The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-23
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS
From The Farmer Wednesday, April 2S, 1869.

FS 51a Of @ as 'Sss Ss Stores will take place this evening
 The Massachusetts Senate has, by vote r to G. iaw to SASFp' lager peer from the pFo'0S Oi uOF
 The employed in the & United States m Sasrd sof 3 % @ 5n &W en 3 dDs unf D M @ @ they have taken on the proposition
 is now iron-cIads now being fitted out are not intended e Cuba but the fleet already there will & be squadron to some other stations.
 Adelaide Grenqon Of st. Louis has been appointed e@ Sf New Yorl-the first appointment of the kind ever made
 The of Hall & Read think e1cols other in the Dry Goods trade in this State Certainly we have never well arranged and spenddy finished stores but even that eq9as this of Hal Read It is worth the trouble ong Wak " & or & even dayS m qf & 10 % s 20S ' ana and ]
 style for business The gentlemen entitled to the highest prise exceedingly they have displayed fit ting up their establishment
 NorvalbA certain coal merchant in high standing here has left town rather suddenly and there IS strange uof about him and a young widow
 HnngtonA horse bgongng & to 9 & Lane 2Iosa 3aeSd % S the vehicle in a way that was not very poabIe
 During debate in the Albany Legislature yesterday f In H G FI; o t had % ntrand biiIs to the amount of brandie wines cigars and theatre tickets These bills the Legislature has already voted to them The committee is
  its abors, besides drinking smoking and visiting thea ocras giving their seats 10 two Republicans And 1t Is in this way that the people being continually plundered reckless scoundrels who under the garb of morality and temperance" and 'oyay" foistng themselves into places of trust and power. "Ephriams" StratfoId Gossip.
 target practice of Co., h which took place the 2h attended by large number of citizens employed in paradng through several of carried tactics evidence of the thorough instruction officers place them under.
 The prizes, follows, well contested for and thus Order for $O pair of boots presented by E. Wells taken by Percy Beardsey Students lamp by Co., Henry Booth g. Gold and Pencil, by Co.,, Sergt Bakesee f. Marine Serg Augustine Gray }, ChromO ltI ograph Niagara, N Church. Breakfast castor, D. H. Clark. Sleeve buttons, Wm. McDonald s. Chromom of Lake George, Corp. Charles Wcoxson 0ne-quarer bar flour by H Stagg Co.,, C. B. Sniffin 1O Stere scope views, B. ". Cozer H. Set shirt studs It. R. H. Pocket book 1oungs John MCDOnad 14 Natch-safe, shape setting hen Asa S. Curtis, musician 15 salt cOd-fsh, Capt. AonzO Gray
 The target shooting took place at Fresh Pond where the distance of hundred yards There fred 67 piercing the target and two shots talk ing erect from the center During the day It. Lewis cornered by number of friends, who m brOhery love and esteem presented hm with pair gold butons bearing the Masonic emblems, square compass and the letter G. which took him with prise but finally collected himself and eXtemporized in brief manner leather medal had two competitors, It. Johnson and Timothy Wilcoxson. but drawing broom spins around the neck of the latter amidst ! burst of by the large crowd assembled