The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-29
FAIRFIELD

A charming Christmas entertain
 ment was given yesterday afternoon Tn the chapel of St. PauPs church
 Tor the editication and pleasure of the sunday school. Not far from 50 boys l ana girls We're present, as we'll as
 many grown folks. The walls of thu. chapel were festooned with ropes of
 laurel, from which great red Christ
 mas bells were suspended. During
 the afternoon Miss Durham. p of
 v.s B. Dunham. who is home from
 the Boston conservatory of music.
 sang number of songs which
 brought abundant applause. A. E.
 Huntington. assisted by MT. Langton, used an electric lantern to throw a
 scenes in Italy. Egypt. South Ameri-
 ca and other countries, as, we'll as
 conventional pictures of American
 Declaration of Independence, and
 Washington at prayer at Valley
 Forge. A great deal of amusement
 was caused, when the screen showed young man standing by tho Nila
 with one of the pyramids in the dis
 Johnnie Boyle,' and the whole school burst into applause. After the set pictures series of moving pictures
 ,sas.,S was shown: r~n,. rspressnting sn quite LSustuy romance with Indians ana Pale Faces. MT. Huntington told the school about a little boy in Bridge port who goes about the saloons and other places. singing little songs, in order to earn a few pennies, to help his father and mother and sister, tellectuai treat refreshments were served. and then boxes of candies and other presents were given out Some of the ladies who assisted were Mrs. Beeman. Mrs. Hinckley and her daughters. Miss Wheeler, Miss Kath- Mrs. Taylor of the Pequot farm in Southport. Miss Betts. and others.
 Saturday evening the Fairfield Ath- letic. Club will give q smoker at its new club rooms in the Perry block. 1 they propose to % see the is: old year out out ! There Is to be an abundance of re- treatments.
 Prof. Hargrove is expected home from sTexas either today or tomorrow 1 The school will begin again next Tuesday. by which time it Is thought most of the young men will be back. l
 MT. Tomlinson and wife returned | from a visit In Philadel- | phia, where they have been since l 
 Prof Swann is in New Hampshire, but Is expected back by Monday.
 There are now several guests at the | Gould Home for working women. and | more are expected to spend the New | Years holidays. A dinner was served l on Christmas day for ten. and highly | enjoyed. When the dessert was served, each guest was requested to assume some character and continue | to interpret it for the rest of the | meal. or be subject to a forfeit. which | leaves pinned to the shirtwaist. No one was to say Don't yer know?" at the end of sentence. and others | were to lisp, or stutter, or use flow cry language. The result was amus- ing. and some of the ladies had big was over. 1t should be stated that l according to Mrs. Gould's will the | years of admission are from IS to 60. " .'-,' ..-I
 Milton Hotchkiss is on the sick list with the grip.
 Mrs. Pickett is slowly improving from an attack of the rheumatism.
 Miss Sophie Grumman is home for l the holidays from Batavia. N. Y. Mrs. Henry w. Banks of Walling- ford. has been visiting in town.
 Tomorrow David c. Smith of Green | Held Hill leaves for a winter in Cali 1 rornia.
 Herbert Hoiton. after a visit in town has returned to Danbury.
 Christmas celebration. there were re- citations by Kenneth. Harold, Clay ton and Dorothy Banks, Grace and | Bessie Burr. Vera Wales, Ella Rush. Geraldine Olmstead, Helen Pease, Mary and Cornelia Wilson, Elsie Florence Merwin. and Marion Whitaker. Remarks were made by Rev. E. H. Olmstead, and Prof. A. H. Bowers of the Dwight school. There was a mill, constructed by Fred Perry which. ground out pres fny ~N~
 Frank F. Sherwood of Brooklyn 1as been visiting in town.
 pr. E. P. Disbrow, of Worcester, Mass, has been visiting in Southport