The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-15
CONTRACTSL FOR
NEW SILVER SHOP
ON BRUCE AVENUE
East Broadway Residents Will
Be Out In Force At Mon
days Town Meeting.
Absolutely Pure
Especial to the Farmer.)


Stratford, NOV. 15-The contract for
the construction of the new silver
shop at the corner of Seymour street
and Bruce avenue has been awarded to
| the firm of Bowling & Bottomley.
Fred NettletOn, the local Itveryman,
received notice this morning that his
| bid for the excavation and other team
| work had been accepted and that he
had been selected to do the work. He
will begin operations at once. The
/ shop will be an addition to the 1n-
dustries. OF, the town which will be
| greatly appreciated by the skilled
workmen in this line who live here.
This immediate vicinity has become
a center of the silver plating industry
1 and Stratford will furnish attractive
homes for the workmen.
George D. Shelton is wearing a shade
| over his right eye. Last night at his
home on East Broadway he filled an
eye cut with pure alcohol rnistaking it
| for solution of boracic acid. The
mistake was discovered when the cup
was applied to the eye. The organ
is very much inhamed and very pain
full.
Former First Selectman Charles H.
Welles is in Waterbury today on bust
ness.
The people of East Broadway and
vicinity who are interested in keep
| ing double tracks off that thorough
fare are at work organizing their
| forces to oppose the project at the
town meeting next Monday night The
argument they are presenting is that
| at no great distant day the Ferry
| road will not accommodate the travel
which will be forced to it from the
other roads going through the town
| While they are opposed to the tracks
on the East Broadway for obvious rea-
| sons they believe that while they are
being benefited by the continuation
and the travelling public in general
will enjoy benefits to a greater ex-
| tent by the construction of an entirely
new line between the Center and the
Ferry road. They will attempt to re
new the appropriation made by the
town last year of s., 800 for the new
| road provided the property owners
benefited will make up the balance
necessary to put the project through
The opposition will come from the 9th
er portions of the town where the resi-
dents cannot be made to see the bene-
fit to the whole town in the expendi-
ture of their money for this road is
promised to bring.
Selectman Lally in his operations
on Boothe street hill has uncovered
enough boulders to furnish foundation
| material for building operations for
many years to come. A team of four
of big oxen hauling the big stones
to the roadside where they will rest
until needed for other purposes This
hill was the lateral moraine of the old
glacier which slid down the Housatonic
valley some time in the past before
Stratford became famous as the home
of the most active constabuIary in the
state They probably originated way
up in Vermont and moved with the
big body of ice until deposited along
the edges of it's track.
Transfers and motorists are anxi-
ously waiting for the completion of
the pavement under the vfaduct on
Main street. One-half of the road
has been paved with vitrified brick on
cement foundation which is believed
to be permanent and will relieve the
spot of the mud and water which has
collected there after every storm since
the railroad was four-tracked Had
the Consolidated railroad foreseen that
at some future day it would own the