The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-15
STAMFORD

1 A few of the gentlemen entertained 1 Monday evening by E. F. Allen, at avenue included William T. Wheeler, MT. Bullard of Bridgeport, supt. kel- sey, Charles K. and William Stagg, G. w. Carey, Principal A. P. Fletcher, Chauncey Mills, Philo P. Haven, Mr. 1 Newburn, MT. Higgins, Capt. Cnarles H. Wakelee James Malett, MT. Whlt- on, MT. Viner, Henry c. Vans, Rev | Arthur Shirley, A. E. Cranson, Charles l Wilcoxson, E. H. Beers, McLaren Stevenson, Charles R. Hill, Harold De-
 Laoour, Elliott w. Peck, Thomas P.
 Taylor, Dea. Baldwin, Arthur Baldwin
 Ambrose Sheppard, MT. Hart, MT.
 Warehouse, Frank and Arthur Sammls Frank, Carlos and J. Henry Blakeman i Radford B. Smith and many others
 The gentlemen met in the billiard room
 and listened to the addresses.
 The Mems club at it's recent meeting
 gave over $9 towards buying flag for the High school drum corps: Thos. i It is stated in town that well known young man, living on King street, is engaged to young lady in 1 New Haven and that the wedding will. take place this spring: The Ancient Order of Hibernians will give a social entertainment, with music and dancing, at Red Mems hall on the evening of St. Patrick's day. The April meeting of the Mems club
 is to be addressed by supt. Kelsey: He will speak on the advantages of | a High school education.
 William White and wife are home ! from a visit to New York. Any one who chooses to pay the l price to postmaster Bristol can attend the forthcoming banquet of the Board | of Trade. | The sore toe, which a woman in | i- ho contracted at first a1leviated and then it became
 aggravated, and now it is premeditat- | ed.
 Rev. c. S. Bullock lost most of his
 English and French lantern slides at | the time of the recent fire. Frederick Nettleton the owner of the l imposing stables, has engaged the ser vices of Patrick Murray, who knows all about a horse.
 George Lines has new Patterson
 roadster.
 Charles B. Curtis hopes soon to be l out again.
 1 Sheriff c. E. stagg and family will | soon come as far north as North Car
 olina.
 | The address given Monday evening
 by Chauncey Mills of Paradise Green,
 on Navigation" was a well consid-
 ed and instructive effort. Evidently | MT. Mills, from his long experience as
 a sea captain, was unusually well post
 ed in the art and technic of naviga- l tion, and he gave to the Mems club | many new facts and much tnforma-
 tion. He defined navigation as the
 art of conducting ship from one point to another as fast as possible
 and finding it's exact position on the
 sea. He said the navigator cannot a1- | ways go by dead reckoning, but must
 resort to the heavenly bodies. This
 last is known as astronomical observa- ! tion. At the equator the sun rises and l sets at 6 o'clock all the year round.
 He spoke of the compass and the sex | tant and said that in the search for i the North Pole the best help comes | from the sextant He caused much
 applause by saying he would just as
 soon believe Dr. Cook reached the pole
 as Peary. He doubted if either went there The mariners compass points south at the North pole. He said there
 are just as many different times on l the surface of the earth as there are 1 different places. Stratford does not
 have exactly the same time as Bridge
 port. The meridian of Stratford is
 Billy Tuttle's drug store which is
 about 3 minutes ahead of Bridgeport l Old Mother Earth, he said, speaking | of the speed with which it revolves and travels around the sun, lis quite a lively bunch of rocks Columbus
 on his voyage depended on blind luck. | He had ne1Cner CnTOHOIuoI0T HUT ScA- tant MT. Mills said that once he was
 chased by an old hurricane from Port land, Me, to Patagonia. He hardly
 saw the sun during the whole voyage.
 He described the trade winds, the
 Gulf stream and gave an explanation of hurricanes. He also told how to l sail a boat in a storm. He was giv-
 en vote of thanks for his valuable
 paper.
 It is thought that to "a certain ex- tent'' the express strike in New York if it really materializes, will prevent l packa ges from arriving on time fol local people. Quite likely. How the
 war in Mexico will affect local condi-
 tions no one presumes to predict. George Lacey and wife have been | visiting in town. They came from 1 Bridgeport.
 1 Clarence Swan and wife are enter taining their daughter, Mrs. Frederick | Honniwell.
 Mrs. Emily Anderson has left Allan tic City to live in town.