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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1909
Page
4
A new member joined the Poli Summer stock company arriving in Bridgeport this week. The upcoming Poli's matinee marks Siggins stronger involvement as he takes a major part. Siggins, lifelong actor, has played about 220 different parts, earning broad recognition on the American stage.
Social Alpha Chapter held a dance last night in Miss Slocum's gymnasium with Bentley's orchestra providing the music. Attendees included numerous names such as Miss Marion Hopkins Miss Helen Stage Miss Arlene Curtis Miss Nellie Wild Orr Miss Edith Robinson and many others. patronesses were Mrs. Lewis Hall and Mrs. William Kershaw, plus delegations from New Haven Hartford Brooklyn and Toronto.
Dr J Cremin arrives to practice in the city at his niece Mrs Lennon's Washington avenue home. Miss Mollie Daley prepares Forty Hours' Devotion at Sacred Heart. Mrs Simonds and son Bruce return from Mt Holyoke visit. Miss Ida O Rourke visiting Sadie Coughlin in Middletown with several luncheons dances. Tailless Rana catesbiana displayed at Whiting's, Roosevelt etc. Park ideas emerge for land by Laurel Maplewood Beechwood Clinton. Bridgeport Yacht Club 1909 program, new wharf, stag dinner May 27, and regatta Aug 14. Y P S C E delegates depart for international convention July 5 from New Haven. Scandinavian Sick Benefit Society celebrates 27th anniversary with 200 attendees and $4,000 treasury. Flower Guild plans 2500 bouquets, double next year. drop at 945 Broad. Miss Alice MacCannieson confined with pneumonia.
Emma Hudson confessed to her husband after thirteen years of marriage naming places she had visited with her lover including Gaillard hotel. He obtained letters by breaking her trunk. she ran away with Kinder. Decree denied due to lack of corroborating evidence. case to receive further evidence opportunities.
E H Dillon & Co announces The Road to Yesterday as the second production for next week at Poli's Theatres promising top quality $1.50 stock season fare. Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland and Beulah Marie Dix helped craft the tale of a woman reborn in a 300 year past fairy land with elaborate scenery costumes and a strong all star cast led by Alice Fleming.
Forty letters sent by Treasurer D. B. Bullard of the Bridgeport Relief Association drew responses from firms such as Armstrong Co. and American Graphophone. Contributions listed include Armstrong Co. 24.50, Burritt 65.15, Loco Mobile 170.50, Fay 10.80, International Silver 83, Bullard Tool 52, Springfield 310, Graphophone 121.30. A meeting of the association is planned for Friday evening next week.
A large London gathering at Westminster Abbey honors the late poet Meredith. Notables present include Premier Asquith American Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and wife Poet Laureate FYP4 Austin Ellen Terry and other distinguished figures. Meredith’s remains were interred at Dorking today and may be moved to Westminster Abbey if the King persuades the Dean to reconsider denying the ashes admission.
A special United Press report notes a unique nurses graduation at Cleveland Hospital on May 22. In the library waiting room, boric acid slicked the floor as young doctors in white uniforms and nurses in blue aprons danced. Some attendees in evening dress were subjected to playful sterilization with disinfectants.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as the one great blood purifier. It is described as an appetite giver and strength builder that cures blood diseases and stomach liver and kidney troubles, claiming success where other remedies fail. Available in liquid form or Sarsatabs from druggists.
Editor readers are urged to support a free tuberculosis exhibition from May 25 to June 2 at 26 Fairfield Avenue, run by the Fairfield County Anti-Tuberculosis Association with 4000 square feet of displays. Boston organizer Gustavus Tuckerman directs demonstrations of modern treatments, tents, sanitoria, and daily lectures, with posters placed in local factories to reach workers.
Audiences saw no winner last evening as James Simms Rudolph Walthers and others failed to lift the 350 pound sand bag. Albert Apollo finally aided Simms but the feat remained unmet. Tonight remains the last chance while vaudeville and films promise a strong next week headlined by Crimmins and Gore in Like Mother Used to Make.
John F. Rogers Council K of C holds final committee reports for the class initiation at Eagles hall tomorrow with candidates expected for the degrees. The visiting team arrives at 11:30 a.m. and will dine at Irwin’s, followed by 2 p.m. exercises and an 8 p.m. banquet at the Stratfield. The event showcases Brooklyn and New York officers and a citywide reception effort to present the Park City to guests.
In Miamisburg Ohio on May 22 a carpenter named Thomas Hipple went insane and took a trolley car to full speed endangering about twenty passengers. Motor man Wiedener and Conductor Thesis were knocked aside by the controller bar. Hipple battled them and later attacked the car crew until Manager Clark subdued him with help from others.
In a bare Fifth Avenue drawing room Mrs Morse speaks publicly for the first time about her husband Charles W Morse the former Ice Trust president awaiting federal court disposition. She says he has paid millions to depositors despite his imprisonment and criticizes lawsuits and government actions that she says aim to ruin him and their family.
Cleveland authorities probe counterfeit street car tickets tied to seven conductors before Judge Taylor. The railroad cites early detection as limiting losses, with forty conductors examined and only seven held after questioning. two conductors suspected of leading the scheme remain under scrutiny.
A night scene unfolds minutes before police officers arrive at his hotel to arrest him, surrounding the premises with ceremonial urgency as authorities move to take him into custody.
Cheyenne May 22 The Federal Grand Jury has returned indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the government of thousands of acres of valuable coal lands in Corn County now controlled by Gebo Coal Company against prominent New York coal operators and capitalists. The defendants named are Samuel W. Gebo George W Dally Wilbur Orio Schultrey John Nelson John B Wright RJ Ireland Thos McDonald and Frank T Wells.
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