The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-15
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Southport, July 15-The Southport firemen will hold their carnival the latter part of next month, following the carnival of the Fairfield firemen It is now four years since the local { rfirefighters held their annual carni- val the event being an annual affair in former years. When the carnival was last held the financial return did not come up to expectations and for this reason the event was curtailed for the last few years However, this year the members of the fire com pany are enthusiastic, while tho townspeople are anxious to again have the carnival. An item this year that will greatly reduce the expense is that of lighting, which can now be done by electricity. The carnival this year will embrace all the well known fea- lures of the old carnivals, such as bal loon ascensions, dancing and all the other minor attractions which go to make such affairs popular. The Pe- quot school grounds will again be the scene of he affair M R. Perrp is chairman of the committee which has general charge of the arrangements.
 A local baker dashed into Woods clothing store in Main street, Satur- day morning. He inquired for one of those large red handkerchiefs, stating that he desired something to wipe the sweat from his brow. Another GUS tomer engaging the baker in conver- sation asked if it were not so that the bandana was intended to show that the baker was a follower of Col. Roosevelt rather than to use the arti- cle to wipe his perspiring profile. He denied the accusation, following with the retort that he had used bandana handkerchiefs long before Teddy Roosevelt was ever heard of. The in cident started talk on the Bull Moose party and brought out the fact that if there are any such followers in town they are not making any noise about it. However. those who did the talking expected to see a third ticket in the field and knew that Southport would donate a fair propor- tion of her ballots to the one man party cause
 The disagreeable odor of road oil has been permeating the air for the past week, this being due to the ex- ceedingly warm weather and the fact the oil works fully into the roadbed this odor, it is expected, will vanish. The oiling of the streets has been made possible through the donations of local residents, the town in no way contributing to the fund. One car load of oil was used. It is understood that more oil will be spread as soon
  well into the road.
 Friends in town are envying Dr. and Mrs. G. M Hammond who are in att tendance at the Olympic games at Dr. Hammond is acting as one of the medical trainers of the band of American athletes.
 R. B. Sherwood now has his motor boat in commission.
 Miss Catherine Perry of Water street is entertaining friends from New York
 Architect Thomas K. Kelley of Wall street. Bridgeport, has been engaged by the Southport firemen to draw the plans for their new engine house in Main, stret
 MT. and Mrs. A. c. Bradley are en- tertaining MT. Bradley's sister, Miss Helen Bradley, of New York.
 The stork paid a visit during the past week at the home of MT. and Mrs. w P. Wright.
 Mr. and Mrs. William Purdy and daughters, Grace and Eva, are soon to go to East Hampton for two weeks.