The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-04
Fairfield

Four women were rescued yester- day afternoon about 2:3O when their canoe turned over and they lost their heads and were not able to swim About 2 o'clock four women who re- side in their cottages started out in their canoe. When they were about a mile from shore they began calling for help and a crew made up of Hugh McGrath, Henry Shannon. Jr., and Jack Keough started to their aid. When the four young men reached them they began assisting them ashore after much difficulty. One of the women had gope down for the third time and another was lying on her back at the bottom of the Sound The party reached shore and the girls were taken to Snug Harbor, where they remained until they were revived and later were able to go to their homes uRaided.
 Clair Banter of Fairfield Beach, is xisiting her roommate at Elmhurst, N. J. For the past three years Miss Banter has gone to her room-mate's home and stays for about two weeks
 To help raise funds for camping purposes the Fairfield Boy Scouts will give a demonstration and dance next Monday evening in Sherman Hall, at s o'clock. Each scout, to be eligi- ble for camp must provide himself with one-ha1f of his camp expenses The remaining half is supplied from funds raised by the troop as a whole.
 The Scouts will give exhibitions of knot-tying, first aid to the injured, signalling and other interesting scout stunts. Rocks orchestra will fur nish music for dancing later in the evening.
 Mrs. J. J. Clark and four daughters are spending two weeks at Snug liar bor.
 night on the Penffeld road by Arthur Bennett. He was taken before Prose cutor Bacon Wakeman and was re- leased on $50 bonds for his appear morning. Arthur Bennett has been posted on the Fairfield road for the past week in an effort to get those
 It is no accomplished feat for grown up to be able to swim a long distance and to make dives of ap- proximately 20 feet but when accom- p1ished by a youngSter and years old it becomes something worth men tioning. Pine Creek, that stretch of beach just beyond Fairfield is where these two youngsters, Dorothy Peter son, the year old daughter of MT. and Mrs. P. Sterling Petrson of 7S Sherwood avenue and Hughie Broad hurst spend their summers Water has no fear for them. They can make dives from %the springboard as quickly and gracefully as their elders. Hughie Broadhurst dives daily from the 20 it. dive in front of his parents home and the residents of the beach in this section are proud of these two chil- dren.
 Both Dorothy who is known to all as Dawn and Hughie can not only dive and swim but are able to row a | boat or handle canoe in a manner which would put some of their elders l to shame.
 | A new automobile association has | been formed among the younger resi- | dents of the beach for the purpose of I f-~ h@ +ho o0k
 and for the benefit of the o1ders who
 are molested by the speeding of the
 young people, Hugh McGrath has
 been elected president, Thomas Ar
 mold, Jr. has been elected vice presi- dent, Henry Shannon, Jr., secretary and treasurer, and John Keough, suprvisor of roads and motor vehi- cles. Any people who are troubled
 by the speeding cars and who desire
 the roads repaired will please get in touch with MT. Keough.
 Miss Anna Laflin of Stella Maris cottage and Thomas Arnold of Spig- gitone cottage will leave at the end
 of this week for a house party which
 is to be held in Boston.
 Business throughout the country may have "gone to the dogs" but the
 dogs are bringing business to Fair field. according to the statement of
 head of the Kennel Food Supply Co.,,
 that business with the concern was
 never better.
 The Kennel company is working to | capacity turning out about 5000 pounds, of animal food g day, for the
 most part dog biscuits. As an ex- ample of the large business done by
 MT Bradley's company is the fact | that last week he placed an order for | 25,000 barrels of flour.
 | Bad weather during this past week | has put a damper on the business at
 Fairfield Beach and concessionaires
 are hopefully scanning weather re- 1 ports. For the past week all the | eating places have been closed and all the bath houses have been for gotten but with a good hot day Sun day when the tide will be high in the afternoon the regular patrons will flock back to the beach.
 Notices of the August meeting of the Finance Board will be sent out in a few days by Chairman John c. 1-obdeu it is expected The Finance Board at it's meeting will issue a call to town boards and societies to sub init budget estimates at a public meeting before the end of the present month. At the September meeting of the hoard the budgets will be made up ready for report to the Oc- tober town meeting. The general be discussed by the board. Among the questions which will come up is that of pay for the town court off, cialS
 Judge of Probate Bacon Wakeman was in Springfield yesterday on sev- eral business matters.
 Recent rains have washed out the roadway. at Ash Creek and Highway Commissioner Charles A. Rowe will be asked to have it repaired. With no lantern over the hole at night there is a constant menace to pedes- ri ms nd