The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-18
STAMFORD

The fire department answered two alarms yesterday afternoon, the first at 1 o'clock and the secoond at 3, | where a steam roller dropping cin- ders had started grass fires. Both fires were beaten out without using water and there was no damage. Since Sunday an epidemic of traffic accidents has been reported to the police. At o'clocK Sunday after noon a large truck belonging to the Greyhound Motor Transportation Co. of Holyoke. Mass. was bumped by a | bus driven by Nicholas Lasse. The truck was not damaged but the bus l was more or less unused up around the headlights and mud guards Don ald Morrison was the driver Of the 1 truck. The accident occurred ill l front Of the Stratford Trust Com pany and semS to have been caused | by the bus driver mistaking the 1 course the truck was going to take | from the corner
 l A machine driven by Miss Mary L..
 ArINand of 2S9 Adams street. Bridge l part, struck a. man giving the name | of Rowland, ss he was alightinS from l a trolley car. There was no arrest.
 A n1achine belonging to John F. i Fay of 19 Sterling place, driven by
 Fred A. J. Zelmer of 1167 Stradord aV- l enue, likewise strucK a man leaving
 a trolley. The mar was knocked
 down, but not hurt, and he did not | desire to enter complaint
 The police have been asked to be on the lookout for two girls who went
 A. w. o. L. from the Chittendn
 Home in New Haven. All trains. troll l leys and buses passing through Strat- | ford are being closely watched. I M Gaetano of Avon Park section complained to the police that Jimmie | Nichols of Honeyspot Road, together with a gang, was in wait for him to
 settle a grudge growing out of a fight earlier in the day. He asked protec- | ton to his homeand while being ac- | companied by Officer DinneE and Sergeant Smith Nichols was encoun- tered packing a shot gun. Upon being | further searched a revolver was found. In police court Monday morn ing the case was continued until
 Thursday.
 II Officer Smith brought in John F.
 Thompson of 1858 East Main street,
 Bridgeport, on a charge of operating a machine, a bus, under the influence
 of liquor. He was fined $50 and costs
 and appealed from the vrdict. Ar rested with him guests in the Dus, il were John Leonard of South street,
 Stamford, and George Smith of Kos
 suth street. Bridgeport, who were treated to fines of $1O and costs per each on charges of breach of the peace.
 II Samuel Cohen of GOA East Main
 street, before the court on breach of the peace charge, had his case nolled. A break in the trolley wire yester- day afternoon aon the Derby line near 3 Cut Springs road caused irregular I traffic for nearly two hours
 Chief Judson of the fire department ! captured five first premiums with his { rabbits that were entered at the poul- try show at the Casino.
 The trolley company has crew engaged replacing old poles on Malr
 stret.
 The Masonic lodge and Knights o1
 Pythias meet tonight.
 Having been requested by mum
 number of his congregation for
 sermon in reference to the much ag1 tated 'Blue Law discussion. Rev. R T church, delivered a sermon Sunday 5 tn esubject being ''The Sabbath Wa: Made for Man, Not Man for the Sab bath" Mark 2:7 Ills His talk wa s Sunday-How to Observe It. H' handled the subject very compre & hensively, in part as follows: There has been recently introduc B ed into Congress by the Lords Da. Alliance, a bill relative to the us' of Sunday. By the terms of thi bill all Sunday work by governmen A 1 employees is prohibited. All Sunda. railroad interstate traffic, both freigh I and passenger, is to be discontinued S all Sunday postal service is to stop E and no newspaper delivered which ha l ss evident that the passage of such ; bill would profoundly affect the hab
 it's of the general public.
 Naturally there has been a wide
 spread discussion Of this bill through
 out the country. From east to west
 north to south, newspapers and re
 ligious periodicals have given prom
 inent place to it's discussion. N = religious question has engaged s B much journalistic space in recen a months as this one. And Bridge x port has had it's share, with head q lines proclaiming that certain min isters of the city were at swords points over the question. The i'm ! pression gained from all this discus # tfon is that there is a wide variet of opinion among the various denom nations and among ministers of tn & same denomination on the whol A seems to be no clear cutp osidol S which Christian people take. Peopl s outside the church are wondering $ just what Christian people do be S lieve about Sunday observance, O T ust what the so-called Christian Sun < day is. It seems to be time for u T as a. church to put ourselves on rec 8 ord on this point. The whole ques Il ton is further involved by the re T cent request of the local movinl picture theatre to run on Sunda, evenings.
 $t Is it possible for us to unite on E program and a platform, sane, and a ES the same time constructive? Can " B agree on what we mean by the Chris
 tian Sunday, and how best ito observ
 it? To this task we have set our > selves this morning. As a guide in tn II formulation of such program W H are using the words of Jesus whel II he said, '|The Sabbath was made fo II man, and not man for the Sabbath II What is the Christian conception o