The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-30
WELL KNOWN WOMAN DEAD Had Been Resident of Strat- ford All Her
 Life
ospeosal to The Tines.l

Nratford, March s0,---In the death of Mrs. Amanda, J, Curtis, widow of the late Francis R. Curtis, which oc- cured at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alice B. Jacobs, in Fairfield, Sunday, after 8 short Illness, Strat- ford loses another of its best known and most respected citizens. Mrs. Cl11tiss who was born in Stratford where she had resided all her life, has a large circle of friends here who were grieved to learn of her sudden death and who will mourn the loss of Q close and respected citizen and friend She was 75 years of age and had been a life long member of Christ church of which she was an 1 active worker for many years. Mrs ! rurtis was survived by four daugh- ters, Mrs Marion C. Sherman of New Haven, Mrs Louise A. Tinkhan and
 Mrs Sarah M Fyathers of Bridgeport ! and Mrs, Alice B Jacobs of Fairfield 1 One son, Henry B. Curtis of New York city, one sister, Mrs. George Lampson of Stratford and three
 brothers, Henry of Milford, Charles | w and Theodore Judson of Stratford
 aSso survive her. The funeral ser | vices were held this afternoon from
 her home on Stratford avenue at o'clock and were largely attended by her many soTrowing relatives and l friends The Rev C. C. Kennedy,
 rector of Christ church, conducted the ! services at the house and at Union cemetery where the burial took place. Accompanied by a large number of
 members of OronoQue lodge of Odd
 Fellows the degree team of that or
 gandZation journeyed to Derby last evening where they conferred the I lar on a ] of candidates for the Derby lodge.
 The trip which was made in a spe- | cia1 trolley car proved to be a most
 enjoyable event, the local members
 of the order being royalty enter 1 tained by the Derby members. Short | addresses were made by several of
 the visitors and 9 social time enjoyed following the business session.
 Loaded with we tons of coal a | large truck owned by the Wheeler and HOwes company of Bridgeport | came to grief yestreday afternoon as it was being driven into the rear to the town hall, sinking to the hubs in | mud at the edge of the sidewalk near the truck house The load was taken off the truck and after some difficulty
 the machine was extTicated from its grave of mud
 A well attended meeting of Oken-
 uck tribe was held in the wigwam on 1 Church street last evening when the l adoption degree was conferred and
 matters pertaining to the coming trad | ing post of the organization discussed, Preliminary plans were also made for | cooperating with the West Haven
 tribe in holding a mammoth field day | during the coming summer. At the meeting of the Anderson Dunn-kochis post, American Legion, | which took place in their rooms in the | Christensen building last evening re-
 ports were heard relative to the 1 basketball games which are being
 held under the auspices of the post in
 the Futile building each Wednesday
 evening and a, final report was read
 regarding the coming dance of the
 organization which will be held in
 Red Mems hall on the evening of | April 10- The bowling team repre-
 ses1ting the local post will play the
 team of the Bridgeport post on the l Stratfo1d alleys tomorrow evening and
 as the first game in the series was l captured by the Stratford team it is expected the game this evening will be warmly contested
 Ground was broken yesterday for
 the new home which will be erected on Oakland street for Frank Ordener 1 Cyril Shaw, the local contractor, has been awarded the contract for the building of the house
 Albert Buckley of Bridgeport was a
 visitor with friends in Stratford last evening"
 A meeting and drill of the members
 of Troop 1, Boy Scouts of America, was held in Packard hall last even ing
 Leroy Uppenbraw of Bridgeport spent last evening as the guest oi friends in town
 MT and Mrs Ivan L. Morehouse and daughter will leave Stratford tomor-
 row to spend the Easter holidays at Atlantic City
 Frederick DeForest is i'll at his
 home on King street extension
 H. Steele of West Haven was the
 guest of friends in Stratford last even ing
 The regular weekly meeting of the
 members of the Stratford club was
 held in their club rooms on Nichols
 avenue last evening"
 The thunder shower of last eyen-
 ing was a most welcome reminder to 1 all that S0r5Dr is here Not only fbis