The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-29
FAIRFIELD
Special to the Farmer.)

Special to the Farmer.)
 FAirfeld, June 2s-The following ed itorial from the Middletown Sun under
 the heading "Bucolic Musings" is SC I good that it is worthy of reprinting | Those who peruse the editorial will nc doubt understand the rumblings, all going to show that "Fairview'' is very f much on the map Here goes:
 In the midst of the political distrac-
 tons of the hour, it is refreshing and
 obstructive to become a bit bucolic-
 ee~t ee eye over the landscape, not ling with inward satisfaction what is | taking place in the everyday life of
 many Connecticut towns. Life in
 these quiet and famous old villages runs along like rippling stream in
 the sumfner- time. here a splash, there
 a bit of a waterfall, and wonder a mirror-liss mirror % surface - rsnscting s.s a,a fns at 1 thirteen books gives a strawberry | festival at l.sRock Crest" her country
 seat in the woods; the druggist builds a fence around his seashore cottage; some very naughty fellow, out on the
 Sound. with searchlight, turns its much to the confusion of the young | folks in hamfn0ckS; war has been pronounced against the mosquitoes and efforts are being made to drain l the 1narahea: new drug store is to be
 erected at the center; Miss Orangeade frage, and Mrs Raspberry, who is an- anti-su1rage woman. has gone to her
 cottage in the Adirondacks for the summer: Col0nef Korea's daughter has had a church wedding: and Miss Dia- mond has given big dance for a
 village belle at her large and new colonial residence; the boys at the HAppysrove school have departed for their homes. after smashing windows and doing other mischief: . number of men are home from various col le&es and Peter Pipkin is dispensing soda from the BpiloveS drug shop. AL l together the town of Fairview is niak- 1 Ing progress by leaps and bounds. and now and then Lawyer Wideawake unites couple in marriage, when the 1 job might have been done for nothing at the corner shop which has been ad- vertised n . Gretna Green. Antomo- piles continue to tear through the the village magistrate every little while. for one thing or another. us- ualIy another. ss
 Thus we have the annals of a quiet village, and all is nourishing and hap l py, since the big elm has been cut undertaken to run the town. Happy T41rvtew! It must be simply lovely to dwell within the shadow of it's churches and contemplate with curios- itx theF fam'oue stained glass win
 Ralph Law, a well known summer resident of Fairfield Beach gets out Of a serious matter rather easily. He vas arrested Thursday evening by 6herifH Elwood for paesing a phony check on F. J. McGarry. the local
 marketman. but on promise to make good he was let 60 by Justice Wake
 man. bonds being furnished by Wall check for $l65a drawn on Sea-
 bright, N. J., bank toA MT. McGarry. The cheek was returned marked. IN. e.. Mr. McGarry then made com paaint and Mr. Law was arrested. It
 is said that other local business men
 have been handed such checks and they they have been returned This is quite serious offense and Mir. Law cAn thank his luck that he Is getting out of the scrape 90 easily. E The members Of the Bridgeport Op- cratic Socioty were the guests on
 home in Bensonss Road. A nne pro-
 gram Of musical numbers were ar ranged by the host much to the delight
 and enjoyment of those who arc for
 tunate enodeha to be Mir. Bazrss
 flO~l1OTTQWa I1l0 I81f0ClQ Q418y
 the Sound Views of Bridgeport at
 nGorehouDe lot at 3:3O o'clock.
 Miss Esther Williamson is now vis- ttings friends out Of town.
 Catherine Book, Julia Rock. Rose Anderson. Iaura Hall. Eslgenie Hhn end Jack Kelly saw the parade fn
 n,see q ys vantage in Joh1S F Boyls's Ilttle Anna Rock, the four year old dauGhter of Mr. and Mrs, T. N. Book celebrated her fourth birthday teddy. She had as her guests many Of her little girl and boy friends.
 N. Book has returned to town from Baltimore where he was in att tsndahce on the Derpocratic conven- fion Mr. and Mrs J. N. Cooper of Dam bury will arrive at the Ivy cottage early next week. Other arrivale at Samuel Clark and family of Yonkers, N. Ya c. B. Down Of Danbury. Will liam Young. Margaret Small, Eliza- beth Goodwin and Lillian Hastings, all of New York
 |. The Bridgeport Gas Go. has almost completed the extending of it's gas mains to the end of Fairfield Beach. Cottagers never appreciated the good Of gas more than they did during the warm days and nights of the past week. sae : Miss May Oliver of the Long View Cottage, Fairfield beach, enjoyed the circus in Bridgeport yesterday.
 Harry Lamb is erecting three room addition to his cottage Hove Too'' at EAirfield beach.
 | The Allen family of New York and are now occupying the Cedar Villa cottage at the beach.
 Another arrival is the Berry family of New York at the Sunset cottage. Burt Dowd, student at Yale is stopping at the Ivy cottage on the beach
 MT. and Mrs. IT. J. Smith have ar lived from -Brooxlyn and are occupy ing the DTiftwood cottage.
 Mrs William Oliver of New York. has opened her cottage, the Long View for the season. ~ Several additional events have been added to the athletic calendar arrang- ed for the outing of the Holy Name Society of St Thomas church on July There will be ball game between
 tho married and single men,, fat
 mans race and a tub. race. The lat ter in e3pected to furnish considerable amusement to those not contesting. It's an uncertain contest in which the entrant is seated in a tub. The fas- ter he peddles the greater the spin Of the tub, Tt requires considerable dex- terity to push the tub forward so as to prevent capsizing or swampfng. Mrs. Joseph W. Wheeler of Spruce street, Southport, left yesterday for a