The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-13

pleasures assuring their hosts that they would come again and avail
 themselves of the hospitality so gen erously extended.
 The household furniture of D. Doug las of Derby came Saturday by auto
 truck to his hooms in the Botsford tenement near watering trough, Sandy Hook. His family consists of his wife and two children.
 Thomas J. Cavanaugh of T1Tl1nb1lI1 paid a visit to Newtown, Saturday, on business in the probate court. Connie Haugh and M. Scribner, of
 Bridgeport, were Sunday guests of friends in Sandy Hook.
 MT. and Mrs F. L. Johnson return ed Thursday night from St. Louis,
 where they spent the winter as guests of their son. Frederick Foote Johnson, co-adjlubor bishop of Missouri. Their.
 grandson, Frederick, returned with them The venerable couple are both enjoying good health, and are enthuz siastic in praise of the people and places of the West visited by them
 during their winters sojourm in that section of the country. Their host of friends gladly welcome them back. John c. KeeIer of Bethel, well known in town, is representing the Watkins Powder Co. among the farmers of this section of Western Connecticut.
 Mrs. Eric Nelson and Mrs Sanford Underhil1 spent a day or two in Dan
 bury, last week.
 Bishop F. F. Johnson departed Sat urday en route for his home in St.
 Louis, but paid a visit to Providence, R. l., where he spent Sunday in the
 exercise of his priestIy functions and in pursuance of his mission to the East.
 The piece of road work on the Bou1e- ward, the work Of Thomas F. Cavan- augh, is noticeab1y an excellent job, and if gravel1ed now by the Selectmen would place that much travelled high way on the category Of perma nent
 roads, and in g. class with Queen. street, thus relieving stne borough fa- thers of another worry.
 Messrs. E. W. Trop. M. Halpine.
 John F. Maloney and Dr. W. c. Ken nedy autoed to DaIbury, Sunday, in Mr- Troy's car, and witnessed the working of the fourth degree on a hundred candidates before the united councils of the Knights of Columbus of that city.
 A very stubborn forest fire raged over an area of 200 acres between Sandy Hook and the hamlet of Berlk- shire, Sunday, which engaged the ef- forts of a force of fifty fire fighters from about noon until dark before the fire was switched away from the houses, barns and orchards in the vii
 cinity, which luckily met with little
 damage. Much damage was done to
 fences, however, young timber and cordwood in the path of the fire Charles Gilbert and George Robinson were the principal losers, the whole damage being estimated at over $1,-# GOO. It is not known how the fire originated. George F. Taylor and Dr. Kiernan kept their cars busy all the afternoon bringing recruits from the village to the scene of the fire to take the places of the exhausted volunteer fire fighters. There was much ex-
 citement among the dwelIers in the
 threatened area, many of the fem mine portion of the households reurov- ing furniture, clothing and vaIuableS from their houses in anticipation of the loss of their homes, while their men folks were busy on the hre-line. But fortunately the expected did not happen, although it looked portentious for d long time to all.
 w J. Brew of Waterbury called up on his old friend Thomas F. Bradley of North Center, Sunday, whose moth CT is feeble, and not expected to re- cover
 ( The rem aims of John Griffin, who died in Bridgeport, were brought to town on the 1O:34 train this morning, where they were met by B. w. Troy, undertaken of Sandy Hook, and many
 NewtoUn friends. The funeral cor tege went at once to St. Roses cerne- tery in the Glen, where interment oc-
 cured. The deceased was formerly a resident of Monroe and an old com municant of St Roses church
 The St Rose Social Circle will hold a whist and dance at St MaT.y's hall, Sandy Hook, Thursday evening, May 15. beginning at SIS. Admission will be 25 cents. A cordial invitation is extended to all by the promoters of the affair. the Misses Margaret and Kate Blake, Catherine Ki1bride, Mary and Elizabeth E. Keane, and Gather inc A. and Julia, Ki1bride.
 James J. Carnody, who was injur- ed in the bonNb explosion in Bridge port, discharged from the hospital last week, returned to his home in New town, where he Is receiving the we1 wishes of his many friends on his for tunate escape with his life.
 Philips Morris, who spent a, sojourn of several months in Cleveland, O., has returned to his parents home, MT. and Mrs. l.. c. Morris, of Broadway.