The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-20
NEWTOWN

| Danbury Normal school for the grad | uation at hand. The latter, who has 1 been i'll, will not report for duty un til September.
 Mrs Harry F. Walker of New Ha- ven, has arrived at the home of her and hopes to get back her strength by sojourn in the home of her child 1 hood. Her husband spent Thursday | with her. and Grain Company, is expected home today from trip to the Pennsylvania | coal helds whither he had gone upon 1 the invitation of the New England | agents of the Coal Dealers associa- l tion with 200 other New England dis l pensers of the black diamonds. They departed from Albany, N r., last Tuesday on a. special train direct for the mines chartered by the associa- ton, and complimentary to them as guests.
 Many of the friends Of Miss Norah F. Blake went to Danbury today to attend the graduating exercises of the Normal school at which this popular young lady receives her diploma as normal teacher.
 MT. and Mrs. John R. Peck and their visiting friend, Mrs, Susan Smith of Warwick, N. r., autoed to Bridge port, Thursday and report pleasant outing.
 The public are invited by the ladies 1 Of the Methodist church to their an- l nual lawn picnic and sale of fancy and useful articles which takes place
 Tuesday, June 24, from 3 to p. m. l MT. and Mrs. H. M. Smith, sojourn- 1 ing at Milford beach, were delighted
 Monday by avisit from their friends, 1 MT and Mrs. G. B. Taylor, Mrs. ID. c.
 Bacon and Miss Mary Bacon, who mo- l tored there in MT. Taylor's car. MT. and Mrs. Smith expect to return to
 their home in the borough early next l week, MT. Smith having fully recov-
 cred his health.
 Among the students attending out
 of town institutions of knowledge who have returned for the summer vaca- l ton are Edward Barnett of Trinity college, son of Rev. and Mrs. F. W.
 Barnett; also George Ferris, a fellow l student at the same college who is at
 road.
 | The High school commencement ex- l ercises will take place Friday evening,
 June 27, at the town hall. The order | of exercises Is as follows: Song, by l the school; invocation -; salutatory,
 Miss Mis- Helen Agnes Kilbride: essay, l 'fThe Panama Canal by Frank Lem- 1 uel Johnson; music, by the orchestra; 1 vaIedictory, Viola Pauline Kutscher;
 address to graduates, Rev. George T. | Sinnott; presenta ton of diplomas -; 1 song by the school; benediction -. 1 Apparently there have been no volun- | teers among the other local clergymen | to call down Gods blessing on the | work.
 The school meeting of Middle dis l trict was a very pleasant affair, due 1 in no inconsiderable measure to the presence of the lady voters, there be- i ing about a score of these delightful 1 accessories to civic duty present 1 among the hundred who attended last l night It is to be regretted, however, Il that they Hooked together by them \ selves on the right side of the Town I HaIl while the men tndiscreetly hug II ged the wall on the left side, notwith- | standing that Janitor Cannon had Fl several rows of benches in the mid H de of the hall which remained unoc-
 cuIied during the proceedings. To a stranger 1t looked like a, forced eepara-
 tion of the sheep from the goats, but in reality, it semed to be instructive to both sexes, as if 1t were a return to the old Puritan church-going days.
 Of the segregation of sexes in public assemblages. But it is too bad; for ii
 the ladies are to perform their mis- sion in the purificatioP of politics even school politics, they can never dc it with such display of a1oofness as these pioneers in Newtowns up11f1
 showed last night. Excepting for this little criticism kindly given, the
 female voters are a very pleasant ad dition to the body politics of the town . A of the efforts of the sex by. later H placing one of the leading ladies, Mis- S. E. Scudder, on the important com 1aittee planning for new pt1bli school to take the. place of the tW' N rather discreditable affairs now doin
 duty as school houses. Associate
 with her will be Rev. J. H. George c ' Trinity, Secretary of the Board c
 School Visitors; P. H. Mccarthy, [
 c. Peck, President of the Saving Fl 1 Bee Publishing Co.,, and H. M. Tie
 man, ST. The meeting reelected the1 ' old committee, Messrs. P. H. Cannon A J. Smith and P. H. Mccarthy fc the ensuing year. In the matter ( 'A teachers on the showdown of hand M by the chairman P. H. McCarth.
 three proposals to teach the school
 were read to the meeting, Miss Ann
 L. Keane for her former position
 the Junior department; Miss Mary ] ,H Kelley and Miss Nora c. Blake f. N any vacant position No applicat1o " was received from Miss Goodwin WI
 retires from the Senior department tn z year. After this announcement, u meeting left the choice of teacher to with the committee without 1nstrut O. tions. Now that Miss Keane has Y re- covered her health it is expected u n, committee will re-engage her, for h, ca record is good a. primary teache 1o and the parents want her. The oth' ay two applicants are both natives 'e' Newtown, products of the public ar Tn High schools and both holding No at. nal certificates, Miss Kelley havir ed +v1r1 wears z,7ccesf,1l ernerience ir tt IT, Dodgingtown school and Miss Blak 'e- a graduate this year. Both have a, at mirers in the district, but, Of cours IT. it is up to the district committee Tn please one and dienIease the otf, ng for a choice must be made betwe. CT the two eIee-itJe4z from Oeuto1vn ar all the district sentiment is against g. lis ing outside the town. The move ch the direction of a new school buildir it's is 7Uorryin. the taxpavers not direct
 concerned, but these thoughtle al people lose sight of the fact that Il tn sale of the two schools now own.