The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-24
ONE MILL LAYS
 CONCRETE ROAD
Stratford Willing to Pay It To Be Rid of Bad
 Highway.
Special to The Times.)


 Of laying an extra. tax so that the width If the concrete road which is being built over Barnum avenue by the state highway department may be increased will be voted upon at the special town meeting which has been called by the selectmen for Thursday evening. March 27. A resolution will bo presented at this special town meeting to increase the width of the concrete pavement by three feet on both sides of the road from the to1 of Barnum avenue hill to the city lima and to increase the width of the pave ment by one foot on each side from the top of the hill to Main street A resolution will also be presented that an extra tax be laid in order that that this work may be paid for.
 While this town meeting will not attract a s large a crowd as has been present at the last three meetings held in the town there are sure to be enough of the voters interested to make the meeting one of interest Some of the well known orators will probably be heard at this meeting as they were not all talked out at the Port of Bridgeport meetings.
 The extra tax for this making of the concrete road on Barnum ave- nue wider will be less than a mill and it is expected that the majority of the voters will lr in favor of paying 1t but there arc some who feel that the 8 mill tax of Stratford is e" ugh and will make an effort to keep it there for this year.
 The trolley cOnI any is to do no work on Barnum avenue this year according to Selectman LalIy and the superintendent of the Arthur com l- pany who has the contract for laying this cement and as the state road will be built two feet from the out side tracks there is to be a number of feet on this road that will be in very poor condition. The trolley company have no money with which 10 do the work, it is said.
 i Credit for the winning of the great war was given to the American in fantry by the Rev. c. c. Kennedy l during the course of his talk at Christ church yesterday morning. MT. Ken nedy, who was a chaplain for a num- i Der of months was attached to an 1 engineer regiment most Of the time i but was able to see much of the fight | ing at different fronts, and had 8 l chance to see and hear what others 1 thought of the fighting. He spoke in high tribute of all the American sol diers particularly, though he said the l fighters of the other Allies were l worthy of much praise.
 During the course of his remarks i which were listened to by a large con 1 gregauon he told of many interesting g incidents of the time that he was ] with the soldiers. He said that for
 some time he was the sole chaplain to 1 minister to a large body of men but i later other chapIains were sent to
 assist. Among the other chaplains was
 a Catholic priest One Sunday MT, Kennedy said he would read the Scripture and the priest preach a ser | mon to the boys and the next Sunday | the priest read and MT. Kennedy II preached.
 Some of the stories told by MT
 Kennedy were humorous while others II brought tears to the eyes of his hear
 CTS as he spoke of what some of the
 boys had to go through. He is glad
 that the war is over and glad that the cause of righteousness has triumphed as he was sure it would from the be- | ginning
 It is expected that there will be a large attendance of the owners of lots in the Union cemetery at the annual 1 meeting of the Union Cemetery asso- citation to be held Monday evening,
 April ', at which time the annual re- ports of the officers will be read and
 directors elected. After the meeting of the stockholders the directors will meet and elect the officers. John c Wilcoxson has headed this association for the past year. During the past year there have been 11S burials in the Union cemetery and in a very shoIt time all of the vacant lots will be filled and the new cemetery at the south end of the town w1ll he used.