The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-19
SHREVEPORT BRIEFs.


 At the special town meeting to be held tomorrow night, that old rock in the Honeyspot road will come up for consideration. It Is hoped that the voters will decide to have It re- moved.
 Mrs. William King and Frederick Bradley who have been guests of Mrs. w F. Peck at Peck's AIiIl have re- turned to their homes in Providence
 There is still a sheet of ice eight to ten inches in thickness on the river between Washington and railroad bridges, and yesterday many people walked across on it. Fred Cosier, the tender of the Washington bridge, is hoping for gradual disintegraHon of formed. In ease of a. heavy rain there will be danger to the structure, but a few days of the warm sunshine will 50 weaken the ice that it will pass out gradually.
 The Mems Club of the Congrega- tional church will meet this evening at the residence of Newton Reed. The Speaker will be Dr. c. W. Deane, su- sgyerIatendents of schools, Brid geport.
 Rev. Thomas Penn U1lOm of New Haven, who has occupied the pulpit at the Congregational church during the absence of the pastor, Rev. E. N. Packard, will officiate for the last time next Sunday, under the plan of the Woman's Aid Society which agreed to furnish the pulpit supnly during the absence of the pastor The visiting clergyman has made a good impression on the membership of the church and should there be a vacancy in the pulpit it is probable that MT. Ullom would receive a call. A letter received from DT. Packard on Sat urday is not encouraging- He is now at Tryon, N. C., where he will remain for at least another month. He Is much discouraged over his condition which is not improved. On the con- Lrary he believes that his throat is growing worse.
 Dr. W. B. Coggswell, who is in New York under the care of specialists, is reported as no better. He will not undergo an operation at present but will remain in New York a few days more and will then return to his home here
 William Blamey, who was reported as much better last week, has suffer ed "a. relapSe and is lgqsY -in "a danger eas condition atgssin=-------1@@-
 The food sale held by the. ladies of the Guild of Christ church, on Satur- day afternoon and evening, was a sue cess, as these affairs usually are. and a neat sum was realized to be used in the work of the guild.
 The Stratford High School five went to Bridgeport, Saturday afternoon, and were defeated by the Camera Club of the Y M c. A. in association hall at Main and Gilbert streets. The score was 19 to IT.
 The article in this mornings Te1e- gram signed by Asa ParI<erton, chair man of the committee which will give the charity supper on Feb. 2S, would be 'Iaughab1e if it did not show so much woeful ignorance: The writer begins by calling hirfrself ''the gentle man who proposed the idea", and later proceeds to disprove. his claim that that title by departiFg g from his sub ject descending to personalities and low down abuse of a woman, the sur est indication of weak cause. The Farmer was ssured this morning that Parkerton is authorized in no way to speak for OIenuck tribe, and that his Tn a which he alone is responsible A large portion of the membership of the tribe do not endorse the manner Tn which the charitable supper scheme was launched or the subsequent news paper controversy begun by a few i'll advised hot heads. The silly state men+s concerning newspaper work which Parkerton makes will only draw attention to the fact that other papers | have been habituauy fI ed up with .'wrfte-down'' from the Farmer. Par kerton, who assumes to be the "big nOfse' in Okenuck tribe, is alone re- spOnsible for this clownfsh exhibition | The members of the tribe cannot be l held responsible for it. The mere matter of whether s was collected for l 2 Red Man Or an outsider has so lit | tie bearing on the case that it is hard l " worth notice
 Theodore L4atzke and Joseph lab !onski, who fought a draw, Saturday evening, were awarded an even share | Of the StratfOrd town court purse to- | 1AS- uuS5 E6ck dsSt1SStu ecbCn q | fine of $1 and costs, and the costs | amounted to S1O-13 in each case. Chauffeur Hafferen. who was fined l S20 and costs for the unlawful tr;a ns fer | of T. R. Blakeslee's auto markers. has | appealed, furnishing bail of s1OO for | his appearance in the court of Com | mon Pleas, March term
 ''Why did Russia fire that American | who was Treasurer-CfeneraI of Per sia?" asked the office pest
 ''Shuster get rid of him." replied the |