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Newspaper

Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Feb 16, 1918

Page

3

Seven Enroll in Army as Recruitment Surges

Army recruiting at 15 Fairfield avenue yielded seven new enlistees including James I Dolan Ernest T Hicks Charles R Griffiths Vincent A Cogan Clifford B Stratton William J Matthews and Whitlam A Smith all aged 18 to 21 from Waterbury New York Newark Hartford and Steuben. They head to Fort Slocum yesterday amid a push to expand service across aviation medical and cavalry branches. The piece closes with a local humorous exchange about government ownership from Washington Star.

United States Army Army Fairfield Avenue James I*. Dolan West Liberty Street Waterbury Ernest T. Hicks Decatur Avenue York City Charles R. Griffiths Newark City Vincent A. Cogan Harrall Aviation Corps Clifford B. Stratton Holley Street Signal Corps William J. Matthews Bantam Conn Aviation Corp

Rosa Reich Composition Offer Accepted by Creditors

In a creditors meeting for Rosa Reich, creditors declared her bankrupt and accepted a 35 percent composition offer. John W. Ganks presided in the referee’s office. Reich will petition the court to confirm the offer amid a far reaching family note about poultry.

Rosa Reich John W. Ganks

Milford Girl Scouts Work for Red Cross

Milford and the Atlantic Division mobilize schoolchildren to design furniture for Red Cross convalescent homes at cantonments. Junior members submit chair and table designs by March 1, while Milford Girl Scouts knit couch covers for French hospitals using odds and ends of yarn.

Milford American Red Cross Society Bed Cross Hyeres American Red Cross Army Cantonmenta Atlantic Division New York New Jersey Connecticut Commissioners of Education Red Cross Atlantic Camp Upton Camp Dix Camp Merritt Immedaate A. W. MacCracken Andrew Ten Iyek Red Cross House Girl Scouts Miss Draper Milford High School Bureau of Military Relief London Tuscania Thederick Kern Ith Company 112Nd Depot Brigade Crump Upton Joseph Haley Camp Greene Charlotte North Carolina William Haley Walnut Beach Haley Annand O. Blanchard New Haven Susan Woodruff Broadstreet Milford Fligh School Frank Eidowny U.S. Navy Newport BR. I Harvard Tie J. B. Holloway Engewood Park Boston Liberty Theatres Sherron Baldwin Naugatuck Avenue

Stratford High Seniors Celebrate Pigtail Day

Stratford High seniors celebrate Pigtail Day with girls in white middies and red ties, hearts on sleeves, and red ribbons. boys wear red bow ties and hearts. The event features playful antics and a festive school atmosphere as students enjoy being kids again.

Stenthord Stratford High School Gertrude Meister Sutton Avenue Methodist Church Nellie Converse Genevieve Hibbard Arligin Hull Ruth Bantwitz Catherine Filmore Ruby Colbree Dorothy Whitley Ella Beckwith Robert Silliman Warnill Avenue Sonia Helen Tonroe Judson Place Whitting Graeve Ratford Tallinn Vollett Ruby Reid Beatricia Goodall Radford Smith Albert Smith Red Men's ‘Hall Congregational Church James A. Solandt Connecticut ‘Temperance Union Connecticut Mr. Solandt Hollister Heights Cones Regational Church Carpenter Red Men’s Hell Red Men's Hall Gertrude Wilkinson Wichels Avenue Woman's Aid Society A. G. Baldwin Blakeman Place E Ernest C. Carpenter Christ Church Lyman Wheaton Wilh John Wilson Mainstreet Edmund Judson Peddie Institute Elsworth Brown Hausatonic Avenue Boston Institute of Technology

Elegant dresses with silk and satin trims on sale

Shawl collar and cuffs of white silk poplin belted pockets front trimmed with buttons. Other models available. French Serge belted at waist with embroidery. Satin striped taffeta sleeves in self color Georgette crepe. Dress draped from waist. Prices ten to twelve fifty dollars.

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