The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-10
BARNUM AVENUE IN STAMFORD
 BEING OILED
FUNERAL OF OTIS AILEN-oTH FIR INTERESTING NEWS NOTES FROM STRAIT
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 Stratford, June 1O.-Work started in earnest yesterday on the oiling of Barnurn avenue from Main street to the city line. An oil sprinkler, several teams and 8 force of men are working on the job and it is expected that the work will be finished within a couple Of days At present the going is not very good on the avenue owing to the covering of oil but when this oil soaks into the roadbed a fine dustless road will take the place of the present one which is anything but dustless.
 Otis Allen.
 The funeral of Otis Allen of Strat- ford avenue who was struck and kill- ed by a bolt of lightning while at work on Wells Place Saturday was held yesterday afternoon from his fciatfng. The funeral was a large one, relatives and friends turning out to pay their tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased. The burial was in Union cemetery.
 Guard Rail.
 A guard rail is being put up along the edge of the brook which runs be- meath the roadbed in Beardsley Lane The guard rail which is made of stout posts will prevent automobiles or wagons going into the ditch at this dangerous spot on a. dark or stormy night when the road is not easily dis cernible.
 Golf In Stratford.
 The ideal June weather which prevailed Sunday induced a lot of peo- pie to try their hand at golf at the new WeatogaHe Country club links at Know1ton park. There was Q score of people on the links in the morning and as many more in the afternoon, and although no records were broken %1Ao H. on the course. Attorney Ivan More house and Roger Briggs, both expert enced players, played a couple of close games in the forenoon, Attorney Warehouse winning one and Briggs winning the other. Briggs has the record to date on the local links for long drives. making a couple Sunday which were around the 200 yard mark. The course is improving every day and within month will undoubt- edly be in first class condition. The tennis courts at the club are now for use within a couple of days. All that remains to be done on the courts is to screen them in and mark out the boundary lines.
 Student Pedestrians.
 A couple of Yale students passed through Stratford yesterday on a walking trip from New Haven to New York. They had their coats off and were carrying them strapped in their belts, were hat1ess, and more or less covered with dust. They said that their intention was to reach Stamford before nightfalI and leave Stamford early this morning for New York with the expectation of reaching the big city tonight. These walking trips are becoming quite a fad at Yale and every day reports come telling of stu dents starting out on long trips to some distant city.
 E. Broadway and JuGson Place. A topic of interest to local people which continues to cause more or less gossip in the news cen1ers is the East Broadway and Judson Place trolley line matter. As the matter now stands ture by the railroad committee 1t looks as if the people of Stratford will be getting the worst end of the matter and the Connections company the other end no matter how the citi- zens of the town vote on the matter. The Connecticut company has been granted permission to lay a track through Judson Place providing the town has not given the company per way by Decem Der 1st. So to save Jud- 1 son Place as purely residential street the citizens of the town will have to vote to allow the Connecticut | company to put another track through East Broadway-a street which is at l present too narrow for even one l track. It's just 8 question of choosing between the worst of two evils in, or der to accommodate the Connection company.
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