Yale Professor Hosts Social Gathering for Graduates
Professor Hdward Bliss Reed of Yale addressed the Courtland Graduates Association at Miss Amelie Beardsley’s home on Park Place. Frederick J. Berger and his wife hosted guests at their Northerner home after returning from their honeymoon. Guests included Marion Johnson and several Misses including Thomson, Molloy, and Mitchell amid warm congratulatory chatter. State employment bureau data for November show 106 men and 183 women applied for work, with 41 men and 140 women requesting positions and 37 men and 124 women filled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hdward Bliss Reed
Yale
Graduates’ Association of
Courtland Sooo
Amelie Beardsley
Park Place
Paul Clapdel
Prince of Wilson
Frederick J. Berger
Northemner
Mrs. Berger
Sees Bel Thomson
Marion Johnson
Iha Molloy
Carolyne Mitchell
Maree Hechtein
Jeanette
Aurelia Barger
Erma Reddy
Ada O'Rourke
Agdres
State Employment Bureau
Department
Yuletide Greetings With Huylers Gift
Yuletide wishes extend for a box of Huylers as a courteous gesture to ladies, recalling pleasant evenings spent in companionship during the past year. Save the card with us and let us decorate or preserve the memento for future remembrance.
Plan to Oust School Board Is Unpopular
Members of the Board of Education resent City Hall efforts to drive them from their rooms. The City Hall committee proposed moving the board of education offices to other rooms and reallocating space for the town clerk, tax collector, and registrars of voters. An earlier idea to relocate the Kelly house for an executive building was abandoned. The board plans to remain in place and may repurpose attic space when the city plan commission is dissolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
City Hall Committee
Board of Contract and Supply
Registrars of Voters
Board ‘of Education
Kelly
City Plan Commission
For Sale: Special Fur Assortment at Dillon Co
E H Dillon & Co announces a special fur sale at 1105 Man Street featuring a limited assortment of reliable fur goods. Prices are guaranteed to be at least 1 less than comparable items elsewhere, with an opportunity to purchase a 600 dollar Black Siberian Wolf fur.
Forty Niners Honor Retiring Read F J Naramore
The Forty nine Club met at the Alfonquin Club to elect officers and honor retiring president F J Naramore founder of the organization who has chaired the group for fifteen years. A banquet followed with reminiscences as three roster members died this year and Duane Brewer was elected president.
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Alfonquin Club
F. J. Naramore
William G. Newell
William Parsons
John LeCross/ Tudge
Henry Fuller
Putnam
STEPNEY Sneeting at Harmony Grange Election of Officers
Harmony Grange Stepney held a Thursday meeting with 35 members present. Charles Lacey was named master and Edwards S. eva Beardsley Pomons Edith N Cur Hiss Flore Adeline Clark as officers. Ernest Sherman elected to the executive committee. A vote selected a donor for a building lot for a new grange hall. Theodore Beardsley is improving from bronchial pneumonia. Stepney schools to close December 23 for ten days.
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Harmony Grange
Charles Lacey
Edwards S.eva Beardsley
Pomons
Edith N. Cur Hiss
Flore
Adeline Clark
Anna Hawley
Ernest Sherman
Albert Wheeler
Grange Hall
Merwin Johnson
Raycroft Beardsley
Baste
The
Methodist Church
Ansonia
Monroe Town Hall
Carls
Theodore Beardsley
Frederick P. Sherman
Stepney
Monroe
George Smith
Stepney Depot
Upper Stepney
Smith
Community Notices From Deerfield and Greenfield
Mrs Annie Banks and Mrs Albert Bulkley attended a missionary address by Mrs Walker of New Haven at Southport Congregational church on Thursday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Everette Banks hosted recently for Mrs Frank Bani and Mrs Richard Knasp has returned to Holland Heights after visiting her daughter Mrs Clifford Jennings. 3 M Banks has served on the Bridgeport jury. Greenfield Country Club plans a dance this Thursday evening with invitations issued and a large turnout expected. Greenfield Hill range holds regular meetings on Tuesday. The club enjoyed a pleasant afternoon at Mrs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Banks
Albert M. Bulkley
Williston Walker
New Haven
Southport Congregational Church
Everette Banks
Mer
Frank Bani
Richard Knasp
Hex
Holland Heights
Clifford Jennings
M. Banks
Bridgeport
Greenfield Country Club
Greenfisld Hilllrange
Tuas
Social afternoon and whist benefit noted in town
William Meeker hosted a social afternoon with tea attended by Mrs. Howard Wade, Mrs. Frank Wade, Esther and Ruth Wade, Mrs. John Jackson, and Mrs. Edward Morehouse. Mrs. D Morris Andrews, recently home from Bridgeport hospital, will visit her sister Mrs. Rufus Wales. The Ladies' Afternoon Social club met at Mrs. Leslie Jennings, sharing business talk and a generous supper with sixteen present. A Greenfield Grange hall public whist for the grange drew 60 to 70 guests, with prizes and hot coffee and cake afterward. Miss Susan Edwards remained home ill for a few days.
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William
Meeker
Howard Wade
Frank Wade
Esther
Ruth Wade
John Jackson
Edward Morehouse
D. Morris Andrews
Weston
Bridgeport Hospital
Rufus
Wales
Andrews
Bradley Jennings
Elva Banks
Howard I. Wakeman
W. Burr Hill
Susan Edwards
Bierce estate inventory shows no real estate assets
Stratford on December 15 an inventory filed in probate lists Lewis Bierce as deceased with no real estate. Personal estate valued at 3596.01 includes stock in a grocery store 1500 dollars ten shares of Booth Pratt Co 3100 cash 596.01 and a mortgage on the Coulter farm 1900 dollars. Local court reports fined two Syrians for selling fruit without a license and a man was jailed for a 60 day sentence on a separate case.
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Stratford
Lewis Bierce
Lee
Ital
Booth & Pratt Co
Coulter Farm
Charles Ea
Chaébu
Ridgeport
Lewis A.polley
Anthony Fellows
William Hassett
Lester Wilson
Highland Avenue
Yealterday
Charles H
Arthur Bedell
Alan Judson
Bridgeport
West Haven High School
Stratford High
Town Hall
Preshmen
Homes
Lillian Follett
Lelia Wells
Gertrude Kenaugh
Vivian Morehouse
Nellie Wellington
Ellen Ryan
Dish Assum
Agnes Ryan
Jacy Baldwin
Theresa Motif
Dorothy Peck
Sthel Stephens
Gladys Merrill
Inez Edwards
Helen Thompson
Gertrude Yates
Catherine Russell
Dorothy Bernum
Chas. D. Johnson
Joseph Johnson
Mr. Reed
Straliene
Stratford Charitable Association
Dingbat Club
Plans to amplify the Briceport High manual training program
Plans to extend wood working sewing and cooking classes at Briceport High with one woodworking lesson for fifth to eighth grades and sewing for fifth to sixth graders. Forty five fifth grade classes to be maintained, with locations from Prospect Washington Myrtle avenue Wheeler Maplewood Clinton Bryant Longfellow Black Rock Whittier Columbus Oak street Shelton Sheridan Staples Huntington road Bar mum Garfield Kossuth street Waltersville Prospect Columbus Oak Shelton Barnum Franklin Summerfield. The district delays electric cookery and awards clock system contract to Standard Electric Time at 1437 dollars. A flag pole will be raised to be visible citywide.
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Briceport High School
Supt
C. W Deane
Board of Education
Supt. Deane Folwer
Prospect Street Room
Prospect
Washington
Myrtle Avenue
Wheeler Schools
Maplewod
Maplewood
Clinton Avenue
Bryant
Longfellow
Black Rock
Whittier
Shelton
Columbus
Oak Street
Sheridan
Staples
Huntington Road
Barmum
Garfield
Roxsuth Street
Kossuth Street
Waltersville
Wheeler
Barnum
Franklin
Kinedin
Summerfield
Standard Electric’ Time Company
Magnetic Company
Towne Clock Company
Standard Manufacturing Company
David Ginland
John A. Kinsella
George Nichols
Jackson School
West End
Bostwick Avenue
McKinley
Roger Sherman
Lincoln
Shelton School
Fire and water damage in two Meriden blocks
Meriden Conn Dec 15 damage estimated at about 5000 was caused by fire and water in two business blocks near the city center early today. The fires in each case were confined to the upper part of the buildings. It started in a building owned by Dr F L Lawton and spread to the adjoining structure belonging to the estate of Simon McMahon. The cause is not known.
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Meriden
Conn
F. L. Lawton
Simon McMahon
State mortality figures and odd political meeting
State mortality reports show 1181 deaths in November, 12 below October, 3 percent above last November, and 62 above the five year November average. President Wilson shook hands with Daniel M Hood, 34, of Ipswich, Mass, who has met every President since Polk. A man named Charles H Randall, of St Louis, claimed to be a leper and asked for medical treatment from a Washington policeman.
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Hartford
State Board of Health
Wilson
Daniel M. Hood
Ipswich
Mass
James K. Polk
Charles H. Randall
St. Louis
Washington
Chamberlain Backs Garrison Army Expansion Plan
Senator G T Chamberlain of Oregon, chair of the Senate military affairs committee, signals support for Secretary Garrison's proposal to raise enlisted army strength by 25,000 and create reserve forces. The stance suggests a Senate-House clash as Chairman Hay opposes the plan, hinting at a legislative fight over the bills.
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Washington
G. T. Chamberlain
Oregon
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Secreary
Garrison
Chamberlain
Senate
Wilson
Hay
House Committee On
House
D A R to Place Markers on Old Kings Highway
Mary Silliman chapter D A R votes to place granite markers along the old King’s Highway between Moody’s millpond and Perry in Stratford to commemorate their 21st anniversary. The DAR stones bear a bronze tablet with Ye Old King’s Highway and dates 1393 and 1914, set apart from Franklin milestone markers.
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Moody’s Millpond
Perry
Stratford
Old King’s Highway
Mary Silliman
Franklin
General Silliman Branch
DAR
Alvin C. Bruel
St John’s P. EB Church
Mr. Bruel
Cheir
Carl Dickinson
Nelson Canfield
Stephen_ Sherman
Leslie Huggins
Roland Dickinson
Allen Albert
Master Kamens
Fraternal Court Nominates Officers For December 28 Election
Court Nathaniel Wheeler No 9 Foresters of America names officers including H F Davis as chief ranger John Banville Jr sub chief ranger William Garrity recording secretary and J O Leary treasurer Eleven membership applications were received The court plans a Saturday celebration in the Odd Fellows building banquet hall with music dancing and refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathaniel Wheeler
Foresters of America
H F Davis
John Banville, Jr
William Garrity
William H. Callan
J. O'Leary
Woodward
Clifford Buckley
Woodward Franklin A. Dean
Beadle
Clarence A Clark
George H. Biebel
John Sweeney
Patrick Fay
Thomas F. Tague
Julius Heck
John F. Quinn
Odd Fellows
Obituary Olivia Kerney funeral held at Bethel church
The funeral for Olivia daughter of Mrs Joseph Kerney was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Bethel A M E church on Broad Street Rev I S Jacobs officiated assisted by Rev W W Ely Rev W es Morton and Brother Johnson from nearby churches The church choir sang Nearer My God to Thee and Lead Kindly Light Floral tokens were abundant Burial was in Parks Cemetery Gen-evieve L Ostrom nee Babb died at age 53 in her home 134 Hanover Street She was born in Boston mass daughter of James and Mrs Babb and lived in the city most of her life She is survived by her husband Frank Ostrom The Turkish government has prohibited the payment of interest on mortgages state and municipal loans and dividends to subjects of enemy countries for the duration of the war
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Olivia. Kerney
Olivia
Joseph Kerney
Bethel A. M. E
Broad Street
Jacob
W. W. Ely
A. M. E Zion Church
W. Es Morton
Brother Johnson
Messiah Baptist Church
Parks Cemetery
Genevieve L. Ostrom
Genevieve L. Babb
Frank Ostrom
Hanover Street
Boston
Mass
James Babb
Wall Papers Dealer Aces 783 East Main Street Ad
The Joseph P. Coughlin Co. at 783 East Main Street promotes cheerful picture frames and decor services. The snippet also surveys varied topics from meditation thoughts to quirky old customs, including hiccups remedies with tobacco, Elizabethan Sunday games, a judge’s courtroom quip, and a Siberian bridal boot tradition.
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Joseph P. Coughlin CO
East Main Street
Tribulation and Threats Amid Roaring Rhetoric
The Atlanta Constitution quotes a tense exchange with blunt threats as a man warns another against continuing his path, saying the fighter who goes will fall and that backers will push. The Richmond Times-Dispatch adds that common sense would help if it were common.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deepie Wren
Atlanta Constitution
Times-Dispatch
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Harvey Hubbell
Park Avenue
Sweetest
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Man St
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Paris
Read
Deerfield and
Greenfield
Bierce
Stratford Court
Deane Onitlines
Secretary Garrison
Smith-Murray CO
Saint Nick
Treasure Island
Santa Claus
Campbell
G. W. Fairchild & Sons, Inc
Main Street
P. D
S. M. Crothera
Atlantic Monthly
G.tatevosof
Taterosoff
Old England
Elizabeth
Sader
London Express
W. Levely
Muskogee
Siberia
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