The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-01
STRATFORD BOY BADLY
HURT WHILE PLAYING
GAME IN THE DARK
Lester Baldwin of hudson Place
UndergOes Operation at
Bridgeport Hospital AS Re-
suit of Accident.
Especial to The Farmer.)

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! stratford, Oct. 1.-PIaying Watch
| the Moon Sheep" a boys hide-and-
seek game, in the dark Sunday even
| ing, Lester Baldwin of Judson Place
ran against one of his companions
| with such force that he ruptured the
walls of his intestines and was taken
| home in most critical condition. He
was removed to the Bridgeport hos
| pitaI~ where an operation was perform
| ed Monday night. Late last night 1t
was stated at the hospital that the
young mans condition was very grave
| with only a slight chance for his re-
| covery.
MRS. EMILY CLEMONs.
The following article from a Pleas
ant Valley, Iowa, newspaper telling of
the death of a, former Stratford resi-
| dent, will be of interest to many of
| the older residents of the town:
Mrs Emily Clemons resident OF
| this county for the past Go years, who
| traced her ancestry back to the early
colonists of the United States, died at
| 2 o'clock this morning at her nome in
Pleasant Valley, at che advanced age
| of 81 years.
! MRS Clemens was Of Puritanfcal de-
scent and traced her ancestry in a
direct line back to Governor Thomas
| Wells, one of the first of the Colonist
| governors.
She was a pioneer resident of this
county, having come here in the year
| 1916 with her parents. Since that time
| she has made her home here and in
| Pleasant Valley.
| Decedent was born in Stratford,
Conn, May 81, 1926, the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs Elias Wilcoxsor. With
her parents she came west to DaTen-
port when 20 years of age
| Two years after she arrived here
she was united in marriage with Lew
is w Clemens, who preceded her In
| death in 1911.
For four years after their marriage
1 the couple resided in Davenport and
then removed to a farm near Pleasant
| Valley where they have since resided.
| Deceased is survived by the follow
| ing children: Mrs. Florence E. Briggs,
| Mrs. Mary E. Lobdell. Mrs Helena Z.
| Porter, Mrs. Loretta NJ. Randolph and
| Charles f. Clemens. all Of Pleasant
| Valley, and Mrs. E1na Sophn of ELK
| hart, Ind.
| Funeral services will be held at two
| O'Clock Monday afternoon from the
family residence in Pleasant Valley
| with interment in the Pleasant Valley
| cemetery.
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
Advertised letters remaining in the
local post Office for the week ending
! Saturday are addressed to the follow
| ing persons: Mrs. F. Hale, Mrs. Will
| liam Hapgood, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hull,
Mrs L. M. Hubbard, Mrs. Daniel Ha-
vens, Mrs H. H. Hawkins, Miss Julia
| Hallenback Mrs. George NJ. Hallen-
back. Mrs Samuel Hubbard, John Lo-
1 KoIar, Miss K. A. ESitchur1, Mrs. VIM.
/ Lunn, Mrs. D. r. Lyman, Mrs. N.
I-insley, J. w. Leavenworth, Mrs. w.
/ J. Leavenworth, Mrs. @. w. Leaven-
| worth, Mrs. James McGaughty, Mrs.
G. d Munson, Mrs. H. L. Malcolm,
Mrs. Sarah Manning, Mrs. Henry Nor
ris, Mrs. Henry Norton, Mrs. W. H
| Newton Miss Leila Pirtmann, Miss
Helen Pitman, Mrs. Charles G. Phelps,
Mrs. Edwin ParmeIee, Miss Eleanor
Russell, Mrs. ]. P. Stevenson, F.
| Schloseberg Mrs J. B. Schloseberg,
Mrs. Margaret Tibbetts Mrs. G. H
| Tibbetts, Mrs. s. L. Woodhouse, Mrs
F. A. wallace, Mrs. c. v Webb. Miss
| Hattie Wallace and Mrs Chas. B.
| Vail.
TIMES PUBLISHING co.
| At meeting held at the Office of the
| stratford Times on North Main street
Monday evening, the Times Publishing
! company was incorporated with VIII
| liam B. Noyes of Shelton, president;
| Louis c. Peck of Stratford, v1ce-presl-
| dent and general manager; William
| B. Noyes, treasurer; and c. e. Peck,
secretary. The company will publish
| the Stratford Times, the Shelton
| Times. the Fairfield Review, and La
Bandiera of Bridgeport. A printing
plant is now being esta blished on
|
| will be published.
| SUFFRAGE MEETING.
| In the Bethany Mission hall this af-
| ternoon a meeting of the Stratford
| Equal Suffrage associa ton is being
held. Delegates to the annual state
| convention will be elected this after
noon and Mrs. Charles Lay of Putney
| will read a paper on Socialism" The
| present officers of the associatio are
| as follows: President Miss Lillian
! Snowden; vice-president Mrs. Charles
Lay; secretary, Mrs. H. Leroy Lewis;
| treasurer, Miss Augusta Wheeler; ex-
| ecutive committee, Mrs Sterling Fill
mer, Miss Maude Hull and Mrs. Will
| liam Peck.
TOWN ELECTION.
! The annual town election will be
| held at the town hall Monday and all
| that can be heard at the Center even
| ings are debates relative to the can
| didates in the field for the various Of
| fees. Indications are that the votes
| cast at the local polls this election will
be extremely large. The different can
| didates have had their friends work
ing hard for them and needless to say
| the results will be very close. AS for
| the office Of first se1ectman things at
| the present time seem to stand in IA
| vor of Roland A. Curtis, although
| Charles Wells, who has acted in the
capacity of first selectman for the past
| fifteen twenty years, has many
| workers who will endeavor to land him
| the Office for another term.
| CHAT NOIR DANCE.
On the evening of Saturday, Octo-
| Der 18th, the members of the Chat
| Noir club, one of the most popular
| frats in town, will hold a dance in the
| Auditorium hall Woodhulls orches-
! ira of Bridgeport will furnish the mu-
sic for the affair and a well known
| out of town caterer will serve the
| guests goodies during the intermis-
| sion; between dances. Dances given by
| the Chat Noir club have proved to be
| the principal social functions in town
| and the members of the younger set