The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-13
|WESTPORT NEWS
 ITEMS OF INTEREST
Friday Next Date of Dedication of Statue of "The Minute
 Man"

l IuIS evening, at the reSlQence or
 Frederick M. Salmon, there will be
 and the play of '"The Lion and the 1 Mouse" will be rendered by Miss | Lillian l.. Lamson, the music between | the acts being by Mrs. Arthur B. JeI- life. This is the final meeting of the
 season, and large attendance is ex- | pected.
 An infant son of Walter Price and wife was buried on Wednesday in Willow Brook cemetery. The case of Thomas Mullins
 charged with assaulting his wife,
 came up this morning at the Town l hall.
 | A case which is attracting consid- 1 erable attention in town, owes its
 origin to an alleged assault commit 1 ted by prominent citizen upon a
 young man found sitting upon the
 Curbing which surrounds the library | grounds The prominent citizen or | dered the man to get off the wall, and If reports are true,- knocked him | off. At first it was thought the whole thing was a joke, as there is no law 1 against people sitting on the wall. Finally a writ was sued out for the | arrest of the groceryman, whose wrath was so stirred up, but he skipped the town, until the excite ment blows over. The Sunshine club of the Congre- gational church is to hold a birthday party tomorrow evening in the school rooms. There will be music by the Orpheus quartette. At the recent musical held at the residence of Charles H. Kemper, the artists were Mrs. Sterling Atwater, violin; Miss Edna c. Bradley alto; Alice Smith, soprano; and Sidney Col burn, tenor.
 The fair to be given by the ladies of Westport will this year be held on nf the building will be utilized for the purpose.
 Next Thursday and Friday exami- nations will be held for admission to the Staples High School.
 The Young Mems Club recently held a successful meeting at the home of George P. Jennings, Greens Farms.
 The engagement has been an nounced of Louise Helen, daughter of Mrs. Lloyd Nash, and w. Clark Crossman of this town.
 Friday next promises to be great day at Compo Beach, when the statue of the Minute Man will be dedicated. The school children are to sing under the charge of Principal Boyden; Judge M. B. Beardsley of Bridgeport will present the monu- ment to Lewis B. Curtis, president of the Sons of the Revolution and he in turn will give 1t to the town through First Selectman Lewis B. Wakeman. l W. H. IS lO SlNo d Sk0ICn Ol the invasion; and an address will be made 1 by Mrs. Sterling, vice president of the | National society of the D. A. R. The | unveiling will be by Brewster Jen- | nings, great grandson of Col. Gould l who was killed in the Battle of Com l DO Beach.
 The Children's day exercises at the | Greens Farms church were held yes- terday.
 The residence of F. E. Lewis, at | Hendricks Point, is being wired for electricity.
 Louis Doscher has gone to Kansas City, where he has had an offer of l employment
 Martin Godfrey has returned from the Bridgeport hospital, improved in health.
 A number of our we'll known ladies have been visiting in Boston, Mesdames Horace Hurlbutt, Thomas Treadwell, James A. Smith and Eli Wakeman.
 Carl Dolge and wife will soon go on a pleasure trip to Canada.
 Next Wednesday evening there will be business meeting of the Musical l Society at the residence of C.B. DOlge.
 The Saugatuck NJ. E. church will give a strawberry festival on We'd nesday evening.
 The Bridge street school will hold an exhibition next Thursday after noon.
 Dr. Howard Taylor, of New York, 1 with his family, has arrived in town for the simmer.
 Owing to the cool and stormy weather there are very few people at Compo Beach.
 Over 20 people from this town were on the steamship Sylvester when it's shaft broke on the way to North 1 Beach with a large load of eXcur- sionists. The people were out all night and considera b1e anxiety exist ed until they returned.
 Work on the new bridge over Dead Mems brook has begun.
 James Davis and family, of New York, has arrived at Greens Farms for the summer.
 E.. S. Wheeler and wife are in Canada for a fortnight, fishing.
 Dr. Mcfarland recently took an 3 auto trip to Philadelphia
 The Friendly Aid Faar at Greens Ia rms has been onened for the sea-