The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-14
HISTORIC GREEN IN STAMFORD
Home Guards in Revolution ary Times Formed on
 North Parade.

Stratford, June IA. Special to the | Times)-Due to the constant care given them by Olaf ChristIanson the | little parks about the town of Strat- l ford look very fine and are a credit to the community. The town is for tunate in having the little open spaces on which the grass grows luxuriantly and on which the park commissioners | of the town have planted trees and shrubs.
 It is conceded that in a. very few years the people residing in Strat ford will appreciate these beauty spots much more for as the town grows and becomes more of a thickly settled community all of the little breathing spots will be made more end more of. Academy Hill with its fine monu-
 ment setting back from the road will for long years be as it is now a fine spot to hold gatherings on. Being a hill it is ideally situated and hI&- dreds of people may find room on the grassy slopes. North Paxade at Main
 street and Barnum avenue is a very
 pretty place its one objection being that it is not larger. This green has a history as it was on this green that
 the men of old Stratford who formed
 the Home Guards at the time of the
 Revolution held their drills and pre-
 pared themselves to resist the threat
 ened invasion of the British. Almost
 all of the older families of the town
 can name me nbers of their families who spent many hours on this pretty green ready to protect ar defend
 the town. Paradise Green in, the north end of the town is perhaps one of the finest greens owned by any town in New England. The large eXpanse of grass and the fine trees along the edge of it make a beautiful place and one which travellers through the town often speak of. The fine houses that face on the three sides of this green help to set off the place and make it one of the best sections in Fair field County.
 There are other little spots about town which as time goes on will be improved and made into little parks for the benefit of the present as well as the future generations.
 Miss Bertha Hinckley, a former teacher of the Franklin School has presented the school with a ten vol une set of travels valued at S45. This gift to the school is very much appre- ciated by the principal E. B. Floyd and by the pupils. These books will be used for many years by the girls and boys who attend this school and will be able to gain much knowledge from them.
 Work on the building the curbs and gutters along Barnum avenue from the top of Franklin hill to the city line is progressing rapidly and in a few days it is expected that the work will be completed and that street be made one of the finest in this section. Since the placing of the con- crete pavement over this street auto mobile travel has rapidly increased and as the summer continues more and more of the travel particularly the through travel will be taken off of Stratford avenue to use Barnum avenue.
 Bernard Judson son of MT. and Mrs. Charles F. Judson of King street, a former resident of Stratford who has been living in Montreal, Canada for the past three yeaS-s was in town for a few hours yesterday. He was on a business trip to New York and took advantage of his proximity to this town to run up and see his parents and some of his old friends.