The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-07
FAIRFIELD
The Consnmptives' Home Who Ran in to Who? -Shakespearian Lectures Deaths and Weddings.

The Clucus-Wood wedding will take
 place at St. PauTs next Saturday at 4
 o'clock in the afternoon, to be follow
 ed by a reception at the C1ucus man.
 sion at 4:3O o'clock. HS
 MT. Alonzo Acker is spending few weeks at the beach in oneSof his new cottages.
 Among the families which arrived at
 the beach on Saturday were the Wake lee, the Sniffin and the Pieter. These
 came for the season.
 number of our young folks went to New Haven on Saturday to see the
 baseball game between Yale and Friday last the Ladies' Aid Society gave a social at the home of Mrs | Charles Nichols.
 It is understood in town that the
 residence of MT. Samuel Gregory. on | the highest part of Tashua Hill, either | has been or soon will be purchased by the syndicate of physicians who are fighting tuberculosis. for a home for property is s1s,OO0 and it was said in | town yesterday that $17, 900 had been | offered One report is that the place has been already purchased outright. It is an ideal place for a sanitarium, and commands a fine view. There is | a rumor that the syndicate expects to begin operations with a capital of | SIPS, 900.
 From all appearances the Rubber shop in town is rushed with work. For some time it has been shipping by ex- press some three tons of goods each day.
 The Carpenters Union held a meet | ing on Friday, night and transacted the | usual routine business. An interesting question for discussion | is whether Col. Miller of Huntington ran into MT. Kowalski's team, or whether MT. Kowalski ran into Col | oJIfn a "a some say no. It is all according to the point of view one takes. MT. Clarence Nichols of Greenfield Hill is reported to be improving in health.
 There is said to be movement on l foot to separate the officers of the Country Club from those of the Green
 field Country Club Fair. A few men do almost all the work for the fair. and 1t is thought the two institutions
 do not pull well together. The pro position is to separate the business in terests from the social. It is thought should receive compensation for their time and services.
 Work on the Plattsville extension of the St;atfield road is making fine pro- gross under the supervision of the Con
 necticut Construction Company. Mrs. Joel Wiggins aged 80 years, a
 resident of Greenfield Hill, died sud-
 denly fey days ago from heart fail
 ure. She had outlived most of her relatives. The funeral took place yes- terday afternoon.
 Miss Helen Hotchkiss has found work in Waterbury and Miss Annie Hotch-
 kiss in Hartford.
 A few days ago an agent of MT. Edgar c. Abbott of Boston was in
 town looking over the ground in refer
 ence to giving a. series of readings from Shakespeare. Not much encourage
 ment was had at the center, where Shakespeare is quite well known, but the inducement was found in South port of sufficient strength to enable pr. Abbott to give one of his renditions at the Pequot auditorium on the 14th
 inst, when he will recite Hamlet" ,"
 and "The Merchant of Venice" The proceeds will be for the benefit of the Susquanaug Village Improvement
 Society. On Friday, thes 18th of June,
 another lecture will be given on "Othello."