Local Notes and Social Roundup From Stepney News
STEPNEY Miss Nellie Osborne visits sister Mrs Anna Gilbert. Methodist church supper ends with candy and orange gifts. Rev F H Sawyer receives 26 dollars from parishioners. Edith Wales resigns. new Elm Street teacher after holidays. Morris French covers Route 14 mail duties. Victor Burr on two week vacation. Armstrong and Vera Hubell visit Bridgeport with Mrs Miles Eastwood. David Parmalee under care of Dr Gale. pneumonia feared. Henry S Nichols named Substitute mail carrier on Route Earle Wales of Chicago visits parents Solon and Mrs Wales. Four men kill a 300 pound man eater shark off Miami after two hours fighting. La Follette criticizes Cannonism and calls House a slave of caucus system.
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Nellie Osborne
Anna Gilbert
Methodist Church
Santa Claus
George Reutter
F. H. Sawyer
Edith Wales
Elm Street
Morris French
Victor Burr
Armstrong
Vera Hubbell
Bridgeport
Miles Eastwood
David Parmalee
Gale
Newtown
Henry S. Nichols
Earle Wales
Chicago
Mrs
Solon Wales
Jeff Davis Dies of Apoplexy in Little Rock
United States Senator Jeff Davis died at his home in Little Rock Arkansas early today after suffering apoplexy. Born in 1862 he served as district attorney attorney general governor and was elected to the senate in 1907. He married Lela Carter in October 1911 and is survived by three sons and four daughters from his first marriage.
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Little Rock
Ark
United States
Jeff Davis
Lela Carter
Pope Sends Apostolic Benediction in Event of Emperor Death
Rome January 3 Pope Pius the tenth sent his apostolic benediction to Vienna via Cardinal Nagle Papal nuncio at the Austrian Hungarian court with Vatican instructions to withhold until death appears certain. The pope maintains close ties with the Austrian royal family and was informed their emperor Francis Joseph is gravely ill.
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Rome
Pius
Vienna
Francis Joseph
Austria-Hungary
Cardinal Nagle
Vatican
Greenfield Hill Socials Open New Year With Club Ball
Mary Hall returns to Brooklyn for study after holidays with Mr and Mrs Samuel Wisner on Hayden Hill. Aurelia Berger visits Stratfield via Bridgeport. Greenfield Hill Country Club hosts New Year ball with hundreds of guests and ornate decorations.
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Mary Hall
Samuel Wisner
Hayden’s Hill
Brooklyn
Aurelia Berger
North Main Street
Bridgeport
Harry Edwards
Jackman Avenue
Stratfield
Arthur Hull
William Benedict
Southport
A. J. Hull
Howard Gray
W. O. Burr
Burr
Charles Gray
Gray
J. Frank Brothwell
Brothwell
J. Nelson Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Wilmer N. Pratt
J. M. Wilson
W. H. Wilson
Ruth van Ness
Olive
Mildred All
Florence Banks
Fanny
Esther Wade
Edward Morehouse
William Meeker
John Forsythe
George Shultie
Robert Barmore
Sylvia
Wilmer Pratt
Maude Wilson
John Boyle
Emerson Ayers
Ida
Vera Whales
Clarence Brown
Frank Linley
Clarence Andrews
Andrew Huntington
Arthur Hall
Sprague Brothwell
Dudley Brothwell
Lois
Etta Brothwell
Elliot Smith
William West
Harvey Taylor
Anna Gray
A. Berger
Luella Burr
Grace Burr
Albert Bulkley
Arthur Bulkey
Elmer Bulkley
Grace Bulkley
Slayton Elwood
Annie Bulkley
Harold Hull
Howard Wade
Frank Edwards, Jr
Burr_Ogden
Samuel Ogden
Wesley Burr
Dorothy Mallett
Catherine Treadwell
Willard Gillette
Dwight Fanton
Frank Treadwell
Bertha Morris
Herbert Merwin
Fred Jennings
Harold Jennings
Laura Dowd
Josie Lobdell
Ellis Nichols
Nellis Sherwood
John Cull
Howard Wakeman
Henry Bradley
Frances Pease
Georgie
Mame Banks
Caroline Griffith
Marion Dunham
Pierson Dunham
Teddy Fallon
Ethel Merwin
Rockwell
Fairfield Gun Club hosts New Year shoot at Fairfield beach
About 50 people attended the New Year’s afternoon event as the Westport Gun Club joined the Fairfield Gun and Rifle Club. The home club won by a narrow margin and plans for another contest with several prizes are in the works.
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Fairfield Beach
Westport
Cuba
Library Committee
Ethel Donaldson
Bridgeport
Dwight Banks
Greenfeld Hill
Arthur’ Hull
Dorothy Mallette
Long Hill
Anna Gray
Andrew Huntington
David Huntington
Fairfield Social Highlights and Compliance Alert
A Yale visit with parents on Center street preceded a New Year luncheon at Mrs. Harold Hulls home with Edith Bentley Rutherford and other young ladies. Fairfield club plans a future dance as Harold Bryant New Canaan visited relatives, and a December 10 beer delivery without license drew attention.
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Yale
Center Street
Harold Hull
Mies Edith Bentley
Rutherford
N. J
Mies
Helen Forsyth
Mies Louise Forsyth
Elsie Jennings
Amy Jennings
Sarah ‘Deyo
Iva King
Mary Smith
Dorothy Smith
Eva Downs
Mabel Ferris
Francis Pease
Mary West
Grace West
Long Hill
William Burr
Fairfield Girls’ Club
Harold Bryant
New Canaan
Fairfield
Easton Social Notes and Local News Snippets
Christopher Strolin was fined ten dollars in a Sport Hill case heard by Justice Bacon Wakeman. The column lists guests, visits, and hometown happenings as families and neighbors frequent Sweet Basil and nearby homes, with several local names and weddings, illness, and social calls noted.
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Christopher Strolin
Sport Hill
Cos
Bacon Wakeman
Friends of
Frank Stapian
Strolin
Colin
Bridgeport
Shkespor
Herry R. Sherinown
Stapine Wood
Eestreee
Sein Strolin Pai
Ruth Smith
Annie Seni
Seine Smith
Lietsie Smith
Fwene Smith
Mre
Bilza Smith
Sport Bil
Sylvanos Mallette
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