The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-30
MRS. LOEBINGER TALKS
 CONTINGENCY ON CAMPAIGN
Favor Democratic Candidates on National Ticket.
'RATFORD
Especial to The Farmer. )

Stratford, Oct. so-A small audience
 greeted Mrs. Sofia Loebinger, of New
 York. at the town hall last night.
 mans NationaI Wilson and Marshall
 organization to address the citizens of
 Stratford on the coming election.
 Judge P. E. Dillon of Rhode Island
 was announced to speak but he failed to appear. Walter Goddard was chair man of the meeting and he made a brief address. MT. Goddard's first ap- speaker left a good impression In fact his presentation of the situation pleased the audience more than that of the visiting speaker. Mir. Goddard will be sought for in the future. The affair was not fully advertised on ac- count of the delay Of the New York association in selecting their speakers and making them known shere.
 GEORGE SMITHS DEATH.
 General surprise was caused yester- day by the announcement of the death of George P, smith. proprietor of night before at the Bridgeport hos pital. Mir. Smith had been ailing for several years, with brief periods of convalescence. Two weeks ago he went to the Bridgeport hospital where an operation for gall stones was per formed. The operation was success full and the prospects of ultimate re- covery were considered good, when complications set in and he failed rap idly. Deceased was born in Milford A A. years ago. the son of George Smith, Milford Point. He succeeded his un- cle, Minor Smith at Minors Hotel when the latter died seven years ago. He came of a family of hotel keepers and learned the business from the bot tom He was particularly successful in conducting Minors Hotel He was dom ruff1ed. He disIil1ed notoriety and carefully avoided all public men ton. His kindly disposition and con- sistent attitude of friendliness, made he married Miss Bertha, Walmsley of Northampton, Mass, who survives. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Ford and Mrs. Louise Warner, both of Milford. Cassius Smith, his only brother, died several years ago. MT. Smith was a Mason of high degree, carried out at the funeral which takes place Thursday afternoon at o'clock from Bishops mortuary chapel in The interment will be in the family plot in Milford.
 The Progressive party announces a grand rally at the town hall Saturday night, at which Miss Anna Rose will be the principal speaker.
 Robert B. Atherton of North Main street has been losing his fine bred but the manner of their going has been mystery. Every effort to catch the thief has been baff1ed. Night before last MT. Atherton was aroused by a, commotion in his hen yard and when he peered from his window in the darkness he could distinguish a object which might be dog, a wolf, fox or even man, according to the light of imagination in which the object appeared. The animal dis appeared in the hen yard. Closer i'm vestfgation failed to reveal any animal and the hole through which the ami nal disappeared was found to be an ordinary rat hole. The approach of Halloween may have had something to do with the apparition. There is no joke, however, in the fact that over 100 chickens worth several dollars each have disappeared from MT. Atherton's s yard in the last few weeks.
 Troops of merry children each car rying a pumpkin, made an interesting sight on the streets yesterday. They explained that Frank B. Conine was giving away his big crop of pumpkin