The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-07
ST. JAMES R. 6. CHURCH
 ANNUAL FAIR OPENS IN
 STAMFORD THIS EVENING
Expected That Event This Year Will Be the Greatest In His tory of St. James Parish Many Out-Of-TOWn Visitors Expected.
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hed Men,S hall on the second floor or the town building, this evening. and it is expected that record crowd will be in attendance on this, the opening night. The fair will continue for eight nights, being held on the even ings Of Oct z, B. g, 10, Il, 14, 15 and 16- Dancing will be held in the hall every evening to the accompaniment of the Park City orchestra and there will be an interesting entertainment of will be served and there will be booths for the sale of fancy articles, food stuffs, chances on various beautiful presents contributed for the purpose by the merchants of Bridgeport and Stratford.
 Many people are expected to come over to Stratford from Bridgeport ev- cry night for the purpose of attending the fair, and other people are expected from Milford, Derby and other sur rounding towns and cities. Rev. M. J.. OConnor, in spite of the fact that he has been very busy with other matters during the past few days, has hustled to make the fair this year fine suc- cess and there is little doubt but that his efforts will be rewarded Many season tickets have been sold for the affair and several hundred dol lars has already been realized from the sale of chances by the different canVassers
 Never in the history of St. James parish has money been needed more urgently than it is at present. The new church is more than half com p1elted and as A large sum or money will have to be paid over to the con- tractors when the job is finished, ev- cry cent that is. taken in at the fair can be used to advantage. Father O'Connor is confident that his par1su- toners and their friends will respond nobly to the call for assistance in the work of building this new church and by patronizing the fair, help to swell the building fund and pay for the handsome new structure now going up at the corner of Main and Broad Sts.
 AFTER THE STORM
 Now that election is over the town will settlel down once more and it's citizens will again resume their vari- ous tasks. the while they keep an in terested eye on the way affairs are being run under the new form of goV- ernment which Stratford adopted re- gently The new form of government is practically a commission form of government. It has it's board of finance, which acting in conjunction with the Board of Selectmen, operates in much the same way as the common council operates in a city like Bridgeport. The first selectman is at the head of Stratford's government and is to Stratford what Mayor Wilson is to Bridgeport. The eyes of municipaln- ties all over the state will be fasten- ed on Stratford during the next year to see how the so-called ffcoTnmissfon'' form of government works out. It the town affairs are handled as they should be handled and as it is reason able to expect the present governing heads of the town will handle them, there is no reason in the world why . not prove to be as near the ideal form of government as it is possible to obtain, in small town Hike Strat- ford.
 GOLDEN ANNTvERsARY
 Friends from dozen different cit ies gathered at the home Of MT. and Mrs. Henry Meachen South Film street yesterday to congra tu1ate the couple on the occasion of their 50th or golden wedding anniversary. MT. and Mrs. Meachen appeared as hale and hearty as ever and no one, to look at them, would think that they had passed through a half century of welded life. Severaf generations of MT. and Mrs. Meachen's descendants were represented in the gathering and all joined in rendering the happy cou- pie the compliments of the day.
 BASEBALL MAD.
 Stratford appears to have gone base ball made over the world series base ball contest, the first game of which is to be played off today. On every street corner at the postoffice. in the drug stores, at the bowling a1Ielys, in fact everywhere where the men and boys of the town congregate the one topic of discussion is big league base ball. The favorite in Stratford with the majority of the fans is the New Y ork team but Philadelphia has it's hRt h3 been laid the teams by ardent enthusiasts who are yelling to back their opinions with some of the long green stuff. A big delegation of Strat- ford fans including, William H. St John, William Nichols, Frank Evitts, OlaIf Unbehagen, Frank Evitts, and a score of others will be in attend ance at the games which are p1alyed in New York city.
 sTRATFORD-MIL
 Manager Maurice Baker of the Strat- ford high school football team has made arrangements with the manager of the Milford High school eleven to play the first game of the season with Milford on Saturday of this week. The local boys are holding practice at Knowlton park almost every after noon now and the team is coming bers of the aggregation are confident that they will put up an excellent game against Milford.
 CHAT NOIR DANCE
 The members of the Chat Noir club which is tohId it's first dance Of the season in the, Futile Auditorium Sat urday evening of this week, have en- gagged 1WooohuITs orchestra, of Bridge port to furnish the music for the af- fair and a caterer will furnish punch and other light refreshments to the guests between dances. The commit tee in charge of the dance reports that a1mlost one hundred couples will be in attendance at the affair which seems to indicate that the dance will be one of the most successful affairs of it's kind ever held in Stratford.
 IN CHARGE OF JOB
 Emmet BeardsIey, son of J. Emmet BeardSleV the local contractor, will