Fairfield and Stratford News Roundup Mixed Local Events
Fairfield and Stratford report a busy run of community happenings. A lawn party at Henry Burr’s home featured chowder to ice cream and drew several local families. The auto chemical project advances with calls for permanent firemen, while a Bridgeport boy dies in the Housatonic current incident near Pine Rock. Various school appointments, civic notes, and sports results from Fairfield and neighboring towns are noted, including baseball scores and trolley crews changes.
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Fairfield
Henry
Burr
Elmer &. Grumman
Emre Charles Fox
Simon Bradley
W. O. Burr
Alfred & Perry
Frederick A. Burr
John Stholte
Iepe
Mill Plain Straet
Fairfield Rubber Company
Bridgeport
Drew
Johnson
Brill
Bacon Wakeman
Stuart R. Pinkham
Pinkham
Auto-Chemical
Stratford
Ben. Parsons
Southport
Brookline
Mary Massey
Danbury
Nichols Terrace
Margaret Mills
Georgetown
Ethel Bent
Branford
Pequot School
Eleanor Lewis
Sherman School
Isa Elsie Freeland
Stratfield
Effie Mallet
Jennings Woods
Thomas Noon
Fairfield Beach
Moerlin
Housatonic
George Brehm
East Bridgeport
Pine Rock Park
Brehm
Babe
East Bridge Port
W. B. Kirk
Fairfield Avenue
Mary C. Fairchild
Main Street
Julia Powers
Y Peck
Helen Beach
Gladys Merrill
Susie Bennetto
Harold Dunbar
Merlie Wilcox
Russell Beardsley
Vera Cranson
Beatrice Clarkson
Ruby Way
Helen Dunbar
Franklin Foster
Harold Stephens
Lucy S Baldwin
Star Barnum
Helen Hanford
Mary Spencer
Dorothy Barnum
Irene Smith
Lillian Powers
Sanitary Engineers
Fuller
Elliott W. Peck
Board of Trade
Okenuck Tribe of
Red Men
Ethel Holmes
Richard King
William Holmes
Benjamin King
Bridgeport Brass Company
Avon Park
Taxpayers’ Improvement Club
North End
George A. Fairchild
Leroy
Waterbury
William Porter
White Street
H. W. Doolittle
Connecticut Company
Staples House Burns Near Baptist Church in Easton
Easton news reports the Staples house owned by the Baptist society burned Friday night. William Blake first saw a cellar blaze around eleven o'clock and the fire quickly consumed the structure with seventy spectators unable to help. Cause unknown. The item also lists local social visits, school events, picnics, and community notices including graduations and upcoming Baptist hall social. Miland Enrico Caruso’s vocal issue is noted with large engagement losses.
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Holly
George Gregory
Sport Hill
Helen Marsh
Mary Gillette
Adam’s Corners
Fred Sherman
Monroe
Giljlette
Plattsville School
Mary Ferris
Mildred Ferris
Frank Rowell
Round Hill
William Andrews
Ambrose Marsh
Frank Wade
Greenfield
Mamie O'Donnell
Aspetuck
Southport
Hetzel
Northrap
Turney Northrop
Lauren Skidmore
Newtown
Hazel Sherwood
Irma Nichols
Willis Jet
Kenneth Logan
Annie Logan
Edith Logan
Adams
United
B. U. C. B .of the Baptist Church
Mary Wheeler
Danbury
Elmer Andrews
Easton Grange
Minnie Sherwood
Edward Gillette
Food for Consumptives Diet Routines Urged by Official
The tuberculosis commissioner urges concerted action to educate about food for consumptives with mild tuberculosis. He describes milk as essential, argues eggs and beef support recovery, and outlines a daily diet plan emphasizing three meals, milk between meals, and careful digestion management.
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John F. Gunshanan
Gunshanan
Forest Fires Ravage 55000 Acres Causing 200000 Losses
New Haven reports through June 20 1911 that 755 forest fires burned 55000 acres of woodland and cutover lands causing over 200000 in damages to timber buildings and forest products. The worst dry spell sparked fires across towns with many fires 1000 acres plus and a total loss to growing timber estimated at 183000. State Forester Spring credits wardens and responders for halting further spread and urges towns to arm wardens with pumps extinguishers and tools.
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United Press
New Haven
State Forester
State Forester Spring
Durham
East Lyme
Franklin
Kent
Plainville
North Canaan
Oxford
New Britain
Warren
Cornwall
Barkhamsted
Burlington
New Hartford
Mayo State Forester Spring
Lyric Garden Opens Tonight With Novel Vaudeville Shows
The Lyric Garden Theatre of Variety opens at 7 30 PM tonight offering a mixed program headed by Arthur J. Horwitz’s A Night in Bohemia featuring 17 cast members including Blanche Curtiss and C J Geddins. It promises affordable prices, daily matinees for women and children, and a full orchestra under Prof. Percy Davis with acts from Clinton and Nolan and Lilian LeRoy.
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Lyric Garden Theatre of Variety
Arthur J. Horwitz
Bohemia
Blanche Curtiss
Carl Mills
C. J. Geddins
Odette
Brothers Rivers
Ernest Cortes
Clinton and
Nolan
Coney Island
Lillian LeRoy
Percy Davis
Smith Murray Co announces summer store hours change
Beginning Wednesday July fifth and through September fifth the Smith Murray Co will close daily at five PM except Saturdays. The note indicates a seasonal adjustment in operating hours for the retail store location.
Bargain fabric sale features Ginghams and linens
A fabric sale offers 1 500 yards of Ginghams at 5 cents a yard and 2 000 yards shirting prints at 5 cents. Extra dress Ginghams 1 cent, 86 inch Percales and Cambrics 10 cents, VOISES 25 cents, 32 inch Madras 12 1/2 cents, Barnaby Ginghams 12 1/2 cents, Pongees 15 cents, Poplins and Soisettes 19 cents, Scotch Ginghams 21 cents. Continuous discounts on regular values.
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Aos
Fifty Stores Open Late One Day a Week in Heat
In response to working people and public needs, fifty stores will stay open until 6 p.m. to accommodate the crowd. Employees will receive a Friday half holiday during July and August. State law mandates a 55 hour workweek for women and children in June July and August.
Newtown High School Commencement Honors Graduates
Newtown observed commencement exercises with a full hall and a program including salutatory by Lillian Beers and valedictory by Arthur Fairchild. Prizes awarded for highest marks and improvements across grades. Teachers, staff, and the Board of Education attended, with Bentleys orchestra providing post ceremony music.
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Newtown High School
Lillian May Beers
Mayla Amelia Botsford
Anna Louise Carlson
William Edward Driscoll
Arthur Warren Fairchild
Herbert Curtis Ferris
Lucie Fay Wright
Mary Aurelia Northrop
Board of Education
O Ld Glory
Geo
Sinnott
W. L. Carpenter
Allison P. Smith
Philip H. Mitchell
J. H. George
Bentley
Orchestra
Bridgeport
Arthur Fairchild
William Driscoll
Helen Keane
Annie Murphy
Frank Johnson
Helen Kilbride
Frances Griffin
Israel Goldstein
James Peck
Bessie Raffles
Jesse Bailey
Viola Kutcher
Charles Botsford
Mary Kilbride
Robert Fairchild
Marion Summers
Annie Brenner
Joseph Wright
Mariella George
James Lynch
George Carley
Carley
East Callais
Tessie Carmody
Danbury
Passengers From Bridges Port On Express Steamship
Among the travelers aboard the express steamship of the Cécilie of the North line from New York to Bremen via Plymouth and Cherbourg are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Melits and Abraham Noble from Bridges port.
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Cécilie
North Line
New York
Bremen
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Mere Row
Bridgesport
Charles Melits
Abraham Noble
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