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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1927
Page
6
Nichols Bild announces a lawn tea and card party planned by Mrs. Edward Nothnagle on her shaded high lawn near Bridgeport and Long Island. The event, postponed by weather, aims for the following Friday with a refined, old village setting on a green lawn under trees over a century old.
The Indies of the Guild plan a major fundraising party with the Garden Club of Bridgeport and Episcopal women groups invited. Proceeds support church work. Card playing starts at 2:30 with ten-cent serve. non players may rest under trees or stroll the floral grounds. The event aims for large turnout amid spring bloom.
August 11 special report from Long Hill notes Fred Lathrop manager at Davey Bros. store purchased a Main road lot from Charles Hall. Cards from Mr and Mrs Charles Hall announce their travels to Mansfield Hotel and the Green Mountains. Various locals including Joyce Sherman Turney Wilkerson and Bridges are mentioned visiting relatives and guests.
Aug 11 Georgetown Gforetown reports a long list of visitors from Highland Cave Tulea Oklahoma Brooklyn Norwalk Danbury and Philadelphia joining Mr Willem Lockwood at Mountain Arm as well as local families and church groups. A Swedish Congregational Church lawn party at Charles Anderson’s raised about sixty dollars with many local and visiting families enjoying a hot dog roast at Compo beach after a lawn party.
Westport reports a delivery truck driver, E J Kinsella, fined 25 dollars and costs for reckless driving after a collision killed Mrs. David Fleming content prize horse valued between 1500 and 500. The horse was being exercised by a Fairfield County Hart club groom at the time of the crash. Attorney Parker Seeley of Hudgeport indicated further civil action may follow.
At last night’s town meeting Westport voters referred the 29,000 cross highway and Weston road contract bill to town attorneys Pullman and Comley of Bridgeport for a report on unpaid or unfulfilled items. The meeting also enacted ordinances on beach ball playing dogs on Compo Beach and traffic rules including one way streets and no parking near intersections. About 200 residents attended, with discussions on road costs, contractor payments, and civic planning by the Westport selectmen and chamber of commerce.
Dr Carl M Beck of 330 East Main Street, Glendale, awaiting appeal from a Superior court sentence of one to two years for an alleged illegal operation, was granted a notke on payment of 5 at city court arraignment before Judge Albert J Merritt on charges of parking within ten feet of a fire hydrant and on the wrong side of the road.
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