The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-16
NEWTOWN RESIDENTS OPPOSED 10 EXTENSION OF PRIVILEGES ON ANCIENT LIGHTING CHARTER
Wake Up to Discover Measure They Didn't Know Any thing About Favorably Reported John T. King and Associates Said to Have Come Into Possession of Charter Granted Score of Years Ago.

l abeyance.
 Recent visitors in Park City were the Misses Marion Curtis, Julia Kill bride and Dorothy A. Allen, Mrs. w.
 E. Latham, Miss Doretta Carmody,
 John Haugh and son Kenneth. Miss Elizabeth Blake was a recent
 visitor in New Haven. Saturday when the Misses Louise
 and Charlotte Hartwig, Dorothy Stri-
 six and Mary Murphy walked to Dan
 bury from Berkshire, J. Hartwig
 brought the girls back in his car. 1 Miss May |Houlihan of Bridgeport spent Sunday with her mother Mrs M F. Houlihan in Sandy Hook. l MT. and Mrs. John Haugh and son,
 Kenneth, autoed to Danbury Sunday About 35 young persons gave
 surprise party to Miss Mabel Ander- 1 son of Hawleyville Saturday night
 the occasion being her 18th birthday <, Games and dancing were enjoyed.
 and refreshments were served. All report an enjoyable time. Miss An 1 derson was the recipient of many beautiful gifts.
 l Mrs. Ellen Brady was visitor in
 Bridgeport Friday.
 1 Miss Doris Downs, instructress of l English at N. H. S., was the guest 1 of her parents for the week end, in Danbury.
 A. E. White of Sandy Hook was taken to St. Vincent's hospital, Sum- l day, by order of his physician, Dr. w. H. Kiernan:
 1 William Murphy. N. H. s. IS, is recovering from a slight attack of pneumonia.
 l MT. and Mrs. Ernest Sanford of 1 Bridgeport were guests Sunday of Eli 1 Beers.
 ] MT. and Mrs w. B. Glover autoed l to Bridgeport Saturday. Miss Etta Martin of New York who was a guest of her aunt, Mrs. James F. Brennan, returned with the fam i fly to New Haven Saturday, ! Miss Ethel Schwartz of Botsford died at the home of her grandmother,
 Mrs. Ralph Whitlock of Sandy Hook. Friday. The funeral occurred Sun day afternoon, interment being in the 1 old cemetery.
 l The funeral of Mrs. Henry F. 1 Mitchell took place from her late home 1 Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock Rev. Timothy J. Lee of the Congregational l church off1ciated. The pail bearers l were intimate friends of the family. The funeral was largely attended, in terment being in the Mitchell family 1 plot in South Britain cemetery. | Dr. Coholan of New Britain, who died Saturday is the father of Rev.
 Phillip Coholan, curate of St. Rose, Newtown. Father Coholan hastened to the bedside of his father as soon as news came of his serious illness, ]. and was present in the sick room l ghen death came. The prayers of I he congregation were offered up with ervor Sunday in St. Roses, and tather Coholan has the sympathy of | III.
 The Home Guards held drill Sun 1 lay afternoon on the plaza lat tho ailroad station. The members show improvement, and the recruiting of 1 ticer, Seaman Mead, complimented the guards upon the good work. l Attorney A. J. Hull, trustee of the Hale Hotel Co.,, bankrupt, has made his final report. The gross assets of the insolvent estate was $2977O The l net amount payable to the preferred | criditors, mostly employees of the con- cern. represents about 80 per cent. of the labor claims leaving nothing for the other creditors.