The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-31
BURGLARS MAKE RICH HAUL
 FROM TELEPHONE MONEY BOX
and Valuable Tools Taken in Raid on Hetxels Blacksmith Shop.
STAMFORD
Special to The Farmer,

Stratford, Dec 31-When J. L. Het- gel and his son. Clayton. opened their blacksmith shop on the Ferry road, yesterday morning, they found the place in confusion with plenty of evil dence that it had been visited since it was closed up. after work on Satur- day night. The telephone was torn from the wall and the contents Of the money box removed. About s10 worth of steel drills and $25 worth of other 1ieves that there must have been sew eral dollars in the telephone box The robbery has been reported to the State police who are working on 1t.
 w B. Futile returned from Florida. Sunday night, after an absence of six weeks in which he shot about every thing wearing fur or feathers. and en- Joyed a genuine vacation. He was astonished at the changes which had been made in his drug store by Dr. Park the n%,anager, nan and George 2 Q. provemen;ts were in the way of a. hol- iday present to the boss.
 Mrs Hanford Bigelow and her daughter Margaret left today for Cal a,coon, New York, where they will pass several weeks with relatives.
 Michael Monroe of Grand street, Bridgeport has been in town for Sev- era1 days looking up a location on which to build himself a home.
 Tine Red Men have postponed their Christmas tree 0XSTC1S6$ LO1nO1TOW night, at which time there will be lots of fun distributing presents among the members, each Of whom will be re- membered.
 out many streets and showed up the bad spots California street was inn pa ssalble either for teams or pedes- trians The % controversy between should be tried out and settled. Some body should be held responsible for the delay in continuing the work which could have easily been completed be- fore this The injunction proceedings should be tried out immediately. Charles FArrar, cofored dealer in complained to the town school commit tee that his daughter, Mabae. Il years of age. was struck by a sharp instr1- ment thrown by unrally boys in the riously injured The sharp fnstru- ment cut through a new pair of shoes and made a deep wound in the child s heel. President Coggswen of the the injury. It was expected that the matter will be taken up at the next meeting of the committee, which is next Monday night
 Architect Fred Beckwtth. whose plans for the proposed Huntington road school have been adopted, yes terday submitted plans in the conn petition for the new High school building in Bridgeport.
 Constant complaint is being regis tered concerning the slot telephones which have become popular on ac- count of the low rate charged for their installation. The operator at the Central exchange Is supposed to catch the sound of the bell which is supposed to ring when coin of the proper denomination is dropped into the receptacle. About half the time the ben fails to ring or the young lady at the other end of the line is chewing gum so hard that it interferes with her auditory apparatus. This condition Is usually followed by an argument with an indignant patron on one end of the line and an un- reasonable operator on the other. Patrons object to being accused of theft when they have performed their part of the contract by dropping their coins in the prescribed aperture. It is still more irritating to be refused a connection on such occasions or to have an argument over the matter Otis Curtis, the we'll known express man. and his wife are both seriously i'll of pneumonia at their home on Longbrook avenue. A nurse is in at tendance.
 At the services in St. James church on Sunday, Rev. M. J. O'Connor took occasion to thank his parishoners for the purse which they provided Santa