The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-27
StratfOrd
Especial to The FarmerN

Stratford, Feb. 27-The crop of musk rats in this town this spring is large and of better quality than usual. Not only are these animals very plentiful but their fur is very fine in quality. The pe!ts are eagerly sought by buy CTS and bring all the way from 60 cents to S1 each. The intense cold ana thick ice have driven the animals out of their burrows to seek food, i and they are seen in different parts of the town hunting up Q square meal. Yesterday fine specimen was killed With stick in front of Christ church, and the pelt was sold an hour later for 75 cents.
 Dr. c. J. Knapp. food inspector, vis- lted the town yesterday and found that StratfOrd people are furnish ed with milk which will pass the test in every particular. His visit, however, was not fruitIess for he discovered that Milkman & R. Tompl<ins of the Devon dairy was using the bottles bearing the stamp of the Mitchell dairy in Bridgeport. Tompkins was haled before Judge Charles H. Peck in the town court, where he paid fine of s10 and costs, amounting to
 ''I will took", is the way a teacher begins note on an examination pa per of one of her pupi s. T. is on=y one of many such exhibitions which have cropped up from time to time.
  that they are all not like this./ For the sake of the growing Generation it is to be hoped that when equal suff- rage is accomplished in this State it will furnish a field for the activities of those who fail to make good at the milking stool Or the wash tub and re- lieve the educationa, institutions of the State of an awful strain.
 There was a wedding in the town clerks office at the town hall, last night, as the supplement of a trial otto Kohm was accused by Mrs. Mar tha Gardner, nee Donaldson, of at tempting to evade the duties or hus- band assumed in New York where re- which constituted common law mar riage. Kobm was induced to look the matter in the proper light, and Judge Peck officiated. State Police Town Clerk Lowell made an affable usher
 Judge Charles H. Peck is acting in the Huntington Probate court and the town court of Shelton. where the Ia te Judge David A. Nichols served for years with honor. As the position may not be filled until the next ses- sion of the Legis ature, the additional duties will keep Judge Peck busy Bridgeport tenor, will be heard in Drake, in Red Mems hall, Thursday night. The sacred character of the drama make it a particularly desir- able means of entertainment during sion, Play at Oberammergau in rever- ent hands is a subject of absorbing interest. It is ignored by no creed or class in the while Christian world, and the story it depicts appeals even O those Orientals who do not accept it as a part of the religion of the world.
 The concert by the Wheeler & VII Snn fa Mems hall, this evening, will be the main attraction for music lovers in this vicinity.
 c. K Blakeslee is engaged in mak- ing up the military enrolment of all male persons between the ages of IS and 45 years, subject to cal of the Adjutant General of the State in case of war, rebellion or reasonable appre- hensiOn.
 stratford Library association has added the following fiction during January and February:
 Beach. Rex, Ne'er do well;; Bland. Edith Nesbit. Incomplete; Arno Rest; Brown. Helen Dawes Orphans; Bur- ton. F. ederick R.. Strongheart; Com Her House; Day. Holman, Ramrod- ders; De La Pasture. Elizabeth Bon ham, Master Christopher; De La Pas ture E. B., Peters Mother; Farnol. Jeffrey. Money Moon; Harker, L. All. len, Master and M9id: Hichens. Rob ert, Fruitful Vine: Hough, Emerson, Purchase Price; Kingsley, Florence Morse, Those Brewster Cchildren; Ladd. Frederick P, Lady of Shenipsit; Lucas, Edward Verrall. MT. Ingleside; Mitchell. Silas Weir. John Sherwood, Ironmaster; Oppenheim, E. Phillips, Berenice; Oppenheim, E. F., Moving Finger; Orcutt. Wm. Dana, The Lev CT; Page Thomas Nelson, Under the Cruse; Porter, Eleanor H., Miss Billy; Porter, Sidney, co. Henry), Whirligigs; Pryor, Mrs. Roger, Colonel's Story; Richa rdsOn Samuel Pamela. Rohlps A. K (Green). House of the Whisper ing Pines; Sale, Edith Tu0is. Red Rose Inn; Sharp. Evelyn, Nicolete; Spearman. Frank H.. Robert Kim berly; Steiner. Edward A, The Medi- ator; Thurston. E. Temple. Mirage; Ward, Mrs. Humphrey, Lady Merton Colonist; Warner. Anne, Your Child and Mine; Wells. Herbert George, New Machiavelli; Weyman, Stanley G., Wild Geese; Wharton. Edith, Tales of Men and Ghosts; Wisler. Owen, Mem bers of the family.
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