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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1913
Page
4
The First Bridgeport National Bank, at Main and John Streets, Bridgeport Conn, proclaims forty seven years of continuous operation. T. L. Watson & Co invites individuals, corporations, and civic groups to open accounts and receive depositor services with personal attention.
Practical advice on brooders cleaning and disinfection, housing, and care. Emphasizes gentle handling of broodiness, disease prevention through cleanliness, proper feeding, pure bred stock, and dust baths. Also covers nesting, shade, orchard planting for protection, and nighttime chick quarters vigilance.
Room No 3 afternoon session will host a debate Thursday during the fourth period on the California Land Bill with Japan has no cause for war as the topic. Aff firmed by O Herb William Schinderland and Miss Sandiford Negative by Jonas Meyer Misses Cohn and Rosena. Room No 14 debating club picnic at Seaside Park. Misses Kathryn Blackman Luella Coley Rosalyn Barkey and Marcia Delbridge partied at the Lyric Monday. Weldon 08 to have M D after name this week upon Johns Hopkins graduation to locate in New Jersey. Junior girls dramatic club met in Room 17 Friday Senior class day dismiss at 3 pm. Miss Florence Clancy visited Nahant. Bruce D Simonds wrote Senior class hymn music words by Louis Blumberg Barre prize winner Tranc Gchine 11 Yale 15 best mathematician. Mrs J B Mathias absent due to illness.
Thomas Cullen of this city died at Shelton sanitarium aged 37. He was brother to Joseph Cullen and Mrs. T. F. Tighe and a Sacred Heart church communicant. Edwin Worthen, longtime New Haven brakeman, died at Bridgeport hospital after pneumonia. He is survived by his widow and son Edward J. Worthen. Lena DePledge, wife of George L. Vance, died at home in Fairfield aged 24, known in Fairfield and mourned by friends.
New Haven June 4 Superintendent Frank L Glynn of the New Haven Trade School outlines plans for the Boardman Apprentice Shops for Instruction in Skilled Trades. The program targets woodworking printing machinist and allied trades for boys and a two fold program for girls combining home making with a trade. Admissions require age fourteen or high school eligibility. Courses run forty eight hundred hours yearly with eight hour days five and a half days weekly.
Park commissioners voted unanimously to forbid Sunday amateur baseball in city parks, citing interference with families seeking rest and recreation. They also directed the city engineer and George M. Eames to draft specifications for continuing the Seaside park sea wall work and to invite bids once approved. Public playgrounds at Yellow Mill, Lafayette, and Cherry street parks are to open Monday, June 16.
A fire at Myrtle Beach Milford destroyed two cottages last night. Foreman George W. Potter of Bridgeport Brass and the cottage of Christopher Peterson of Elizabeth N J were burned to the ground. The blaze was discovered at 1 am by Carl Weitzel of Milford and reported but extinguished before firefighters arrived. Loss estimated at $2000.
Washington June 4 Preparations for the annual summer cruise of the midshipmen of the naval academy at Annapolis are complete The third class will sail Sunday aboard the battleship Illinois with ports including Antwerp Vigo and Cadiz Gibraltar and Funchal They will return to Annapolis around August 10 after target practice The first and second classes will train aboard Atlantic fleet vessels sailing Saturday and Monday gathering in Narragansett Bay for maneuvers along the Atlantic coast Battleships Wyoming Florida North Dakota Delaware New Hampshire South Carolina Kansas Virginia Georgia Oklahoma Vermont Rhode Island New Jersey and Louisiana are assembling in Hampton Roads K.
A biographical sketch of Robert Fitzsimmons marks his fifty first birthday amid notes of his career, personal life, and fashion sense. The piece covers his Australia origins, boxing prominence, later lectures and public appearances, family strain, and quotes about farming and attire alongside brief sports history references and an ad for Foley Kidney Pills.
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