The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-09
MOTOR CYCLE RUNS AWAY WITH RAY WEED ATPUTNEY
Rider is Badly Injured When Machine is Wrecked Against Putney
 Chapel.

Ray Weed and Douglass Wells have been working for 8 week on a motor cycle belonging to the latter and the repairs were finished Sunday morns ing. Weed jumped aboard to try out the machine. It went all right in fact better than was expected for in descending the hill near the home of Selectman Charles H. Welles some thing went wrong and the machine refused to answer the bell to slow down. The cycle defied all the eff forts of the rider to shut off steam and gained headway until the speed was terrifying. Weed lost control and the cycle ran head on into .Putney chapel. Wells heard the crash and hastened to the chapel finding his companion unconscious. Weed was taken home and Dr. Lewis was call ed. The victim lost three teeth in the collision, his nose was broken and he is cut and bruised about the face. The machine is a total wreck. The frame not enough left to identify it. The escape of the rider from instant death is regarded as almost miraculous.
 Henry Rugg, son of J. H. Rugg, 13 years old,c had his right hand bad ly' cut in circular saw at the home of his father on Hillside avenue yes- terday. The boy was standing near
 
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 Miss Pauline Perry of Long Hill is the guest of Miss Alice Judson of East Broadway.
 The report of the registrar of vital statistics for the month of March is gratifying as usual and indicates that the there is a natural increase to immigration from other towns. There were ten births, eight deaths and two marriages during the month Then lenten season accounts for the small number of marriages. The fol- lowing are the births: To MT. and Mrs. Lewis J. Snyder, a boy; MT. and Mrs. Lewis Bratz. a boy: MT. and Mrs. Mrs. William BeIford, twin girls; MT. and Mrs. Cleveland Wilson, boy; MT. and Mrs. Roger Morehouse, a girl; MT. and Mrs. August Snyder, a boy; MT. and Mrs Harry Wilcoxson, a girl; MT. and Mrs. Chas. Booth, a d1u MTS. 1CCtr Mdlud, d girl Marriages: Louis H. Schuman, to Miss Carrie S. Miller; William T. Farrell to Miss Anna Henderson. Deaths: Emma G. DeLome, March 2S; George W. Beardsley, March 21; John Bratz, March IT; William J. Neylan, March 8; Catherine E. Bayles, March 13; Ellen Wheeler, March II; George F. Hoeschild. March z; Ava Amelia Wheeler March I.
 Mrs. William Hughes, a we'll known resident of the Ferry road suffered a stroke of paralysis on Thursday as she was sitting in a chair at her home Her. condition is serious and she was removed to the residence of her daughter in Bridgeport on Sat urday. Mrs. Hughes: is S3 years of age and has lived in Stratford all her life Her many friends in town hope that she will speedily recover.
 A car load of Stratford residents at tended the oratorio Elijah at the Park theatre last night. Stratford was also we'll represented among the singers.
 The Rebekhas will hold a whist to- night at the home of Mrs. Leroy Beach on Longbrook avenue.
 S. F. Barrett has established a printing office in the town.
 Prof S.. w. Shaw was obliged to turn people away from his Easter dance which was held in Grange hall last night. The crowd was so great that many were refused admission as a measure of safety. The professor has changed the date of his weekly classes from Friday to Tuesday ev-