The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-03
WOMAN BADLY HURT RIDING SPIRITED
 SPEED ON DARE
THROWN AS SHE MAKES PLUCKY ATTEMPT TO MASTER
 ANIMAL.

Westport Library Receives Choice
 Illness Handicaps Church Choir
 News Notes of the Town.
 A few days ago, while taking a dare. so-ca1led, to ride a horse around the square in town, Mrs. Judson Watts, of Popular Plains, fell from the back of the innocent animal near the res idence of MT. Pillow. Her head struck the frozen roadway. and she became unconscious. MT. Edward Pillow found Mrs. Watts and took her home. She was attended by Dr. Hitchcock of Norwalk, who stitched up scalp wound in the forehead.
 The former bookkeeper in the office of the Lees Manufacturing Company, Miss Florence Cutbill, has married MT. Alfred Warnock of Norwalk.
 Nr. Samuel A. Purdy has opened a law office on Main street.
 The Westport Drug Company has just celebrated it's first anniversary. It reports satisfactory success.
 Monday, the 10th, inst, the Histori- cal Society, at the house of Dr. and Mrs. Stearns, will listen to a lecture by Judge John H. Light, on woman
 
 Cock fighting is said to be carried on in town in a barn near the Nor walk line
 Arion lodge held it's Christmas tree festival in its hall on Riverside ave- nue.
 A whist and dance is to be given on the 18th inst, by the Lady Foresters at National Hall.
 Two members of Trinity church choir are quite ill-Mrs. Chester Benedict the organist, with typhoid fever, and MT. Odel1, the basso, with scarlet few CT.
 The late Charles Mills, who died at the age of 76, was one of the prominent members of the Methodist church.
 Mrs. Caroline D. Lees, who died last week. lived to be 91 years of age.
 This evening at the home of MT. and Mrs. c. B. Dodge, State street. will be held the January meeting of the Westport Musical Society. Among other attractions there will be the Hachtmann String Quartette from New York City.
 There was an attendance of 2e peo- pie at the Congregational church on Sunday week.
 A good many teams got stalled in the recent snow and at some houses der, the guests were snow bound and had to remain all night.
 Douglass Purdy, of Syracuse, has been visiting in town.
 Over Christmas MT. and Mrs. Louis Weidlich of Bridgeport were the guests
 Herbert B. Sherwood will lay the new gas pipes through Greens Farms.
 Arthur Dolge has sold his touring Mitchell auto, to a Main street baker.
 John H. Robinson, Jr., of St. Louis, has been visiting in town.
 The new house being built by MT. John Taylor for Mrs. Reeves. on Im- perial avenue, is now ready for its tile roof.
 James Bradley is home from Hart ford, where he has been visiting.
 On Christmas day Mrs. A P. Jen- nings and her daughter, Florence. the guests in Bridgeport of Rev. Wm. H. Brown.
 Among the ladies who spent last Wednesday in New York were the Miss Ellen and Margerie Purdy. Miss Woods of Syracuse and Mrs. Willis s. Jones.
 The sale of post cards in town was last year the heaviest ever known.
 MT. and Mrs. w. H. Taylor, Greens Farms, have been visiting in Strat- ford.
 Mrs. James R. Jessup has just pre- sented to the library the following books: Plutarch's Lives; works of Edmund Burke; E-gnt volumes or the Spectators; D'Aubigne's History of the Reformation; The Minor Prophets, by Cowles; Darwin's Origin of Species; Holmboltz's Lectures; Tyndall on Sound; The Bird by Jules Micholet and the Horse of America by Frank Forester.
 The wells in Greens Farms still con- tinue to be very short of water.
 MT. and Mrs. Neil Mitchell are home from New York.
 On Wednesday, the 18th inst, the annual supper of the Greens Farms church will be held.
 An artist named Dove has flown into town and is occupying 8 house on Compo.
 On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Daniel B. Bradley will entertain the Current Events Club.
 The estate of the late Dr. Under wood is valued at $30,000.
 It is reported that, there is to be a new grocery store in Saugatuck-
 The saloon at the Westport Hotel has re-opened.
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