The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-12
STAMFORD
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Special to The Farmer) Stratford March 12.-Broad bridge
 avenue between King and Main streets is now open for travel and is proving a great accommodation p everyone
 No one. seems to regret the loss of the
 ancient name Harris street. al- though the change will probably cause some confusion for a time
 Howard Wilcoxson, whose speciality is photography, made a discovery perched upon an East Broadway emi- hence one day this week and has since busied himself in attempting to elaSsi-
 fy the bird. There is also considerable interest in the motive which actuated
 the night prowler when he wondered forth and sought the haunrs Of man The bird had probably been Horced to seek food in the thickly settled DOT ton Of the town.
 Charles snyder, swho has been con fined to his Main street home for sev- eral days, is able toIbe out again.
 The victims Of scarlet fever in the home of MT. and Mrs. Orville Palmer of Main street and Barnum avenue are much better
 Howard WHlcoxson and Ralph Sher- wood attended the Chinese mass meet
 ing held at the Peoples church in
 Bridgeport on Monday night. They represented the local Christian En- deavor society They will report their
 interesting experience at the next
 meeting of the society at the Congre-
 gational church here The whole af-
 the guests were treated to celestial music and eatab1es.
 The work of preparing for the prop CT celebration of the 275th anndver-s sary of the settlement of the town fs now fairIy begun and will be con tinued with increasing energy until the event is over One of the fea- lures of the celebration will be 9
 souvenir program published by Louis E. Peck, who has published several editions of the kind.s He promises to
 outdo all his previous efforts on this occasion
 Il P. Howe of the sHratford Times is passing a, few days with his son in New York city
 A fire alarm system is proposed for
 the town of Fairfield and a committee was appointed at a recent town meet Ing to investigate and submit a plan
 for the approval Of the voters Other l small towns who have auto chemical apparatus have found that the efH- ciency of this modern apparatus is greatly increased by an alarm eys- tenn which will quickly notify every fireman of the location where his l services are needed. The disastrous fire at the Wake1ee establishment
 which resulted in the death Of Frank MonaI1an, the injury to State Police | thousands os dollars to Mir. Wakelee
 has drawn attention to the need of such a system in this town The mat i ter will probably be brought to the attention of the voters of the town Iagain when the opportunity offers it. self There is a, sentiment in favor of l the plan.
 The public service corporations have been severely criticised in this as well as in other towns of the slate for the l treatment they offer people who ask for extension of the service beyond l the existing lines It has been the
 practice for the corporations to pick out the territory which would bring | the largest returns and compel those 1 living in less favored locations to sign contracts binding them to pay 8 large increase over the regular rates The practice has really developed into ex- tortion and many birLer compl plaints have been heard The utilities com mission has recently made some rul- ings which indicate that the ordinary citizen has oIne rights which these corpora tions must respect. It is ex- pected that a batch of complaints from l this town will soon be presented to | the commission and that long-hoped- for relief will be the result The com mission holds that the companies must make reasonable extensions to serve 1 citizens without extorting any con- tracts or demanding payment for the work of making the extensions
 1 The Holy Name society of St James church will give social and dance this evening at the Auditorium. The 1 affair promises to be as interesting as I any event this winter, flor the society 1 has a reputation of never doing things 1 by halves
 l Miss Julia Wheeler of the local post office celebrated her 10th birthday yes terday by working hard all day. She | s110 GOngTaCuIdL1OAS 1 and received several handsome pres I ents from friends
 | The Stratford division of the An cient Order of HTbernians will recog- l nfze St. Patrick's day by a, dance and l social at Hibernian hall on Hamilton l street The committee in charge con sists Of Timothy Ryan, John Kane and John Doyle and they promise Esonaething out of the usual order to please those who attend.
 l St. Patrick's day will also be recog- nized by the Taxpayers Improvement l club and there will be a dance and social at the Nichols avenue club l house.
 Scarlet fever has made it's appear l anoe at the home of Mrs. Dean on
 Main street. There are four children
 in the house, but only one has devel-
 oped the dreaded disease. The place
 has been quarantined by Dr. G. w.
 Lewis, the local health officer, and the
 children who are not already affected
 have been removed. There are several sporadic cases of the disease in town and Dr. Lewis is at loss to account for them. So far only one case has appeared in the local schools. | The Hco-eds' in the housekeepine course of the university of Minnesota turned the snow to good account the
 other day, for the instructor gave