The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-14
FAIRFIELD

1 week pTOlIllSeS to De OI lllOTS than usual interest to local residents
 Besides the meeting last night at the
 Grange, when new members were tax
 en in, and the concert to be given on i the evening of St. Patrick's day at the I Parish hall of St. Thomas for which ] elaborate preparations have been made the Farmers Institute is to open on | Thursday at the Greenfield Hill club house, to be followed on Friday even- ing with a supper at the parlors of the Congregational church, which will be succeeded on Saturday evening, at the same place, with the long expect ed conference with Representative Banks and a number of other gentle men regarding the present Sunday laws, and the interpretation which is to be<put upon them. These various functions will call out a large atten- dance of all sorts of people, since all tastes can be gratified.
 The program for the Farmers In- stitute. which opens at 10:30 on Thurs day morning, consists of addresses by
 two clergymen-Rev. E. H. Olmstead and Rev. A. J. Pennen of Southport. Besides the music which will be giv-
 en by James D. Jennings of South
 port, the Greenfield Country club male
 quartet, Miss Kate Knapp, Charles S..
 Fox, William s. Fallon and Miss Car
 olyn Griffith, there are to be address
 es on practical subjects as follows: Bee
 Culture by Lyman c. Root of Stam-
 ford; Poultry for Profit, by George ".
 Smith of the Connecticut Farmer;
 Cooking Demonstration by Miss Kate
 Hayes of the State Board of Agricul-
 ture and Dairying by H. O. Daniels
 of Middletown, who comes from the Dairymen's association. For the con-
 venience of out of town people who
 may desire to attend the institute, it is announced that trains leave town at 4:40 east and $50 west, D. m. The afternoon session will begin at 1:30 p. m. after bountiful luncheon has been served.
 The supper to be given on Friday evening at the Congregational church, is under the auspices of the young la dies of the Christian Endeavor society, among whom may be mentioned the Misses Child, West, Forsythe, King. Hotchkiss, Deyo, and many others, as we'll as a number of young men, in cluding Messrs. Deyo, Thomas, Smith, Child and others. Preparations will be made for something like 125 cov- CTS.
 Considerable interest is being mani fested in the debate which will take place on Saturday evening With Rep resentatives Banks and Northrop, Rev. MT. Holman of Southport Rev. MT. Olmstead of Greenfield Hill, Bacon Wakeman, Prof. Brewer, Mir. Deyo. and others. It is probable a number of gentlemen from out of town will be present as the question is regarded as e>of more than usual importance.
 Over 100 people assembled at Hope Chapel on Saturday evening to partake of the supper given by the ladies of that section of the town. Rev. John Deyo presided at the seat of custom and took in the cash. Prof. Harvey Swan, Hepburn Walker, John Boyle, nf1 tended. Prof. Washburn of Yale, now of the Hargrove school, was one of the quartet of singers.
 Walter Smith, of Syracuse, who us ed to be a student at the Hargrove school, is now assisting his father who has a chain of six theatres. He has recently opened a new one which has been some two years in building.
 A new physical laboratory has been added to Prof Saunders collection which he uses in his work with young men who are attending the Hargrore school.
 Miss Georgianna H. Seward of town at her grandfather's house on Broad street.
 The case of Mrs. Julia Watts Nor ris Curtis Lawrence, will again come up in the Fairfield probate court next Saturday afternoon before Judge N ODDS.
 Paige Bryant has gone from the Tould Home to be gardener for Col. Havard.
 Henry Callahan, young man for al number of years freight master at the lepot in Southport. recently died in New York. The funeral was held | this morning at St. Thomas church.
 While in town Rev. John Deyo and i wife stopped with J. Biting Deyo.
 The Bulkley homestead formerly l owned by Bradley Jennings has passed i by purchase into the hands of Fred | erick Jennings.
 A new grocery has been opened at l Cross Highways by E. Rix.
 It is said the old Jennings home stead has been purchased by Mrs. | Bessie Reynolds of Greenwich.
 The Campbell farm. Greenfield Hill | las been leased to Frederick Barber.
 Edward Won Holtz has opened his i news stand in the old Russell black | smith shop in Southport, where the .rolley cars begin ney pay section.
 New York-Gabriel Rosenthal cele- 1rated his 21st birthday by getting married and coming into an inherit ,nce of $5O000.
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