The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-25
News Items From Adjacent Towns
STAMFORD

The Auditorium was filled to capaci- ty last evening when the entertain. ment for the benefit of St. James church was given under the direction Of Mrs. Garry Nona.han, who deserves great praise and credit for the excel lent program which was rendered. The talent was from Bridgeport, ali the slngers being well known in music were the Misses Irepe Havrilla, Ar lene Malley, Leonore Henernan and tNesS1A A1ois HavriIla, Albert Lapke, John Hanley, John Hughes and Ber-. hard Connolly. All have splendid voices which blended perfectly when they sang together.
 4 medley of southern songs was sung as an opening chorus after w4lich, MT and Miss HavriIla. sang bari tone soprano duet, s.My Dear,'' for which they were generously applaud ed As an encore, Mir. sEIavrilla sang sAdacushaa and Miss HavrdIla. sang Just A'wearydn for You The next number was a tenor solo, Mother Adachree. sung by MT. Hanley, who gave as en eneDre Rose Marie.'' Miss Arlene Mallsy reuslered ssCar1nena', in besautIr11@ sopraH1 voice. also The Little Elf Man,
 MT. Lapke, who has a. most excellent
 
 per. in an excellent manner and prob ably succeeded in carrying off the honofs of the evening He also sang Come Back to Erin z assisted by Miss Hemernan and the chorus. The Star Spangled Banner, was sung as a finale.
 After the program little Miss Irene Conner Of Broad street danced the Dance of the Hours, from the opera La Gioconda. 7 Miss Conner is but ten years of age and pupil of Prof. Quality of Bridgeport Her dancing much older artist most of the steps being on her tip toes Miss Conner was presented with a. beautiful bou- quet Of carnations. She was accom- panied at the piano by Miss Jennie Hanley.
 Rev. M J. o,Coannr saad few words afterwards expressing thanks to Mrs. Adlonohan and all who took part in the worthy cause, that of help ing toward the new ehurch. Much interest, he said, was being taken in the progress of the new church not only by Catholics; but by others as well It gave him great pleasure in deed to receive the moral and hnHn- clal support from those outside of town as we'll ae outside the parish. Rev OsConnor also said that a. dedi- eation book was being prepared as
  icated to indicate the support which is being given to the new church At least 6svo-thirds of the advertisers in the book are nou1-Cadholacs, he said, which fact gave him great pleasure because so many were willing to give their aid
 ATTEalPT TO ENTER HOUSES.
 Several women resadang in the south end of the town were rather scared recently when two feETows tried to enter their homes in a rather slick manner One Of the men would knock at the dront door and when the lady Of the house appeared, would try to conyiHee her that he was deaf and dumb and in need Of help Of course this would be hard to make the wo- man underStand without being able to talk or hear and some time would be consumed In the meantime the other feEloW would entereby the back way and help himself to what he saw fit to take while he knew the madam wasc busy at the front door. Although they tried this game at several houses they did not succeed in securing much One of the women caught on to their game and Sherim Russell was notified but the men managed to clear out of the nedghborhood before they were captured The residents of the south end are on the lookout for the fellows, who, if they come again, will receive warm reception as one of the less frightened women stated
 SMALL FIRE
 There was a, small fire at the home Of Benjamin Holmes last night about nine o'clock, caused by some disar- chemical quickly responded and the blaze was soon put out, which was inded fortunate, as the house is a beautifuI one and the fire would have very likely spread quickly.
 TOOTH BRUSH DRILL
 Today Dr. Leonard visited the SedFewick school and couducted a has given out about 15O brushes al- ready and very gratifying results are being manifested The Huntington school is yet to be visited and this will be done soon.
 BASKETBALL GAME
 Thursday is the night Of the big basketball game between the Uptowns and Downtopzis.s All the old basket ball sbans as we'll as some new ones will be seen in the line up, including Arthur Beardsley, Walter Parks, bet ter known as 4tPeaaaaEt5,' Ezmmet Bea1dsIey~ and Stanley Meachen The game promises to be very exciting and should be we'll worth the admis- sion price. Dancing win follow the game
 TEACHING AT CENTER
 Mrs. Harry Turner Of West Haven is substituting in the local High school for Miss Day, who was suddenly called away to attend the funeral Of her aunt. Mrs. Turner was formerly Miss EIoise James and taught in the High school While here She is renewing her many aeQuaiatances.
 BOWLING
  Men took two games from the Non parefas thus putting them in second place in the league. Following are the scores:
 NONPAREILS.
 cranson. 30 7s 66-225 Beardsley, 97 IT 9O-264 Works, IT 1O3 SE-265