The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-02
Stratford
CAPTAIN COLBY GETS
 FIFTEEN OUNCE CLANS. StratfOrdS Personal Tax Collector Gets Them All But 30 Who
 Cannot Be Found.
Special to The Farmer. ]

Especial to The Farmer.)
 Stratford, March 1.-The adult class es of Miss Houghtons dancing school ended the first half of the season last night With a masquerade at which there was a large company of young people in variety of costumes. Only the classes were masked. There were upwards of 100 visitors and invited guests. The costumes were Miss Louisa Barnum and Tille Assu, Gre clan costumes; Josephine Houghton and Helen Phillips, U. s. Navy girls Louise Griffin, Dutch girl; Gertrude Melloy, Music; Grace Aufford, suffra- gette; Helen Mattoon, Spanish girl Blanche Stevens, Morning; May Tray is, Colonial dame; Helen Travis study in green; Percival Laister. Sum mer girl; Vincent Sexton, Imp; Allen Macgregor, cowboy; Marcus Garry Chinaman; George Hale, Flip: Web ster Conine, dude; William Grathwol Indian.
 Miss Sarah McEwen was yesterday morning removed to the Bridgepor, hospital where she will occupy the bed of the Olivet church Miss Nc Ewen has been i'll for a long time and has recently failed rapidly. Miss Kate McE>wen accompanied the pa tient to the hospital
 Mrs. E. Davis is reported as very low at. the Bridgeport hospital, where she has been undergoing treatment for a month.
 Christian Prick, foreman of the gang of iron workers who are break ing up scrap in the bone yard of the Consolidated, yesterday. shipped six car loads of iron to Pennsylvania.
 Town Clerk Lowell has received 600 dog tags. A munificent government provides these for the nominal sum of ' cents each. The tags for 1912 are octagonal in form. They are from the factory of Noble & Westbrook. Hartford.
 Capt. Frank Coley is some clam mer. He is some pumpkin when it comes to fish stories too, but .yester- day he had the goods for he showed half a bushel of clans some which weighed 15 ounces on tested scales. The obliging captain told his friends right where to go and duplicate his catch but no one seems to understand his directions He has promised the shells to his friends for foot baths.
 Bob" Hard is rapidly recovering and will soon be around again. He feels thankful that he was not killed outright when an automobile struck him on the Ferry road a month ago. The driver who hit him has not been found.
 John c. Wilcoxson, special tax col lector, has collected all of the personal tax with the exception of 30 almost all of whom can be found. He has turned over $1,50O to the town treasur- CT.
 Capt Charles Wakeley has returned from Florida, where he was the guest of former Sheriff Charles E. Stagg, at West Palm Beach. Capt. Wake ley asserts that there are no snakes in Florida. The fact that, the captain is teetotaler may account for the difference between his reports and ly visited the land of flowers.
 Sunday morning the Sacrament of the Lords Supper will be observed In the evening there will be song ser- vice, under the leadership of Miss Beatrice Derby, as follows: Voluntary. Spring Song,'' Miss King; "The Lord Is in His Holy Temple" choir; Hymn, "Pheyel;'' Creed, Prayer, Response by Choir, Come Unto Me- Anthem, 70 Responsive Reading; Offertory, Frau merei,'' Schuman, Miss King; Solo, "Just for Today Abbott. MT. Birks Sermon, by the pastor; Solo, Rock of Ages,'' MT. Birks; Anthem, by choir; ''The, Lord is Exalted Handel; Hymn, Italian Hymn The choir will be assisted by the High School Orchestra consisting of Miss Vivian Dole, Lawrence Cassell, Walter Vogel, Henry Johnson, Charles Anderson, Basil Merrill, Geo. Powell and Nathan soloist of the Universalist church of Bridgeport. The topic of MT. Carpen- ter's sermon in the evening will be, "Why Do the Wicked PrOsper2''