The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10
WHERE, OH WHERE ARE THE
 PROMISED WAITING ROCM. :?
Board of Trade Hoped to Induce Supt. Chapman to Furnish Protection For Waiting Pas SengerS
TRATFORD
Gspecial to The Farmer ]

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 Stratford, Dec. 10-"How I long, for those booths which were promised the trolley. patrons of the town by the Board of Trade last summer. We all rested in the belief that we would not be obliged to stand in the cold this winter while waiting for cars to take us to our places of business said a lady yesterday when she board ed trolley at the corner of Main street and Barnum avenue. The Board of Trade appointed commit tee to act with the selectmen in in ducing Supt. Chapman of the trolley company to erect shelters at different from the storms of winter while walt ing for the arrival Of the cars. Whether the organization of a bor- ough in the town was of greater inn portance or that Supt. Chapman could not be made to see matters in the same light as the Board of Trade, has not been divu1ged, but it is a sure thing that the booths still exist in the minds of the promoters if they have not been forgotten already Per haps when Connecticut gets nearer a government for the people. all char ters for transportation companies will
 contain a proviso that shelters for
 eeln we15 ipferyal rRe present con
 ditions may be expected to exist as long as the roads are operated for the /, benefit of the promoters and the poli- 1 ticians alone.
 1 Samuel T. Stanton. a plumber, has moved into the Smith place on Bar mum avenue near King street. He 1 will go into business here. l Contractor George Manning has completed a bungalow Barnun avenue near Cornwall street, which Is attracting much attention on account of its adaptabiHty as a suburban home. The house is neat and attrac-
 tive in appearance and conveniently
 arranged. He proposes. to erect more on the same plan which will be sold when completed.
 dancing school sessions during the week between Christmas and New Years.
 1 selectman James Lal1y is looking for goose whom he warrants to be a very desirable tenant being single and not given to roaming about nights. 'tJin thought the goose and gave 1t to the l active firemen to be rallied off Christ mas eve. He took her to his home 1 on the Ferry road to remain until dis posed of, but the family has risen in 1 re oelIion for the guest exercises the iprerogative of the female generally
 and makes too much noise with her
 mouth. The continual honking of
 that goose has set the neighborhood wild. Even Ed Dufour. who usually 1 complains at nothing short of an
 as an asssrt1 snat the neighbors have no ear for music.
 i At the reeu1ar dancing class of Prof.
 Shaw at the Auditorium this evening tion of the turkey trot''. bunny hug, and other up-to-date steps. .Cy'. has taken only few lessons,
 On Saturday ':shang', Wheeler re
 ceived a letter from States Attorney IYY1- M TrTYff hn
 were then at Eustis. Fla. The epis- tie was 182 feet long, longer than that
 Of Paul to the Ephesians, but not of the same character It was written
 on stock ticker ribbon beginning at the center. When the grateful recip- lent attempted to decipher the mes whole affair before he could read the first word. '.Shang" nailed one end of the ribbon to a telegraph pole Sun day morning and unwound his letter while taking his morning constitu- l tional. On his return he read as. he
 ran and enjoyed the experience thor 1 oughly.
 State Policeman Rowe Wheeler ar l rested Charles Lobde11 Of Baston, who l shot one Alien one day last week and
 inflicted injuries which later proved ] fatal. The accused is the brother of
 w. l. LobdeIl who lives near Para disc Green in this town. MT. Lob
 dell is considered one of the best citi-
 zens of Easton and he regrets the re-
 sulr of the shooting intensely He
 asserts that he got the gun to terrify l Allen, who was drunk and quarrel
 some and had assaulted IaobdelI with a l club He had no intention of shoot 1 ing Allen but intended to drive him from his premises. The gun was &C.,
 cidentally discharged in the excite ment and the whole charge took ef- | feet in Aliens body. The accused
 was held in bonds of ss.eoo for trial in
 friends here who regret his predica-
 ment and hope to see him vindicat-
 ed
 i John Sacha, who got a jag on last : Saturday night and drove his family
 out of doors, was tried before Judge ! Charles H. Peck last night at the i town hall. Sacha has been arrested l before by Constable Bassett and he l promised that he would fix the con- stable if he ever attempted to arrest ! him again. This threat did not make
 matters any better for the prisoner,
 and he was fined s5 and costs,
 amounting to $12.60.
 l Five pieces of music have been en- gagged for the opening game of the
 Rambler basketball team with the i Spartans of New Haven, on Thursday l night. The Auditorium will furnish 1 the players a much better place in 1 which to play than the town hall,
 which has been used in former sea- sons. It will also remove the com
 plaint made by visiting teams that i the town hall was too small in which l to play a good game.
 1 George Powell is now the regular i ticket seller at Poli's Fairfield avenue ! Harry Cohn, who will be transferred fO uexE houSa in Main