The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-23
STAMFORD BRIEFS

The suffragists of the town ar, planning for a lawn meeting to b,
 held as soon as the evenings becom.
 warm enough to make such an affair
 pleasant, at which prominent speak.
 CT from New York will make an ad.
 dress. To this meeting all men and
 women of the town will be invited
 especially the men who will have ar
 opportunity to hear the sane and reasonable side of this great question
 The present undignified squabble fol
 the highest office in the gift of the
 people ought to operate as an induce.
 ment for men, at least to listen te the arguments of the women and form their ultimate conclusions after hearing all sides There is smuch vorable to votes for women than is generally suspected. It is believed that when a league is formed here it will be the strongest and largest or- ganization of any kind in the town.
 The Social Labor party of the town of Stratford, was organized last Sun day at the home of Thomas Wilkes who formed the nucleus of the party elected Thomas Wilkes, president; Hanford Bigelow, secretary and A. Anderson, treasurer. Plans for an ac- tive campaign were formulated. A meeting will be held at the same
 
 30 names will be added to the roll and committees will be appointed to carry on the work.
 The Mems club of the Congrega- tional church will present the New York tenor Leon Rice at the church tonight and tomorrow night and mu- sic lovers here are looking forward to treat. No admission will be charged but a silver collection.
 StratfOrd sent large delegation to the concert. given by the Masonic choir at the Park theatre last night and a large number will attend this evening. Those who have heard this choir commend it's singing in the high
 Mrs. Harry L. Hunt left yesterday on the Colonial express for Philadel- phia where she will pass a week with her sister. Her two children accom- panied her.
 No. in the list of recent burglar ies in town was staged at the gro- cery store of B. H. Wells at Hard's corners Tuesday night Entrance swas gained to the store by breaking a pane of glass from a front window with a stone. The marauders were evidently in no great fear of detec- tion for the glass was close to burn- ing electric light. They also took time to remove all the pieces of glass carefully This leads to the suspicion that they were the same parties who broke into the railroad stations some time j since and were cut by broken glass Hence the precaution taken on this occasion. w H. Fryer, the man. ager, of the store, discovered the bur- glary when he opened up yesterday morning. He estimates the loss at about $50 mostly in cigars and tobac- co. The last visit of burglars to this store was about one and one-half y1, cfn UyoC 0r- ed and a lot of goods taken. Nine burglaries in the last 30 days is some thing of a record in this line and the strangest part of the story is that the miscreants have left no tangible clue on any of these occasions.
 The activity of the Monarch base ball nine is attracting attention and residents of the town hope that it will be maintained as Stratford has all ways had a good ball team. On May 30 the club will give a $5 gold piece to some one of it's friends who invests a small sum for its benefit.
 Howard Ladd has sold the White steamer which he has used in his business here and has ordered an other to take its place. He expects 1t to arrive in a few days. The ga- rage is proving success in spite of prediction to the contra ] ".
 A roof of tar paper such as is usu- ally found on hen GOODS is being plac- | ed on the temporary school house lo- ,ated in the Avon park district.
 The spring season is proving very to dredgers on the na- ural oyster beds in this vicinity. The | 1eavy coating of ice and the fierce storms of the. winter have smothered much of the seed. When the dredgers luit last fall the seed was in fine condition and they hoped to have a | profitable spring season. In spots which escaped the effects of the cold winter and the storms the seed is in