The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-15

And now the bowling alleys and | pool tables are quiet. All because of | the smallpox. The next closing or | ders in line ar expected to strike l the weatogue and Cupheag clubs, and meetings of the Stratford Medical | Liberty league.
 | The K. of c. team won their initial game. Details will be found on the best sporting page in Bridgeport, in | this paper.
 Barnum avenue will help a bit. The | oIler and scraper parked near the | Paradise Green section is indicative | of much needed road work soon to 1 be carried on in this section. The congestion at Washington bridge yesterday was even greater l than a week ago. Each year the need of another bridge a mile or two | above Washington bridge is more ap- | parent and urgent.
 | About half the concrete work on | the west side of the roadway between the bridge and Devon has been fin ished Before a second Sunday rolls 1 around this half of the road will be open. The traffic will still be of one | way proportions, and the delay the same, but the going will be much I l of the concrete includes on the De- vo1 side, both rails of the westbound | trolley track.
 | the paving has been finished on the | east side of the roadway, this DOT | ton to be completed by another two l weeks at the same time the first half | is finished on the Devon side. All | though the going is rough and hard on tires, there is still two way traffic on the Stratford side However, if motorists bound toward Bridgeport | were wise they would detour through East Main street, to WilcoxSon ave- nue. to Main street (Paradise Green) II to Barnum avenue.
 old road, incidentally the road is only about seven or eight years old, is be- ing paced at the end of East Main street adjoining Main, and later will rolled. and at least block or two of East Main street will be in a con- siderably improve condition. The widening of the roadway at the turn by the Pond estate at Ponds s point will make this section of the Milford shore drive safeE quicker, and even more beautiful. II Miss Gertrude Nolan, who has made her home with the family of Thomas King since they have resided at .36S Windsor avenue, and who with the office of the Bridgeport Chain company, will leave this week for Hartford, where she will make her future home with relatives. Because of the open cars needing two men to operate, the Paradise 1 Green line will see none of this type l during the summer months except ing probably rush hour extras. Open cars will likely be used on the Derby | Milford, and New Haven runs, pass ing through Stra afford. during the warmer months.
 Blue Monday and Old Irritability 1 IS in again.
 .TWel, well. here we are again. But before shying tho ink-wen just peruse the following and tell me; do | you blame me?
 William H. Hamby in Red Foam; i; "A country town is a weird mixture of creduity and distrust, of sympathy | for physical sickness and cruelty for | mental suffering; Of patriotism and tax dodging, of model citizens and character assassins; of religion and l obScenity.''
 Wow! That's a hot one.
 One of our persistent delusions is that a few prominent citizens mold the sentiment of a community: they most certainly do not
 Mine times out of ten Bud Hicks, who runs thel livery stable and who did a term for shooting Bill George can swing more votes than Professor Lanson, the Superintendent of Schools. or Hiram Wfcks, the presi- dent of the First State Bank
 And voting is most certainly a matter of SENTIMENT
 Foam. is the most visible thing in a stream and people usually base their sentiments and their actions on high visibility
 ''Of course by and by everybody who has fallen into the creek and got wet learns there Is water under the foam; but that is a slow individ- ua1 process of education which may make for personal conviction, but does not sway public sentin ent"
 Golly, golly, double golly, gosh darn, dingi
 Wadya know. bout that!
 Amt it the truth %
 OLD IRRITABILITY
 There it is. Don't know wheth- CT that gun totfng livery stable hane out that he speaks of pertains to the | f,s-% 1I@ I,@