The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-06
News From Neighboring Towns
STAMFORD

On Tuesday evening there will be a town meeting in the town hall to con slider. the advisability of selecting a place .forSEtfle new school on Nichols
 avenue other than that already de-. cided upon in the last town meeting. namely the London property: The site now proposed is on Broadbridge avenue sor somewhere in that d1strlct. Since, the recent town meeting the matter has been talked up and argued among the citizens, a. number Of whom now think that the last men ! toned site is more suitable consider | ing the rapid growth of population in that district and the fact that a school on Nichols avenue would De practically the same a building on, the present Washington school site ! the two being in such close proximity Building the school Ndchols ave nue would mean quite a distance for those living in the Broadbridge ave. nue district to come and there are certainly enough children in this dis | trict for g. school building there. The matter has been before the town sev- eral time now, each meeting having been for1 the purpose of reconstdering 1 the decisions of the previous meeting. It is earnestly hoped that the matter 1, will be permanently decided tomor- l row night so that definite plans for the erection of the schools smaS be started at, once The meeting Will start promptly at eight o'clock, as 1t will without a doubt be a long one
 Every svoter should endeavor to be present, as the question is indeed i'm portant.s Ladies, of course, may vote, 1t being a question of schools. ROWLAND MINSTRELS7 Arangernents are being made to present the Inainetrels recently given in Bridgeport by the employees of the
 Rowland Dry Goods Co, in stratford- The date planned for is April 30th,. just after the Red Men's nlinstreIs
 and if presented they should take we'll indeed sas there are several Stratford people in the show inelud- ing Miss Ruby Payne. Miss Rosa
 munda Winton and Miss Mildred Cltbbon. Trhe entertainment was l hnge success in Bridgeport and with
 out a doubt would be well received here,
 PERSONALS.
 Louis Bristol has been spending a 1 few days with his parents on Judson place.
 MT. Joseph Bolton, of New Haven, 1 has been visiting Miss Jennie Booth, of Booth street.
 l. Mrs. Alta Baker. of Bridgeport, was l visiting in town yesterday. Invitations are out this week for the dance to be given in the Auditorium on Saturday, April 18th.
 AN APRIL APPLICATION. In the window of the building re gently vacated by the tailor al. the 1 Center there is an application for a 1 license to sell liquor in the Daniel Russell building at the Center which
 seems to be the work of some practi- cal joker The date of the zappIca- 1 ton is April 1st, the applicant being D. J. Stafford. Among the signers of the application are Robert Brandt,
 Fdawrd 2. Carpenter, the Stratford I @'Bored" of Trade (Sleep On), the
 Taxraisers' Improvement club, Watch 1 Stratford Grow Samnnis, H. Bar | tram (Snap) and ..Toot'' Smith. The I joke seems to be a good one, but at
 the expense of the above named gen 1 tlemen. i
 WEATOGUE MEETING.
 Tomorrow night the annual meeting l of the Weatogue Coutry club will be held al the club house to discuss plans for the coming season. Several inn
 portant matters will come before the
 meeting, among them the question of raising the tennis courts. It is hoped | that the town meeting will not pre- vent too many from being able to att | tend.