The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12
FAIRFIELD

Fairfield, July 12-Many local resi- dents and quite a few Bridgeporters took advantage yesterday afternoon to attend the lawn festival at the sherman parsonage in Fairfield ave- snue for the benefit of the Fresh Air Home in Benson's Road. The prettily decorated tables were we'll laden with cakes, candies, fruits and provisions when the lawn party started at three o'clock, but when the hour of closing came at six o'clock, the boards were bare. Quite sum was realized and will be untilized by the Fresh Air Home association to making condi- tions more pleasanter for the bi-week- ly visitors.
 Friends in town have received the announcements of the marriage of Miss Martina. Avila, daughter of MT. and Mrs. James Irwin Long of Santa Monica, Ca, and MT. Arthur Henry Child, son of Rev. and Mrs. F. C.. was solemnized in Santa Monica on July 5.. MT and Mrs Child will re- side in Deming. New Mexico.
 There are several applicants for the position of superintendent of public schools of Fairfield and Westport, made vacant by the resignation of MT. Graham, who is to be superin- tendent of the Norwich, Ct, schools. When Mr. Graham made his contract with the school board it was with T. sire to- resign he should recommend a successor as we'll as secure the re- lease from his contract. It is under stood that MT. Graham has conferred with the members of the school board and that the acceptance of his resig- nation will be but a matter of form. One of the applicants for the position is William E. Smith, who was for merly an instructor at the sherman school. MT. Smith left here to as
 
 lis schools He later became an off, cer in the United States army and for the past few years has been in charge of a military school in a south ern city. The position of superin- tendent is not ont to be scoffed at. as a stepping stone for two former euperintendentS, the first, Mr.. Weed ly, going to the MiddletoWn superin- tendency, and his successor, MT. Gra-9 ham, to Norwich. h
 Painters started yesterday to deco rate the window sashes and incase- ments in the Pickett block in which is located the post office.
 In Wednesday evenings Farmer there appeared an item relative to the scarcity of mosquitoes in Fair field The statement was given, based on the conditions of Tuesday evening, where there was great dearth of the pests. Considering the way the Q1SGaS6 DTGOQSES- nave =O06n WOTklnS overtime for the past two nights, it is probable the weather conditions were so torrid that evening, that the mos quitoes did not go out to perform their we'll known duty. According to some. the mosquitoes were never worse than Wednesday evening, so much so that local business man states that he never had such large sales of joss sticks and medicinal ap- plications which are advertised to banish the pests as we'll as relieve the bites From anothersource, this from a cottager on the beach front, came the informant tion that it was the first night the inmates of his cottage were really free from the depredations of the night disturbers. It would be we'll for FairfielderS to appoint a board of strategy this board to hold 'soundings1 each evening in an endeavor to dis cover just in what locality the pests are working the least
 Tn connection with the efforts to ex- terminate the mosquitoes, the men in the employ of the United States Dredging and Irrigation Co. are now engaged in digging trenches between the trenches which have already been constructed. Certain it is that the water will all Be drained off in time. With the water away it is assured that there will be no breeding places.
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