The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-22
The OnIOOker

Next Saturday ends the. football season for most people. Those who attend the big college games almost 1 religious1y will seek new fields of social activity, for that is what the big games really are for all except the players and officials.
 Thanksgiving is approaching and there comes to mind the old fashioned l days when our forefather were shoot ! Ing turkeys and chasing 1njuns from the very places where now we lind | markets filled with the bird of our great feast.
 When the Pilgrims reached Cape Cod after the perilous journey they ] made in the Mayf1ower, Gov. Brad ford of the extensive Massachusetts Bay Colony said: What could now sustafne them but ye spirite of God & the children of these fathers rightly say: Our fathers were Englishmen which came over the great ocean |. let them therefore Praise Ye Lord, because He Is Good, and His mercieS endureth forever'.''
 Sheriff Thomas L. Reilly of New Haven, well known in this city is now not only High Sheriff, but also a first lieutenant. Major J. L. Gilson of the second company of the Governors foot guard has recently appointed him as an aide on his staff. The sheriff will
 
 men of the state.
 The onlooker was absent minded last night, and forga.ful, and ex- Whether he was dreaming, or actually could not believe that the nickel was in use again, he deposited a dime in the car and forgot it until he was at the end of the line with no one else f to get on to Snare the extra jit which he threw into the coffers of the rail- way company.
 The nickel is in use again, how ever, for something besides war-tax and chewing gum, and the appear a1ce of the cars yesterday showed it. Now comes someone and declares that the proper fare for all lines, routes and sections is seven cents. Then the copper comes into it's own. Of all the places to keep a. roll of bills. a woman knows best, always, how to care for and preserve the roll intact. We know the place too, the time honored wad in the stocking Whether the wad be light or heavy, their safe deposit vau1tins in she stocking
 ] But the best of all was the lady who took out from that we'll known place a shiny tin box with the family l jewels and a bankroll that would make any race track gambler sit up and take notice. over in Macy's the other day, and after porting over the jewels ! finally sorted out the right cash to | pay her bill and re-deposited the tin | box.
 Only five candidates for mayor of | Boston now that MT. Lane has left the field. It's alarming how that Job does appeal to political lights in | the Hub city. Our good friend An 1 drew J. Peters however has Ieer at l least one of the most dignifed men
 to hold that position and has made a good mayor despite the police strike and other momentous crises that he
 had to contend with.
 Americanization of the foreigner should be done in the schools. declar- | ed a speaker here last night. Edu- | cation certainly is the best means to give the foreigner our American prin-
 ciples, but we must also have a good
 example set for the foreigner by the
 public, as the schools without any
 doubt will do their part well. 1 The value of taking movies of the
 football games this season will be easily seen as the result of settling the recent Ohio state game when
 a disputed touchdown was settled by screening the photoDlay and provina
 the actual fact of the score.
 
 "Yeh, lock me up" said husky little foreigner last night to con.
 ductor, who had accepted a nickel
 from him in his reoepticIe. on post payment car, and the little fellow | with the husky voice and broad
 shoulders stood defiant, ready to be locked up if the conductor wanted to
 arrest him. However, he got out of ii all right. The nickel fare was good l enough for him, whether he paid fl first or last.