The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-18
Stratford
LEAP YEAR GIRLS SHOW
 BOYS HOW TO ENTERTAIN.
Young Men Guests of Their Best Girls
 on a Jolly Straw Ride.
Especial to The Farmer.)

dies of the town to their gentlemen
 friends. The party left the centre in
 sleigh at S:30 and reached Nichols in
 time to run into an incipient blizzard
 which had made progress slow. The
 route on the return led through
 Barnum avenue. The party reached
 the home of Ruth Bristol on Main St.
 eats'' to which all the ladies contri-
 buted. the evening was passed in
 games and dancing. The ladies in-
 paid all the bills and saw their best
 fellows home afterwards. The route
 of the ride was enlivened by songs,
 plans of arousing the country side.
 The ladies have now set the pace and
 they have shown the boys just how
 they hope to be treated after leap
 year is over Those who participated
 were Misses Natalie Coulter. Marjorie
 Sammis, Marjorie Silliman, Nina Auf-
 Baer and the. Misses Desch. The gem
 tlemen who enjoyed the hospitality
 of their lady friends were Frank
 Smith. Bud Walker. George Powell,
 Enmet Beardsley, Charles Andrews,
 Harold Bristol, Raymond Jones. Louis
 Fryer. Fr1SSoi' MT u and Mrs. Harold Love1i went along as chaperone to lend pro priety to the affair.
 Frank Allen who suffered shock two weeks ago is improving rapidly and will soon be out again.
 One of a pair of horses attached to
 night on Stratford avenue in front
 of ,McGahay's blacksmith shop. The horse was pulled to the side Of the
 road where he dieI in few minutes.
 The whole outfit belonged to the Der
 turning from Bridgeport where a load of goods had been delivered
 The attendance at the entertainment
 at the Assembly room in the Centre school. Tuesday night. was $50 and
 $sS. 80 which will be added to the piano fund. The next entertainment at the hall will be the Charles Dick ems centennial which will be observed with appropriate exercises on Feb. 2. In the afternoon children will be ad. l mitted on the payment of small ! fee. The same program will be re- 1 peated in the evening for adults at which time no children will De ao-
 mitted. This plan has been adopted | to obviate the undesirable conditions at the performance on Tuesday even- ! ing when the children occupied the | to stand The hall is too small to ac- eommodate both the children and the adults who wish to attend these en- tertainments. The program of the been completed The string orchestra | of the High school will furnish music | for the entertalnment which IS expect ed to exceed in merit any of it's pre-
 The board~of governors of the Cup
 heag club. met Tuesday afternoon
 low: entertainment; I,t F L. Curtis. Curtis
 ford. Alan Wilson; e,s,.er EgsEesiIes' RiaFesIes
 chairman; Dr. R. A. Curtis Q.
 Rhoades; Finance, E. H: Beers, .. F.
 Judson. w. H. Crawford The rooms
 decorators, but they will be ready for the celebration of the 26th anni-
 veysary of the club which takes place pe,7
 be confined to members only. A pan ouet will be followed by social ev~ ening.
 | lev Camp, W. O. w., which takes place at Grange hall, this evening, Will
 be an enjoyable affair An interest | ing program has been prepared ana
 there will be something to please everyone who attends. After the en- 1 tertainment there will be dancing. for hospitality and those who attend
 tonight will be sure of having good | time.
 | Letters from Miss Grace Beers of | King street, who is passing the winter | at Federal Point in Florida, indicate
 that even In that blamy region old Jack Frost is getting in his work 1 Everyone at the resort is wearing the
 heaviest clothing and the principal
 business of the people is trying to
 keep warm. Oranges and all other l fruits have been destroyed by the 1 freeze and water pipes in the houses have been frozen.
 The first days banking at the local | post office did not result in any great l disturbance in the local money mar
 ket The depositors in Postmaster BristoPs new department were very | few and confined to per-ons who have
 no need of using this form of saving. l They deposited either a joke or to 1 encourage those less fortune in mak- | ing the plan a success. It is doubt
 fuI that the people of this town take
 kindly to the plan 4 parces post | would satisfy Stratford people much | better than the postal banks. It will require some considerable time to dem- 1 onstrate the usefulness of the innova- | ton. The rate of interest is too low l to attract depositors who have any
 considerable sum to invest, and others | prefer to carry their wealth in the old | stocking until they get enough to 1n-
 vest in something that pays better. l This evening at the Bethany Mission, 1 Rev. MT. Swain of the South church,
 in Bridgeport, will speak to the men | of the town if they can be induced to i attend the meeting. Dr. Swain's sub | ject will be "The Three Great Real itieg'' The Stratford string orchestra will be heard with Prof. Kelsey at the 1 piano in place of Miss Beatrice Derby, | who will be unable to attend Those
 who attend will be amply rewarded for the speaker has a faculty of inter esting an audience in whatever he | talks about.
 1 Miss Helen Rogers Of Ph1ladeIphl2,
 is the guest of her grandparents, MT:
 and Mrs. Henry P. Stagg, of East l Broadway.
 Mrs. Whitehead is very ill at the
 Benajmin house in Main street. The practical jolSers at the fire house were busy one afternoon last week, and they distributed a small 1 spice factory about the p ace. Pep per was strewn about the reading room in liberal quantities in the hope that the older members would get sneeziug fit when they entered. The perpetrators. however, got the worst of the proposition, for the old timers were telling stories of the war in the engine room and refused to ascend the stairs where a few members were sneezine their heads off. One of the party finally descended and shook his spice laden clothing in the faces of the veterans, who thereupon took their turn at the sneeze game La+er on there were 2S men in the building all