The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-09
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special to The Farmer. Westport, July S-Joseph Lavinski, a a moving trolley car Saturday night. receiving besides severe shaking up, several laceratiohs of ths face and scalp L.avinski was sorry looking ]. individual when he presented himself to pr. J. M. Nolan for treatment. The physician took several stitches in La vinskfs scalp and used up several pints of lnament before his patient was dismissed. Lavinski was return ing from Bridgeport and stood up to to a stop. The heavy trucks had about started to slacken up when Lavinski attempted to alight. Not only was the car going at fair rate of speed but Lavinski got off the wrong way. The result was heavy thud on the Lavinski IS most fortunate that he did not sustain any breaks or inter nal injuries.
 Justic Samuel A. Purdy fixed a fine of s1O and costs of $1250 in the case of John Laska, of Greens Farms, who was arrested for assault on complaint of his wife, Bertha Laska.s The latter claimed her husband is insanely jeal- ous and for that reason assaulted her. Laska entered a plea of not guilty to the charge, but the evidence of witt nesses tended to prove that he was.
  with whom Laska is employed paid the fine and costs.
 Compo Beach never saw a greater crowd of bathers than the numbers who enjoyed a plunge in the surf Sun day afternoon All day long there were hundreds cavorting in the water or burying themselves in the hot sands. The bathers not only represented the cottagers at the beach, but hundreds of visitors from Norwalk and Bridge port and other nearby towns.
 Constant bathers at Compo Beach say the temperature of the water was never so high at the beach as for Sum day. No official record was kept of the temperature but it is estimated that a mark of at least eighty was warm that it was distressing to many to take dips or ducks with the head. In connection with the warmest water of the season. Fathers also state that they never saw such a low high tide.
 The Westport team is going after that record of straight wins, IT, set up by the Washington American League club only a short while ago. Sunday the boys turned their tenth straight, this time the Berkshire A. c. of Bridgeport being the victims Mana ger Miller and Vince Burke did the battery stunts for the locals. The score was 16-4.
 The new millinery establishment in the Petrie building in State street opened it's doors Saturday afternoon.
 Kenneth Allen. Vincent Burke and Charles Silvernail have returned from two weeks of camping at Cockenoe Island The young men, especially Allen, are sporting a heavy coat of tan !. The boys will have an4ther stay at-Cockenoe Island before the season Is closed.
 Judge Samuel A. Purdy hastened into Bridgeport yesterday on business. Among those who registered at the Westport Hotel yesterday were R. G: Chase, of Bridgeport, James Kelly, of Newark, and MT. and Mrs. M. E. Staples, of New York.
 Mir. and Mrs Harold Clarke enter tained for the week end MT. and Mrs. Thomas White at their summer home on Calf Pasture Beach.
 Martin Nolan has returned from the mining districts of Canada, where he has been spending the past several weeks.
 Mrs. Howard Haight and son, Wes- ley, have returned to Port Chester. N. Y, after visiting at their old home in Cross Highways.