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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1916
Page
6
Wholesale and retail millinery ad lists velvet covered hats from 98c to 7.50, veiled hats from 1.98 to 5.98, silk plush and fancy ornaments, wings, turbans, feather turbans, and trimmed dress hats for women and children priced from 1.48 to 25.00. Describes wide selection and desirability of goods available here first.
Discussion at the Episcopal General Convention resumed on a proposal to bar clergymen from performing remarriage ceremonies for divorced persons. The canon would require the innocent party to a divorce to be the one remarried, with debate over church discipline versus modern marriage norms. An amendment suggested would deny remarriage to anyone claiming adultery as the basis of the divorce.
The W T Grant Co employees were toasted at a Stratfield banquet for earning four prizes in efficiency last season. Founder Mr Grant, Mrs W T Grant, and C L Haworth attended. Catherine Lennon performed songs and a humorous recitation drew the night’s peak. Mi ss Whatnar entertained with dances as H S Bub was praised for five years’ service.
Public notice emphasizes that infestations deter renters and promotes Cyrus Presto Killer as a safe 25 cent cleaner. The ad claims cleaning with Cyrus will make rooms rentable, touting harmlessness and effectiveness without burning.
Henrietta Rodman, New York civic leader, declares her Wilson support and outlines views on social reform, labor, and education. She criticizes Hughes, calls for united international action, and emphasizes child welfare, poverty relief, and civilizational defense.
Fairfield County will send many automobile parties to the National Dairy Show in Springfield Massachusetts on Connecticut Day Monday Oct 16 The Fairfield County Farm Bureau notes this is the first East held dairy exposition and 1500 cattle will be exhibited In New England’s effort to showcase premier dairy agriculture from the region.
The Civil Service Commission announces open competitive exams on November 4 at Bridgeport Danbury Hartford New Haven New London Waterbury Providence and Newport for a stenographer and typewriter position at Lake Torpedo Boat Co Bridgeport with $3.04 per diem and a clerk typewriter post at Naval Torpedo Station Newport R I with $2.48 per diem Men only will be certified for these vacancies and both men and women may take the exam A free course in Applied Business English will begin Wednesday evening at the Y M C A noted in the notice.
Democratic senator candidate Homer Cummings replies to Italian groups in Stamford defending Carlo Tresca, labor leader jailed in Duluth on charges linked to murder, urging fair trial free from prejudice and requesting action by authorities. Tresca is a well known Connecticut figure who has appeared before Italian organizations statewide.
A health and happiness remedy branded Fruit a tives has achieved notable popularity in Canada and has now crossed into the United States to aid the sick and suffering with its restorative claims.
An Ottawa developed fruit juice remedy, Fruit-a-tives, has become naturalized in the United States after settling in Ogdensburg New York. The ad touts massive Canadian sales, claims to cure severe dyspepsia and other ailments, and offers box prices and mail order options with photographs and letters to prove efficacy.
Dr Robert H W Strang of this city assisted in a table clinic during the Northeastern Dental Association meeting in Hartford. The second day featured officer elections with David Manson named president and other officers listed, as committees will be appointed by the new president. The program included many clinics, with notable doctors from Hartford New Haven and Boston participating in demonstrations and chair clinics.
Letter from Albert M C Mathewson New Haven longtime Republican endorses Homer S Cummings for U S Senator cites lack of attention to Connecticut by McLean and says Cummings would be a strong force for good. Also includes a Democratic note from New Haven headquarters about doubtful voters and a pro Woodrow reply.
The Ninth District Democratic Club plans Meriden Night at the Elk theatre on East Main and Arctic streets Friday Oct 20. Thomas L. Reilly of Meriden seeks Congress in the Third District and former Congressman Jeremiah Donovan is expected to speak. About 450 Meriden voters employed in Bridgeport factories live in the Ninth district and are urged to attend alongside other voters.
A Monday night meeting at Washington Park M E church will discuss Why and When the Church Should Interest Itself in Politics. Speakers include Rev Everett A Barnes Philo Co Calhoun Democrat Jasper Mec Lefy Socialist Eugene L Richards Prohibitionist and John T King Republican. Each will have fifteen minutes to present his party platform with no debate or personal attack.
Invitations issued for St Joseph Social Club annual bus ride to Newtown with dance floor and entertainment in a spacious hall. Event set for Saturday evening October 21, featuring a one act comedy staged by William Toomey with notable performers Ray Farrell and George Langdon performing The Boy Peddlers. Refreshments and dancing follow, with Prof Ivers orchestra playing Home Sweet Home after the show. Buses depart 7:30 from Barnum avenue and Caroline street.
Velvet covered hats silk plush hats and millinery trimmings priced lower than elsewhere. Eighteen hundred workers including carriers masons and plasterers' helpers went on strike in Brooklyn.
Five Bridgeport drivers face hearings next Tuesday before the state secretary on varied charges. Thomas Aiken of 313 Carroll Avenue contesting an operating while intoxicated case. Leon Androwdzki of 82 Colorado Avenue charged with reckless driving. Harry Hanson of 285 Marian Street accused of passing a standing trolley car. Isadore Tallerman of 91 Ridge Avenue charged with reckless driving at Fairfield. Joseph Whitman of 232 Madison Avenue charged with reckless driving in Milford.
Paris report states Norman Prince, sergeant major in the Franco American aviation corps and Harvard graduate, was wounded with both legs broken. He had been decorated in October 1915 for destroying a German warplane, and previously escaped injury after a Verdun aerial battle. The article also mentions a will requesting a $250 banquet from a deceased cap manufacturer and notes the American ambulance field service heading to Salonika.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets provide a non calomel laxative option for chronic constipation and torpid liver. The small sugar coated olive colored tablets promote natural bowel and liver action without griping. Take one or two nightly for pleasant relief. 25c per box, available at all druggists.
In the heaviest fog in years on Puget Sound two large steamers and a schooner went ashore near Seattle. The Watson A West grounded off Cape Flattery while Itsukushima Maru touched West Point and was freed. Maru with 48 aboard ashore near Port Townsend but safe. A small launch recovered after a collision.
A notice calls for the Senatorial conventions of the Twenty first and Twenty second districts and a convention to nominate two representatives and justices of the peace. Conventions will be held on Tuesday evening October 17 1916 in rooms 529 and 629 Newfield Building. Hugh J Lavery is town chairman.
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