The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-22
NEWTOWN

Newtown, Dec 22-The first ska ting this season for the youths and maid ems in the borough and Sandy Hook was on the Foundry pond, Saturday. Notwithstanding the admontt1ons of parents and the commands off teachers, many of the adventurous tried it on Friday night. The. ice is not two inch es thick. and caution Is the word for the present
 Mrs Elizabeth Wilson, mother of New Haven to spend the holiday sea- son with her daughter, Mrs. Warren o. Pitcher.
 w. H. Sanford will eat Chr1stmss turkey in New York, having left New town Saturday.
 Among the Nentown people in Bridgeport Saturday were Mrs. M. T. Houlihan, Miss Helen Hou1ihan of the High school faculty, Mrs. w. J. Dris- coll Mrs. Herman H. Peck, Mrs. Geo. Beers and her daughters, the Misses Lillian and Jessie Beers, Mrs. Thomas Wright, Mrs. Frank Ki1bride, Mrs. Henry s. Lang, Mrs. Thomas Wickens, c. c. Rion of the Borden's creamery, George Canfield and Miss Eileen Hou- 1ihan and Miss Florence sheehan.
 Mrs C. w. Dayton of Sandy Hook started Saturday for Bethel to spend the holidays with her son. Joseph Day ton, of Bethel She went in the lat ter's car. The Dayton family will have a reunion in Bethel.
 Justice Mccarthy rendered his de- cision Saturday in the Block cases, finding both Samuel and Isadore Block guilty and fning each $5 and costs. Real Estate Agent Jacob Block of Botsford, their father, has taken ap- peals in both cases.
 An automobile was sold by auction at the sign post Saturday, the prop erty of Allan w. Joyce, for the ben eft of Merchant l.. c. Morris and w. G. Leonard, preferred creditors An agent for the Standard Oil company bid the car for $160, to whose com pany the owner of the car was in, debted for supplies. It was supposed by the other creditors of the Joyce estate that the latter had made a voluntary assignment for the benefit of all creditors equally, but this proved not to be true, so more than $1O0 worth of labor claims Of employees of the Joyce garage will be ignored. The employees have consulted counsel in the matter
 Superintendent Rafferty, in charge of the state work on Mount Pleasant, had a, force of ten men ag work Sun day and one team. So far as could be learned the men were new men engaged by the O'Brien Construction company and the team does not be- long locally. All or the former em- plOyeiS Ie1L y4 cOdIEdCIOIS seem determined to push the work to completion within the contract time, hence the Sunday work, and it is un- derstood a larger force of Italian workmen will be on hand this week. The Danbury contracting firm of Kel- logg & Gregory, it appears, is not in terested in the state road work On Mount Pleasant, although they have lust completed several jobs in other parts of town and have left.
 Miss Edith Northrop of Yale Busi- ness College, New Haven, is a guest Of MT. and Mrs. Lauren Skidmore over the holidays.
 The Christmas services in the churches so far as reported are: St. John's Episcopal, Sandy Hook, morn ing service at 10:3Ji and sermon by the rector, c. F. Tibballs; St. Roses, high mass at a. n., low mass at 9:30 a. m., and high mass at 10:30 a. m.; St. Stephens at Stepney, high mass at 8 a. m; St. Thonas's, Oxford at 9 a. n; Southbury at 10:30. These mis- sions are served from St. Roses church: Trinity services on Christ mas morning at 10:3O. The Sunday school Christmas tree at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening.
 Curneu Beard of the Premier Man unfacturing Co. spent Saturday. and Sunday with Bridgeport friends.