The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-20
FAIRFIELD
Needs of the Town-Clucus Wedding Boxing g-Yale Students = Onr Fire Department-LateSt Local Items.

I | lights, a sufficient sewerage system
 and a fire department with an up-to- date apparatus, this town will be
 ready for the great influx of new com
 CTS which is sure to take place in the | near future. The question of cleo | tricity is already settled. Already 15 of the 15O poles which are to hold the l wires running from Bridgeport to Westport. have been put in position, | and in a fortnight or so, it is expected l the wires will be strung. As to the | roads. it is expected that at the next | town meeting some decisive action | will be taken. There is a report that | Mr. John Freeman, who has recently i purchased large estate in town. has offered to give $500 towards repairing | the Snake Hill road, but he wants the town to doit in a workmanlilxe manner. | There is considerable grumbling in
 various. parts of the town about the manner in which the roads are repair | ed, and it has been suggested that it | would be money saved if the town em- | ployed an expert road builder to over see all the public highways.
 | The next great wedding in town will | be the Clucus-Wood. when on the 18th | of June Miss Clucus narries MT. Wood | of New Jersey It is stated that 1,2OO i invitations have been issued for the | event, which will take place at the | Clucus mansion on Main street. The Center Town boys baseball club would like to play game with the | new Far Fields club their grounds near St. Pau1S church. The boxing bout at Perry's hall on | Tuesday night was witnessed, it is estimated by some 200 men, many of | whom came out of town in their automobiles. The contest began at | half after ten. and five rounds were | fought between Ryan of Bridgeport and Kelley of Port Chester. Ryan won
 the decision. The next bout. it is | stated. will be on the evening of De- | coratiOn Day.
 | Something like 36 students from Yale | college will come to town on Friday | to give an entertainment at Perry's hall for the benefit of Hope Chapel After the concert a jolly supper will | be served to the young men in the | church parlors of the Congregational | church, and there will be a bevy of
 pretty young ladies to wait on the | tables.
 City water is being put into the house occupied by MT. Joe Reed, and
 by. Henry Moore. MT. Flannigan is | doing the plumbing.
 Messrs. G. Smith & Son are making | extensive repairs on the Rapello place | at Greens Farms.
 Our firemen held a meeting on Tues
 day night and talked over the pro- position to purchase a large Ajax | chemical fire engine. which can be | placea on a light running gear and ence of the department that often | when a fire is to be eXtingufshed there | is not a sufficient supply of water, the | pumps being obliged to depend upon | well or ciStern. But an Ajax can all | ways be depended upon. The Fairfield
 Rubber Factory has one of the small | CT chemical engines, with which it is | very well pleased. At the meeting a committee was appointed to take the | matter up and ascertain the public | feeling regarding the proposition. The committee consists of the new chief, MT Henry Moore Postmaster Pickett, I ROnk James ENnrniGS n1- | prose Smith. and John Carroll. These | gentlemen will solicit subscriptions for | the purpose proposed. and if the money can be raised an engine will be pur- | chased. It is thought the sum of s250 will be sufficient and it would sur prise no one if the Aluminium Foundry and the Eastern Underwear Company should aid the enterprise with hand some contributions large percent age of fires in many of the great cities are now eXtinguished by fire depart
 ments with chemical fire apparatus The prospect is that an engine will be sent to town for a 30 days trial, and if it is public exhibition will be given of it's fire fighting efficiency. There will be another meeting of the
 fire department on the first Tuesday in June. when a delegate will be elect ed to the State Firemen's Convention which is to take place in New London The truck house is to be provided
 with a new lighting apparatus.
 Mir. George Mills is moving from the center of the town to Southport. The new cottage recently erected by Mir. Francis P. Smith has been oc-
 cupied by family from Bridgeport
 Mrs. F. M. Roscoe is visiting in
 Weston.
 The choral class of Greenfield Hill
 met last night.
 Mrs Eugene Beers recently sent 100
 pounds of asparagus to market in one
 day.
 It is interesting to learn that Select
 man Fox has :'repaired' his reports
 for the next Town meeting. This will
 please Judge Perry.
 How to catch motorcyclistS who go
 through the town like a streak is
 one of the new problems awaiting
 solution The times have changed ana
 it is almost too much to expect a
 motorcyclist or a man in an auto, to
 go as slow as farmer with load of
 hay or potatoes The machines were
 made for fast driving.
 GA o HE