Newtown congressman to speak at forestry meeting tonight
Newtown Forestry association secretary Allison P Smith says state Forester Austin F Hawes of Hartford will be absent Friday night. Elliott Bronson of Winsted will address members at 7 o clock daylight saving time at William T Cole residence. Other speakers include Schuyler Merritt and Philo T Platt with memorial address for Dr Charles H Peek. Meeting goes on despite weather.
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Newtown
Austin F. Hawes
Hartford
Allison P. Smith
Newtown Forestry Association
William T. Cole
Hawes
Elliott Bronson
Winsted
Field Forestry Service
Danbury
May Platt
F. W. Platt
Hopewell
Los Angeles
Cal
Balmforth Avenue
Bridgeport
Fine Grove Park
Sandy Hook
Sandy Hock
Local Notes on Harvests and Social Events at Hawleyville
The article describes Henry H. Taylor of Mount Pleasant undergoing a serious operation at Danbury Hospital after a month of illness, selling his peach crop due to incapacity. It also notes Virginia Houlihan of New York visiting with family after a Jamaica cruise, and Hawleyville Volunteer Fire Company hosting its annual carnival with nightly dancing and expected large crowds, continuing through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WW. H. Taylor
Henry H. Taylor
Mount Pleasant
Danbury Hospital
Taylor
Virginia Houlihan
New York City
M. J. Houlihan
M. J. White
B. Houligan
Houlihan
Alice L. Houlihan
Jamaica
British West Indies
Hawleyville
Town Clerk Revisions Next Sessions and Local Notices
Typo corrected in local news. Walter Gura named as the subject of a misprint regarding a fishing trip. Voters in Trumbull to revise registrations and add new names at town hall on August 6 and 12, 1927 from midnight to 9 p.m. Community updates include engagements, real estate transfers, church August pause, and residents visiting Saybrook and Bridgeport.
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TRUM
Walter Gura
Feck's Ledge
Arthur &. Plumb
Harriet B
Frederick J. Leiss
Sandy Hook
Miss Plumb
City Savings Bank
Bridgeport
Thomas Kane
Norman A. Bair
Congregational Church
Young People’s Society
W. F. White
Saybrook
William Bushnell
Ethel Collinge
L. Shearer
Westport Plans Revisions To Building Code And Traffic Rules
Westport officials set a joint meeting of the town plan commission and Building Code committee to review a revised building code, trimming license fees and plumber examinations, and outlining cess pool rules. Police will supervise the rotary traffic area during weekends, with officers stationed daily to enforce right-side driving. residents praise the changes as traffic improves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westport
Town Plan Commission
Building Code Committee
Selectmen’s Committee
Wiliam P. Clark
Town Law Commission
Howard Baker
Frank van
Soch
Milford grocers fence 10 hampers protest at Milford
A fence built by a Deerfield avenue grocer to block a court between Deerfield and Lawrence avenues sparked a protest from Bay View and Point Beach residents seeking more fire protection. The fence hindered hose access from a hydrant on Lawrence Avenue, prompting a plan to remove it as insurers warned of higher rates. The Milford Chamber named committees for industrial retail real estate publicity and other civic tasks as local residents faced amid light traffic incident and community events.
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Milford
Bay View
Board of Fire Commissioners
East Shore
Deerfield Avenue
Deerfield
Lawrence Avenue
William M. O'Hare
Grocer
Point Beach
Bay View Heights
Shore
Lawrence and
Derby Lineman Dies After Fall At Derby Station
Clifford Roberts twenty seven One man for Derby Gas and Electric fell unloading telegraph poles at Derby railroad station breaking his back died at Griffin hospital. He leaves a widow a daughter and his parents three brothers and a sister from Burlington Vermont where he was born.
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Derby
Associated Press
Clifford Roberts
Derby Gas and Electric Company
Griffin Hospital
Burlington, VI
Fairfield Episcopal service to feature Fosbroke visitation
The Very Rev. Hughell Eb. W. Fosbroke D.D. will preach at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Fairfield on Sunday at 10 am with Holy Communion at 8 and 9 30 am and Choral Evensong at 8 pm. Rector Delmar S. Markle is limited in voice after a recent operation and is assisted by Rector Emeritus Allen E. Beeman.
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Fairfield
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Hughell EB. W. Fosbroke
Fosbroke
General Theological Seminary
New York City
Episcopal Church
Delmar S. Markle
St. Paul's
Allen E. Beeman
Greenfield Hill Congregational Church
J Gessary
John Monomaker
Greenfield Country Club
Leelin Joel Hulse
Pairfield
J. Wakeman Hill
W. Burr Hil
Robert I Barmore
Frank Lobdel
Daniel Williams
F. C. Banks
Bessie Burr
Arthur Colpaugh
A. Maria Wokeman
Willem B. Ferris
Clarence Goodrich
Annie L. Bulkley
Lizzie Morehouse
Scrooby League
L. J. Hulse
Bazaar
Charles Gray
Tombstone
Greenfield
James K. Fox
Gilbert Goodridge
Louise Jenkins
Meade W. Patterson
John R. Britton
Oliver R. McDonald
Paul R. Griffith
Brooklawn Country Club
Greenfield Hill
Post Road
Port Jefferson
Pequot
Larchmont
Cornfield
Ansonia Fire Destroys Apartment. Loss About 2500
A morning fire at 89 Liberty Street in Ansonia destroyed all personal effects of Mr and Mrs Louis Osatioff. The blaze started shortly after 2 am and caused about 2500 in damage to the interior. Origin undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ansonia
Associated Press
Louis Osatioff
Liberty Street
Light in Newtown home sparks false burglary tale
Deputy Sheriff Morris D. Beers investigates a 4 am call about a light burning at the Hobard H. Curtis residence near the Newtown railroad station. With others, he discovers the light on second floor was left on by absent residents, not burglars, yet media-styled crime theories persist in town.
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Newtown
Morris D. Beers
Sandy Hook
Sheriff Beers
Beers
Herbert H. Cutler
Hobard H. Curtis
Cutler
Heergy
Freaton Beers
Michael Scanton
Curtis
Preston Beers
Local Social Notes From Huntington and Stratford
Mrs Edward A Beers visited daughter Mrs Percy BE Card in Stratford. Miss Arlene Curtiss of Stratford stayed with Mrs George W Judson in Huntington. Edward Wolff returned from a week at Camp Irving. Miss Ethel M Beardsley was a guest.
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Huntington
Edward A. Beers
Percy BE Card
Stratford
Arlene Curtiss
George W. Judson
Huntington Street
Edward Wolff
Camp Irving
Ethel M. Beardsley
Local Farm Life Notes On Weather And Visitors
Wednesday dinner guests included Mrs Edward A Beers and Miss Margaret Buren with Cedar Cliff farm visitors. The Thompson family of Shelston hosted Mrs Ruth Sorelle, while the Cook couple visited Watertown after time with Huntington Street hosts. Albert Moree of Bridgeport Road recovers from grippe under Dr Robert Phelan of Stratford. Haymakers cheer a dry spell after rain, oats fields worn from drought, fewer horses slowing harvest. berry pickers suffer washouts. John Nichols of Walnut Tree Hill plans not to return to Florida this winter.
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Edward A. Beers
Mohegan Street
Margaret Buren
White Hilla
Cedar Cliff Farm
George Boehm
Slerting Thompson
Robert and
Flesner
Shelston
Thompson
Ruth Sorelle
White Hills
William Cook
Watertown
Huntington Street
Albert Moree
Bridgeport Road
Robert Phelan 1
Stratford
John Nichols
Walnut Tree Hill Street
Florida
Residents On Short Trips As Milford Car Crash Occurs
Devon Devon August 4 Special Mr and Mrs Waverly Lewis Karema avenue left Sunday for a visit with Mrs Lewis sister Mrs Leonard Bremier of Marine City Michigan Mr and Mrs John Clarke left yesterday for New Milford after a week with Mrs Clarke's parents Mr and Mrs Louis Krecentes of Woodland Drive Mr and Mrs Robert Kelly Karema avenue entertain Miss Anne Jenkins of New York City Mr and Mrs William Maston Concord avenue will move to Pearl Street Bridgeport A car driven by John Shubert of New York struck a boulder on Bridgeport avenue in front of Dr L J Pons residence, the car collided with a parked car owned by Dr Pons, overturning and demolishing the left side The other vehicle received a dented rear fender Milford police investigated no arrests
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devon
Waverly Lewis
Karema Avenue
Lewis
Leonard Bremier
Marine City
Michigan
John Clarke
New Milford
Rogers to Entertain S. A. R. Executive Board
A meeting of the executive committee of the Sons of the American Revolution will be held Saturday at the home of Ernest B. Rogers, treasurer and president general, in New London. Business sessions will cover fundraising for a national headquarters in Washington. The national headquarters committee will join to plan funds for a central facility. Marty Berg of New York was named official press representative of the National Boxing Association.
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WEW
London
Aan Elated Press
National Enemiety
Sons of American Revolution
Stee
Ernest B. Rogers
Rogers
National Society of the
AL Re
Tee
Plana
Washington
New London
Marty J. Berg
New York
Boxing Writers’ Association
Greater New York
National Boxing Association
Thomas E. Donohue
Contects
National Association
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Edward C. Birgethen
Mary Alma Brennan
Alma Brennan
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Samuel John Fenrias
Ann
Leio Fenrias
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Wanda ‘Stahuski
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Frank W. Wirth
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Algernon
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Caroline van H. Bean
King Street
George N. Foster
Frances Jennings
Greens Farms
Ernest K. Rider
Hattie Belle Bradley
David Rider
Edna W. Brown
John D. Gordon
Loretta J Remlin
Imperial Avenue
Ralph William Sacso
Anne Santorella
Morten W. Smith
Pasquale, Clabriello
Len Kahn
Max Lipschutz
Josephine Sapova
Compo Beach
Lefler
Jschoola
O'Hara
Agnes E. Shueffle
Atwater Street
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John F. O’connell
College Street
New Haven Avenue
Cherry Street
O'Connell
Bridgeport Plumbing Supply Company
Kossuth Street
Milford Chamber of Commerce
George ¥. Southworth
B. M. Doyle
Jervis D. Brown, Jr
Charles L. Doherty
Wwiliam A. Rose
Charles E. Budgen
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W. T. Hoyt
M. T. Kerr
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M. P. Tibball
R. W. Beers
B. J. Fagan
L. E. Guyott
Herman Mendrocho‘wietz
Perry R. Duncan
James F. Cavagh
Fred W. Lyon
Omar W. Platt
John T.howes
Edward B. Brotherton
Louis E. Guyott
David J. Greene
Fred van Syckle
Wepawaaus
Fred M. Clark
George E. Southworth
Charles B. Nomejko
Wepawaug
Fred M. Smith
W. J. H. Fischer
Omar W. Pinit
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Charles W. Harrison
Earl F. Adams
Walnut Beach
Malcom T. Kerr
Herman’ Mendrochowittz
Omar
Judson Place
Statford
H. H. Gatman
Orchard Road
Morningside
W .T. Bissell
Zelin Ko Rice
Mount Vernon
Thomas J. Bloor
New Haven
Edward
Brotherton
Union Street
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Nln
Dean
Sasco Hill Club
Country Club
Bradford G. Warner
George Alfred Smith
American Legion
American Legion Hall
John H. Grant
First Chimach of Christ
Kenneth Bunker
International Counncss of
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