The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-10
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS
FROM THE FARMER, SATURDAY, MAY 10. 1s69.


 Washington Hall has thoroughly scrubbed and cleaned for the Orphans Fair This the ladies think worthy of public action such thing said has been known for years and ought to be additional induce ment for people to attend and contribute orphans
 bar attached Michael Rowes grocery storo Main street is soon to be fitted up on the European plan
 Two young from this city, Banks and O. H. Beers left for New York, last evening, Cua Joln the American contingent
 An interesting ceremony will plaos tomorrow at St. Augusnes Church. The family of John Schmidt consisting of eight children will be received into the bosom of the Church. by the administering the Holy Rite of Baptism
 funeral of the late Ira sherman Esq., look place at the hour appointed large relatives sor- rowing friends in attendance. We been by several why the held the church. The question Is one we cannot answer.
 very novel htching post is about to be placed on the curb stone in front of the Japan tea companys store It life size figure of boy with diIapdaed garments upraised hand being adapted to fasen the hitch line to- of iron, arisieany painted and deserves noticing.
 Merden his black pup put to sleep the other day with chloroform that he might have his clipped without pain It worked admirably The purp slept soundy during the operahon and still sleeping Gin the valey) at last accounts.
 The Dramatic Exhibition for the benft the Orphans at Lyceum Hall, next Thursday evening will be rich affair." It will portray and illustrate the and improved condition things which will result from the extension of the right of suf frage to females The when the reformation effected, the ladies tell will be crowded of all their places the administration of public affairs in the transaction of mercan te manufacturing agricultural and other business opera ons and transferred the kitchen, washroom laundry, dairy nursery, other domestic departments which will be exhibited in living characters that occasion. The gentlemen especially invited to attend and assured that benefits that therefrom that evening" that will be worth them than the of admissioI.
 
 Mark Twain recently delivered lecture at Cleveland for the benefit the Orphan Asylum that city At the close of his regular lecture Twain said:
 Ladies and Gentlemen: we'll aware of the fact that it would be most gigantic fraud for dollar each to hear lecture But you dollar to the Orphan Asylum and have the lecture thrown So 1t not worth anything it does not anything There
 
 and have the satisfaction of knowing that all paid the benefit of the Orphans understand that there to be other entertainments week after next for the object the Asylum being several thousand dollars your benevolence stop with this lecture. There will eating be done Go there and eat and eat and keep The pr0prieOrs of the skating generously offered donate the proceeds of to the Asylum to the amount of thousand dollars and when and skate. do not know whether can go and try If you break your necks it will be matter: it will help the orphans.
 be afraid of too much to the orphans, for have the easiest end of the bar persons have to take of those sixty orphans and they have to wash hem Proonged augherl Orphans And it's small job for they have only tub and it's slow business! They can't wash but They have to be washed in the most by the time they get through with the sixty original orphan has to be washed again Or phans won't stay 1ashed I've been orphan myself twenty-five years know this to be true. Great Laugh ter)
 There is a suspicion of Impurity and imposition about Ostensby benevolent enterprises but there tant the benefit of these little waifs for the patience and Ortitude with which have listened to me-