The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-07
CHICKEN THIEVES VISIT
 SAMUEL LEWIS RE6UL LARLY '
Traps and Pitfalls Avoided And Locks
 Broken on Third Successive Gall /, at is Hen House.
STAMFORD

l STAMFORD | Special to The Fsarn1er.)
 l Stratford, Nov. 7-Sanpuel Lewis of l East Main street is having continued
 experiences with chicken thieves Of a very unusual character. A week ago | he had a fine flock of 75 fowls bred
 in the famous strain originated by Sc feCtman Charles H. Welles. On Thurs day night 35 of the flock disappear ed. In compliance with the theory hen house door after the chickens have | been stolen, he took no extra precau- belief that he would be irnzna1>s for a time at least. The next night l5 more fowls disappeared. Unable to account for the second visit on any theory ad- same parties were implicated in the | two visits, he decided to tabe precau- | tions to protect the remainder of his flock. Hooks and staples were pIac- ed on all the doors leading to the sleeping place of the fowls and the To fl1rtiles- impede the operations of | thieves in the future fae arranged system of traps and pitfalls which any visitors who were unacquainted | width their location Besides this he inprovised a burglar alarm of wash horse rahes and a. few other farm n, tensils. Tn addition to these pr-ecau-
 tions he loaded the old shot gun with
 reach of his bed. The next night he
 slept with one ear open but was not aroused by any unusual connaotion in l the chicken house. When he went to greeted by the fowls who had escaped from their roost early. Eight more were missing that morning MT. Lewis found, the staples drawn from the doors and his Iabyrinthian pitfalls piled in the corner A total of 5S fowls have disappeared from his hen house in three successive nights. It has been suggested that he call the Dingbat club to his assistance to pro-
 5ect the reanainder of his 2 floek lie breds to fill the traditional chicken pie at his Thanksgiving feast
 There is a. general uprOar among the parents over the one session plan which has been adopted for the 9th grade at Center school. Children are
 o'clock. The haste that Is neces-
 sary has upset the regular order of l the lives of many families. The chil-
 drsr are npeDle od eo eat fne,s b,sn s,-y sna Sial ] they get home at 30 or later Then
 they are in condition which prevents ness has followed in several instances. It is pointed out that the town voted I $1 900 for a portable school building which the school cornrnattee asked for H-o@ i Although the town voted trolley 1 book to Averin Hale for his services
 Kelsey has refused to give the boy his tickets. The matter was brought be fore the, selectmen. but nothing has yet been done about the matter It would appear from that that the sovereign people is a myth so far
 as Stratford is concerned.
 1 The Stratford Woman Suffrage As
 sociaaion met yesterday afternoon at Bethany Mission hall with an attend ance of over 20 ladies and one mere
 man This lucky individual was Her played would be an unansverable rec oTnmendatfon for the office of chief of convention at New Haven were given by the different delegates who attend I ed Mrs H. Leroy Lewis, the presi- dent, was in the chair. Miss Edith Hastings, one of the delegates whose family have been suffragists for gene rations. gave an extended report The a. big meeting, in the town hall at which Miss Inez Mfholland. of New
 York, will be the principal speaker. Miss Alice Judson in her report criti- cised Mrs. Hepburn of Hartford for her announced determination to enter tain the members of the Legislature State League in Hartford The next meeting will be held in the same place
 next Wednesday afternoon
 Joseph Monahan. Charles Ornstein and W. s. Travis, a committee of three representing the liquor dealers of the town, appeared before the selectnlen
 yesterday and petftioned for an ex- tension of the closing hour of saloons
 in the town to midnight. The present closing hour Il o'clock is regulated by
 state law with a provision that the selectnen may extend the time to
 midnight The hquor dealers submit
 that it is injustice to them to be
 forced to close their places hour
 before those in Bridgeport just across
 the line with practically no division
 between the towns. Customers who
 would remain in town and go home
 when the saloons closed at midnight
 now go to Bridgeport for that extra
 hour and some times do not reach
 home till morning. They submit that
 it is hard to meet expenses in Strat-
 ford and they should have the same
 privileges that are granted to liquor dealers in Bridgeport. The selectmen
 took the matter under consideration and promised the committee a decision
 as soon as the matter had been
 thoroughly investigated.
 The cartoon in last weeks issue of 1 the Times attracted some attention 1 especially the animals were supposed | to represent the different parties l watching the returns. Shang Wheeler 1 the cartoonist has been asked to delineate the conditions of the animals | after the returns had been digested.
 The result of the election while it | pleased Ed Roberts some, is not the 1 sole reason for the broad smile which |