The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-10
BAR TO DINE
 JUDGE WHEELER
Recognition of His Eleva" tion to the Bench of Su-
 preme Court
AT STRATFIEID
 SEPTEMBER 29
Beardsley for Toastmaste1 and Speeches By Cum naings of Stamford and
 Judson of Stratford

Judge George W. Wheeler of this city is to be rendered a complimentary dinner at the Stratfield hotel Thurs day evening, Sept. 29 by the members of the Fairfield County Bar in recog- milton of the distinction conferred up- one one of it's members by the pro- motion of Judge Wheeler to the bench of the Supreme Court.
 The Windha1n County Bar recently rendered the judge banquet in hon. Or of his elevation to the Supreme Court.
 The committee in charge of the coming dinner have agreed upon Nor ris B. Beardsley as toastmaster and the speakers will be Stiles Judson and Homer Cummings. The affair prom ises to be noteworthy in many re- spects. Appended is the letter of invitation to Judge Wheeler with his reply thereto: Hon. George W. Wheeler,
 The Fairfield County Bar to which you belong, desire to express to you in some way in which all of it's mem bers can join, their satisfaction and pride in your elevation to the Supreme Court of Errors in this State. Your able. fearless. and impartial exercise of the duties of a Judge of the Su- perior court for seventeen years, has won from this Bar and the Bar of this State. abundant admiration and appre- cfation- As lawyers we know the necessity of the presence upon the bench of judges before whom in the performance of their duties. no suitor and lawyer is either friend or foe
 This exaeting requirement. of the Bar you have faithfully satisfied.
 As you retire from your long and fruitful years of trial work, you should labor the knowledge that in the abil- ity, zeal and fidelity with which you have met and performed every duty, you have-fulfilled the high ideals 5oT,- hi n- bending rectitude and fear1essness with which judicial work should be done.
 The Bar of this county desire, there fore, to tender you complimentary dinner in order that they. may per sonalIy meet you as their guest and they feel for you as a man and as a judge;e and we request you to >desig- nate some evening convenient to your self when you will be the guest of the Bar of this county.
 We remain, with the highest esteem, sincerely yours,
 Morris B. Beardsley. Morris. " sey- Beers, Charles S: Garfield, John c. Chamberlain, Stiles Judson, J.. B. Klein, B. L. Scofield, M. Kenealy, John p. Keeler. Galen~A. Garter Homer s: Warner, Russell Frost. John J. Walsh. Howard B. Scott, V. R. c. Giddings, James B. Walsh. Samuel Tweedy. J. BelQen durlOuIls JOQu Ii. AlSnts n. Jay Walsh.
 JUDGE WHEELER's ACCEPTANCE. .Kennebago Lake. Maine. August. 4th, 1910. Hon. Morris B. Beardsley, Asa B. Woodward, Levi Warner, Charles > Stuart Garfield, and others: Dear Brethren:
 Tonight the opportunity first comes to make formal answer to the invita- tion conveyed to me by you, to join the Fairfield County Bar at dinner to be given in my honor at a date to be- fixed by me. The kindness and generosity of your tender very deeply appeal to me. as a striking evidence of the friendship we bear each other, and the sentiments in which your invita- tion is expressed, far beyond my deserts as know them to be, could not prove otherwise than satisfying and stimulating to me.
 I shall be glad to accept your invi- tation and to designate the 18th of September, 1910, as a date agreeable to me, and I beg you to give the brethren my sincere and cordial good will.
 With great esteem,
 Very sincerely yorfrs, GFnRGE WHEFT .FR.i