The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-15
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 The ground mole must have had eyes like Ben Turpin, and the family | cat must have the mango. All signs | of early spring were sure enough false alarms. Just look out the window.
 Next Monday would be a year since | the big snow of 1921. The storm of today had a flying start at o'clock storm of a year ago. And there are no 5ttneys to plow through the drifts
 Being a jump or two behind the snow flakes, no trolley left Paradise Green from 7:30 until S:15 this morn ing. Then a snow blow came through | from the center followed by a Par adise Green car,s a Derby car, and an other Green car. The snow blow tool, the cross over and started back to the city, closely followed by the Green ear car; The Derby started on va1iantly, and the several passengers looked like part of an Arctic expedition
 Draped all. along stratford avenue on the outgoing tracks, cleared first, lWere steel cars marked Fairfield and | Main, evidently waiting to take the cross overs after the snow blow and the box car Paradise Green extra with four regular motors. had plowed through and made a path Football stuff, following the interference.
 Speaking of football, the rather rough and inppo1ite way to say the least that the council took to get rid of MT. Hunter, was the talk of the town yesterday and last night. Not within memory of many has a man been , subjected to such treatment, and if conversations heard in many places Where people congregate, and on troll a nvir
 is evident that the council has made 1tsedf as body, unpopular Irrespec- i've or whether they approve of the council-manager plan. or were fol- lowers of Hunter, even some who openly voice their disapprovaI of the
 ex-town manager, believe that there
 everything, and that the council went
 to lot of trouble to take the wrong way.
 A near riot rook place on an out
 bound Paradise Green car near mid night last night when a passenger aHghting at Avon Park, dropped a
 hundred feet before the stop was
 reached. The elusive half rolled and in some unaccountafble manner pass
 ambled out into the night. When the car came to the stop search for the
 half was joined by the motorman-
 conductor, with 10 results.
 The motorman, being human, evil
 dent1y figured that the passenger had had enough hard luck and was about
 to star tthe car when to the surprise
 of the rest of the passengers, the cus- } toner demanded that the motorman ''giva me my change" Then a love- ly argument followed. Each inviting ] in,' and fight out 40 cents worth. The argum ent might have been going on
 yet if squad of sleepy passengers
 hadn't suggested. none too mildly, | 411ok h o,fN rat Jo4
 the jugg1er of half dollars take a } walk back and look for his four bits.
 ) Rev. R. c. Whitehead of the Con- gregational church. is one of the first to publicly take a stand on the mat ter of the election ofethe town man ager, who didn't get much chance to do any managing. He attended the . meeting of the Third District Civic
 association and presented a resolu-
 tion. No definite action was taken at the session, but like the council
 meeting of the night before it broke up in more or less confusion, making
 1t evident. however. that Hunter has O pretty even break in the matter
 of. support
 First selectman Conine. opposed to
 Hunter, had an opportunity to tell his
 views w. Lech declared himself as
 against what he termed the Hunter
 Sammis attempt to run the town. l while Frank S41u1I41S S11OnSu 4AiASC1A
 to be a strong supporter of Hunter.
 It is the opinion of many that Hunter
 bowed to the wrong councfhnen- Without regard to sentiment, ft Is honed that whoever next offers them selves to the slaughter will not deem 2 it necessary to change all the town s help Things are in a bad enough l condition now without losing more valuable lime in breaking in new people in new Work.
 Ell Inasrnuch as the appointed have all | been created by the council it is not probable that there will be any 3 rbanges According to the charter the 3 President of the Council. Robert I Turney, is in charge of the destinies of the Town until new manager or | temporary acting-Inanager IS named Tonight at the Stratford theatre Rer-t IyteIl in "A Trip to Paradise T win be the feature Included on the ! program will be a comedy and a Bur- ton Holmes travelogue-
 Dr. Clarence True Wilson. Wash ltneton. ID. e.. who will take as his subject, Public Morals, Is the pro-
 grammed speaker for the session mex! lSundav afternoon of the Community forum, held weekly at the Congrega- ItionaI church under the auspices o1 the Mems club of the church
 It is rumored that g. new sort o1 prowler is now bothering the night patrol in the Floral Park section
 Anvtbirg for axcftement.