The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-23
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ESEE 8 g S sSS 1 Stratford, Oct: 23.-(special to The l Times). - Members and friends of 1 Bethany Church will be given the ex- l trene pleasure of hearing a returned l British Hast African Missionary speak 1 on next Sunday. The guest of the l church will be Rev: Gieding. An in- | teresting fact about the returned mis- ! sionary is that he is the husband of 1 the late Jennie Mitchell of Stratford l MT. Gieding will speak at the morn i ing services at 1oi30 and in the even l ing at 7:30,
 The many friends of Truant Officer 1 H. Briggs Barnum will be very much 1 pleased to learn that he Is improv- ing nicely at the Bridgeport hospital to which place he was taken on Tuesday morning for an operation. MT. BarnuTn has recently taken the office of truant officer.
 The Camp Fire Girls of the Christ Church had 8 very delightful meet ing last evening. Fifteen members were present. A fine supper was pre- pared by the girls. In this manner the young ladies win their honors. EQ"aTQ " n60iSr OI " aEWlCk ave- nue spent the weekend in northern Connecticut and Hartford.
 Many delight socials and dances are being planned by various organ izations and clubs in town for Hal 1owe'en time. The largest of these events will be the dance and enter tainment to be given by the Anerl- can Legion of Stratford, in Red Mems lHaII, on October 29. Kearns' singing orchestra has been hired to furnish the dance music and much local ta1- ent is being placed on the program.
 Miss Caroline Thompon of East Broadway will spend the weekend at her home at Avon, Conn.
 Dewey Auard of Woodend Road is very sick at his hon1o. Doctor Henes- sey is attending the very popular drug clerk of St. Johns Pharmacy. ITOR SALE-7 room, 1-family house,
 lot 100x100; price s4,S0o. Apply Peter Gleason, Stratford, Conn.
 vEZ c. ROCKWELL, -,iumbing and heating: jobbing a speciality. Corner Main and Hillside avenue. Stratford. , 10 ttS DEVON
 The State Teachers convention will be held on Friday of this week and members of the high and public schools attended.
 Lucia chapter. o. E. S., will hold Q regular meeting at Masonic hall on Thursday evening beginning at 8 clock, at which time the members Lf Golden Rod chapter of West Ba- ven will be the guests of the local chapter. The officers of Golden Rod chapter will work the initiatory de- gree upon a class of candidates. A picnic supper will be served at 6 o. clock
 The adjourned town meeting was held last night with Judge Platt pre- siding. A substitute vote covering the reassessment was passed as follows:
 That the appropriation of $10,0G0 be reduced to $6,000; that the asse- sors be given an additional year for the work and that they be assisted by William F. Renaud, c. V. Sewell and H. H. Merwin. The proposition to appropriate $16,000 for Q new fire house at Walnut Beach caused a long and acrimonious debate. ". F. Hoyt of Laurel Beach championed the cause of the firenlen who are oppos- ed to the proposition for a change in location. Messrs. Doherty, Boni, Whitezel1 and In1issioners Clark and O'Hara favored the appropria- ton and it was passed.
 Herbert P. Peterson called atten- ton to the fact that the board of finance had ignored the appeal of the school board for money for free text books and Robert Stoddard ex- pIained that the S20,O00 extra ask ed for the Central school was made necessary by the increased cost of all kinds of materials.
 The budget with some slight modi- fications was approved and an issue of bonds amounting to S100,000.
 Prof. BtsseI of Los Angeles, who will be in Milford for the better part of a year, will lead a chorus choir at the Plymouth church. He has had marked success in voice culture in his native city and will doubtless prove an. enthusiastic and successful chorister.
 The ladies of the Plymouth Circle will meet with Mrs. Benjamin Tenn on North street. at o'clock on day.
 Miss Ella Harvey, confined to her bed and to one position therein, by a broken hip, is getting along surpris- ingly well, and her friend find her comfortable and cheerful.
 Hugo Berendt, failing to observe the game laws, was obliged to pay into the town treasury yesterday a total of S125O for sbootino nra+ao+.17