The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-06-22
Don't Come To
Town Often,
But, Oh Boy!

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Well, by gracious. I just been down
to ridgepoFt, and I run into tbs
/ darnest old show. l ever seen In that
! mans hick town.
Il Every once in a while I get to get
some fun, SO when I amt too busy
| watchin' the trains go by, I make my
| sneak. Tuesday was the day SO l goes
| out in the barn and clucks a few
to the old tin liz and beats it to town
gal to one of the poles down on Cliff $
| million dollar einder patch and hikes
me over to Fairfield avenue. l got to
get q wrench so 1 heads me for the
American Hardware. Goshi say you
ought to have seen the windows all
| kinds. George" I says to ''Trox,''
what's all this here stuff you got in
rube,'' says he, don't YOU know
what's going on7 It's this here
Bridgeport Progress Week. After
| he tells me all about it, 1 says, TIL
Then as got an hour to spare before
| going to the gal and music show, 1
] goes round the corner and takes a
| peek in Mi5ch's. Say, he's got the
est Tot of gals swimmin' suits you
| ever seen. One-piece, you said it.
A He-Man's Place.
Next door Jim Connors had some
L
missed the bunch of high steppers he
had that night at the Style Show.
Hugh K. is some picker and he was
runnin a little circus Of his own in
at Rockwells. and inside had a line
of corsets to make a blind gunman
nervous. Dave Lustig had something
purity in his windows for there was a
crowd outside a rubberin' and SO l
I'll bet you 1 was glad 1 left
Mary Ellen at home. When sees a
crowd next door and I see Neuhoff's
windows Just chuck full of them
f1imsey fumsey dresses that look like
electric fan could blow to Frisco
They certainly was cute.
Down street 1 gets a glimpse of
Frank Bell lookin' in Meigs' window
does when he's pleased. "How's
tricks. Frank?" I says. Splendid -
says he. and I looks in the window
with him and it's all dol1ed up with
garters and about the SWEETEST pink
corsets and mems suits and them new
fangle mems breeches for gals you
ever seen. 1 come away.
Tell the truth. been kind Of figur-
ing that If the boarder crop turned
out good this summer. I'd get me
some new buds, so I just slips up to
the Surprise to see what was doin'.
Pam Beach for mine, I say they got
some.
Hiked to Reads
1 starts over to Reads after that
and dog take it if I didn't near ge,
run over by one of the City Ice &
Coal wagons with a sign on the side
that says, Buy goods made in Bridge
port, and keep local factories run
ming. just shook my fist at Harry
Hustled, who was drivin' and says,
Yes, and keep everybody else run
min too" Reads was dom this here
Progress week up proud too. They
had corsetS and beads and lace and
phoneygraft records and trains and
fIa r. and 4ha I1Ir oil
ed red and yaller, and a lot of kids
standin' a starin' in the window and
goin fair cuckoo.
got to hee hawin' too, till some
one gives me a slap on the back
that like to break my upper plate.
It's Peter Davey. "Lo Pete" says l.
What you dom for to make this
pie. all made in Bridgeport too, you |
ought to look in our stores and see." |
90 k" says 1. but 1 amt got no |
time to be trapsin' all over this here |
Fairfield county to look in no store |
windows I'm busy I am, Just |
then Herb Bottomley comes along |
and rescUeS me and L goes round TO
Hawley's with him to set for a spell, |
but gee whiz! didn't get no chance |
tor Joe Stage had got the place all |
fSed up and laid out with catra ges |
and jack knives, grease cups and a |
whole lot of electric stuff too numer- |
Gus to mention. 1 don't stay there /
very long for they amt got no time /
to talk.
Welcome at Market,
know III be welcome over to the
sure enough there's Rod parading
down one aisle and Angus up tother,
both lokin' like two high fed robins.
In In gettln' Interested in things by
seNhn', this here old Bridgeport Pogus
Week Soap and Samps" says
they both together at once. We'll,
go to it." says l. snappy, that's me.
and worse, but I'm game so I'm near
and l steps in Just to
say How dye" bor Nat and 1 is purity
good friends. You tell 'em. they got
q great old line of mats and beds all |
over the place, certainly fine to see
Finally after nosin' round a bit 1
tells 'em about the f1shin' up our way
and moSieS over to the Chamber of
Commerce. Befn' a business man my
self, they're allus glad to git my ideas
On things in general. Secretary" I
says, after he'd shook hands with
ne as Though I had a million dollars
and says, BY gracious I'm glad to see
you" ''how is she comn1in"s Fine
says he, we're busy as bees. That
me that 1 was feelin' hollow
inside 50 1 says Hello to the other
'olks in the office and hits the street
again. When ! gets out 1 remembers
amt seen Dick Opel for some
lime so over / goes and there he is
oust1ing round shown bed springs
With one hand and MATTRESSES with
he other. I'm quick. 1 am and I seen
light away that Hadleys was doing
business as usual, BY now I'm 'bou:
tarving and I'm headin' for some
'lace where 1 can get cigar to kind
# steady me and l drops into Hfndles
md find he's got special sale OF
Bridgeport made cigars for the week,
They was good, TOO.
TjrrlN Trains Rnnntxst
AS 1 was loahng round State street |
sees that Neu;t On Broad 81 eet has
'ot a great old show of lace cur
aims and l think that he certainly
ad something to be proud of. This
how OF stuff Is gettin raNoqNa interest,"
.ner all a time and when 1 sees a
rowd up street a piece 1 just natur
lily makes for 1t. When I gets there
finds I'm standin' IN front OF Clark's
With lot of kids watchin' the cutest |