The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-12
IGOCK FIGHT HELD IN
 WESTPORT ON SUNDAY
Attended Bya Score of We'll Known Male ResIdents-Visitors Take
 Away the Money
Bv- Our. specfal Corres.l


 Westport, June 12-There are about "a score or~unOre male members of this kpeaceful. community who ara laughing kz1p their sleeves at the authorities be-
 cause they slipped over a cock fight
 on them on the outskirts of the town Hast Sunday Those who attended the fbaft1es have. kept mum for few days, but the joke was so good that k5ust a little bit of Information lee7zed
 out today. But the tnforanatiou that did-get out EEassGaot of a specific na- k t1re that names would be told or the scene of the fight given out.
 From what can ,be>aearned local fauc5sr, the owner Of four handsome game birds received a challenge from an out of town source, .frozn a fancier with seven7birds. The local man look ed around among his friends and found three who each had 8. nifty bird He immediately accepteds fhe challenge naming Sunday last as the date The birds were brought into town under cover of darkness and a, ! -.pats' dug way. up North Main street lsEay, farsa away from pGying and unsus- I pecttng eyes.
 According to one of the onlookers- | one had to be very close friend and 2 to get g peep into the lpit-the lights ! were started at about o'cIockadn the { aftrnoon- Glory, if it can be called such. passfaSt coming to the Westport fanc1ers flor they won the first three battles The fourth and fifth went to | the visitor while the natives made it Hour for themselves when their bird Eaunexeds the sixth battle. It was fast growing dark and still another bout, the main, was1to be run off. It look led good for the -Westport bird, so good that the native sons were willing to 20 the limit in-baclzing their bird. The birds were let go at it, but it was found that it was too dark for them to really see cath other. Someone srg- ! gested that lanterns be secured, the EEuggestfon being carried out Thereon lies & tale and woe to the Westport Ebird It's owner had ssthe rooster tam led we'll but in tais trainings had neg Iecred to add a. little lamp light. The result was that when the bird got in to the pit and the light fell upon him kfused.- that the enemy walked away k<z1th 9ha battle Before departing the kEpectators covered up ali signs of bat s4Ie GI1fnE in the fighting pit. Next lday two birds. slightly cut up, but tWelEand lively, were caged in a store Lon State street=near Main There were knaany who saw the battered fowl but knone suspected that a 'ebabtle'' had ibeen fought They don't pull off such k1ricks every day. so rNny besannoyed2 ? { Judge of Probate D. B. Brad1eys tcondft1on-1s st1u serious at has home in tWr1ght street. For the past few days she has been z1ndep theeattenfdon of a physician most all the time -' M Steinert & Co.,. Bridgeport, are showing several model pianos at the istore Of Cavanangh 6 West in Main
 street The exhibition will continue dor two weeks
 1 Joseph Cornell kl1as been engaged for i741e past few days in spraying many of the large trees around the center.
 J H. Stagg, C. W. FraIeigh and W. H Daley all of Bridgeport, were in gown yesterday, registering at the
 Westport Hotel.
 William Krause,, student at Yale,
 hzs been visiting at his nome on Lin-
 Hofn street for the past few days
 Miss Putney delighted with soprano ssoIos between the scenes at the play hst presented by the Girls Friendly so- icSety at National hall last evening Miss Putney has had previous musical Experiences in New York choirs. 1 Many visitors are expected in town psonorrozv to be the guests Of friends
 and to attend the services incident to the --e1ghtieth anniversary of Christ lGhurch-
 work has bean started on the new foot bridge in Canal street over the sL.ees- canal The nsHx bridge will re- ,mas~ce an older construction which slas Esen its best days
 i~ new windmill is being added as sz.ell as other extensive repairs made
 10 the ,oId Hunerberg place at the 2 Earns David Levy, the new owner, hes made many extensive improve u,snfs since the purchase of the place, including a new garage a large yer auda and laying out of the expansive szvnA-
 ! Mrs Paul Remy Of the Farms has been removed to the Bridgeport hospi- ta1 where yesterday she underwent an operzxion. Reports have it that ss1e as-nza 1xszz aad7 7ko recovery.