Stratford Weekly Notes on Trips and Local Events
The Stratford column reports residents heading to Bay Shore Long Island for several months while others visit Monteagle Tennessee Oakland California and Port Jefferson Saneemee. It notes a new Sunday school building planned for Devon and a motor boat repair move by Lines at Bridgeport. The piece mentions porch visits from New York and Branford, local weddings and house parties, trolley incidents near New Haven and plans for Hollister Heights school and muffler rules for motor boats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles K. Stage
Bay Shore
Long Island
Alice F. Clark
Alice Falken
Monteagle
Cumberland Mountains
Tennessee
Ede Falken
Northwest
Oakland
California
Farrar
Allen Wilson
Port Jefferson Saneemee
Tait
Florida
Edith Hastings
Elm Street
Isabel McKean
Edmund Bartlett
Allie Smith
Belmont Hotel
New York
Devon
David Booth
Putney
Frederick Beers
Atlanta
Clara M. Porter
Milford and
Nichols
George O. Lines
Bridgeport
Edward W. Beers
Edward Blakeslee
Curtis
Tory Hill
Bassett
Branford
Patterson
Rhoades
Frederick Judson
Plumb & Bartram
C. D. Mills
Paradise Green
Pebbles
Son
New Jersey
Osborne
Roland Kelly
Hara
Long Brook Avenue
Ole Coo
Ian Dace Ard Ury
Minty
Housatonic
William Lawrence
Main Street
Savin Rock
Beacon Falls
University City of
New Haven
Leeds
Barnum Avenue
Hollister Heights
Porter
Allan Wilson
Edward H. Beers
Charles B. Davis
Lobdell
Lordship Park
Westport Fair Seeks Funds at Ula Catholic Church
Westport hosts a three day fair at the Ula Catholic church to benefit the Church of the Assumption. A stage play titled The Nigger Night Social features Geo J Crossman Patrick Oates Lee Hartigan Albert Linxweiler McArdie and Edward Linxweiler with a musical guests on Saturday by Louis Bermann of Greens Farms. Donations continue from many donors including Mrs Keating Mrs D Mahoney and others who contributed pipes lamps bed spreads tableware and assorted domestic articles, coal, rug, and silver spoons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ula Catholic Church
Church of the Assumption
Geo. J. Crossman
Patrick Oates
Lee Hartigan
Albert Linxweiler
McArdie
Edward Linxweiler
Louis Bermann
Greens Farms
Father Duggan
Mary Oates
M. Kelly
Mr. Donahue
E. S. Ryan
Mr. Green
Mr. Bradley
Mr. Sturges
Mr. Simpson
J. W. Wood
John F. Dailey
Mrs
James London
F. M. Taylor
Gault Brothers
Mr. McGuver
Mary Boldnd
Arthur Rose
Martin
R. Baling
Warren
Thomas
Fairfield News: Funeral and Local Notes In Town
The funeral of Mrs. Sarah E. Hemenway widow of Edwin Holman aged 86 was held at the Congregational parsonage in Southport and burial planned in Newton Massachusetts. Louis Morehouse visits New York. Prof Pinckney Hartgrove’s Texas mother visits Fairfield. An exhibition at Pequot library displays a large trove of Japanese paintings. Hungarians who dug a well near the chemical works faced fines totaling about 4 and 22 dollars each plus costs. overall 138 dollars for an 18foot dig. Simon Bradley to be elected member of the Hook and Ladder Company. The firemen’s fair ends with receipts near 31,000, signaling strong local support for new equipment. Milford fire company and drum corps joined Fairfield’s fair procession with Graphophones in tow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah E. Hemenway
Edwin Holman
Congregational Parsonage
Southport
Mr. Woodruff
Black Rock
Newton
Mass
Louis Morehouse
New York
Pinckney Hartgrove
Texas
Pequot
General Chemical Works
Karnack
Simon Bradley
Hook & Ladder Company
Fairfield
Milford Fire Company
Flint’s Corner
Perry’s Hall
Fairgrounds
Torpedo Shot at 3,800 Yards Hits Vermont Amidships
At Newport on August 26 a Whitehead torpedo fired by the Cuttlefish during Atlantic fleet maneuvers off Provincetown struck the Vermont amidships at 3,800 yards, warhead badly flattened. The attack, one of the longest on record, followed by the fleet including Viper Octopus Tarantula and Castine. The subs will base in Narragansett Bay for two weeks of target practice before moving to New York and Hudson Fulton events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Atlantic Fleet
Provincetown
Vermont
Whitehead
Atlantic
Narragansett Bay
Naval Coaling Station
New York Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Crazed Conscience Farmer Shoots Self at Home
Somerville New Jersey August 26 John Borngasser a farmer near Belle Mead shot himself in the head with a combination rifle and shotgun. He had been released from Somerset County Jail after a mental exam request from his wife and had recently sold his farm for 1800 dollars after buying it a year earlier for 2700. He became conscience stricken over selling on Sunday and grew increasingly unbalanced. He lived with his wife child and sister on the farm. His wife had him examined for sanity and helped arrange a transfer back to the original owner with a 100 dollar refund. He was released and returned home driving twelve miles before the fatal act was committed. his sister found him dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerville
WN. J
John Borngasser
Belle- Mead
Borngasser
Somerset County
Bayonne
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Edward W. Marsh
Bridgeport Land & Title CO
State Street
City Savings Bank
Board of Trustees
Games Bank
Blue Point Oysters
Hayes
Water Street
Bond
Heinz’s
Heinz
Wilco Eee
Gers
Neas
Lewes
Schlitz Milwaukee Beer
Old Homestead
F O'Connor
FE. H. Reed
Swift Lowell Fertilizer
Conn
LOWE
Seaview Ave
Eas
Thomas L. Vows ‘Bros
Westport
Hawthorne Inn
Boston Post Road
L. C. Fire
Smith’s
M. J. Maloney
Jones Avenue
Nathan Engelman
J. ANDREW_GRIVE
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Court of Common Pleas
Fairfield County
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Sidney N. Lockwood
Gouriland School (Incorporated
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Bridgeport Trust CO
W. Marsh
E. H. Judson
Trea
Bermuda
Bank St
Lehigh
A. Bennett
Chicago
Til
Arnold Coal
C. E. Stratfield Hotel Bldg
M. J. Buechler
Fairfield Avenue
College
Styles Kerr & Barnes
Tailors and Furnigcon StratGeld
Bridgeport, Conn
Capes Essec Eeeees
Kossuth Street
OME FI Cafe
Choice Wines, Liquors & Cigars
New Managements
Blue Ribbon Auto & Carriage
Qce
Broad St
Harley-Davidson Motor Cycles
Liberty Special
Bridgeport Bicycles
J. L. Bloomer
Roleys
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