The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-28
STAMFORD

The statement that comes from New York that a good many Con- nectlcut men took stock in the bogus Fl Progreso Banana Company, which claimed to have a valuable planta- tiOn in Honduras, whan it did not own an acre of land, has caused many of our residents to smile, since they recollect how a year or two ago promoter in Bridgeport induced a number of our towns people to i'm vest in a pine apple mahogany scheme, with bananas thrown in, To- cated in Panama. A ship was ac- tually fitted out on the banks of the HOusatonic, which was to carry a party of adventurers< to Panama. The promoter was put on trial before the ship sailed and sent to jail as a swindler and liar. Now, it appears, many good people in Waterbury. anxious to get rich quick, have been bitten in the same way as were some of our citizens. It is to laugh.
 A large number of young folks tainment at the Methodist church on Friday night, including Basil and Gladys Merrill, Helen Beach, Lillian Brandt, Harold Dunbar and Harold Broderick, Stanley Curtis, Franklin Foster, Lucius Derby, Dorothy Bar Elsie Assum. Theresa Motil, Phyllis Fox, Howard Fairchild, Wesley Bur ritt. Wesley Hubbel1, Star Barnuln, Airline Fox, Harold Stevens, Theodore Perkins, and many others.
 The Housatonic grange has post poned for the present a box social which it intended to giVe.
 Samuel Dickinson, and Frank Dor man were in town for the week end.
 Mrs. Frank M. Patterson is back from visit to Netherwood, N. J.
 George Benham's dancing class will meet tomorrow evening.
 J. Louis Thompson and wife, of Hartford, have been visiting at his fathers house on Church street.
 Emma Allen was in Chihuahua, Mexico, during the recent disturb ance. She reports no harm done and
 The F. c. degree will be conferred tomorrow evening by St. Johns lodge.
 Evelyn Bullock came down from New Platz for the holidays. a
 Thursday evening there will befa house whist at the residence of A. T. Hoadley, Warwick avenue.
 The recent fire in a house on Surf avenue did damage to the extent of about ST00. SpOntanious combustion.
 Mrs. William Hine is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Lowell, on Harris street.
 Miss Minnie Beers, the brilliant correspondent of New Haven pa per, has been visiting the Seymour family in Norwalk. MT. Seymour, until recently, kept a confectionery store in Southport.
 Everything was closed tight in town on Thanksgiving Day, except the drug stores and the churches.
 Miss Katherine Wood is a pupil at Smith college. She has joined the Smith basket ball team. No one can tell exactly when the S1 Por nue will be done. A good many hopes and wishes are indulged in, but there is yet much work on hand.
 Chester Donaldson has given up railroading. He says once is enough for him.
 J. l.. Allard, has been elected to Corbey Court, Yale law school.
 George O. Lines place, Columbus Farms, has at last got city water.
 Francis Gregory, of the center school, has fallen and broken his cc!- lar bone.
 The Leavenworth family, on upper King street, had a family reunion pn Thursday.
 It is said that not a duck has been seen on NelPs Island this season. Yet great many hunters go out there with guns and lay concealed in the grass.
 It is announced that Rev. De La Cour has been in town from Provi- dence, Rhode Island. Many would like to hear him preach at one of our churches.
 The theme for the sermon at the Neighborhood church last night was Thanksgiving is Thanksliving."
 Rachel and Mabel Wilcoxson came home from Holyoke college for the holidays.
 Two poor men got @ nights rest in the lock up recently.
 One needs to beware of MT. Reeds s big watch dog, and not get too near the beast, for he bites any one who comes within biting distance.
 Alpheus Stannard, of Ansonia, has bought two acres of land from George o. Lines, so it looks as if he would come to town to live. There were 419 transfers of real estate in town during the past year, and 30 new houses were built in the Hollister Heights district.
 Stanley '. Beach has closed his residence for the winter. It is thought he has flown to a warmer cline.
 It is thought Town Clerk Lowell will add a line of baby carts to his hardware store.