The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-09
STAMFORD
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'SpeClal to The Times
 Stratford. June Automobile
 traffic through town Saturday was
 particularly heavy, hundreds of ma chimes rounding the silent cop at the
 intersection of East Broadway and
 Main street at the center, and Traffic
 Officer Brigs Barnum being busy all
 day seeing that no accidents occurred and that the law was obeyed. With very few exceptions the drivers of
 the machines obeyed the traffic laws of Str&tford and those who did not
 were strangers unacquainted with the
 town. It was necessary for Officer Barnum and Chief Nichols who was
 at the corner some of the time to
 warn few drivers but no arrests were made.
 One of the most important duties of the police of Stratford as well as
 the police of other towns is the regu- lating the automobile traffic. Stra- tford being on the main line between New York and New England gets all most all the traffic east out of New
 York and consequently hundreds of machines pass through the center l daily.
 Chief Nichols has instructed his | men to see that all automobiles par 1 ticularly the large jitney busses trdNel through the center of the | town at a reduced rate of speed to
 avoid the possibility of accidents. At l times there are a large number of people automobiles and teams at the I center and in order that no one may get hurt it is necessary that automo- bAes travel at a reduced speed The police insist that drivers go slow through the center and if they per sist in driving fast there will be an | arrest or two and Judge Curtis will have a chance to show the chauffeurs that they cannot run fast and endan- ger life and limb.
 MT. and Mrs Howard R. Lacy of Main street are spending a few weeks at Canaan.
 Cornelius Hughes of Canaan Road has returned from a. visit to his son. James, who is stationed at Newport R. I.
 Mrs. Charles S. Smith has returned
 to her home at Stratford center from visit to Kent, her former place of residence.
 The funeral of Mrs. Daniel KoviIak l of Clover street who died on Vednes- 1 day, aged 51. was held at o'clock Saturday morning from her late home and at o'clock from St. Cyril and Methodius church of Bridgeport The interment was in St. Michaers ceme- tery.
 The varied collection of war relics and trophies collected by Captain Rex Delacour of this town while in France | and which are now on exhibition in one of the windows of the St. John drug store are attracting much atten- i ton.
 An important meeting of Okenuck | Tribe of Red Men will be held in their hall on Church street this even ing. Reports of Memorial Day, the Veterans reception and the Lotus quartette concert will be made at this
 meeting.
 of the High school has been chosen to lead the basketball team of the school for the season of 1919-1920. Among the members of the Senior
 class of the High school who expect
 to graduate this month and who will
 enter college are William Bassett, who intends to go to Renssaeler Poly
 technic institute at Troy, N. I. Miss
 Ruth Donning, who intends to go to
 Mount Holyoke college, Miss Mar garet Beach who is to go to Vassar,
 Miss Caroline Brown who expects to
 attend a school in Boston and Miss
 HSster Hanson who intends to finish
 her schooling in New York city.