The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-08
 STAMFORD

Booth and Mrs Helen Graham of the Woman's Relief Corps of Connecticut vasited the several schools in town and presented them with ISbeautifuI large silk American flags The gifts. which were complete surprise to all Of the scholars,a were received with many thanks and-4were highly appre- eiated.s The W,onnans Relief Corps has been spresenting several schools with flags and the Stratford schools ares veryss happy to be the possessors of five of them one for each school. $ Attn 6 High school Miss Boothse who is known stos be quite an authority on colonial history, gave an interesting talk on the. American flag. She told Of the dayss when she was a, girl when very fev1k faagd weres ing evidence and how. she rem meInberss seein g. the flag foraatae sf1rstS<tirne.s At that time all flags were necessarily hand. made, but now thatssefhe Sewing m ehfne ;s has heen invent ed one sees Il lss1laas many places Miss Booth saids heW- ever, ssthat sa great many tim es: he 1lag was used in places where it should not be For instance she said that She thought the place for the flag was not in a. barroom or on plrtnuay cake or to decorate at fairs and ceIe-s brations unless of an entirely patr1-z otfc ma ture. Her address, she said, was especially to tell the young peo- ole how they should at all times re spect and honor the flag and teach others to do so.
 Mrs Graham also made a few re- marks as did Elliot Peck, who accom- panied the ladies, after which the school ea1uted the nag and sang the Star Spangled Banner, Which was greatly appreciated by the ladies.
 Library Lecture.
 Tomorrow night the first of the se- ries of lectures in the library course will be given at the library by Her bert F Sherwood His topic will be: .4A Legenda.ry Journey Through South western New England,,' and the talk will be illustrated with colored views. MT. Sherwood is connected with the New York Tribune, having written several articles for that paper on i'm. migration and social conditions among foreiguerS, especially the Italians. Willie studying the conditions of fac-- tories i'm Connecticut and Massachu- taking as his subject, Our Lord as a Lad going up with his parents to the. Passover"
 tE Town Meeting.
 Tornorrow night a special. town meeting will be held in the town hall for the purpose of raKing action on number Of school natrers.s- The first question to be decided on is that of building a new efght-room school building where. the Washington school now stands, and moving the present building back. to make room for the new one. Also to purchase three more portable school houses to accommo- date the pupils who ars present are re- qufred to attend one sesison a day. Baby Girl Born.
 Word has. been received in town that. Edward Cullen, formerly of stratferds but now of WadsWo Ohio, is the proud ratherg of a .baby, girl MT. Cullen was well known and very popular here and his wife. Whe before her marriage was Miss Teesfe Murphy of Bridgeport, was also pop zular. having many friends in town. who will be pleased to hear of the new arrival.
 K Criterion Dance.
 A number of young people from town will attend the informal dance given by the Criterion club of Bridge port at S1oeun's gymnasium tomor- row evening.
 Arrives in Florida. setts Mr. Sherwood obtained much material for his lecture at the library, which consists of little known stories and incidents connected with well known persons and events in Ameri- can history As most of the material was gathered from Western Connecti- cut,4 the lecture should be especially interesting to Stratford people, RI.
 MT Sherwood is a fine lecturer, hav- ing delivered in the course of the last few years more than one hundred ad-s dresses before the New York Board of Education and many before various other organiza tions in New York and neighboring states. He is also the author of several interesting maga- zine articles. It is hoped that the op-5 portunity. to hear such fine speaker will be appreciated by the townspeo- pie and that many will attend. The lecture will start at 8 o'clock.
 All Children At Church.
 Next Sunday will be observed at Christ church as "AI1 Children in Church Sunday. It. Is desired that sthe morning service at 10:3e with the older members of the congregation. All parents are asked to attend if pos sfb1e with their children. The inten- ton is to carry out the idea of Ev- | erybody in Church E Sunday, and Home Sunday, as observed. in many places. Rev MT. Cornwall will preach, {. Word has been received tn at Fred erick Downey, who left recently for Hobe Sound F'lorica, has arrived at i his destination. He reports that al though 1t was a bit rougn ons the way down he enjoyed the Journey He expects to remain in FTorida for the winter.
 To Take Part in Play.
 Miss Esther Lewis is one Of the alumnae of Mount Holyoke College who will take part m the dramatiza- ton of stAliee in wonderland, . which : is to be given January 17th by the Mount Holyoke A1umnae association of New Haven and vicinity
 Personal Items.
 Mrs Joseph Fischer and mother, Mrs Massicotte, of Sound View ave- nue, have been spending several days 1 with friends and relatives in Water I bury. They report very cold weather there
 l Louis Bristol motored through town l Tuesday. night on his way to witness 1 the basketball game.
 7omard Beers of fIIdson t,Jace ex-