The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-11
Exercises To Be Conducted For Three Days at End of Week-Wome,, Make Preparations For the
 Annual Town Fair.
tBy Our. Special correspondent,,

to 1904 Rev. Ellis B. Dean of Mid oletoWn will be the preacher on Sun day morning He was the rector of Christ church from 1904 to 1911
 Following the morning service on Friday there will be parish luncheon served in the Sunday school rooms un-l der the direction of the following committee: George A. Darrow, pr. sherwood, B. c. Nash, R. D. S. Putney and Mesdames Smith. Fable and Gau1t. It is expected that several of the past pastors of the church will be present at the luncheon and will re- spond as we'll as rectors of churches of neighboring towns.
 On Friday evening at 7:3O o'clock a special service has been arranged at which the choir of St. PauPs, Nor walk, will assist. Addresses. will be made on that occasion by Rev. H. N. Wayne, g. former rector, andyRev. L. B. Howell. of St. PauIs. After the Friday evening services, refreshm ents will be served.
 On Sunday evening. Rev. Kenneth Mackenzie, rector of Holy Trinity church, Westport, will preach.
 The seventh annual town fair of the Women's Town Improvement as- sociation will be held on Friday and Saturday, July IS and 19. Tn past years the association has been quite ! successful in such undertakings, but it is their intention to make the seventh annual the greatest in the history Of the organization To that end com r11tteeS are already out to make the fair the biggest and best ever. The 1 association is the owner of the build ing to the rear of the Town halIWhich building will be used at this fair for the first time. The following com prise the various committees: Supper, Mrs. Lewis P. wakeman, Miss Louisa Hyde, Miss Elizabeth Banks, Mrs George F. Jennings, Mrs. B. F. Chase, ] Mrs. George Gampfer, Mrs Nelson A1vord, Mrs. Arthur Taylor, Mrs F. i Godfrey, Mrs Fred Mills, Mrs. John Julia Wakeman. Mrs. Thomas Adams, Mrs. Leroy Meeker. Miss Elizabeth Walsh, Mrs. Seide, Mrs WiIes and Mrs. BenJarntn Foster. Bake Shop: Mrs. B. c. Birge, Mrs. Emily Beers Mrs. Joseph Jennings, and Mrs Henry Rfppe- Fancy Articles: Miss Helen Banks, Mrs. Charles Bedford, Mrs Edward J. Taylor, Miss Grout, Mrs Charles Bulk1ey, Miss May Burr, Miss Florence Foster, Miss Henrietta Pef- fers, Mrs Sidney Smith. Miss Eliza beth Schlosser, Miss Anna Selleck, Mrs. c. B. Strayer and Miss Bessie R. Taylor. Mystery Table: Miss Grace Bedford, Miss Louise Bulkley, Mrs. B. M. Grout, Miss Abbie Pehers, Miss Edith Ward, Miss Ruth MacF'ar1and, IT. and Miss Louise Sherwood. Candy: Miss Dorothy Taylor, Miss Martha Taylor, and Miss Josephine ~Downes. Household Supplies: Mrs. RoIlon Stod- dard, Mrs. George Guyer, Miss Clara Wakeman. Mrs. We1ford Lewis and Mrs. George Lewis. Linen and Dolls: Miss Mary B. Dingee. Mrs. B. A. Jen- nfngS and Mrs. D. W. Mcfarland. ] Aprons and Bags: Mrs. Erwin Jen- nings and Miss Florence Quinn. Ice | Cream: Mrs. E. T. Bedofrd and Helen Allen.
 There were a. few in town yester- | day who stated that there was a slight | frost in the early morning, but the | knowing ones seem to doubt the state ment claiming that the imagination was being stretched considerably. The wise ones, however, agree that had there been a slight blow Monday and ] Tuesday morning that there might have been a little frost. They agree | that it was cold, very much so for the month Of roses, but that the tempera- ture did not get down to the frost 1 level.
 The town will construct a sewer from the Hawthorne Inn in State street to the river. This action was taken at the recent town meeting call ed for the purpose It is expected ] that the new sewer will cost about ! $1,6OO bids for which are now being received. It is the intention of the 1 fire district committee to have the work started as soon as possible, or
 before the state highway departm ent starts in laying the permanent pave ment through the town. Should the town lay in the sewer after the pave ment is laid, it is figured that the cost will be greatly increased besides the added damage to the pavement.
 Residents will soon have men at ' ir1A aTsfc | Bros. Co.,, layers of the bthulithic | pavement, in constructing the perma- 1 nent pavement over the state road. 1 The roadside through Southport bears
 unmistakable marks of approaching | activities the roadway being dotted 1 with barrels of asphalt and other pavement equipment. The. new road | will be completed from where the company completed their work in | Southport last autumn to the State street bridge.
 An artesian well is being drilled up-
 on the grounds of the Westport sanf-
 tarium by P. N. sipperly, ST.
 Rev. c. B. Strayer of Greens Farms has. about given up hopes of obtaining
 hls bay horse which was st-len from the church sheds in Greens Farms on l the evening of May 25. Authorities | of most every town throughout this state and in adjoining counties of New | York state were notified in hopes that
 the stolen horse might be traced. Its | owner thinks that the horse was clip
 ped and sheared and in that manner
 escaped. the surveillance of the au- i thorities.
 The following new books have been | added to the library and are now in
 circulation: The Invaders, (Allen) :;
 Greyfriars Bobby, (Antin); Charge It. | (BacheIer) Child of the Dawn, 6Ben-
 son); Ranching for Sylvia, (Blind- Ioss) Winston of the Prairie, (Bind- 1 loss): Andrew the Glad, (Diries): The Best of a Bad Job, (Duncan); Joyful Heartherby, (Erskine); The Amateur l Gentleman, 0F'arnol): Heart @of the 1 Hills, (Fox);. Virginia, (Gargow); The