The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-22
STAMFORD
Coming Plays-Haymakers s-The Edu. cation Question - Uncle Sans Farm -Minstrels Advertisement Social

Next Sunday evening Rev. Dr. Pack ard will exchange pulpits with Rev. Gerald H. Beard of Bridgeport. MT. Charles Wilcoxson represented this town at the recent banquet of the Arcanumites at the Stratf1eld. The Hotchkiss orchestra gave the music for the Red Mems dance last night.
 Doubt is expressed if the play known as "Old Hickory School" can be re- peated this season, owing to the many other social functions on the program. Prof. Baxter's Great Invention" which is said to prevent people from growing old. This is a species of the transforming machine used in the Old Maids Convention.
 A number of our local clergy will go to Bridgeport next Monday, to attend meeting of the Ministers association at the Stratfield when Prof. Holland P. Beach, of the Yale Divinity School will give an account of his recent tour among Missionary stations.
 Among those who went to Milford on a haymaking expedition the night of the severe thunder storm, were Jas. Lalley, Selectman A.. Stacey, Louis B. Peck, George Quire, Herbert Doolittle, Ernest Wilcox, John Preston, Edward Roberts, and a few others. Coming home the party had a joy trolly ride, with all sorts of witty sayings and songs.
 MT. Annabold Carfagna, who was one of the men up before the court on the charge of neglecting to send his children to school, and who was ad- judged to pay s15 costs, and did not have the money, was confined over night in the cooler, but the next day the judge let him out on parole, in care of Sheriff Stagg, who will see that the man earns enough money to satisfy the judgment.
 Some good people in town are think ing about the recent action of the Board of Education in requiring the Allard boy to attend the High or Gen. ter school for the ensuing six weeks, when he has been going to school for g or 10 years and has not been able to get through the 9th grade. The ques- ton is asked, what is the matter? Is it the boys fault or is the system wrong? The result of the attempt to educate him, it would seem, is not alto gether satisfactory. Perhaps the rule that one must graduate from the 9th grade, before he can receive a certih- cate of leave to go to work, is rather arbitrary. Would it not be better to leave each individual case to stand up on it's merits? Not alone in Stratford, but in many other towns, and through out the state, there is feeling that the schools are not giving the educa- tion which the times demand, and that some radical change must be made to meet the new conditions. Not all schol- ars need to be taught how to draw pictures, and other refinements of modern education, when life for them is likely to be one of practical hard york in the mill or in the field. Mrs. Allard, the father of the boy in ques- ton, certainly appreciates the value of @ good education or he would hardly send his sons through college. He has a son at Yale who is to graduate next June.
 In his lecture Monday night, on 'Un- cle Sam's Farm Rev. MT. Bullock at tempted to give his hearers a good mo- ton of the extent and resources of the United States. He took a very opt1m- istic view of the future of this coun- try, and it's ability to afford the neces- sities of life for a vast population. He cialists who maintain that the supply of wood, coal, oil, etc, will soon be ex- hausted; that the farm will be un- able to raise as much wheat, corn and potatoes as will be needed by future generations, or that the land is already overcrowded with population. He spoke with enthusiasm of our great unsalted merce which passes over the waters of the inland lakes. He said the steamships on the lakes are the latest in the world, supplied with the latest devices for securing the safety of the passengers among others the Dillock any part of a vessel, and calls the at tention of the officers and crew to the spot.
 There is to be a minstrel show by the Red Men on the 18th and 2Oth of May Those who will crack the jokes, sing the songs and put the questions are William A. Strickland. Robert A.
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