The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-15
FIREMAN HURT
 LAST NIGHT IN
 STAMFORD BLAZE

night at the two family house on | West Broad street owned by Stefert
 B9ot D9otheFz Of Hni9n avsnue is, Bridge, 1 avenue, fireman, received a broken collar bone, slight fracture of the | skull and abrasions of both legs, and
 was taken there on a litter in the police automobile, after a chimney | had fallen on him during the height | of the blaze, which caused damage | joins the home of Selectman Rein hold Person, and MaS formerly his 1 property. The upper half was not occupied, and the origin of the fire is unknown. The lower floor was to l have been occupied by people who started to move in yesterday, and whose names are not yet known. Neighbors broke into the lower half and saved much of the furniture. The fire of last night showed two things. It showed the true conditions
 of many of Stratfo~ds streets, about
 piles as the Ohio river in August.
 The light Vim truck from No. 3 com
 pany on Nichols avenue, and the No.
 1 chemical from the center, reached
 came mired. Had there been
 bumper lines could have been laid
 from a distance and a good pres
 sure secured. As 1t was valuable
 time was lost running two lines into one in order to get suaicient water
 to accomplish something.
 Tonight at the Stratford theatre Thomas Meighan in "Cappy Ricks'' will be featured, with a travelcg'>e and comedy.
 There seems no opposition to the proposition to give the Stratford club abatement of taxes, telephone and water expense, and an annual allot. ment of five tons of coal. because or thefact that the club houses the No. 2 fire company. A similar proposition from the LordShip company would not prove unpopular. The whole mat ter hinges upon the legality Of the proposition. It would be a fair and cheap arrangement for the town and something cheap at this time will not be amiss. That's what most everyone seems to be Joking for.
 Efforts to make Main street north of Barnum avenue a little safer by patching the road, are noted. Every | little helps To the man In an aero plane it will look like the town has the smallpox.
 Do you remember the old days, | and she would gate you at the corner, and not let you come all the way home with her for fear you would lean against the door bell and | SOOn0 an alarm w Gu, GIlS IS INo1 why the young ladies on the streets | going east from Main above Paradise | Green, alight from their best fellows | cars at Main street, and run on nome | won't want said best fellow to break all the springs in the fiivver.
 The Fourth District Welfare asso- eiation' viii meet Thursday, Tn ,e,I and no sur, thought Hunter adherents had gotten tired of their fight. The meeting will be a banning for Councilman Vito | fouted his constituents desires. He will be asked to resign.
 First Walter Leck resigned as pres ident of the Third District Civic association, Stratford. Then the res | ignation epidemic spread to Bridge l port where William R. Webster re- signed as president of the Board of alphabet covered. Twenty-four more | left, and a lot more good spots for | resignatfons. Resign early and avoid 1 the rush.
 Over in Bridgeport all the cigar | cutters have disappeared from the | smoke stores. They were deemed un- bite ln,'I the ends 1" fro@ tn the u stogies ] and spit absent mindedly into space. San itary.
 Bridgeport has smallpox; Milford l Bethel wartpox; Vest | port chicken pox; and Stratford-ash cans.
 The Red Cross Visiting Nurse asso- citation is planning a Garden party for June Recent reports show 50 new cases. 122 visits, and attendance Of 56 at the tuberculosis clinics held at the town hall
 Any ex-service men in Stratford who entered the mill from Ohio? If 50, get in touch with the Red cross Ohio is ready to express gratitude in ,aSh not f1Okunn.