The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-14
2EPURIC ICAa CAUCUS
 ID BE HELD TONIGHT
No Serious Split Between old Wing and Young Republicans Antici- pated-E'iFe1aen Make Fine
 Showing in Danbury.
WESTPORT


 Fred M Salmon will marshal his Re pdbltcan followers tonight at the town hall at & o'clock, the purpose being the selection of town officers to op- pose the ticket the Democrats will put across Monday evening. There are < many good Republicans who will not get in the 6raWl this year, having seen the hand writing on the wall Others rather than to see the grand old par ty go to the wall entirely will take chance and add what strength they can to the ticket Politics, however, does not count very much in town elections. the candidates needing to be well known and of good standing in the community to go before the vot- ers
 Unless the Young Republicans tear off something strange there will pFob- ably not be much of a scrap this eV- ening. Forr First Selectnlan, Louis B. Wake1nan,sA. former 'Se1ectman, would again like to take d chance. He will undoubtedly get the nomfna ton. He will have his running mate present Selectman John K. GauIt. The young CT wing of the party some time ago decided that Selectman Gault would have to go, but their opposl ton 10 against him. Gault would have to go, for the younger fellows are in the. ma jority though the old guard are un- fear e lest oa ponight for ne it o' Will tT un doubtedIy mean the dethronement of Leader Salmon. The latter is leader in only, haN1ng long ago OS9n clipped, of his powers, authority now being vested in southey, Sherwood & -WiIl:sm F. Osborn, the present town treasurer will undoubtedly be hand cd the nomination again for that of flee this evening. Harry R. Sherwood juror. while Fred M. Salmon may se- cure the registrar Of voters nomlna- sion again.
 q impressive showing in Danbury on Thursdax. their general good appear ance being a matter of favorable com 1nent all along the line of march. The local, fire fighters did well for over so men paraded behind the Yigiiant cheufieaf engine and the Norwalk9 ! drum corps. In the Hating Town the boys were treated royalty, for fol- lowing the parade they were given the not complain of the quantity and qual- i1y of the food and liquid stuffs fur rrfshed- them. Reports have it that there was enough for a regiment The Girls' Friendly Society will hold am inf~rmal dance Monday evening, 1 Sept. 15, in the pa-aors of Christ
 Mrs. Sylvester Sturges died yester- day morning at her home in North Main street. She is survived by seV- eral sons and daughters and many
 Miss Elsie Morris left Thursday for Asburnham, Mass, where she will 1
  Cushing Academy.
 The present proprieters of the Crown | Opera House will complete t1eir lease in that building with their perform | ance this evening Next week the l tbeatrezxri1l be thorough overhauled, 1 new cha5rs Installed and Ssoth er %i1n-51 provanferts com ple4sds after which it will be opened a combination nov fnx picture and vaudeville house. The new theatre will be link in chain of many theatres in this part of the TnanaR6rnSnt New York theatrical men The chain assures cont nuoas changes in :ID-to- date vaudeville.
 Ezveret -tanaz Chester Woodruff have departed for Troy, sN. Y, where they l entered RenseI1aer Polytechnic lnsti- ute to pursue engineering course
 Rev, Henry A Davenport, pastor of the Peoples Presbyterian church of Bridgeport, will preach at the Con gregational church tnmorrow.
 Morris Burr has resumed his studies
 Frank N. Taylor is spending several weeks in the White Mountains.
 David CoIey left Thursday for Ithaca. N Y, where he has entered Cornell university Stanley coley is .ssf sF4a ppys' Mecormack is again in town Mac dashed away for Buffalo the latter part of last week, expecting to be gone for the Winter. He has a good position with steel eonstruc- stion company but after working three davs.s a strike-of the workers was de- ElaTG0 T mack met Leon Holmes. The latter had stopped in Syracuse and had run across Joe Sands and George Alien also Westport boys.
 DrJ- Newkirk and a party of friends have returned from a fishing trip to Maine
 sentence and another jail sentence by Judge Howard J. Curtis in the Superior court, criminal side 1n ses- sion in Bridgeport this week Chris. 4opher Benson. a former resident of Main street was given not less than 4rEo years nor more than seven years abuse of a female eh1d- Benson was a sawdust man in a West Side saloon cleaning up about the saloon. He stepped out in the yard and was gone for some time. Being missed j the saloon keepers wife went in search Of him She found him in a hallway with Josephine Cyranotte, an orphan: aged 12 years Later the little girl told- of Bensons actions and he was arrested. Justice Purdy bound him over fo the Superior court
 - The other resident was John Snar- ski of Greens Farms. SnaTski with others-ha adAattended wedding at which there was plenty of good things 10 drira k SnarsIi espied a pretty girl l af tbe wedding whom he desired to escort home. The girl preferred an- other escort. Words followed among changed. During the hsticuffs a shot was fired and the escorts forehead was gEazeds Suarskf was given eight m onths in Jail
 Called by Representative William l IT. BHFr.a .athe1 1ProgressiveS of the town 1 got together in their first caucus last evening, placing the following ticket in the field for town officers: Select men, F. C. Birge, M. H. Cooley; treas i urer, Leslie Sniffen; collector, J. Saln- ford Gregory; constables, Hezekiah Allen, W. c. Lewis, Joseph McGin, William Hill: grand jurors, George D. Jennings, WIT CrosSman, W.S. Kirk: i Charles I4ang0n S. 1 trar.- B. L. Toquette; auditor, Thomas B. Adams; school committee, w. Sher- 1 wood, John H. McArd1e; tree warden. 1 Samuel B. Pillow.