The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-06
TOWN ELECTION BEING
HELD In STRATFDRD
Much Iaterest in Contest Be-
tween DIR. ROlIin Curtis and
Charles Wells For Office of
First SelectIman.
Especial to The Farmer.)

Stratford, Oct 6.-Stratford is this
afternoon in the heat of one of the
most vigoros political contests ever
held in the town. This is centered
around the fight between DR.. Rollin
Curtis, Progressive, and Chas.. Welles,
Republican, for the Office of first Sc
lectman of the town. The vote seems
to be about evenly divided with both
parties working to bring out a big
vote. Which man will be elected re-
mains to be seen. Not until the final
vote is counted this evening will it be
definitely known which man has won
A-contest which is attracting nearly
as much interest as the one between
WeIIes and Curtis is the one between
Fred Nettleton and John Holmes for
the Office of second selectman. Holmes
the Democratic nominee seems to be
polling the most votes. James Lally
is as good as elected one of the select
men, as he has the support Of practi-
cally every voter in the town, regard
less of party affiliations.
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Meachen Of
South Elm street are celebrating their
golden wedding anniversary today,
this being the 10th anniversary of their
Wedding Mr.. and Mrs. Meachen have
been receiving congratulatory visits
and messages all day and are keep
ing ''open house, at their South Elm
street residence. A family reunion
will be held there this evening at
which will be present several genera
lions of Mr.. and Mrs. Meachen's de-
scendants.
ANNUAL FAIR
The annual fair of st. James r. C.
church will be held in Red Mems hall
for eight nights beginning tomorrow.
Dancing will be enjoyed at the hall
every evening and there will be an en-
tertainment and refr eshnents. The
proceeds of the fair will go toward the
building fund of the new church. The
new church is now fast nearing COM
p1etion and as funds are being con-
stantly needed in the construction Of
the edif1ce Father O'Connor hopes the
fair this year will be patronized bet
ter than any fair he has yet held in
Stratford The merchants of STRAIT
ford and Bridgeport have been very
generous to the parish and have con-
tributed many beautiful presents
which will be ratified off at the fair.
PROGRESS IN PAVING.
At the rate the Connecticut com
pany's laborers are laying the rails
for the tracks on Stratford avenue the
its share of the preliminary work by
the time the Warranite company is
ready to start laying its "hot stuff.
This means that the actual work of
laying the Warran1te pavement IN the
avenue may be expected to begin with
in week or ten days. It's extremely
gratifying to see the Connecticut COM
pany, for once, not holding up a paw
ing job. 1t just goes to show that the
unprecedented can happen once in a
great while.
FOOTBALL PRACTICE.
The Stratford High school football
team is holding a practice at Know1-
ton park several afternoons a week
now and within a couple of weeks it is
expected that the team will be round
ed into excellent form and ready to
take on it's first opponent Manager
Maurice Baker says that the team this
year will be the best one ever turned
out by the school.
THOSE DOUBLE TRACKS.
AS time flies on and the end of the
year draws near one begins to wonder
what is going to be done about that
matter of double tracking East Broad
way or laying a track through Judeon
Place 1t seems that something will
have to be done soon about the mat
ter if anything is going to be done
oh n1T% m al