The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-01
STAMFORD
Special to The Farmer,

Stratford. June 1-At the reception and thinner rendered to Mrs. 6are Kenny of New Haven at the Strat- neld the tables were in charge oi MesdAmes W. B. Bristol, Margarei Do Lacour, F. M. Patterson, and w B. Coggswell of this town. Othcr : daughters from this town who were present were Miss Jeanette V Booth Mrs William Stagg and Mrs. Ccrnelis Van Houton.
 The large delegation from stratford which attended the performance o1 m43f4 taken with the new leading mhh sWilson Melrose who was called here on an emergency and had only three hours in which to prepare him. self for the part. MT. Melrose will have a large number of Stratford ad- pears in the Third Degree"
 0r. and Mrs. J. A. Hilton who have reslded on Noble avenue in Bridge port have moved to Curtis avenue in Stratford.
 F1rst selectman Charles H. welles Is having phenomenal luck this spring in hatching Plymouth Rocks. Never man has SO large a percentage of eggs produced chicks. This means a long string of prizes at the exhibi- tiops this fall
 Raymond Mcbride who was driving the automobile which struck Peter Thursday afternoon was discharged in the city court there yesterday. The evidence showed that MT. McBride was hlameless in the matter. He wns congratulated by. his friends here wien he returned from the trial.
 H&{bert Booth is now settled in his hdEbA at Putney and will begin his aarical turalI operations immediately. Thursday he took nap in the shade of the old apple tree. A few seeds of the Farmer mammoth pumpkins which he had in his pocket germinar- cd. They grew very fast and kink In the vines caught his foot drag ging him several feet before he awoAe and released. himself with difficulty. He expects to have pumpkin pie to- .morrow..
 The fire department will hold a reg ular meeting Tuesday night and bus- inessA of importance will come up for
 At St James church tomorrow Rev. M T. O'Connor will preach at the reg .ular services. Mass will be followed by bepediction.
 At the M E. church Rev. Ernest Carpenter. the pastor will preach the morning sermon will be "Thc Cure for Selfishness". In the even Ing MT. Carpenter will speak of the accomplishments of the late General Conference He will tell what was done about the amusement question. the removal of the time limit. district ing of the bishops, and something concerning the new bishops that have been elected There are matters of great interest to people in and out of the Methodist church. The Sunday school will join in the Annual Sum day school parade. The school will leave the church at 12:10. It is hop ed that people who have flags will display them in honor of the children. The procession will go down Main Street to Hards Corner, and then to Watch Hill. Sunday June Is to be observed as Children's Day. A fine Sunday school Concert twill be held
 At Christ church tomorrow, morn ing prayer with sermon and Holy Communion at 10:3O subject The Great and the Small.' Evening pray CT at 3:s0. The Sunday school will meet at s:3O and attend the afternoon service.
 There will be a special Commun- ion service on Sunday morning at the Congregational church with the reception of a class of voting people to the church. chiefly from the Sun day school The following are the candidates; Misses s,sn Natane ore6oSse W,leS1son Lydia Watrous. Corienne Gladding and Viola Rowland. The gentlemen are Maurice Carey. Robert Wheeler, Ho~afd Wilcoxson. Norton Stephens. Erwin Hoag, Carl Morris. Ralph Sher- wood and Herbert Rowland. The school joins the parade at noon. In the evening Rev. Morgan Millar will give an illustrated lecture on Child Labor to which the public is invited.