The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-06
STAMFORD WILL PURCHASE NEW
 SCHOOL SITE

1 Stra ford. Sept 6--A special Town meeting will be held on Wednesday ] evening. September 10 to act on the request of 1he School committee that | the Bond issue of S1OO,OOO granted 1 by the Legislature be ratified and that | the committee be empowered 10 se- | cure land for a permanent school site | and erect a school building thereon. 1 The committee desires to purchase ] Hand on Main street commencing at northern boundary of the Methodist i church property and running north lon Main street 3S2 feet to the Jewell property. This property Is bounded ! on the east by the Union cemetery ] and has a depth of 450 feet and is owned by the Peck estate. ] The committee state that in order to relieve the contested condition in | the various schools it proposes to | erect g. building in which to contralize | the upper grades, thus relieving all | of the other buildings and making room for the lower grades. At the | present time about 40 per cent. of ! the scholars are on half time. If ! the proposed plan is carried out prac- 1 tlcaIIy all will be placed on full time. ! The State Board of Education have ! called the attention of the local board to the existing condition and hope it will soon be improved.
 stratford, Sept. 6.-tSpeciaI to The ! Tlmcs) Notice has been posted in | front of the Town Hall warning the ! property owners that tax lists mus, . be filed during the month of Sep
 tember.
 F. J. Abercrombie, the sign-painter, 1 is the candidate for the office of As | sessor and not Charles Abercrombie, 1 the well known newsdealer as 1t was | previously stated. Charlie wishes iJ
 understood that he is running for no
 public office.
 A months mind mass was ce1ebrat- l cd in Saint James church yesterday
 for the repose of the soul of Mrs. | Ellen Cham berlain.
 Services tomorrow at Bethany ! church at 1O:3O A. M. and 7:3O P.
 NJ. Tn the morning MT. Losch will
 speak and the Sunday school will ! meet at the close of the service.
 Young Peoples meeting at SIS and
 in the evening MT. Losch will again
 occupy the pulpit.
 Children of Saint James parish will
 receive communion in a body on Sun
 day. The fall schedule will be re-
 sumed on September IT when the ] children will resume their Sunday School.
 Olaf Umbrehagen has returned to town after a delightful motor trip to Hartford and vicinity.
 ,N acE Broadway is spending her vacation
 at woodbury, Conn.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. L. Judd are spend
 ing a few weeks in the White Noun
 tains.
 Edward Hazen has returned to his home on Housatonc avenue having
 received his discharge after seeing
 service on the North Dakota.
 MT. Nichols of Bethany Church is
 expected home the latter part of next
 week and will resume his duties, Sep
 tcmber IT.
 COFFEE c. ROCKWELL. plumbing
 and heating; jobbing a speciality.
 Corner Main and Hillside avenue,
 Stratford. D 10 tf' FOR SALE---12 room 2-family house, all modern improvements. Apply
 Peter Gleason, Stratford, Conn. Spanish, Italian, Yiddish, Swedish B ! Norwegian, Dutch, Hungarian, Fin P nish. ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Polish and Roumanian. Then he l knows three socalled universal Ian l 1 guages-Es Esperanto, IdO and one of - his own conception which he has t named Ufono."