The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-23
FAIRFIELD

! Arthur Deyo Talmadge Wakeman and Rachel Pickett, are among the
 pupils from this city to the Bridgeport High school who have been given on
 the school roll of honor 85 per cent. in i their school work.
 i Because of a broken furnace the <; boys and girls at the Dwight school, ,. Greenfield Hill, have just had a half i holiday
 The Poultry Yard comedy in which l Mrs. Briggs plays a prominent part, will be given next Thursday night at , the Club House on Greenfield Hill. ! MT. Freeman is having the elms in 1 front of his residence cut down.
 Miss Florence Jennings is having a 1 delightful time in New York. l MT. and Mrs. s. R. Pinkham went to l Port Chester to spend Tuesday, which | was a holiday.
 | It was announced in Southport that l the Ladies' Missionary society would give a tea at o'clock D. nl., in the | Congregational church today. The Martha Washington tea given 1 by the ladies of the town yesterday afternoon at the Congregational | church was largely attended and prov ed to be quite a financial success, not far from $40 having been realized. All the cake and candy was sold A num- Der of young gentlemen. including Roger Smith, Talmadge Wakeman and
 Arthur DeyO, assisted in waiting on
 the tables. Miss Bessie L., Child is
 the organizer of the Young Ladies'
 Mission Circle. of which there are IS
 members. the object of which is edu-
 cational work in the South. A score, of young ladies were present, all pret- tily dressed in the style of the days Of
 Mrs. Washington, with brocaded satin dresses over handsome petticoats; puff ed and powdered hair; neck shawls of ruffled lace: skirts en train etc. with here and there 8 pretty miss with patch of court plaster on the face to heighten the effect. The young ladies who appeared in court costume were King, Louise Forsvthe Ruth and Amy
 Child Marcia Delbridge. Helen Haup, Dorothy Smith. Sarah Deyo. Helen Forsythc, Amy and Elsie Jennings. and the Misses Glover, West and Downs.
 After the tea a supper was served.
 MT. and Mrs. Clarence Bradley, Prof. Charles Saunders John and David Huntington. Conrad Buckingham, Nell lis H. Sherwood. John Sherwood. Will liam O. Burr Miss Burr. Mrs. Andrew Buckingham, J. Frank Elwood. and many others from town attended the Farmers Institute yesterday at Greens Farms.
 Among the Sens of the American Revolution from this town who ati tended the banquet at the Stratfield l on Washington's birthday were Sam uel H. Wheeler and Andrew B. Hunt l ington.
 { Miss Natalie Forbes has returned to her boarding school on the Hudson.
 Most of the Hargrove students re- | jnained in town over the holiday.
 Marion, the little 6-year-old daugh- l ter of MT. and Mrs George Jennings, | who died at the Bridgeport hospital on Sunday from appendicitis. was bur- jed yesterday in St. Thomas ceme- 1 tery.
 The Board of Relief, having finished it's work equalizing taxation according | to law, and listening to the few com i plaints which have been made the next step will be the town meeting | to be held in March. when it will be l decided how many mills on dollar i shall be laid for the coming year. It 1 is too early to say how many mills l will be asked for, and one guess is as | good as another. It is thought that l not more than fifty taxpayers appear i ed before the board, out of a popula- ton of over 5000 which shows that there has been no widespread dissat- l isfaction with the work of the asses | sors. As always. after the assessors l have done their work. good deal of l gossip is indulged in. and it is given | out that a big kick is coming and that the town is all torn up. This is the | annual experience. The result shows that all this is mere sensationalism.