The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-22
TRIBE WILL INSTALL NEW
 SENIOR SYCAMORE
Expect Large Attendance at Ceremony Sudden Death
 of John Meeker
0speeial to The Fzarmer.1 )

Fairfield, Jan. 22-At the regu- lar meeting of Unquowa tribe No. 6O T. o. R. M. to. be held this evening in the Pickett building the most inn portant transaction will be the install =1adon of the newly elected Senior 9Sagamore, R. E. Randall, Louis E. Peck, of Stratford, will have charge of the installation. A large attend Hance of members is expected.
 Residents of Fairfield were shock led to learn Of the sudden death on Wednesday of John Meeker, of BroIl- son avenue. Greenfield Hill. MT. Meeker to all appearances had been in good health on Tuesday evening when he attended the installation services at the grange, He was around his residence Wednesday and was taken i'll at the supper table and died shortly from an attack of acute Indigestion. Dr. Durham of Green field, sDr. Donaldson. kof Fairfield, and pr. Hyde, of Southport, were at once summoned but he passed away at 10 o'clock without regaining conscious- ness. Mr.. Meeker is a retired train ed nurse and followed that profession in a prominent New York hospital. He is survived by three brothers, George and William who were at his bedside, and Fred, sof New Haven New York, and his mother, Mrs. Samuel NGeeker of Greenfield. The funeral will be held Sunday from his home on Bronson avenue.
 Irwin Henderson, of the firm of Henderson Brothers. a local building firm, underwent an operation at the Galen hospital in Bridgeport ,yester- day morning for an eabcess on the jaw He is reported as doing we'll and on the road to recovery.
 Owing to the sudden death of John Meeler, the Christian Endeavor
 
 1 at the Greenfield Country. Club this evening has been postponed until Wednesday evening of next q week. The tickets issued for the entertain ment will be good for that evening. The home of MT. and Mrs. George 1 Cole was gladdened on Tuesday even ing by the arrival of a bouncing baby l boy. Tine mother, who, was Miss Jen- nie Ferris of Greenfield Hill, and the i little fellow are doing nicely
 Miss Edith Riker and Andrew Riker of Fairfield avenue are among the cast selected to take part in the play entitled esThe Private Secre- itary,'' a benefit performance to be pro duced in Bridgeport next month.
 Miss Marcia K. Delbridge will leave on "Wednesday next for Hartford where she will resume her studies in Idancing. Miss sDe1bridge will be one ! of the solo dancers at the Hartford Yacht club entertainment at Seymour Inn on Thursday.
 Miss Lewis, teacher at the Sher- man school is i'll with an attack of scarlet fever and unable to attend to her duties. Reports from her bed side in Stratford say that she is inn proving and will be able to resume l her duties in another week. This is the only case of the dread disease re- l ported in this town during the past 1 two weeks and Health Officer Colonel valery Havard says there is no fear l of an epidemic.
 Under the direction of Miss Ruth Child, a play entitled "A Dress Re- hearsalP' will be presented this even 1 ing in the parIors of the Congfega- tionaI church. The entertainment will start at g o'clock and the cast will include over thirty young people of the town. The proceeds will be donated to the local auxiliary of the Red Cross society.
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