would have cost him two or three dollars in a tailor's shop.
 Next Sunday Father O'Connor will give all his people at St. James, church a prayer in the form of a circular, for the spread of temperance. He says the saloon keepers should not find fault. We preach fasting-do the butchers find fault? The circular says: "A Lenten practice in honor of the sacred thirst and agony of Jesus. Protect Thy people, we humbly implore Thee by Thy sacred thirst and agony, from the deadly sin of intemperance, and in Thy mercy defend us from all the evils and dangers of intoxicating | drink; that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we may live sOberly, l justly, and godly in this world, look ing for the blessed hope and coming of the glory of the great God and of Thee, our Saviour who livest and reignest, world without end.''
 Afterwards Jesus said, I Thirst; l and they gave Him to drink wine min gled with myrrh; but He took it not.'' .S. John and s. Mark.
 Lent is a time for stirring up your devotion to the Holy Passion of Our Saviour. It calls for the practical de- votion of self-denial, of fasting and | aibstinence.-As a mark of this devO- tion, deny yourself the use of intoxi- eating drink during the Holy season of Lent.
 Do it in union with the Sacred Thirst that Our Saviour suffered on the cross for you.
 Do it in place of the regular fasting and abstinence from which you may nave been excused or dispensed. Your health will suffer no injury by ajbsti- hence from intoxicating drink.
 Do it in atonement for the many evils that drink brings on our people, he drunkenness, the misery and Sor- 'ow in homes, the neglect of children, he scandals and other deadly sins, and he consequent loss of souls.
 Miss Marjorie Lewis, Miss Mary Sel- len of Philadelphia, Dr. and Mrs. Law son and MT. and Mrs. Walter Wheeler were among those from this town who attended the ball at the Seaside Club.
 Fred Bilton has said goodbye to his friends in town and departed for AL )erta, Canada.
 Miss Emma Allen, while in Portches- CT, heard the grand opera Tannhaus- er, so stated. Why cannot we have in this town?
 Thus far Mrs. Margaret DeLacour md Miss Ida Burritt and the ladies vho have assisted them, have made or the poor children of the town and distributed no less than 157 articles of lothing. At least a dozen children ome every Thursday to the Bethany Mission to take away a bundle. This |, hows how much want and distress here is in the town. It is stated that herea is need of more clothing and , nore help for sewing.
 Wednesday last MT. Abraham Van Vinkle died at his residence on Clap l