The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-13
'WESTPORT

A good deal of interest is manifest
ed in town over the action taken in
Fairfield regarding the Sunday law.
The Herald says: TN Fairfield there
is movement on foot to have tight
Sunday and those. merchants, princl-
pally druggists and newsdealers are
sitting up and taking notice just now.
Editor Jones thinks the proposed al
teration in the Sunday law is just the
thing. He says a town meeting would
then have the right to say whether ice
cream and newspapers could be pur-
chased on Sunday. Why not have To-
cal self government in all things and
let the town meetings make all the
laws?
Tomorrow evening, at National Hall,
the pioneer Hook and Ladder company
will give a dance mingled with other
entertainments, such as cake walking,
a star quartette, and a vaudeville
performance.
The Civic club will meet tomorrow
evening, and listen to the reports re-
garding Sunday closing, and to the re-
port of the committee on transporta-
ton. 1t is announced that the club
is seeking the good of the community.
This evening the Historical society.
will meet at the home Of Col. John
N. Partridge and Major Ebstein will
speak about Arizona, from 1869 to 1872.
AS but one case of diphtheria ap-
peared at the Bridge street school at
Saugatuck, the school has been resum-
ed. There was wild report that
many Italian children in that portion
of the town had been attacked with
the disease, but it proved to be ground
less.
This evening at the home Of Joseph
Adams, in Greens Farms. the Farmers
club will hold a meeting and listen to
NV A
Farmers Institute is to be held at the
church on the 22nd Of this month.
Last Friday evening some 40 Of the
friends of r. X. Gault and wife, WIS.,
tied their home on Riverside avenue
and spent the evening playing whist.
The Musical Society meets this ev-
ening and the program is to be inter-
preted by young people.
The annual anniversary entertain
ment of Aspetuck lodge, Knights Of
Pythias, will be held in the lodge
rooms on the 2sth inst. The committee
in charge consists of 8. A. Purdy, Roll
lie Beers, Joseph Sniffen and w. F.
H. Preston.
j. NJ. Potts, employed at the Axe
factory, has gone to Florida to try his
luck. He hopes to raise grape fruit
F. E. Sturges is down there and will
also raise grape fruit. The grape
fruit fever appears to have struck the
town.
William E. Albin goes to White
Plains today to deliver an address on
Abraham Lincoln to the veterans of
the 4th Artillery of New York
Next Wednesday evening, at the
Saugatuck Methodist church, there
will be held the annual Washington
Lincoln supper, the chef being Edward
Colyer.
There is still talk in town about
moving the trolley tracks at Compo
near the home Of Irving Bradley. The
town is willing, and all that is wanted
is for the frost to leave the ground
and work to begin.
On the 22nd inst. there is to be a
Martha washington supper at the
Congregational church. Among other
dainties which will be served a Wash
ington apple pie and cherry pie,
from the original cherry tree are
promised. And one will not have to
cut the crust with a Ratchet either.
Those who wait on the tables are to
be robed in Colonial costumes. An en-
tertainment is to follow, with still life
pictures and a mandolin club.
MLny people in town think the
ground hog really cannot be depended
upon. He is no better than a Weather
Bureau prediction.
The High School is closed today in
honor of Lincoln.
of an address last night at the Metho-
dist church
At least a dozen people in town are
ill with the grip.
A piano was sold in town last. Bus
mess is improving.
The Current Events club will meet
on Thursday at the home Of Mrs. Will
liam l.. Taylor.
Postmaster Harris is seeking for
health at Lakewood. N. J.
Martin w. Nolan after a month in
Canada is coming home.
Edward G. Birge and wife have gone
to Porto Rico.
Mrs. George Sherwood is visiting in
StratfOrd for week
Greens Farms has Boys Scout Or
ganization.
About 1,500 men in town will have to
nav the nerSOnal tax