The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-22
STAFFORD BRIEFS

to be held tonight and the prospects
are that no proposition ever brought
up in the town will receive the atten-
ton that this one will. All of the In
dependent civic clubs in the town have
held meetings and will attend the
meeting in a body. While no one ex-
cept the select few knows exactly what
is the most advantageous plan the
people Of the whole town propose to
find. out. An effort has been made
to prepare a slate for the meeting in
the same old way so long in vogue
In the town but a large portion of the
votersowill fight any such scheme to
the limit
-On Saturday night, near midnight,
Harold Peterson, a mason employed
by Edward Blakeslee, of. this town,
was assaulted by five men on the corn
er of Fairfield avenue at the Atlantic
hotel. Peterson was waiting for the
trolley to return to his home here
when he was assaulted and felled to
tue ground. He was picked up in an
unconscious condition and taken to the
bridgeport Hospital. Yesterday he re-
gained consciousness for a few min
utes and said that all he could remem-
her was that there were five men in
attacking. party and that he was
struck on the head from behind. That
is all he can recall of the affair. At
ter a few minutes of consciousness he
again lapsed into a cataleptic state
from which he had not emerged at the
last reports. 1t is feared that his skull
is fractured.
State Policeman Rowe Wheeler was
one of the officers who raided a saloon
in New Haven yesterday and arrested
liquor laws.
The firemen have installed their
kitchen and a gas stove has been con.
nected to furnish the cooking power.
AS number of the boys are experts
in culinary science some remarkable
feeds are expected in the near future.
1t is proposed to have. a house warm
ing with a game supper before the
muSkratS and cOonS are out of season.
Two New Haven cars going in OPP
posite directions were off the track at
Milford last night at 1920 and traffic
was suspended for an hour. No dam
age resulted, except to the tempers of
the travellers who were anxious to get
home
Tree Warden James Lalley is maxi
ing an estimate of the cost of turning
the flat iron piece of ground at the
junction of Centre and North Main
street into a park. 1t is proposed to
make the place a beauty spot by build
ing walks and planting flowers and
ornamental shrubbery. There are
other spots in the town similarly sit
uated which could be made a credit
instead OF N00Q D0OS DIS
they have been from time immemorial.
The West End Civic club held
meeting on Friday night and added
twenty members to their enrolment.
1t was voted to attend the meeting of
sewer district tonight in a body. The
club is now composed of over 40 able
bodied tax payers who propose to take
an active interest in town affairs
pecially these which concern their own
section at HOLSTER Heights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Patterson have
announced the engagement of their.
niece, Miss Louise Routh to Herbert
Bancroft Odell, of Toronto, Canada.
Miss Routh is well known here and is
deservedly popular. She has just fin
!shed her studies at an art school in
Baltimore.
: Both the town hall and Redmen's
hall will be utilized by the ladies' aid
society of st. James church at their
coming whist tournament, which will
take place on May 7. The entertain
ments given by this society have made
= reputation in the town and they are
always largely attended. Sometimes
the capacity Of the building has been