The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-30
WESTPORT COURT
WILL LOOK OVER
TROLLEY SMASHERS
Several Organizations Arrang-
ina For Annual Festivals.
(By Our Special Corres.)

| Westport, Sept. 3O-The hearing in
| the cases of David Halves and Leo
Best, both of Bridgeport, which was
| to have been heard before Justice
Joseph Morton yesterday afternoon
has been postponed until tomorrow
| morning. Halves and Best are the
men who on Monday evening, Sept.
15 after being thrown out of a local
/ saloon started upon a wild ride down
Riverside avenue stopping only when
they struck a depot trolley. Best has
! been out of the Norwalk hospital over
a week while Halves came out only
this week. Halves is out on bonds
| of $500, being charged with reckless
driving and driving a machine while
under the influence of liquors, while
| Best is charged with intoxication, his
bonds being $50.
The members of Compo Engine
company are making preparations for
a fair at National hall on the evenings
of Oct. IT, IS and 10.
| Two men are now located at the
| State street bridge directing traffic.
| Both men are under the hire of the
Board of Selectmen.
| Ground was broker, yesterday morn
ing for the store to be erected next
to the Salmon store in State street by
F. M. Salmon for the new pharmacy
| of George G. Green, who conducts the
Westport pharmacy.
Westport will be well taken care of
in the matter of medicines and drugs
for the needy. With the new store
for Mr. Green finished there will be
four pharmacies in the center. Simp-
sons, O'Connor's, TOQuet'S and
Green's.
Hunt and Downes, the plumbers,
have purchased a Knox car which
| they are making over into a delivery
car
The boys at the Staples High school
/ int To H,ox a fIo1 foo
as they had in baseball and are hav-
ing daily practices to reach that end.
Miss Beulah Borden of Compo is as
sisting at the library. Miss Schulz
| of Saugatuck is also assisting at the
| library.
William H. Petrie left Sunday for
| Brooklyn where he re-entered Pratt
Institute.
Tt is expected that the improve
ments at Trinity church will be fin
| ished in time to start services on Sun
day, Oct. 5.
Pensioners of the westport M. E.
church are preparing for the annual
| Harvest festival to be held Oct. 5 and
i Is.
Harvey Brown who has been living
with Mr.. and Mrs. Peter L. Foote of
| Woodside avenue has removed to
Cleveland where he will reside In the
future with his daughter.
| David w. LeaVer and family have
| closed their summer home in Sauga-
tuck and have gone to New York for
| the winter.
| James Kaiser has accepted a posi-
| ton with the Westport garage.
| Funeral services for the remains of
Mrs. Jane E. Reeves were held yes
| terday afternoon at the home of her
| daughter, Mrs. Arthur Dodge in I'm
| perial avenue. The burial was in Will
low Brook cemetery. Mrs. Reeves
died on Saturday at the home of her
daughter. She was 10 years of age
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Stratton have
closed their summer home at Compo
beach and returned to Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.
Miss Lucia Co1ey is visiting at the
home of an aunt in Georgia.
An artesian well has been drilled
upon the land of Mrs. Mary A Adams,
! of Long Lots. Water was struck after
drilling for forty feet.
At the annual meeting of the West
port Musical society the following Of
fcers were elected: President, CD
Dodge, secretary and treasurer, Arthur
B. Jelliffe; executive committee, Mrs
A. S. Hurlbutt, Mrs. J. N. Partridge,
| Mrs. w. F. Osborne and Miss Alice
| Smith. The season will open with a
public concert at National hall on
Nov z