Doings in Local Fraternal Bodies
Doings show a large meeting of Court Marina No 53 F of A electing Robin Hood Guards as a social welfare and degree work club. Officers appointed and a joint installation to be held January 8 with U S W V and A S W V units. Also officers elected for Ladies Auxiliary AOH and Morris Court Amaranth with installations planned for January 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court Marina
F. of A
Foresters’ Hall
Robin Hood Guards
F. A. Rodgers
Harry E. ‘Thompson
Hi ¥ Incks
Broad Street
Morris Court
Order of Amaranth
Royal
George Priest
Janet Snow
Wood
Kate L.segars
Eva Barnes
Gus Herthal
Santwo
AMERICUS TENT OFFICERS ELECTED FOR JANUARY INSTALLATION
AMERICUS Tent No 3 K O T M elected officers for January during a vast evening session. Officers named: Commander James Teskey, Lieutenant Commander Thomas Bowen, R K C H Chaffee, chaplain E Mahoney, sergeant Harry Graham, master at arms M Sullivan, first M of G John Finnell, second M of G James Watt, sentinel H Foster, picket J Marshall. Mayor Wilson to attend a Pequonnock Odd Fellows Hall reception this evening with Grand Patriarch Frank M Canfield and Grand Marshall Henry C Stevenson among guests. Foresters at Pinocle match results noted as Parks City Nathaniel Wheeler courts among participants. Sixth annual reunion of Third Platoon Machine Gun Battery held at armory with toasts from Captain Geo E Hawes and others. Various ladies assisted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus
No. 3
James Teskey
Thomas Bowen
R. K
C. H. Chaffee
E. Mahoney
Harry Graham
M. Sullivan
John Finnell
James Watt
H. Foster
J. Marshall
Wilson
Odd Fellows H All
Broad Street
Frank M. Canfield
Henry C. Stevenson
Armory
Arthur C. Bennett
Eugene Keyes
L. J. Brague
Robert Dayton
Harry Hayden
David Dewning
Walter A. Redfield
Geo. E. Hawes
Arthur C.bennett
Joseph Black
George Dayton
Dante Inferno attraction fills Park Theatre crowd
An audience filled the Park Theatre to the doors for Dante's Inferno in motion pictures. W Stephen Bush added a descriptive talk quoting Dante from the poem, enhancing the viewing with his lecture. The film presentation is praised as a class by itself and notably clear for students of the poet. A technical issue during production with new equipment was later overcome.
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Park Theatre
Hell
W. Stephen Bush
Dante Inferno Pictures Screenings Today and Tomorrow
Audience members may see the complete production without interruption as Dante’s Inferno pictures are shown this afternoon and evening and again tomorrow afternoon and evening.
Body Identified as Frank Lovat After Hotel Astor Death
The body of a man who died by his own action with cyanide at the Hotel Astor on John Street last week was identified at Rourke and Rourke's morgue yesterday afternoon as Frank Lovat of Jersey City New Jersey. Identification by Mrs. George Wright established the match. she had boarded Lovat for years. A note reading There's not much in living when the mind is in hell accompanied him. Funeral held at 10 o'clock this morning with burial in Park cemetery. Mrs. Wright knew little of Lovat's history.
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Hotel Astor
John Street
Rourke & Rourke
Frank Lovat
Jersey City
N. J
George Wright
Lovat
Park Cemetery
Roasts Corporate Interests For Not Benefiting Public
Washington reports Do W Carpenter of the New York Board of Trade telling the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that big and small businesses alike are in distress. He says savings from commissions are not passed to the public and foresees mass layoffs. He proposes federal incorporation publicity and stock issue limits based on actual assets. Samuel Best, 78, a retired fire captain, died of heart strain after witnessing a street fire.
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Washington
Do. W. Carpenter
Anti-Trust
New York Board of Trade
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
New York
Samuel Best
Monks and Modern Teaching Critique by Walter J. Shanley
Walter J. Shanley defends monastic teaching heritage against Connecticut Education secretary Charles D. Hine. He argues monks provide practical, thorough instruction, warn against superficial methods, and predict future return to historic systems. Danbury correspondence dated December 9.
Labor leaders named by McManigal in dynamiting probe
Indianapolis December 12 Information from Ortie McManigal the dynamiters foe forms the basis of the federal probe into the McNamara dynamiting conspiracy. McManigal names labor leaders as implicated beyond J J McNamara and J B McNamara. Detectives and accountants rush to prepare evidence as the Grand Jury nears reconvening with over 35 detectives in attendance. A Hungarian man found dead on Hamilton street is unidentified. Boston reports warmer weather bringing canoeing to the Charles River shores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ortie McManigal
McNamara
McManigal
John J
James B. McNamara
Middle West
East
J. J. McNamara
J. B. MecNamara
Chicago
Herbert S. Hockin
Federal Grand Jury
New Haven Line Subleases Gas and Electric Assets
The New York New Haven and Hartford railroad, shifting policy under President Mellen, sub-leases gas and electric plants taken from the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co to the United Electric Light and Water Co. The arrangement covers Waterbury Naugatuck Watertown and Cheshire areas plus Norwalk Greenwich and other towns, excludes railway sites, runs retroactively from October and pays 365000 yearly with a 500000 bond. Waterbury Gas remains with United Gas Improvement Co. Philadelphia. A M Young, ex-president, led the sub-leasing group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company
United Electric, Light and Water Co
Mellen
New Haven
Boston & Maine
New England
Ontario and Western Road
New York Central Road
Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co
New
United Electric, Light and Water Company
United Gas Improvement Company
Philadelphia* Electrical Syndicate
New Haven Road
Waterbury
Naugatuck
Watertown
Cheshire
Norwalk
Wilton
New Canaan
Greenwich
Waterbury Gas Company
United Gas Improvement Company of
Philadelphia
Hou- Satanic Power Company
A. M. Young
Aged confidence woman released from prison
Ellen R. Peck, 85, once famed as a top confidence woman, was quietly freed from the Auburn state prison after a secret pardon. Reported to have netted over 1 million dollars in life stealing, her liberty followed a recent pardon by the pardon board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Auburn
N. Y
Ellen R.peck
America
Poard
Buechler’s Fine Xmas Offerings At Fairfield Jeweler
Fairfield avenue jeweler Max J. Buechler markets diamond and gold jewelry at manufacturers and importers prices by cutting out the middleman. He buys diamonds in Amsterdam and mounts them in house, offering unmatched value in size quality and cutting. His shop stocks watches silverware cut glass and more with deposits to hold items and evening hours till Christmas. A New York burglary case notes a convict turning to wholesale neckties and gloves for profit.
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Max J. Buechler
Fairfield Avenue
Buechler
Amsterdam
Elgin
Waltham
Anniversary Furniture Sale with 15 Percent Discount
Great ANNIVERSARY sale offering 15 percent off on quality furniture this week. Various items featured include a 3 piece Parsons suite for 39 dollars, oak rockers at 2.98, mahogany chair with cushion at 6.98, Morris chair 8.75, foot rest 0.98, weathered oak tabourettes 0.39, hat trees 0.69, children's card tables 0.59, music cabinets 4.50, Turkish rocker 17.50, plus many more specials. Remember the sale runs all week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
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Dren
Notaseme
Sleather
MEIGS
Bridgeport, Conn
N. W. Bishop Camp
Adolph Starr
Amos S. Reynolds
Anthony W. Gieger
Joseph J. Boyne
Michael Zemany
Fred J. Breckbrill
Reinly Persson
Frank Regener
Charles Andres
William Lounsbury
Cassius HB. Deitz
J. W. Wright
Charles H. Bonesteel
Gadies
Ladies’ Auxiliary
A. O
Patrick Whaley
Ellen Clark
Jeanette Ray
Bessie Muldoon
Elsie Ray
Evelyn Jeff
Susie Whaley
Mary A. Malloy
Foresters
Courts Park City
Nathaniel Wheeler
the Foresters of America
Bridgeport
Burnham
FR. Shanley
Hine
Charles D. Hine
Board of Education of
Connecticut
Mr. Hine
New York City
United States
Hon
Barnard
Europe
M’manigal
Hamilton Street
Rourke & Rourke’s
Boston
Charles River
United Electric Light and Water Company
N. Buckingham & Co
State Street
Court Street
D. D. Smith's
D. D. Smith
Poli's Theatre
Fairfield Ave
FOST
Citizens
Main Street
Sge
Berkshire Mill CO
IRA Gregory & CO
Stratford Ave
Neteence Lehigh Coal
THE
Naugatuck Valley Ice Co
Uptown
Housatonic Avenue
Sprague’s Extra High Grads
Lehigh Coal
Sprague Ice & Coal CO
East End
Washington Avenue Bridge
Main
Wheeler & Howes
Congress Street
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