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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1918
Page
11
Southport will host a large benefit on August 9 at the firehouse headlined by Arthur Guy Empey author of Over the Top and star of a new film. The show will feature the Saxophone Sextet from Pelham Bay station and Houdini plus Gene Story, with a 6:30 p.m. start and a dinner for entertainers hosted by the Thursday Evening Waiting club.
Walter Ruffles of Palestine district elderly farmer died at his home after an illness under 24 hours. He was in good health Saturday, and died of internal hemorrhage. Survived by wife and six children, funeral set for 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at his home. Also notes on baby recordings in Hanover and Hawleyville, local visits, and mail route bid requests.
Fairfield July 22 Special Mrs William Glover chairs Fairfield Home Economics committee busy this week distributing 1 500 pledge cards for the Connecticut awning cords urging every housewife to sign. Mrs Glover aided by Mrs A O Wright Mrs Joseph Hetzel Mrs Thornton Belden Mrs Alfred H Terry and Miss Rhoda Sharpe. Additional notes mention 150 Riker war trucks seen this morning and 25 new books arriving at Airfield Memorial library. A choral class met at Fairfield Congregational church. Deborah Glover replaces city clerk stenographer for a week or two. Red Cross requests 1000 pairs of socks from Fairfield chapter. Mary Whipple at Fairfield HQ on Beach street provides wool needles and directions. Mr and Mrs Alfred H Terry spent weekend in Weekawtong. J O Wright improving at home on Unquowa road. Mrs Henry Sherart Glover recovering. Red Cross movies at Sherman hall feature Olga Petrova in Maude Youths Poetry and Ithel Barrymore in Lifes Whirl Pool. Hotel arrivals list several families. An unhappy marriage may stem from one foal encouraging another.
Washington reports Coles Van Brunt Seeley son of Coles Seeley is in a Newark hospital after being wounded in the Italian Austrian front and has been decorated by King Victor Emmanuel He previously lived in Bridgeport attended its schools and his father led Warner Brothers steel department before starting a Newark paper box factory in 190? The news was sent to Bridgeport family lists Coles Seeley Sr a former Board of Aldermen member.
Aldermanic committee led by William I Primrose Alfred B Burdick and William H Brown met at City hall to review Bridgeport Housing Company plans. They will discuss with the housing group later this week and report to the Board of Aldermen. The plan would see the Motting Company take Lakeview Cemetery land at Old Mill Green and the city sell town farm land to the Cemetery association to aid housing for munition workers. In Newark Washington dispatch notes Cales Seeley among 20 American ambulance drivers decorated with the Stalin War Cross after being wounded in an Austro offensive. Seeley was visited by Victor Emmanuel.
Seven firms bid for the southeast Main and Gold streets location vacated by the Gold clothing firm. Leases expire August 1. building owners dispute eviction grounds. Gold’s Portland move shifts manager William H. Beirne and his family. Mrs. Beirne active in Red Cross.
William Fredericks of 690 Main Street and David Cohen of 934 Hancock Avenue were fined $25 plus court costs after arraignment in City Court before Judge Bartlett. They faced charges of driving their automobiles negligently on a street tram track, with Judge Bartlett warning that future offenders will receive maximum penalties to curb rising accidents.
President Wilson commuted the death sentence of Private Albert F. Beauregard of Company H Sixteenth Infantry AEF to life imprisonment for desertion in the face of the enemy. The sentence was originally imposed by a military court martial.
Draft Board No 3 chaired by Sanford Stoddard lists 82 men eligible for August calls with distributions: 11 percent for general service, 47 percent for limited service, and categories for emergency fleet and delinquents. Since December 15 last the board inducted 510 men, 482 white and 18 colored. Two colored draftees bound for Camp Devens include William Davenport Henry J McAdam and Testie K R David.
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