The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-14
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IcfephOnG-StratfOrd aO2-1.. | In connection with the advisability II of council manager plan of charter | for Stratford it may be of interest to those people of Stratford who
 know Dr. Robert C. Lewis, formerly of Stratford, son of Dr. G. F. Lewis, to hear that he lives in a city gov
 erned by the council manager plan.
 In sending a copy of the Boulder i Colo. charter to the local charter i committee he wrote as follows: "Cn- II | der separate cover I am sending you II l a copy of the Boulder Charter. The II | city manager form of government in Il | effect here for more than three years l Il should hate to go back to the old | | type of government with a mayor
 chief administrative officer. I trust that this charter may be of help to
 you and the committee in framing | a new charter for Stratford.''
 Boulder, Colo, is a city approxi- 1
 mately the size of Stratford, though 1
 it is larger business center through | lack of an adjacent large city. as we |
 have in Bridgeport The tax rate |
 there is ten mills and has not been | raised in three years. During 1919 | the city retired S65.0OO of its water ! bonds. The city has its own water | supply. During 1919 also there were l additions to the sanitary sewers. 1-2 1 miles additional water pipes and addi- l tional paving done. In the past year additional alley paving was done to the tune of s16,0OO- Previous to the change in charter the year was finished with deficit of S3S00 in the water department alone and last year showed a profit of s33,634 While all the depart ments together showed n deficit of the year before the charter change } and last year showed a year complet- ! ed with uneXpended appropriations of S7,55S. The city recently purchased a motor fire truck and d motor sprinkler and flusher- They have one of the finest planning boards known They arc a live and public spirited community.
 Mir Charles Abercrombie. newsdea1- CT of 242S Main street treated his T thirteen newsboys last evening with q I trip to the Stratford theatre where
 they saw Bill Hart in The Cradle of l Courage.
 1 Weatogue Country club, left yesterday
 for Jacksonville, Bellaire. Miami and
 other points in Florida where famous ! golf links are located
 Chief William B. Nichols person. I ally investigated an explosion that oc- l cured late Wednesday at the two
 room cottage of John Novak on
 which was no doubt caused by sig
 nals being crossed during a bout = with some home grown hootch made
 an awful mess of the aforementioned
 two room cottage, and put Mrs No-
 yak in the Bridgeport hospital, quite
 badly burned, and with her eyes tenn
 porarily beyond any good use Two
 children have been taken to H1ll- A side Home for care while the mother
 is recovering and while the father.
 an alleged still operator. is engaged
 shaving the goo from the celhhg or
 his bungalow that just at present is T very much bung. In fact buchu- IT S the house smells anything like the
 small piece of copper coil, all that
 was left of the still. poor MT NoHas - will be fortunate to have "oid
 which he no doubt will. for all the windows were rather rudely remoSeo by the Shock No arrests nave oeen made MT. Novak is getting his
 punishment doing a little advanced
 spring housecleaning.
 Chief Nichols made investigation of
 other locations in the neighborhood
 as matter of preca aut1on-
 The case of Samuel Conan of 50
 East Main street, Bridgeport, chars, h. ed with breach of the peace, and nt for Thursday morning, were post en poned until Monday
 tn STRATFORD-Four
 Mrs. C. Abercrcmbie of 1s1 East le Broadway is recuperating from ar le attack of the grippe.
 ch C-b;.f Iudson vriII have several en ed tries of rabits in the annual poultry :" and rabit show opening this weef
 at the Casino in Bridgeport Prepar d aLions are already in the making fol C. the show to ba held in the Town hal
 at Stratford during February tn The score of the Basketball game pm | last evening indicates just the nil H. and tuck battle it was. the final bein. ne 22 to 21. The American Legion tean all of Stratford played a fine game ant
 there was nothing the matter witt nd the argument put up by the Lake CT of Bridgeport The lineup follows it Legion Position Lake . l Williams ....-- r. f. TongelsoI u- Buckley ...... l. f. -.- Mahe TVS Flood. ......... l. Goodman nt Clinton ...-.-.. Il 2. Meye nd Boyle r. g. Anthon. he Substitutions, for Stratford Hafele
 r. g.. Wheeler, l. g.; Lakes, Cloudy ;es Goals Buckley 3. Williams, l. Flood or 2 Boyle. 3. Hafele. Tongelson- ? IT, Goodman 2, Cloudy 2; Fouls: Buck IT, ley ]. Flood, l. Maher ?, Tongelson, l ed Goodman 2.
 en The game was followed by dancin hs as usual and a very fair sized crow
 was in attendance
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