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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1926
Page
14
Harry Luklanchuk, 38, a boarder at George Trohonuk’s home, was arrested on breach of peace charges after allegedly lacing coffee with a deadly drug to harm the landlady and her 16 year old daughter. Detectives seized the drug and Luklanchuk confessed.
Mr and Mrs N Wittenberg announce the engagement of their daughter Edna G to Max Bresler as of Mr and Mrs Louis Bresler. Miss Wittenberg a Bridgeport High School graduate has been connected with the Dictaphone corporation. Mr Bresler is manager of the Elite Men's show with a late fall wedding planned.
St Marys Guild of St Marks Episcopal church will hold a food sale at 20 Fairfield Avenue on Wednesday July 14 opening at 10 a.m. Mr Delicious home made pies cakes biscuits and nut bread will be sold along with roast chickens fish cake baked beans salads and cooked meats. The old time free lunches with us yet but it has been made into a sandwich and costs 78 cents.
Frances Cheney daughter of former Milford Postmaster Manley Cheney marries Dr. Frederick William Roberts of New Haven Thursday at 7 30 PM at the First Church of Christ Congregational Milford Rev Robert F Cheney officiates. Attendants include Isabel Roberts maid of honor Mae Seliick Milas May Woackey and flower girl Athala Buckingham. Best man Homer R Peck ushers include Yale graduates J Warren Upgen and Earl Durham. Dr Roberts, Yale 1920 and Johns Hopkins 1924, has been on hospital staff in Baltimore and now at New Haven hospital.
A list of births recorded July 1 to July 7 at numerous addresses including Abraham Kaplan at 32 Summerfield Avenue a son and Joseph Mahan at 217 Poplar Street a daughter. Other families such as Barker Doimy Horvath and Shonecai report newborns. some entries include ages and joint names with street and city details.
The writer describes a windy, stormy Hastings weekend with friends in the aqueduct woods and at the New York City Stadium concert. She recalls road mishaps, a punctured tire, a Woodbridge trip, and shopping at Meigs & Co. and Read's mid summer sale. She notes safeguarding valuables in a Bridgeport Trust basement vault and praises a Sheaffer Lifetime fountain pen.
Miss Elizabeth Davis Christie will wed Stuart Burton Rowe of New York City after a formal dance hosted by her parents at their Nichols residence. The item also notes upcoming political and social events in Bridgeport and surrounding towns, with movers and shakers including Senators Bingham Mole and Governor Trumbull, and several society gatherings and travels abroad.
A group from Stratford plans to attend the Republican Assembly at the Allen House in Hartford on Wednesday. The list includes Mrs Erakh Sammis, John Richardson, Mrs. Tinhert Gloetzner, Mrs. W. W. Ghureh, Mrs. Henry Barford, Mrs. Tirandville J. Houle, Miss Enmiha Alien, Mrs. Arthur Plasa, and Mrs. Helen Lewis. They will sail on the Great Lakes to Cleveland and visit Detroit with the Keating family who once lived on Noble Avenue in Bridgeport.
The Holy Name society of Sacred Heart church aims for an August fair in the school yard on Park Avenue. Large committees are forming to ensure a successful parish event with three nights of varied entertainment and several novel attractions.
The K. O. J. Club of New Haven organizes the season’s largest summer picnic at Chamwp's Farm in Black Bees next Sunday afternoon. A program includes track and field events and a baseball game with no dinner. Reservations stand for 200 guests.
Stratford Historical society hosts a cake and food sale at Judson House on Academy Hill to benefit the society. Mrs Homer Baldwin and Miss Winifred Todd lead the committee. 390 members are asked to contribute a item each. Exhibit of hand woven quilts and homespun blankets runs alongside the sale, open 3 to 5 on Friday.
The Bridgeport Girl Scout Council opens a new Weston camp for troop weeks or longer. It will house twenty scouts and three officers with a director in charge. Bertha Staples leads in July and Helen De Lacy in August. Outdoor stove grounds kitchen facilities provided. Scouts will cook themselves.
Scrambled passage notes arrangements by a captain for troop food shares. Names such as Mrs Oliver Suter of Troop 16 and Sime Marguerite Twoby appear as signatories planning to move troops to a fall Hore Settlement and Mall Home Settlement, though text is incomplete.
A series of troop meetings is noted at several local churches including Washington Park M. E. and St Charles R. C church. Misses Wheeler De Lacy Ell and Evelynshey along with Troops 3 and 4 are listed in connection with Bummerfield M. C church and B. Johns Episcopal church.
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