The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-21
OUR NEWTOWIV
 NEWS LETTER
Medicine Show Awards Prizes to Man, Woman and Baby Voted Most Popular Other Live News Notes.
fspeoial to .the Farmer.)

fzazvtovn.z July 21-The oregon ATed-' i isrs,e r.onnra1y which has been in DodgingtoEn for the past week, clos- ed last night with a concert in which sacred >and patriotic -nsisae prexsll- s1s.l- ed The prizes onered for the l1apst popular woman. the most populsr man and the most popular baby were awarded as follows. Miss Lucy Am Edrsws a cake basket; sConstable Will t1fa1n cowsf k6Id writing peTk and -son Of 1Gr. and Mrs T. Andrews gold i95nrar rafax The show left last night for. Botsford, where they will -xhibit this wselE-
 TOWN CLERK FIN PERTAINS.
 The following weli-lnown people of Bridgeport. MT and Mrs. Theqdore 1,anehar1amert Miss Mabel Tiara, Miss Alice L.yddy and Miss Mary. C1ark were entertained Sunday, at the home Of Town Clerk Oscar PftzsQhlers TeanviIle-
 sUCCESFUds CANDIDATES
 or the twenty-tvo pupils who took the examination recently before tho full board of school visitors for ad- mission to No 8 grade in the High school building. eighteen passed suc- scessfuIIy These are Margaret Brad. ley, Louise Bresson. John Christopher, Mary Clark Mildred Corbett, Ken- meth HawIey Julius Hartwig. Gather
 
 SJsborn. Albert Pierron, Elliott Platt, Holm Ranerty, Fannie Treadwell Mar garet White, Dorothy Meeker, Gussie Brenner, Laura Andrews.
 Leonard Lawrence. an old Newtown- Fer. now of Columbus. O.. made his sec- fond visit to his native town this week since he left Sandy Hook in 1853. when hiH fathers family removed to Leo minister. Mass later going ito Penn sylvania- His father, George Law is sT, .r,- turer with workshops drst in Dodging town and afterwards in Berkshire. Here he occupied the third floor of
 what was known as the Flour NH n which antedated the Curtis factory. The first floor was the flour mi11 and the second was a machine shop. This manufactures also antedated che Platt comb factory at what is now known as the 'sFSoundry,'' owned by William C. Johnson. but the making of hats in the building owned eby John T. Carroll was going on while MT. Law renee. Sr.s was in business in Berlx- shire
 So 1ar as the returning visitor reco1- 1ectg. this was the first. hat 1nanufac- tory fin Sandy Hook. though this lFlat Swamp and Gregory's Orchard districts, as well as at Taunton. many years before his father came to BerlS- shire 1Tr- Eawrence Is a veteran of fLNG CIVIL w dfs naVAQB eptiNreQ TOE NHTCc years in the 1Sfth Regiment of Penn sy1yania Volunteers. After the war. t1.e removed to ohio. making his home lat Colun1 bus. or his fathers ia nilyr there are alive Mrs Hattie Riley, East 1Gaucf chunk. Pa. Mrs. Mary Roberts sof West Pittston, Pa. and William E14awrence of Ashley. Pa. Mir. I4awr ence claims. l1nsh1p with the Shepard and Morgan families of Newtown. cousins now living arc Mrs. Betsey Nash ana Arthur Peck of Sugar street. which I was known by this name when he was born in 1s46. As to the changes visi- b1e to him in the sixty years since his ldeparture he notices few and says all the old familiar haunts of his boy hood. including the "swimming hoie' in the Pohtatuci stream still look as