The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-15
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minds Of some people in Southport,
the thought finds Judgement that 1t
would be unseemly to have saloon
for the sale of liquors opened In an
old building which once served the
purposes of a Methodist church, no
expression of such an idea was made
in the hearing held before the Com
missioners on Monday. In fact the
place wanted for saloon is but one
half of the original church building,
the other portion having been moved
further up Nick street and transform
ed into q double tenement house. The
chances are that all sentim entail feel
ings about the half of the building
which stands nearest to Main street,
faded from the minds of the people
long ago, since a dozen years have
passed away from the time the edif1ce
was abandoned as q church. The
truth is the building has long been
used as a store house, and at one time
as was stated at the hearing, was the
headquarters for men training for
fistcuff bout. The only question be-
fore the Commissioners is whether the
location is suitable one for a saloon,
and whether they think Mr.. Jennings
just the man to run 1t. 1t may safely
be said that, all the people in town
were discussing the matter yesterday.
and fuel was added to the fire by the
attempt this forenoon to secure Ii
cense for the Perry block. According
to Attorney Kline the town is en-
titled to five more saloons. If these
are to be properly distributed there
should be one on Greenfield Hill,
couple in the Castle Park and Lenox
Heights district land one on Fair
field avenue between School street
and Flint's corner. If this should
happen. it is thought the town would
wake UP to its opportunities.
Yesterday was the 14th anniversary
Of fho inc 70 "a iYfn al of 1n Pow
Allen Beeman as rector of st. Paurs
church. He has found the town
very delightful one in which to live,
and the health of his congregation
and Sunday school has been simply
remarkable. In all these years Mr.
Beeman has not been called upon to
attend more than half a dozen fu-
nerels At one time he lived in Strait
ford for seven years, and has a warm
affection for the old town. He is q
Yale graduate and spent two years at
the University Of Oxford in England.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution held a very pleasant ses-
sion yesterday afternoon at the Epis-
copal Rectory on Edgecomb Terrace.
Mrs. Frank s. Child, the regent, pre-
sided, and regardless of the few fall
ing flakes there was good attend
ance.
M. D. Marks of North Haven, the
new agent of the State Board of
Education, in place of the venerable
Mr.. Potter, who resigned some time
the manufacturing establishme nts, to
discover If any children under age
are employed in them. 1t Is believed
he found all the plants complying
with the law, and that not a single
child which should be in school, is
at work in any manufacturing con-
Germ in town.
The matter of lighting our streets
appears to hang fire. AS citizen
said yesterday, 1.-The town wants sand
papering." If electricity was to be
used it would be an easy matter to
place the lamps on the poles already
in position. AS it is the town will
have to wait until the frost is out Of
the ground.
Mrs. Mabel osgood Wright has
grounds and will see that her plans
are carried out. One proposition is
to plant hedge about the lawn on
Broad and Elliott streets. Experience
has taught some folks that hedges
and shrubbery about buildings in
toes. And it Is matter of taste
whether stunted fir tree or two in a
yard Is any addition to it's attractive
ness. Mrs. Wright will doubtless
evolve some pretty and sensible plan.
But for the storm there would have
at the Valentine dance given at
Perry's hall by the Baseball club.
David G. Smith, of Greenfield Hill,
is now on his way back from Cali
fornfa.
Last Sunday Horace Burr attained
his 18th birthday.
The Methodist Women's Foreign
Missionary society will meet at the
parsonage in Southport tomorrow aft
ernoon.
A progressive supper Of FIVE courses,
taken at different houses, after a
cheerful progress through the snow.
was the program last evening for the
Epworth League Of Southport. The
menu was as follows: PARSONAGE.
soup; Ruth Hawkins, meats AMI
salads; Lottie Blamey, Ice cream and
cake; Ernest Jennings, coffee and
wafers; and Laura Smith, nuts and
fruit. This beats silver link meet
ing all to pieces.