The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-07
STAMFORD

There was startling Funor in town
 yesterday. said by one gentleman to
 be revolutionary and of such a na-
 ture as Stratford has not had for 40
 years.'' The old and famous Stove
 Club is likely to be abolished! If the
 new management of the village hard
 ware store posts a notice. as contem-
 plated, that hereafter the store will
 shut up shop at o'clock in the even
 ing, the members of the Stove Club
 will be without a home, and the affairs
 of the nation will remain unsettled,
 not to mention giving currency to vil-
 lage gossip. This club was establish
 to meet in a back room of the old
 market, the building now known as
 Jewell's market. The room for the
 meeting had leather covered seats for
 some 40 men running around it's walls, and was the same as now occupied by
 MT. Jewell for his office. This build ing was once the old UniverSalist church. and was moved from it's posi- tion on Paradise Green to it's present site. When the hardware store was started in 1878 by MT. Lowell, the Stove Club gradually began to assemble with in it's walls, and has done so ever since
 In the older days it was a kind of yil- lage lyceum where the young men ar gued all sorts of questions, advocating the highest morality. integrity and pa triotiSm. It was frequented by such men as Stiles Judson, Howard Curtis, Seymour Wells, Frank Sammis, Ardy Judd, Charles E. Peck, Fred Beardsley, and many others who have since be- come leading citizens. And in those times it was no uncommon thing for town meeting to last three or four. days, while some of the Stove Club men indulged in their oratorical dis plays, walking up and down the aisles of the hall Every country town needs place for it's young and middle aged change opinions. and the old Stove Club served this purpose. But times have changed, the men of those days are now in active life, and the mem- bership has decreased: Like every thing else it passes away. The blow is a stunning one for some of the mem- bers, but new blood tells and its use fulness has departed.
 There were seven births in town during the past month, four girls and three boys. During the past year there have been 104 births. The favor ite months were May. February, Oc- tober and August. The deaths in. town during 1909 numbered 95. Of mar riages there were 39.
 Willard Baldwin of Judson Place, has been visiting in New Haven.
 Yesterday. while nearly opposite thel post office, Miss Pauline Stagg caught a dreadful fall. on the slippery side walk. She will soon be on her way with her parents to Atlanta, Ga.
 A day or two ago Jacob Huber's candy wagon and Ellsworth Wilcok's milk wagon collided and mixed up, but no serious damage resulted. For a 1 time, however, the center of the town 1 was quite excited.
 The proposed fire alarm signals have int fast getting to be an old stoT3y.
 Miss Kate McEwen of Broad street, | is collecting old historical pictures. l She will soon have quite a picture gall Iery.
 The house of Mrs. Sarah E. J. Hud- she has quietly slipped away South for the winter.
 number of people at the north end of town have caught severe colds.
 One expects to see some fine picture hats at the lecture OF London" this evening.
 If Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Peterkin go direct from New York to Paris, they will already be on the continent Per haps later they will visit the island of Great Britain.
 This town was favored with 20 ideal days during December But the Christmas blizzard made up for lost time.
 The following gentlemen have been elected to the various offices of the Congregational church for the present year: James $. Mallett, Edmund H. Judson, Frank E.. Blakeman, Frederick c. Beach, Dr. Packard. Dr. Cogswell, Rev. MT. Shirley. Radford B. Smith, Stanley Beach. Ambrose Shepard, D. c. Wood, Carlos Blakeman. Nathan Wells, Thomas w. Cook. A. M. Wheel er, Henry Meachen. William Stagg, Philo Haven, John Thompson and Ar thur G. Baldwin.
 Samuel W. Hubbell and Frederick w. Nettleton are the jurymen from this town for the January term of the civil Superior court