The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-03
BETHANY MISSION CHURCH TO HAVE
 S6,000 BUILDING
Permits For Week in Strat- ford Represent Values
 of $25, TAO.
(Specal to The Farmer.)

l (SDeCal to The r.I Stratford, Aug. 3-Building permits the aggregate cost of which amounts
 to s25,74O, have been issued by Build | ing Inspector Harry A. Burnes in the | last week. Among the permits grant ed was one to Herbert $. Bartram, | treasurer of the Bethany Mission church The members of the church have already completed plans for the erection of new one-story structure at Nichols avenue and Bethany street, the cost of which will be $6,000. The edifice will seat 300. Work will not begin until September. Other per- mits are as follows:
 John and Catherine Warning, two family house, Randolph street, $5,00O;
 J. J. Pistey. addition to house, Thomp-
 son street, $500; Adams & Douglas, temporary shanty, Lenox avenue,
 $2O0; Helen Magnuson, frame house, Lordship Park, s2,500; Mary Kiczko, frame building, Huntington road, $500: H. H. Edwards, one-family
 dwelling, Soundview avenue, Lord ship, $2.50O; T. J. Pardy, garage, West Broad street, $40; Charles N. Stephens, one frame dwelling, Blake
 man place, $4,000; Sarah B. Beard,
 two-family house, Terry boulevard,
 $4,000.
 As mark of respect to Arthur Be- dell. who was an active member or the Stratford fire department, the nre house has been draped in black. MT. Bedell died Tuesday afternoon at St. Vfncent's hospital of injuries received from a kick of a horse. The funeral was held at 3 o'clock this afternoon from the residence of his father, Will liam Bedell, 577 Broad street. Rev. Edward N. Packard, D. D., pastor Of the Congregational church, conducted the service. Many sorrowing relatives and friends were in attendance. A delegation from the Stratford fire company No. 1 was present. There was wealth of floral tributes. Burial was in the family plot, Union ceme- tery.
 The monthly meeting of the Strat- ford Woman's Suffrage association held yesterday afternoon at the home of Miss Alice Judson, East Broadway, was largely attended. Miss Eliza H. Lord of New York delivered an inter esting and instructive discourse on -'The Necessity of Political Activity"
 Miss Katherine Blackert, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Adam Blackert of Johnson avenue. will be married to G. C.. Bonnell of Hanover, Pa, a former resident of the town, at 3 o'clock Sum- day afternoon, Aug. 6, at the home of the. brides parents. Rev. E. R. Cooper, pastor of the English Lu- theran church, Bridgeport, will per- form the ceremony.
 The bride will be gowned in a suit of blue taffeta and will be attended by f>r sister, Miss Amelia Blackert, who will be dressed in blue silk. Theodore Blackert, brother of the prospective bride. will act as groomsrnan. N
 While freezing cream Tuesday at his store in the Center Frank L. Hanson met with a very painful injury. Three fingers of his left hand were badly lacerated as the result of being caught in the mechanism of the freezer. MT. Hanson went to the office of Dr. Geo. F. Lewis who dressed the digits.
 MT. and Mrs. Jeremiah Dahl and son, Victor, of Huntington Road left Tuesday for Niagara Falls They ex- pect to be gone three weeks.
 Judge Charles H. Peck, Frank B. Conine and Attorney Ivan L.. More- house attended the legislative reunion held yesterday at Momauguin House, East Haven