The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-22
STAMFORD

| Something like 200 gentlemen and la | dies must have partaken of the sup per served at the Congregational church on Thursday evening, since about $50 was netted.
 | Mrs. George E.. Farrar and her little | son are visiting friends in Virginia and 1 Tennessee.
 | The fires in the peat bogs at the | southern end of the town continue to smolder, but the recent rains nearly extinguished them.
 Dr. D. A. Jordan, who is to speak ] at the Methodist church, Sunday ! morning, is one of the leading mem ! bers of the New York East Confer ence. He is preacher of power and will be sure to interest all who hear , him.
 Miss Jeanette Booth went to Water bury, one day this week. to attend a meeting of the daughters of 1872. Another rumnage sale is to be held on the 10th of November by the Wom- ems Aid Society of the Congregation
 The Trading Post of the Red Men of the town closes this evening, after successful career. A large variety of entertainm ents has been given, in clud}ng professional talent from the theatres of Bridgeport Miss Viva Babb, once of the Criterion group, has solos, and members of other tribes of Red Men have made trails to town to participate in the amusements of the long wiggam. Much venison and corn
 
 has kept his private car in commits sion each night for the purpose of inn porting and exporting talent from Bridgeport.
 The following is the program for the Methodist church tomorrow: At 10:30 a. m., Rev. D. A. Jordan will speak. In the evening the regular pastor will speak Sunday school at noon, and Epworth League at 6:45 p. m.
 Miss Judson is to lecture again on the evening of the 4th of November She is sister of Hon. Stiles Judson and not his daughter.
 The Misses Rhodat King, Marjorie Dosch. have joined the Bridgeport Wednesday Afternoon Musical Club.
 Next Saturday Miss Lottie Til1otson of Hawaii will give an entertainment at the Congregational church.
 The ladies who had charge of the hall were Mesdames Charles F. Jud- son., son, FFank s, l. Hanson; F. H. AIIen, 19i1 liam Bristol, and Mrs. Fleming, Chas. Lowell, Charles Wolf, Mrs. TaImadge, and the Misses Winifred Todd and Tena WiIcoxson.
 A good photograph of the Republi- can candidate for governor smiles from the wall of the office of the Judge of Probate. A large portrait of Theo- dore Roosevelt hangs in the office of the Town Clerk.
 Tomorrow evening at the Neighbor- hood church, Rev. MT. Bullock will take TOT his teXt-POrtugal the New Republic He expected to go to West Point to-day to witness the football game.
 Peter Dosch and Donald F'alken have been heard from in Canada. Both were recently in Toronto.
 It is said that the water pipes are being run over on Clapboard Hill. Complaint was made at the last town meeting that some of the pipes were too near the surface, and when run over, cracked.
 Stanley Y. Beach has added another engine to his already large collection
 This afternoon Deacon Haven's Bi- constra class is taking tramp through the woods near Pine Rock Park.
 It will be a Missionary Day at the Congregational Church. Rev. Dr. Packard attended the great meetings in Boston where all the Home and Foreign missionary work of the Con gregationalists was presented in var ious ways and will give an install ment of his reports from the meetings on Sunday night. He will speak on a. piece of interesting modern history: ''Who Woke Up Turkey?'' In the morning the work of education for the colored people of the South, the In- dians and Chinese will be presented by Rev. H. Paul Douglass, D. D., sec retary of the American Missionary Association in New York. Dr. Doug less is a new speaker. He has pub Gshed a recent book: tfThe Christian Reconstruction of the South which is spoken of as one of the ablest con- tributions to the subject ever made.