The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02
HUGHES, FISHING FOR EELS, LANDS
 A DROWNED CAT
Doctor and Mrs Lewis in Auto
 Mathematician News
Especial to The Farmer.)

NSp6cldl to 1n0 stratford. June 2.-David Hughes the janitor at the Pootatuck Yacht club, tells a new kind of a fish story, where a fisherman angling for eeIs lands a cat as well as the expected eeIs Dave set some eel pots under | the Pootatuck Yacht club wharf one day last week at low tide and landed several eeIs on the incoming tide. He did not disturb the eels at the next 1 ebb tide but decided to let them re- main in the water until a few more had been added to their numbers. A 1 neighbor's cat however saw the eels 1 and in trying to get at them got en- 1 tangled in the hooks and was drown l ed when the next tide came in. The | janftor on pulling in his lines a short time afterwards landed not only the 1 eels as anticipated but the dead cat OiIing Main Street. The oiling of Main street from Hard's Corner to the railroad viaduct is well under way the north. side of the road being practically completed. Sand is being spread on the oil as fast as it is spread so that traffic Is not held up at all during the process of oiling the thoroughfare.
 Dr. Lewis in Auto Accident. Dr. and Mrs. George F. Lewis met with an accident while out automobil- ing yesterday morning wh1chs fortu- nateIy did not result as seriously as 1t might have While driving on the Walnut Beach road near their sum mer cottage something went wrong with the steering gear and the ma chine swerving, crashed Into a te1e- phone pole smashing the lights and radiator of the car. The machine was taken to Hart's garage in Bridgeport for repairs and pr. and Mrs. Lewis came home in Harry Burne's auto. The prompt application of the emer- gency brakes when Dr. Lewis felt the machine getting out of his control was all that prevented a very serious accident
 Week-End i'm Oakvi1Ie.
 Mccarthy of Stratford avenue spent the weekend in Oakvi11e, their home town. They attended a dance during their stay at Oakvil1e.
 Home From Shone.
 Mrs. Julia Thompson and friends who have been spending few weeks at the Thompson cottage at Willow Pond beach are home for few days. The cottage has been rented for a week by Bridgeport people.
 HI With Blood Poisoning. John Douglas Wells of Putney is quite seriously i'll with blood poisoning
  in his arm Wnd the doctors are trying to prevent it from spreading.
 George Wilson Home.
 George Wilson of King street isl home for few days renewing ac- quaintances. MT. Wilson has been in Providence for some time past and will leave in a, few days for Narragan- sett Pier, N. J., where he will accept a position as clerk at che Hotel Glad stone beginning his work there June 15.
 Attend Woodmont Dance.
 A number of Stratford people at- tended the dance given at the Hotel Pembroke in Wood mont, Saturday evening. In the local delegation were the Misses Ruth Bartlett, Florence Lewis. Arlene Curtis. Ruby Reed, Grace Auffprd, May BeardsIey, T4ilie Assum, Antoinette Baker, Bertha Ed wards, and the Messrs. Frank Smith, Louis Bristol, Frederick Lewis, Fred erick Garry, Horace Work, Marcus Garry, Charles Andrews, Burton Smith, Henry Wells, and Arthur Beards1ey.
 Mir. and Mrs. V. Morehouse fin Town.
 Vernon Morehouse, son of MT. and Mrs. George Morehouse of East Broadway came up to Stratford from WatervIiet, N. F.. for over the week end, accompanied by his wife who was Miss Bessie Houghton of Strat- ford. MT. and Mrs. Warehouse came up from Waterviiet in an automobile