The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-20
STAMFORD STREETS ARE
 SHOWING IMPROVEMENT
SeIectman LaIIy Convinces Res idents That They Will Get Value For Money Spent on Highways.
Especial to The Farmer.l

l Stratford, Oct 20-The change In the complexion of the town govern ment, the result of the last election has brought many suggestions Of fur- ther changes not because the exist ence of the town depends upon more changes but because a change in the appointing power usually suggests changes in appointments. The name of Arden L. Judd is being advanced for town counsel by a large number of people who have in mind the great service he has done the town in times past and also his ability lawyer and his character, which is beyond reproach. MT. Judd is a Democrat but in the eyes of Stratford people not of that character usually termed ''pernicious'' or offensive While there is no insistent demand for a change if there should be one, MT. Judd has a large circle of friends who will urge his appointment.
 The removal of large quantities of filling material from Main street to allow the lowering of the grade at different points has afforded Select man James Lally an opportunity to show that he really means to fulfil his contract with the people of the town to .soo something" and has pro- ceededs to make good in short order. The north end of King street has been filled in and the Improvement is welcomed by residents and travel lers alike The slough hole north of Barnum avenue California street has also received attention and resi- dents of Johnson Heights are begin ming to believe that they will not need to fly or swim to reach the troll ley this winter. The work has pro- gressed so rapidly after 9. century of neglect that it has taken away the breath of the residents of the vicinity. Se1ectman Lally assures the resi- dents of his section of the town that he will use all the money the voters appropriate to the best of his ability and that it depends upon them to say just how far he shall go.
 Mrs. Annie G. Porritt, the English suffragette who has steered the Con- necticut Equal Franchise, association has gone to England to ''study the militant movement" If by this Mrs. Porritt means to graft the militant idea irrevacably upon the Connecticut association she find a determined op- position in the ranks of the Stratford Association which is the largest in the state. There are many sufragists in this town as well as others who would be glad to see the place of state secretary filled by an American woman prejudiced by association with the foreign milttants. The Stratford association has repudiated the Plank hurstian propaganda and good work HIS 41dJOL4Ly 4S1uSSS O0COI14S G1E- sonettes.
 7, It has been suggested that the signs about the town which read ''Strat- ford, settled in I638'' be altered to conform to the trend of events and that they should properly say "Strat- ford, begun in 1889 but not settled yet
 < MT. DooIey of western renown has defined woman suffrage as the adap- tation Of the female tantrun to poIi- tics. A Stratford amendment offer ed yesterday by a prominent citizen who read a poem by a prominent suf- fragist in Sunday newspaper is The Shrew in Politics.
 William Booth of the firm Booth & Platt company is the happy possessor of a pocket knife which gives him more pleasure than the first jack knife with which he made willow whistles on the plains of Putney not yet quite a century ago. The new knife, which was a present from a friend is a veritable tool chest con- taining about everything necessary at home or abroad excepting perhaps typewriter and a, lawn mower.
 It was persistentIy rumored before election that a prominent Putney resident had promised pr. R. A. Cur tis a, new automobile should he be successful in his race for first select man. Those who have been waiting to see the new machine have begun to wonder if this promise has gone the way. of the usual ante-election promise. for the newly elected first selectman yet travels afoot or by trol- ley.
 The demand for an education which will be of some use in earning a living after school days have pass ed has resulted in an order for type writers to be used in a commercial course. This has stimulated the movement and the town school conn naittee will soon be asked to inaugur- ate night schools with commercial and technical courses. To do this the com n1ittee will need a much larger ap- propriation than any it has ever dared ask for