The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-17
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| The Holy Name Society, of st. Roses
| will hold their opening meeting Thurs
| day evening, Sept. Is at their room IL
| Sandy Hook. The call is for 8 p. m
| first, a social session will follow. The
| Rev. Father Dolan, director, has ar
! ranged very entertaining program
to mark the renewal Of activities and
| as the gentlemen are all eager to re
| sumo, there will undoubtedly be g
| large number in attendance.
ERSON-CASEY MARR1AGB
At st. Roses rectory Saturday even
ing, Rev. FIR. sinnott, performed the
marriage ceremony uniting Miss Helen
Peterson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Alfred Peterson and John Casey. son
| of Mrs. Mary Casey of the Glen. The
young couple are well and very ia
vorably known and their friends unite
in well wishes for a. happy future. They
will reside with the grooms mother on
Cemetery avenue.
Miss Agnes Mcclure Of Bridgeport
has been a, recent guest of Miss Mar
garet Grove of Botsford.
Miss Edith Lewis of Bridgeport is
a. guest for a, week OF Mrs. C. NJ
Smith, Sandy Hook
Mr.. Frank E. Sou1e of New Milford,
expert accountant, was in town Tues
day going over the town books with
Auditors Frank H. Ives and w. w.
Finch.
Miss May Egan has returned from
Seabright, N. J., where she spent a
fortnight's vacation, with her uncle,
Rev. b. J. Egan.
THE BAND @sOCIABLB
The Sandy Hook band will give a
concert and dance at st. Mary's hall,
Sandy Hook, Friday evening, Sept 10,
to which the public are cordially inv1t-
ed. The performances will begin at 8
p. m Prof. Austin Conger will assist
the band orchestra in the musical num-
bers for the dancing. Refreshments
will be served with a good time for
all patrons. Tickets for admission are
25c and are on sale by all the band
members. All believers in the civic
uplfft of the town are promising their
support to the band in their 1audab1e
efforts to equip themselves, SO the af-
fair should prove to be sure success
both socially and financially.
Frank Johnson, NewtoWn High school
1913 starts today for Trinity College,
Hartford, where he will enter with a
view to taking the divinity course
Master Martin McNamara is out Of
school this week owing to a. sprained
ankle received in a strenuous game of
ball on the school grounds.
Miss Margaret Keating and ME-. Geo.
Burns of Bridgeport autoed to New
town Sunday and visited friends on
Queen street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Beard and daugh-
ter returned Monday to their home
after pleasant visit with Mrs. Boards
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Beard Of
Sandy Hook.
At a recent special meeting. Sandy
Hook school district voted to raise a
tax of one mill on the dollar to pay
for necessary work on the school build
ings, and instructed the committee,
Mesrs Ti1son, Keane and Larner to
engage Mr.. Herman H Oppe as col
1ector of the taxes.
PEACH MAGNATD
Newton M. Curtis closed the peach
season at his orchards on Curtis Hill
with the successful record of II 900 has
kets, not counting wfndfalls OF sec
onds. He has employed a, dozen of
helpers and three teams constantly
since the season began, and his re-
turns in a money way prove that
peaches may be made a paying crop
on many of the rUn-to-waste farms
and sheep pastures Of Connecticut,
when handled intelligent1y. Mr.. Cur
tbs is now the third largest grower
of peaches in the State. being surpase-
ed only by Peach King Hale and the
Coleman farm near Derby. He also
raises pears and apples on a CONNER
cia1 scale.