The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-21

bury. The score was 12 to 8. Next Saturday the locals will play the Holy Name club of Danbury on the Nit
 chelI diamond Yesterday afternoon the Sandy Hook nine were to play the All-Stars of Bridgeport at Knoll field, but the game was postponed at the i last moment, much to the disappOdnt-
 ment of the fans
 The women of Trinity guild will hold
 a strawberry festival at the guild room
 Tuesday afternoon, June 9. Supper will be served after 5:8O o'clock. The out of town friends attending the funeral of Thomas Afa1ohey, Fri
 day, at St, Roses chU-<~- were MT. N. J.; MT. and Mrs. Richard J. ~eIly and Miss Frances Kelly, Martin H. Kelly, MT. and Mrs. Daniel J. Ryan, MT. and Mrs. Patrick Maloney and children, Mrs. Alice N. Gahney. Mrs.
 John Chisiner, Thomas Riley and John W Ryan of Bridgeport. The floral offerings were numerous and costly, testifying to the esteem in which the | deceased was held. The pail bearers were: John J. Heating, M. F. Scan | lon, Thomas J.. Lynch, Martin H. Kel- ly, Richard J. Kelly and August Bour- quenez. MT. Naloney was P years
 age, 52 of which he spent in Newtown,
 where he was held in high esteem by all our townspeople.
 The entrance examinations for the
 high school will take place at the high
 school building on June 2s and. g, be-
 ginning at a. m. each day. Spelling,
 arithmetic and history will be the sub | ject on the first day, and reading,
 grammar and geography on the next l day. This arrangement, it is believed,
 will give the pupils undergoing the l tests a better show to bring forth the | best in them.
 Editor A. P Smith will give an eve
 ming of original readings at the flaw | leyville chapel, Thursday night, June 24, and repeat the performance the
 following evening Pefort the grange in | A large congregation, attended r.
 vices at Trinity church last evening, l when the choir of St. James church, l Danbury, fotned Trinity's choir in a special musical service A chorus of | 50 trained voices was inspiring. Rev.
 A. c. Coburn, rector of St. James, was
 presetn and assisted in the services of
 prayer.
 The annual meeting in zoar district
 was held Saturday night. Miss Ella LiIlis was the unanimous choice of the voters for teacher for another year. Robert F'airchiId is at home from the Massachusetts Agricultural col- 1ege, Amherst, for the summer vaca- tion.
 Rev. Otis Olney wright, for nearly a
 score of years the beloved rector Of I 1 tting in town. He retired from active
 duties a. few years ago, and is now living at Swansea, Mass.
 The c. E. meeting Sunday evening
 at the Congregational church was made especially interesting by an iI-
 frustrated lecture on the Island of the
 Middle Pacific More than 50 colored slides loaned by the American Ms sionary association were used to show the 1uxuriant vegetation, wild scenery
 and savage peoples of these regions.
 The audience was delighted, as well
 as instructed.
 Jesse Bailey has returned from Brown university for the summer. Miss Irene Corbett and aJck Hdye
 of Bridgeport were Sunday guests Of
 Mir and Mrs. T. J. Corbett, Queen street.
 Mrs. Richard English. wife Of Dr.
 English of Danbury, visited her pa rents. MT. and Mrs. M. F. Carmody. of Sandy Hook. for a day ,or.two the ne=t
 week, while her husband was called to New IJcI16o11s eneanbn1ent Of the Connecticut Coast Artillery, of which
 he is the company's surgeon.