The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-03-13
News of Fairfield County Towns
Stafford
Especial to The Farmer)

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StratfOrd, March 13-Contractor and
Mayor Bryan Mahan of New London
who will do the state work on the
Ferry road was in town Saturday
looking over the ground. He an
nounced that he would begin work
March % and rush things along and
get the job done as soon as possible.
AS : the job is now a year overdue this
will be good news to the residents
along the road. Many complaints
have been made concerning the de-
lay and State Highway Commissioner
Macdonald has been severely CRITICS.
ed for his part in the affair.
An important matter in connection
with the building of the new road is
the announcement that water and gas
mains will be placed on this street
as soon as possible in the spring. The
residents of the vicinity hope that
there will be no repetition of the Bar
mum avenue fiasco where the newly
laid road was Immediately torn up
to lay water mains. A resident Of the
Ferry road said yesterday:
at is amazing to me that as soon
as a new road is laid it is immedi-
ately torn up and destroyed to lay
pipes Or trolley tracks or some other
hokus pocus arrangement. It is easy
to know whether mains are to be
laid in the street in the near Or dis.
work is before the roads are built
This method Of procedure has become
so common that the general idea of
the public is that it is done for
purpose and deliberately planned in
order to give someone in some I'M
known way bit of graft. 1t is Diff
ficult to see how any one can be-
benefited by the delay. It is simply
dead loss to the community with
no one getting any benefit whatever.
IF there is any prospect of water
and gas mains on the Ferry road this
year they should be laid before the
road work is done. If the proposed
through and the trolley tracks on a
portion of the road and on East
Broadway are eliminated there will be
another tear up.
eff the Devil was behind the con-
catenation of events in this town he
could not arrange them for the dis
advantage of the public with greater
ranged themselves is the way an
other citizen expressed himself last
night.
George A. Fairchila and son Leroy
have returned from a two weeks So
journ in the Bermudas
Miss Anna Allen, assistant town
clerk has been suffering from ulcer
lily remained at. her post.
John c. Wilcoxson and David Coe
were in Hartford. Tuesday. attending
a meeting of the Assessors of the
State and to talk over taxation.
The lecture by Miss Marjorie B.
Maynard at the M. E. church next
Tuesday night will be of unusual in
terest to people here who have aided
the missions in Rome for Miss May
nard has been teacher in Methodist
colleges in the Eternal City and is
well qualified to speak on its holi-
days. Miss Louise Dufour will give
an organ recital before the lecture
and those who have heard her play
will be sure to attend to hear her
again if for no other reason.
Photographs have been received
here recently which represent Former
Sheriff Charles E. Stage posed with
a hammer-head shark II feet, 9 inches
long. It is needless to say that the
shark was dead when the photograph
were taken.
Mrs. Emily Doolittle who has been
ill Of pneumonia at her home, King
street and Barnum avenue is now
able to sit up short time each day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Starr
Beardsley left yesterday for Atlantic
City where they will remain for a
few days.
The Christian Endeavor society OF
the Congregational church will give
social on Friday evening at the
chapel of the church. This will be-
bargain in social events for the
admission is only three cents.
The natural growthers of this town
are preparing to resume work on the
beds in this vicinity as soon as the
weather moderates sufficiently. It is
believed that there is still a large
amount of seed ready to be taken.
A good price is expected this spring
The "Neverslips" and the Never
Rips aggregation of basketball ex-
perts who never played the. game be-
fore met in the town hall at 1920
last night after the good people Of
the town were all snugly tucked in
bed. The game was the outcome OF
some braggadocio and the result was
something wonderful in the way OF
athletics. The game continued till
midnight with all the players ex-
cept one exhausted and laid out on
the floor. Sixty-eight baskets were
made in the last twenty minutes play
and the score at the end was tie at
122 points.