The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-14
STRATFORD PICK-UPs.

came down the river to build several
houses could it have been brought
ashore and utilized.
STAFFORD PICK-UPS.
The clerks in the local post office
have been flooded with birthday pos
tails and congratulations from Leba-
non, Pa, and departing from their
usual custom co they made an exam
nation Of the different pieces and
noted the inscriptions and addresses.
The mail was all addressed to Adolph
Neumann, expert iron worker, en-
gagged at the gravel pit in breaking up
scrap for a Scranton firm. The ad-
dresses and fond remiWers were all
ladies' handwriting and they indicate
that the recipient lis popular enough
among the fair ones of Lebanon to
have his birthday date remembered
without coaching With so many to
choose from the chances of Stratford
in this matrimonial race are rather
SLIM
Mrs. Frank Brakeman of oronoque
is recovering from a serious Illness.
Mrs. ]. H. Brakeman Of Putney, who
has been i'll at her home, is now able
to be about again.
Mrs. Eliza Hill, whose condition has
been desperate for weeks, is reported
as much improved in the last few
days. She is still at her home near
Putney chapel
This evening, George Fuller, sewer
expert employed under the resolution
of the voters of the town, will talk of
sewers before the meeting of the Board
Of Trade in Red Mems hall.
The evening paper which printed the
thrilling story OF the flood on the
Housatonic and with startling realism
described the tossing of a ''house boat
100 feet into the air'ssomitted to men,
ton the removal Of the Derby dam
by the current, and it's subsequent re
covery by a searching party which
found it sticking in the mud at the
mouth Of the river The wreck of the
big steamer 'Buttermilk'' at Barn hill
on her regular trip from Zoar Bridge
to Monroe Center was also omitted.
Additions may almost always be made
to the most accurate newspaper ac-
counts.
John C. Ringe Of King street, has
been granted letters patent on a nee
die bar mechanism for sewing ma
chimes. Mr.. Ringe is an expert ma
chinist in the Singer factory of Bridge
port.
Mrs Eugene Lynch is confined to
her home on Broadbridge road by an
attack of rheumatism.
General Joseph Walker Council, Jun
Tor Mechanics, meets this evening at
Grange hall.
Stratford has never been lacking in
paLflOtlSm. Inc OLD town mas been
we'll represented in every war, exter-
nal and internal, and it will accord
with her record to recognize the last
act in the sad drama of which the
warship Maine was the scene. When
the battered and rusty hulk is con-
signed to its last resting place in the
waters of the Southland next Satur-
day morning every American ensign
should be displayed at half mast and
all business and pleasure in the town
should cease for the space of five
minutes at least. The teachers in
the public schools will probably i'm
press the matter on the minds of
an obliteration of worthless mass
of iron and steel but a part of the
vital history Of the country.
The Neverslips lost to the Neverrips,
last night, in decisive game at the
town hall. Every rule of the game
peatedly. At times when it was i'm
possible to wrest the ball from an OPP
posing player, man and ball We're
thrown into the hoop to score. There
was only one substitute for both teams
and he was sadly overworked Today
the dead will be buried and the injur-
ed taken to the town farm.
The Ramblers will meet the South
Norwalk five at the town hall this ev-
ening. For the prelims the Rambler
Juniors Will play the .NOrmanS OF
Bridgeport, and the S. H. S. will play
a return game with the Camera Club
of the Y NJ. G. A.
Postmaster W. 3. Bristol is now set
tied in his new home on Judson Place,
and it is up to his friends in town to
give him a rousing house warming.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Burdette Stannard
of Linden avenue, were rendered a
royal surprise, Tuesday evening, by
their neighbors who marched in upon
them, grotesquely costumed and heav-
lily masked and armed with a supply
of eatables. Those comprising the
party were Mrs. j. Hillegus as a
sportsman; Mr.. Hillegus a ghost; Mrs.
Walter Hanford, as topsy; Mr.. Han
ford, as a suffragist Mrs E. Man
chester. as antique Sal; Miss Burr, as
an English beau; Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hanford and Miss Helen Hanford.
Walter Hanford with guitar and char
acter songs, together with the vocal
assistance of all, provided the musical
features of the evening. Mrs PEN
oria and Mrs. Stannard varied the pro-
gram with recitations
Usual services in Congregational
Church, morning and evening. Rev.
Thomas Penn Ullom of New Haven
will preach.