The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-06
OUR VIEWPOINT
 NEWS LETTER &1 NzHa
Special to The TinesO

NeWtown, April 1.-Two contracts ior the construction of roads have been awarded by Highway Commis- sloner c. J. Bennett. To John Ar Dorlo or New Haven, has been award ca the contract for the construction Of native stone macadam road Known as the Sandy Hook road in the town Of NeWtoWn. It includes a distance of about 8,40O feet and the entire cost is not to exceed s33.- 900.
 Francis Carmody, formerly em- ployed in the chemical department of the American LocomobiIe Co. of Brldgeport, has taken up his duties in the U. s. Signal Corps located in Bridgeport. He commutes daily.
 MISS Mary Kilbride of the Glen re- gently entertained her sister. Miss Helen Kilbride, teacher in the Wat ertown schools, and Frank Flynn. as- sfstant postmaster of Watertown.
 Louis White was recent visitor in Danbury.
 The Congregational church through US society and membership, has ex- tended call to Rev. Edward O. Gris- brook of New Hartford, Conn.,. to the pastorate or the church. He occu- pied the pulpit of the church on two | successive Sundays, and gave such satisfaction that the call to Newtown was the unanimous act of the church membership.
 Two recent changes in real estate ownership are the Charles Short farm In Hattertown to G. Waltersdorf of Bridgeport and the Thomas Brew farm of Hawleyville to a Portchester. N. Y., family. | Miss Anna Callahan, a senior in the Bridgeport High school, is spending her vacation with her aunts, the Misses Callahan of Sandy Hook.
 Miss Christine Corbett is visiting her cousin, Miss Christine Keane of New Haven, for the week end and Sunday
 The exercises at the High school Friday afternoon when a service flag of 23 stars was dedicated drew to- gether a large assemblage of our townspeop1e. The following program m was presented:
 March, Victory March" Ethe1 Harris.
 Enter Columbia and Her Train, Go. lUmbia, Miss Dorothy James; ladies in waiting, Mary Heating, May Platt Laura Ruffels; gentlemen in waiting to Columbia, Walter Mccarthy, Will lis Ardnt, Charles Leiss.
 Unfurling of Flag by Columbia. Enter Liberty and Her Train, Lib. erty, Miss Rose Evans; ladies in wait. ing to Liberty, Nora Mahoney, Mabe, Lockwood, Catherine Sheehan; gen. tlemen in waiting to Liberty, Edward Egan, Joseph Mccarthy, Charles Bartram.
 Unfurling of Service Flag by Lib. erty.
 America" The School.
 Reading of Honor Roll, Miss Chris tine Corbett
 Orchestra, There's A Long, Lon. Trail"
 Patrick Henry's Liberty Address Miss Justine Houlihan. High School Quartet. "Germany's Pre-War Policy To ward America. and Other Countries, Charles Strisik. Orchestra, Somewhere in France War, and Our Duty to Our Coun try" Miss Jennie Sturges.
 Song, God Bless Our Men, School. Lincoln, the Savior of the Union, John Mccarthy. Orchestra, T May Be Gone for Long, Long Time" l. Procession to front of school-Co lumbia and her Train; Liberty an U her Train.
 Raising of Stars and Stripes an |. Service Flag.
 Pledge to the Flag.
 '"The Star Spangled Banner. 3 School.
 ] The following are the members c r the High School Orchestra: Richar
 Botsford, conductor; Ethel Harris A Lillian, Strisik William Murphy, Earl Smith and Helen Mead.
 German has been dropped from 2
 high schools in West Virginia