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Bridgeport Evening Farmer

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Jan 12, 1909

Page

2

Mayor Lee to Speak at Washington's Birthday Banquet

A Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution board meeting laid plans for the annual banquet at Hotel Stratfield on Washington's Birthday February 22 at 1 PM. Speakers include Mayor Henry Lee Bridgeport Lieutenant governor Frank B Weeks Rev W L Philips Job Hedges and Judge Henry Stockbridge.

The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Hotel Stratfield Washington Henry Lee Bridgeport Frank B. Weeks Middletown W. L. Philips New Haven Job Hedges New York Henry Stockbridge Baltimore Frank Lee Armstrong William Cutler Bowers Sidney Edwin Hawley William Wallace Jones George Henry Peck Charles Henry Peet Henry James Seeley James Henry Stagg William Wright Starr David Coe Stratford Lewis Edson Frost William Henry Lyon Meriden George Reading Farlee New York City Andrew Burr Huntington Southport Edward Seymour Moulton Orry Mortimer Shephard Royal Drew Tomlinson Milwaukee Wis Carleton Hickox Stevens Greenwich Buckingham Lockwood Manice DeForest Lockwood Norwalk Buckingham Parsons Merriman Waterbury Mortimer F. Plant Groton Empire State Society

Redding's Great Project Debated by Town Meeting Attendees

About fifty residents including major landowners attended at the academy building to hear Joseph Tomlinson of Chicago outline a land scheme. A contract plan requests 3,000 to 4,000 acres with 50 percent ownership by landowners and a financial outlay of 50,000 to 75,000 dollars for the chief contractor.

Redding Academy A. G. Barnett Attorney Tweedy Danbury Joseph Tomlinson Chicago Tomlinson Tweedy Mr. Barnett J. L. Blackman Emory P. Sanford Charles Ward James E. Treadwell W. C. Sanford Albert A. Gorham Dr. E. H. Smith Milo Osborn Henry Duncan

Fire destroys barn on Martin Wolsey's Newtown farm

Incendiary blaze last night leveled a large barn on Martin Wolsey's farm in lower Newtown. Cattle and horses escaped, but about 75 tons of hay burned. estimated loss near 5000 with the barn sized 40 by 90 feet. The blaze lit the city from 10 to 11 o'clock. Wolsey, a bachelor, had faced past fires on his showplace property.

Martin Wolsey Lower Newtown Wolsey

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