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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1913
Page
10
A fragment from Louisville recounts a desire to leave the city, walk streets without dodging cars, greet neighbors, shop at a nearby market, and hear corn crop and weather talk. It recalls childhood scenes, smoking pipes, and neighbors watching over doorways as families quarreled.
A Connecticut political column quotes Ryce decrying party leaders and camp followers. The speaker urges reform to restore public service over factional maneuvering and notes disputes over House seating and bill handling. The piece references the United Electric Light and Water Company matter and a May 8 clerk’s office account.
Fairfield townspeople select Baward Riker as scout master and Marshall King as patrol leader. The group will depart Memorial Day from Mr. Riker’s Benson Road home and hike into the country for a considerable distance with each member carrying lunch. Selectmen will join the outing.
The article mentions bids for 4200 feet of new highway with patent pavements and states Thomas J. Cunningham is county seal. It notes a Memorial Day ball game between the Southports and Fairfields, a Fairfield party attending a Westpost performance of In the Shadow of the Rockies, and Greenfield County club activities with dancing and skating.
The parish elected officers at Holy Trinity Memorial church with Senior warden William L. Coley and junior warden Nathaniel Gault among others. Local vendors list trimmed dress hats, ribbons, cocoque boas, and ostrich plumes with discounts. spring coats and rainwear offered. Memorial Day plans loom as Boy Scouts map a parade and schools suspend Friday for the holiday.
Stepney residents attend a supper in the Baptist church parlors on Thursday evening from sunset till 8:30. Afterward a drama titled The Rag Sociable with fourteen characters will be enacted by church ladies depicting an old sewing society. If stormy, the entertainment is postponed to Friday. Edwards S Beardsley and Marshall Beach travel in from this place.
Mrs Edward Renton died Monday at her Daniels Farm home after weeks of illness and five operations. Friends recall her as a longtime actress before marriage. The burial is set for Thursday afternoon in Mountain Grove cemetery, Bridgeport.
Trumbull Boys Brigade Company D of Trinity Methodist church Bridgeport will stage School Ma'am with 15 cent admission. At a Christian Endeavor meeting delegates were chosen for a Bridgeport union missionary mass meeting at Second Baptist on Sunday June 1.
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