Monroe News Roundup from Old Monroe by Arthur French
Fairfield County items report bridge repairs on the suspension span over the Housatonic between Monroe and Oxford with timber rest installation and 200 tons lifted by jackscrews. Fox hunting season and a $1 bounty per head are noted, plus lodge installations, school improvements, a cider mill project halted by cold, and local misadventures including hats lost in a swamp. New residents and homes are mentioned alongside weather, farming projects, and a local wedding.
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Arthur French
Monroe
Housatonic River
Oxford
George McCarthy
Bridgeport
Rey
Warren
Ww. Bliss
Dwight M. Burr
Ray Beardsley
Homer Sherman
al Beers
Steve” Hayes
F. J. Wales
Ed Hurd
Washington Lodge
F. and
A. M
Envictus
Inwearin
Evenne
Freight Train Parting Crashes at New Haven Station
Special from United Press Guilford December 13 trains No 233 on the New Haven road parted near the middle shortly before midnight. The rear section crashed into the forward half at the passenger station causing heavy property damage but no injuries. The engineer learned of the split only after the crash. A group of Odd Fellows returning from Waterbury were held up until morning.
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United Press
Guilford
New Haven Road
Waterbury
Farmer Want Column Drives Local Classifieds Interest
A farmer want column draws reader attention in the local classifieds. The notice highlights requests for farm labor, equipment, and land for rent, signaling active regional agricultural trading. Local readers respond with inquiries and offers as the snippet underscores ongoing market activity.
Stratford Night Owl Haunts Case Splits Town Over Bandit Fun
Stratford reports a masked intruder roaming Misses Wheeler on West Broad street while state officer Rowe Wheeler exonerates George Clarke, noting the suspect resembles a short man and may be the same unseen figure who fired on John Sing the Chinese laundryman. A Wilton man, Edward Schofield, is jailed on a burning barn charge from 1908. Holy Name Society grows with 50 men attending a St James church meeting. a library concert promises musical treats. Stratford adopts a new bulletin board system and ponders sewer plans as well as local briefs from the Baird Machine Co factory to a Boy Scout troop formation.
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Stratford
Misses Wheeler
West Broad Street
George Clarke
Rowe Wheeler
Clarke
John Sing
Edward Leeds
South End
William Jackson
Edward Schofield
Wilton
Hiram van Heuser
Schofield
Rene
Jackson
Holy Name Society
St. James’ Church
M. J. O'Connor
St. James
James J. Sexton
John Haggerty
Society
Father O’connor
Frost
New York
Pilzer
Carl Deis
Bridgeport
Stratford Briefs
Baird Machine Company
William Holmes
Shelton
Charles
Warwick Avenue
Boy Scouts
Center School
W. H. Kelsey
Henry Wells
Fred Bennetto
West Haven
Local notices mix with holiday plans and burglar alarm
A string of small items from Grange and club activities to family news and a burglary. Gen Joseph Walker Council meets at Grange hall this evening while Chat Noir prepares a winter show next Saturday at Red Men’s hall. A home burglary on a Greenfield Hill street yielded $1.69 in cash plus silverware and pantry items. Community events include Christmas decorating, a masquerade dance December 29, Jephthah Chapter officers elected, and various visits and birthdays.
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Douglas Beers
Ladies’ Union
Simeon Pease
BE. Morehouse
Eleanor Morehouse
Louise Morehouse
William Bradley
Greenfield Hill
Joseph Berry
Oliver Meeker
DeVer H.warner
William Ferris
Elva Banks
Jephthah Chapter
H. W. Oppe
J. O. Pitzschler
A. B. Blakeman
J. Briscoe
A. M. Briscoe
W. H. Stevens
Anna Carlson
F. W. Barnett
Hartford
Wm.Thickett
F. J. Gale
Madge W. J. Beecher
Thomas Carlson
Mr. Carlson
Lyman Beecher Stowe Lectures on Boy Scouts at Pequot Library
Southport reports a well attended free lecture by Lyman Beecher Stowe on Boy Scouts of America. He praised the movement since 1910 formation, urged local youth to form a scout club, and described the Scout virtues. The talk sparked questions and future library lectures this winter.
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Southport
Pequot Library
Lyman Beecher Stowe
Mr. Stowe
Boy Scouts of America
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Pequot
Richard Meynell
Rome
H. D. M. Spencer-Jones
M. A
D. D
Brazil
Nevin.o. Winter
Mona
Brain Hooker
Aeneas Gunn
William Winter
Charles Alexander Eastman
Commission On Country Life
Horatio
Krana
David Grayson
Ellery H. Clark
Benjamin Wisner Bacon
Arthur Brown
Charles Fox
Hobart P. Wakeman
New York
Florida
John Woodward
Long Island
William H. Holeman
Austin
Colo
Mens’ Club of the Trinity
Church
Fairfield Chickens Thief Captured in Benson Corner
Charles Reminaski of Benson Corner is arraigned on chicken stealing charges after 26 birds vanish from O. G. Jennings place on Osborn Hill. Deputies traced blood and footprints to the home of Mrs. Katkouskis, where seven chickens were cooked and nine more found hidden in a bed. more birds discovered in the pantry. Reminaski held for Superior Court.
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Fairfield
Charles Reminaski
Benson’ Corner
Reminaski
Bacon Wakeman
O. G. Jenings Place
Osborn Hill
Fred Downs
Jennings Place
H. S. Elwood
Elwood
Downs
Francis Katkouskis
Water Street
Bridgeport
Superior Court
Katkouski
Youth Proved To Be Fluent Liar In City Court
Joseph Bendix aged 17 qualified as lightweight champion liar in city court this morning when arraigned on theft. Judge Foster warned him not to steal or lie, fined $15 and costs, and sentenced him to 30 days in jail. The youth had earlier purloined and pawned items from Poli theater and others while homeless. Lawrence Mandeville Marks of Brooklyn elected to Yale News editorial staff.
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Joseph Bendix
Foster
Bendix
Poli
Mirby
George
Lynch
William Warner
Tie Pairfield Avenue
United Press
New Haven
Lawrence Mandeville Marks
Brooklyn
N. Y
Yale News
Fog Nearly Cost Two Ives In South Norwalk
South Norwalk December 13 a thick fog over Long Island Sound forced two oyster boat men named Harry and William Bartlett to flee as the whistle of a Sound steamer passed close by their craft narrowly avoiding a collision.
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Norwalk
United Press
South Norwalk
Long Island
Harry
William Bartlett
Sound
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Samuel Smith
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Stevenson
William Arthur Burt
Fannie J. Andrews
Night Owl
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Barrett
Gretchen
Town
California
Easton
E. P. Mills
Aspetuck
G. A. Jennings
Greenfield
G. H. Barr
Edgar Jennings
Marjorie Jennings
Fred Jennings
Clifford Jennings
Mae Freeborne
Clarence Jennings
Sport Hill
Round Hill
Brown
Dr. Brown
Frank Bibbins
John B. Downs
Elmer Andrews
Arthur Locke
Benson Corner
O. G. Jennings’ Place
NEW Yale Editor
Angelus
Alfred Fox Piano Co
Knabe
Emerson
Primatone
Player Piano Music
Victor
Player Piano Specialists
Fairfield Avenue
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