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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1911
Page
11
Fairfield County news from Stratford reports two funerals at Union Cemetery for prominent town elders, including Stiles L. Smith and Mrs Benjamin Wells. The era ends as families gather with neighbors, floral tributes mark the services, and police note no further incidents beyond anonymous letters and a city-wide mood of mourning. See also local notices about cemetery, town repairs, and civic resolutions.
Fairfield December entry reports Yale students performing for Hope Chapel to raise funds for a new carpet. The event included supper, a hay ride, songs, jokes, and instrumental pieces with a sizable collection. Other local notes cover pigeon shoot results, street scraping plans, a 20th wedding anniversary surprise, and upcoming club activities.
Easton area residents attended the Epworth League rally at Grace church Bridgeport where the Lee’s chapel league won the attendance banner. Local social notes include birthdays and visits from Mrs. Arthur Staples, Mrs. Henry Seeley, and Miss Lillian Andrews with separate Stratford briefs reporting charity meetings and town notices.
In Southport on December 12, Mr and Mrs M P Kennedy returned from a visit with daughter Mrs Daniel Sullivan in Passaic New Jersey. Firemen met in their rooms with many members, and Dr A H Goodenough presided at the fourth quarterly conference at the Methodist church. Albert J D Samuel and family visit Boston, twenty five youths enjoyed a straw ride to Baston. The funeral of Mrs William Henry Parsell, aged 77 years seven months, was held at 2 pm from her son Wallace Parsell's home. She died after gastritis, survived by husband and six children. Interment at Greens Farms cemetery.
Dorothea Lang of Walnut Tree Hill died at home after a week with peritonitis at age 16. She leaves a twin sister, a younger sister, and a younger brother. Funeral set for Wednesday at St. Rose's church at 10 with the Children of Mary and Holy Angels Sodality attending in a body. Additional notes cover local clergy, parish events, residents visiting New York, and obituaries of Mrs. John Collins of Sandy Hook with services in Bridgeport and burial at St. Mary's in Sandy Hook.
An entertainment titled Peddler's Parade will be staged at the Methodist church parlors in Stepney on Friday evening December 15. The event features Stepney residents in costumes as various trade characters including Doughnut Woman Armenian Peddler and several vendors with a listed cast headed by auctioneer George Lyon.
A Bridgeport health feature reports Mr. C. N. Jones of Hartford credits Tona Vita with curing nervous debility and stomach trouble after a week of use. Specialists at Jennie Hamilton’s Pharmacy demonstrate the tonic for five minutes daily, promising satisfaction before payment.
A decision by A J Hull in the case of James Mc Dermott of Monroe against Henry Stellar of Huntington awarded damages and costs totaling 24.75 dollars. Social life in the Baptist church featured vocal and violin solos, recitations, a quartet called Silently We Steal Away performed by Milon Hawley, Herbert Joyce, Wallace Davis and Carlos Stillson. Other notes include visits, a sale of property to New York buyers, shopping trips to Bridgeport, and church events with a Pedddlers Parade rehearsal at the Methodist church.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad tests the new Atlantic type locomotive F-6 on a 370 to 440 mile route from Buffalo to Jersey City and Easton. The engine uses 65 pounds of coal per mile, half the national passenger train average, due to design and expert firemen.
New Haven reports nearly a hundred warrants signed by City Attorney Booth for unpaid personal taxes. Delinquents will be arrested and brought to Howard, Grand, and Dixwell precincts as Booth abandons subpoenas in favor of direct enforcement. Delinquents face fines and costs if they do not respond.
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