The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-28
ANNUAL MEETING OF
 POOTATUCK YACHT
 CLUB TUESDAY SEPT. 2
Labor Day to Be Observed at Strat- ford Yacht CIub-Weatogue Coun- try Clubs Labor Day
 Program.
Especial ta The Farmer.)

OlIdI1OTOs Aug Go-l 1AO meeting Of the Pootatuck Yacht club for the election of officers and the transaction of any other business that may be necessary, will be held on Tuesday evening, Sept. 2, at the club house. This will be the chief meet ing of the, club held during the year and it is expected that a full at tendance will be in order.
 The members of the club are plan ming to make Labor Day one of the red letter days of the season at the club. The motor boat races in the afternoon should prove interesting and a reception in the evening promises to be entertaining.
 Labor Day at Weatogue.
 It looks as if Labor Day at the Weatogue Country club will be the big day of the season there, as great preparations are being made for the observance of the holiday blythe mem bers Of the organization.
 An eighteen hole handicap medal play tournament will be run off the best sixteen players to qualify for the Presidents Cup. Full particulars of this event are posted at the club.
 The finals in the tennis tournament will be played off and it looks now as Boardnan, Meeker or Lewis, these three players having shown up in ex- cellent form to date.
 At six o'clock lunch will be served at the club by caterer and dancing will conclude the program of the day.
 Sixth Anniversary.
 The sixth anniversary of the Star oS Bethlehem lodge, will be celebrated this evening, in Odd Fellows hall. Several out of town officers of the or der will address the members and their friends. The meeting will be an open one and it is hoped that not only will all members be present but that all who care to will visit the meeting. Late in the evening re- treatments will be served by the en- tertainment committee of the 1odges
 North Main Street
 Just when will the actual work of North Main street begin? This is the question the residents of the town have been asking each other for weeks. yes months, past. Engineers recently surveyed the road for the state and when they had finished the survey other engineers in the employ of the Connecticut company came along and also surveyed the road. That's as far as things went.
 There were promises made by one of the Selectmen two or three weeks ago that the work would begin with out fail Monday. That eselectman now says that he didn't mean the Mon day following but any Monday in the future that the contractors might choose to begin work. The contract was let to a Mount Vernon firm days ago and what the residents of the northern end of the town want to know is why the .seIectmen, on behalf of the town, don't get busy and see that things are pushed along so that work will be started on the new road before frost sets in.
 The project has been hanging fire for months now and it seems about tim something was done to see that the towns interests are protected. If for no other reason than to give a fair account of themselves in the coming Fall election the selectmen should take the matter up with the contractors or the highway commits sioner and not let it drop until the work is completed It would be for their interests as much as for the in terests of the North Main street res idents.
 Stratford's Roads.
 We hear a lot about the abomfnable condition of the city streets in Bridge port these days but when it comes to the sim on-pure variety of disgra cefuI streets and roads, they've got to hand it'' to Stratford. The heavy rain SCOTH OI yesterday proved CQ1S mOSl conclusiYely and set many people to wondering if it isn't about high time steps were taken to usher into Strat- ford a new era of road building and general administrative Efficiency. It is plain to be seen that something is wrong somewhere and that it is high time for change.
 Under the present Republican re- gime, in spite of the fact that large sums have been expended for the the building and up-keep of roads, the roads are in worse condition now then ever. It is doubtful if there is 3 l single road in the town, with the ex- ception of the state and trunk line roads, which is in even fair condi- | tion.
 Take Beardsley avenue for example. Here is road less than a couple of | blocks distant from Stratford center and yet following yesterdays rain storm it was in almost impossible con- ] dition. Longbrook avenue, Church 1 street, a dozen other streets right in 1 the center of the toHn and hundred on the outskirts are a disgrace to I Stratford. The Improvements on l West Broad street although promis- 1 ing at first to improve that thorough l fare, have made it worse than ever | before, and so it is all over the town l Selectmen complain of lack of proper 1 tools to begin the work of keeping | the roads in condition; the roads be- | come worse every day; the tax rate keeps going up; and voters are begin ming to wonder if conditions might not 1 be improved if they voted the straight l democratic ticket in the coming town 1 election The democrats in Wash ington seem to be giving pretty good account of themselves. Perhaps it's a l democratic administration Stratford 1 as a town, needs
 1 Staying at the Beach. A number of Stratford young ladies are spending a few weeks at the Art 1 a-Mis" Cottage at Fort Trumbull i Beach, The party is chaperoned by l MT. and Mrs. F. Curtis. Among the number of young ladies who make up | the party are the Misses Catherine l Russell, Gertrude Yates, Ethel Stew