Stratford School Board Delayed State Aid Withholding
Stratford school board faces delayed state aid due to unpaid certificates, with Supt Beleey citing missing certificate maturities as a chief cause. Inquiry likely as officials seek details on the payment hold and related school system changes.
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Stratford School Board
Educa- Saf
Peacenner Muet
Ciary
Supt
Beleey
I Ys
Miss Avery
Iithe High
Frank Conine
Main Street
Board of
Fre Commissioners
Charles ©. Parker
Greenwich
Child Welfare League
Frederick Dean
Stratfords
R L. Stanton
North Main
Dean
Alfred ‘Wake Bee
J. Wakelee
Law
Wadelee
Sam
Azalea Lodge
O. B
Strawberry Festival at Stratford Grange Hall Announcement
Annual collection and census for his parish. Strawberry Festival by Hou's atonic grange in Grange Hall Stratford Friday June 18 at 6 p m. Strawberry short cake berries and cream cake candy lemonade dancing.
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Hou
Atonic
Grange
Grange Hall
Stratford
Small 28-foot craft to cross Atlantic attracts attention
The Sea Bird, a 28-foot skip jack, claims to be the smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic. It is on the ways at Bridgeport Motor Company for repairs to a small engine in preparation for a longer voyage. Owned by Capt. Thomas Fleming Day, editor of Rudder magazine, the craft has drawn world wide attention for its trans Atlantic trip and unique water front design.
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Bridgeport Motor Company
Thomas Fleming Day
Rudder
Fairfield Tea Room opening draws guests from three towns
Fairfield special to The Farmer reports Mrs. Harry Glover hosted about 100 guests from Bridgeport Southport and Westport at the Old Academy Tea Room opening. Gustave Deering, warned to quit beating his wife by Justice Bacon Wakeman, was arrested again and faces ten more days in jail. A daughter was born to Deputy Sheriff and Mrs William Gould, and Mrs Gould’s newborn is doing well. Sherman School class day exercises were well attended with an engaging pupil program.
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Fairfield
Harry Glover
Bridgeport
Southport
Westport
Old Academy
Gustave Deering
Bacon Wakeman
Sherif
William G Gould
Gould
The
Episcopal Guild
Gymnasium Hall
Easton Baptist Church
Lorenzo Wildman
Samuel G. Seeley
Tashua
Frank 8. Clark
le Roy Clark
Fred Hoffman
Keeler Place
Turnpike
J. C. Carling
New York
Carling
Louis Hoyt
George W. Coles
Fairfield Beach
Helena Beers
Sara Beers
Gifford Beers
Legrand
Clarence Beers
Long Hill
Wilson N. Hurd
Ernest Sherman
Luke McGuinn
Bronxville
N. Y
John McGuinn
John Shea
Hannah Fields
Thomas Lynch
Zoar
Patrick Lynch
Thomas Scanlon
Kate Kohler
Ella Maurer
Stevenson
University of Pennsylvania 159th commencement honors six speakers
Six honorary degrees were awarded at the University of Pennsylvania’s 159th commencement in Philadelphia. The honorees include Master of Laws William E. Mikell, Doctor of Laws John Wanamaker, and Josiah Settle Graves, head of the Alabama School for the Colored Deaf and Blind, among others.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
William E. Mikell
University of Pennsylvania Law School
John Wanamaker
Josiah Settle Graves
Alabama School For the Colored Deaf and Blind
How Ethan Allen's Daughter Became Catholic Sister
The account describes Fanny Allen, daughter of Ethan Allen, who became the first New England native to join the Catholic religious life. Born in 1734 in Sunderland Vermont, she joined the Hospital Sisters of St. Joseph in Montreal in 1811 after a conversion at age 23, taking vows in 1811 and living until her death in 1819. Her life inspired the later founding of Fanny Allen Hospital in Vermont by Montreal Sisters.
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Ethan Allen
James A. Rooney
Brooklyn
Connecticut Catholic
Fanny Allen
Ticonderoga
Frances Montressor
St. Joseph
Hotel Dieu
Montreal
Sunderland
Burlington
Ira
Fort
Wall
Westminster
Jabez Penniman
Fanny
Daniel Barber
Old City
Hospital Sisters of St. Joseph
New England
Sisters of St Joseph
Winooski Park
Fairfield County News highlights and local business grants
Easton Grange dedicates two story hall with dining space kitchen and electric lighting and a modern stage. The Greenwich Corporation hosts a new sugar company Casey Sugar Company of Greenwich plans $400000 startup capital and 400000 preferred shares 1000000 common stock. Incumbents Howard J Pullum Joseph W Murphy and Arthur Kirstein Jr of New York incorporated. Saugatuck church receives a $10000 bequest from Bradford R Wood of Albany. Humane Officer Elmer Clark investigates cruelty to a cow tied to a telegraph pole in Sunset Hill, Redding, with potential arrest of a cattle trader.
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Greenwich Corporation
Casey Sugar Company of
Greenwich
Howard J. Pullum
Joseph W. Murphy
Arthur Kirstein, Jr
New York
Saugatuck Congregational Church
Bradford R. Wood
Albany
Wood
Saugatuck
Elmer Clark
Clark
Tashua and Long Hill Community Notes
Local social items from Tashua and Long Hill recount church events, new residents, property moves, vehicles, family visits, and summer arrangements. Notable mentions include altar presentations at Easton Baptist, a strawberry festival, new and rented homes, car purchases, and residents visiting relatives in Zoar and Bridgeport.
Handsome new bottling works opens in Bridgeport area
The Connecticut Breweries Co opens a new bottling works at North Wington avenue and Hall street with sanitary tile interiors, eleven glass lined tanks, and government supervision. Eighty bottles per minute are produced. used bottles are reused via a rollers system and pasteurization. Plant cost about $125,000. Officers listed include P. W. Wren president and John A. Hurley vice president. Public invited to view tomorrow afternoon.
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Connecticuat Breweries Co
North Wington Avenue
Hall Street
Bridgeport
Meriden
Connecticut Breweries
Connecticut Breweries Co
P. W. Wren
John A
Real Workers Are Honor Students In Local High School
Valedictorian Miss Victoria Linderoth and salutatorian Edward Leary, both of long outside work experience, headline the Park Theatre commencement. Linderoth, with a 92.1 four year average, has been associate editor of the Criterion. Leary, who works as elevator boy at the Lincoln building, plans Sheffield Scientific School for mechanical engineering. The exercise also features a large musical chorus and multiple soloists as part of the graduation program.
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Victoria Linderoth
Victor
Lusitania Speed Debate at Inquiry Over Escape Possibility
Testimony before Baron Mersey and Mr Booth questions whether 18 or 21 knots could have allowed Lusitania to escape a submarine. Sailor Quin in the crow's nest saw the torpedo and doubted escape at any speed. Bar on Mersey notes coal and firemen shortages. officials discuss war era crew training and security at Cunard dock amid doubts of spy threats.
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Lusitania
Baron Mersey
Booth
Dusitania
Stewarts Union
Cunard
New York
Bellgr
Sir Howard O'Cireon
Anderson
Quinn
Liverpool
Mrs Davis Pupils Annual Recital at Hotel Stratfield
An assembly of prominent people attended Mrs Susan Hawley Davis annual vocal recital in the Hotel Stratfield ball room. pupils from New Haven Bridgeport and nearby towns performed pieces including The Sweet of the Year Salter Caro Nome from Rigoletto by Verdi reflecting high artistry and credit to Mrs Davis.
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Stratfield
Susan Hawley Davis
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Case Howey
Wentworth Furniture Co
Aoe House
John Stree
Broad Street
Ferget
First Bridgeport National Bank
Bridgeport Land & Title Company
State Board
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Via Rock
St James’ Re
Beeen
Bridgeport Motor Co. Dock
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Breese
Coscob
Chas. M. Breene
Suller
Torrington
Frank W. Fuller
al. Baldwin
Irving Baldwin
Erhaill
Redding
Mike Cilandano
Jos
Ridgefield
Mike
Joe
Bald Eagie
Sidney H. Wil
Danbury
Ait
Augustus Beebe
Moses Mountain
Mr. Wilkins
Smith
Arthur Chippinelli
F. S. Dachess
New Canaan
Chippinelli
Schmidt
Mike Kelley
Kelley
John Pawlowski
Pawlowski
Ludwig Rothsch
Stamford
Rothschild
Edith Heymann
Miss Heymann
Fairfield County News
Easton’s
Gran Grange
Easton Grange
Tashua and
Wissner’s
Wissner
Connecticut Brewery
Miss Linderoth
Mr. Leary
George Weidenhammer
Pierrot
de Rushner
Sara Fiske
Pieta Signore
Stradella
Vera Bertilson
Eden
Kronenburg
Tschaikowsky
Charles Mannweiler, Jr
Rose
Howard German
Hazard Lasher
Jhelum
Woodforder Finden
Marion Munson
Alois Havrilla
Donizetti
Pauline Merchant
Batti
Mozart
Isabel Gregory
Herrlichste von Allen
Mabel Smith
Israel
Mendelssohn
Frank Munich
Liszt
Lucien T. Warner
der Freischuetz
von Weber
Hsther Berg
Carol Sterling
Elsie Nobbs
Phyliss Tomlinson
Hegeman
Irene Har- Tri
MacMaster
Motive Co
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