The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-28
CLUB HOUSE BEING BUILT FOR NEW
 COUNTRY CLUB
fsnecia1 to The Farmer.l

(Spec1a1 to The r dIn1SIsJ stratford, May 2s.-Work has start
 ed on the building of the club house
 at the weatogue Country club grounds
 at Knowlton Park. w. R. Muirhead
 of Bridgeport is the contractor doing
 the work and he has made good pro- gress on the building this week in
 spite of the fact that the weather has not been very good for building operations.
 The club house will be of larger dimensions than was at first planned for and will be finished in a rustic de- sign. It will be two stories high with a promenade on the roof and a broad open veranda surrounding it on three sides. There will be a pleasant 1oung- l ing room with o1d-fashioned open fire place and rustic furniture, substant l in design but comfortable. Provision has been made for shower baths and it is planned to have a kitchen at the rear of the clubhouse | where meals may be prepared. The club house faces the south, and is at the top of the hill overlooking the tennis courts. an ideal location for it. The membership in the country club has very nearly reached the limit Fof 150. Some extension of that limit will doubtless be made but it is very essential that all who desire to be- come members should make app1ica- \ IT,, at once.
 The way the applications have been 1 coming in shows that the club was l needed in Stratford and insures its 1 success.
 The golf course is now ready for use and almost every day there are some enthusiastic golfers who go over the course getting better acquainted with it and averaging better scores | every day. Three of the tennis courts are now almost ready. the turf having | been removed and the gravel rolled down and leveled off.
 Monarchs-Bankers. The game which is to be played Decoration Day at Knowlton Park be- tween the Monarch baseball team and the Bankers, will be played at 10 o'clock in the morning and not in the afternoon as has been stated. To Go On Cruise. The members of the Stratford Out 1 Ing club are planning to take a cruise around the Sound some time in July. l The trip will include ports on the l land shore, among the places which will be visited being Greenport, Port Jefferson and the Thimble Islands. 'Keating Day." l It is expected that a big delegation 1 of Stratford baseball fans will go down to New York on June ', "keat- l ing Day." to see Ray Heating perform 1 as a big 1eaguer.
 l Successful Concert In spite of the indictment weather l the concert recital given under the auspices of the Methodist church by
 H. A. Strout, the blind organist, last
 evening, was 8 fine success and a 1 goodIy sum was realized for the organ 1 repair fund.
 A Visitor in Stratford. Joseph H. Worden, Jr., of s4 Fifth
 street. Bridgeport has been entertain 1 ed recently by Jack Bennetto of West l Broad street.
 l Struck By Bicycle. Edwin Metca1f, carpenter living 1 at Pootatuck Park is just recovering
 from painful injuries received when l he was run into by bicycle one day l last week. Metcalf was returning
 home by St. MichaePs cemetery and
 was carrying a box of tools in his l hand. A young man came along the l sidewalk on his bicycle, rnisgauged his distance and bumped into the box | which the carpenter was carrying. The box was struck with such force 1 that Metca1f was swung completely arc.nd ans it was thought at first 1 that his wrist was broken. Another 1 instance of the violation of the law
 in regard of the RASding of bicrc1es on
 $ssa sidewalks is Etratford