The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-09
.SOUTHPORT'S NEW FIRE ALARM GIVES
 !. ITS FIRST WARMING
Home of Henry Perry I'm periled By Defective Flue
 Tea Wagon Smashed
ospeciaI to ta1e Farner. )

Southport, Jam. 9AThe first alarm to be sounded on the new fire alarm was rJng' in last evening, shortly af ter ' o'clock, calling the department to the home of Henry Perry on Harbor road. The cause of the aaanun was 9 faulty ehiRnney Hue which filled the house with smoke and at first threat ened to set the bl1iId1ng on fire. The Centennial Tea wagon waes conn pleteiy demolished at about o'clock last evening" when the horse attached to it, became Frightened and collided. with a HupnobiIe, at the eastern end of Mills switch near Greens Farms
 The aItonobfIe wfrrd-shEeId was smashed and the car was otherwise l battered so that it had to be to'wsed 1 to a garage. The car had a dealers license and a. felt banner on the back which read Watch the Hllnpaaobi1e.s'' Cards of invitation were received
 the latter part of the week by local friends and relatives to the wedding of Rev. B. Livingstone WeHs, Gh1fI- ford, to Miss Grace Frances Rose,
 which will take place Wednesday,
 Memorial church in Essex Later a reception will be held in Constock 1 hall. Iveryton. Mir Wells is well
 knewn in Southport, being a former
 resident here, while his mother, Mrs.
 B. Ls Wells, still resides on Peul1ot
 avenue, and his sister. Mrs Hetzel,
 widow of Dr. Hetze1, is living on Sas- I qua, road
 Members of the Kings Daughters
 of the M FL church are making ar
 rangeTnenbs for a play to be presented l before long entitled, -'Too Many Illus l bands"
 The Greens Farms school is closed l by the board of education, owing to
 the fact that there are two cases of I scarlet fever in the vicinity of the school Harry Brown 7vi1o conveys 1 the children from the outlying dis jftricts to this school, will thereby en- I joy a vacation of one week The I school was closed last month on ac-
 count Of an epidemic of measles and now it is closed because of a scarlet Ifever epidemic.
 The trustees Of the Pequet Library
 held their annual meeting in the au- Iditoriunl of the library building I gress were received from the vari- l bus committees, also the annual re- ports Of the president and librarian. I An order has been issued calling for
 an addition of 100 books relating to ] fiction, science and history
 1 The fire alarm system is finally
 in good working order afterstwo days of exhaustive tests by the installer and the inventor, MT. Loper of Nor l walk The alarm has not yet been I IaccepLeQ Dy sIne ASe4eGtLaGnf or the IOWA j but will be at meeting which will be held in the course of a few days IThe bell when accepted will be ac-
 conpanied by 9 guarantee that it Il 1 be heard for miles around when rung.
 The large ice. truck Of the B. F I Bulkley Ice company. has been used
 by the courtesy of MT. Bulkley for
 some time, but with the absence of sl the truck for business reasons, the
 boys would have to haul the (fire9 lapparatus by hand They have de- lacided to purchase d tractor. The
 heating system in the new headquar- 1 ters is being installed and will be in
 operation by the middle of next week l The firemen are working nightly fur
 nishing and decorating their new
 building. A ticker will be placed in
 the fire house to register all calls,
 from a fire alarm system similar to
 the one used in Bridgeport.