The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-08
BAPTISM OF FIRE FOR STRATFORD'S
 NEW APPARATUS

| 0'C'0hudnc9, Une Taxpayers Improve
 ment club of the north end last night
 officially put into commission it's new
 fire truck, dedtcating it with appro-
 prlate ceremonies. The truck which
 Is the old Mutual hook and ladder
 truck came back from the blacksmith
 and paint shop few days ago and
 was used for the first time last night
 its dedication night.
 Just as the evenings program of l speechnaking, musical selections etc., 1 was about to begin, the wife Of Frank
 Smith, one of the members of the club
 who lives two doors away from the
 clubhouse, came rushing into the build 1 ing where her husband was laying l plates on the long banquet table with | the cry of Frank, our house is on | flre! Frank dropped the plate he had
 in his hand and with a dozen of the | other members of the club assisting
 him, the big front doors of the club
 and fire house were thrown open and 1 the rejuvenated fire truck, resplenden ent l in its fresh coat Of bright red paint was hauled out to the fire, a, few
 yards away.
 playing on the fire which was 1ocat- ed in a clothes closet in MT Smith g house, and 1t was eEtinguished be- fore 1t did very much damage. The truck was then hauled Back into the truck house, the arrangements for the evenings program were completed and the fun began, not however, without MT. Smith being made the object of much "lcidd1ng'' the members accusing him of setting his house on fire on
 purpose to let him have the credit of
 being the first member of the club
 to receive any benefit from the new fire apparatus.
 The evenings program was 8. most | interesting one and included many fine speeches, among those who were heard in r1x m Holmes and James I4alIy, Representa- tive J. Henry B1akeman, Judge Chas. H. Peck, President of the Board of Trade Elliott Peck, David Zoe, Thorn as McQuilIan, Peter Gleeson, L. B. Peck, A. Dahlin, and J. Ackler.
 Richard Stanton presided over the
 mettng called on the different speak CTS for remarks and proving himself to be an excellent master of ceremon- ieS.
 cal selections at intervals throughout the evening and before the company adjourned refreshments of hot roast beef, cheese sandwiches, pickles and hot coffee were served It was a fine meeting and did much to cement the feeling of goodfellowship and harmony which is growing up between the mem bers of the Taxpayers Improvement club and their fellow citizens in other parts of the town.
 ACTIVITIES AT THE POOTATUCK
 Things are beginning to move along at the Pootatuck yacht club: the spring activities now beginning there in earnest. A number of the members Of the club have already launched their boats and many others are over hauling their craft on the beach at the clubhouse preparatory to the open ing of the season on Decoration Day. l
 IMPROVING WITH AGE
 4Ioi 5 SJ1J- the Stratford Fire department arriv- 1 ing on the scene. didn't think they could get there so quick.'' This is 1 what a resident of Hollister Heights | said yesterday to G. w. CoggsweH, the | fire underwater who was looking over the ruins of the Hollister Heights house which was burned Sunday night. Which seems to show that the local firemen are pretty prompt in responding to fires in spite of the gen. eral opinion to the contrary entertain ed by many of the residents in the outskirts of the town.
 ADVERTISED LETTERS
 The advertised letters remaining in the local post office for the past week are addressed to the following per sons:
 Mrs. s. Bradley, Charles Bronson, nison, Chas. Eiserman, Mrs. G. Free man, Mrs Michael Grady, E. Howbigg, Miss V. Hodissey, Kate and Ethel Raymond Mansfield, Mrs. James Nelson, w. A. Powers, Rose and Joseph Raynor, William Stone, Mrs. S. Antoni ZaStnSkyi. OLD STRATFORDS
 TO RE-ORGANIzE
 The old Stra tford baseball team will organize again this season and will play some of the best teams around this part of the state during the com ing sesson About all of the old play CTS will try out for posotions on the team and with the same boys playing with the team as have played with it n former years it should prove to be one of the fastest teams in Connecti- sut If
 The following men vii ltry out for ( on the team: Flood, Budding Y ,on, w. Parks Conrad, Youngdon, ] spot1ow, J. McGAahay, Clinton, Evitts, w. McGahay, Knapp, c. McGahay, G. ( Parks, and the rest of the men who l ,ormer1y played with the team. These . Ind all other candidates for positions ! ,n the teams lineup are requested to 'eport for practice at 2:S0 o'clock Sup- z lay afternoon when a practice game T. will be played.
 SENIOR CLASS CAKE SALE ( The members of the Senior class of I he Stratford High school will givel me of their popular food and cake C ales at the Center school building ( aftrenoon between the hours if and 6 o'clock. The proceeds of t he sale will be added to the gradua- r ion fund. The committee arranging l. or the sale is composed of Miss Flora + 0ufour, Miss Louise Barnum, Basil Merrill and Allan MaoGregor. The s asst sale held under the auspices of I he Senior class was most successful he entire supply of cake and food a tuffs being disposed of long before f he hour for closing the sale, and it s expected that the sale Saturday will A ,e equally successful. f FOR THE FLOOD SUFFERERS d The sum of sixty-five dollars has is zen forwarded to the Red Cross so- il