August Vacation Hosts For Nichols Pastor Porteous
Special Rev Duncan Grant Porteous will take a vacation in August with Rev C Fleher of Pittsburgh supplying the Nichols Methodist pulpit. The Porteous family will reside in the parsonage with Ruth and Daniel. Miss Annie Porteous and Rev Fisher family plan their first visit from Pittsburgh, stopping at Poughkeepsie en route. Porteous will attend studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Another item notes Clifford Owen's discharge after two years in Bridgeport Hospital recovering from a blood infection following a 1925 hand injury.
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Brushton Avenue
Porteous
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Bridgeport City Hospital
Clifford Owen
Rufus Owen
Jerusalem Hill
Owen
Nichols Methodist Episcopal Church
Florence Holroyd
Nichols Avenue
Mt. Holyoke College
Duncan Chant
Canadian Railway Employees to Strike
Montreal July 32 01 By Associated Press 18 000 CN workers threaten strike after wage offer and strike vote showing overwhelming support. J E B MacGuew CBC of Railway Employes reports imminent action from local union quarters.
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Montreal
Que
Associated Press
Canada National Vail
J. EB. MacGuew
Canadian Brotherhood of Fiubray
Auto Thief Sentenced to Six Years in Middlesex
A Middlesex judge handed a six year term to a suspect linked to a group that disposed of stolen autos. The case named Julius Shuler as the group head, previously jailed in New York, with a witness against his father stating a murder and a separate Bridgeport charge.
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Middletown
AP Finak Shige
New Wag Jad Deen Stadise
Vulomobiles
Priguy
Af, Blis
Middlesex Superior Emurt
Julius Shuile
Erage
Slug Sing
Hse
New York
Bridgeport
Boy Playing With Matches Sparks Danbury Blaze
A six year old boy playing with matches started a fire in Danbury causing about 6 000 in damage. The blaze gutted a Franklin Street apartment building owned by Mr and Mrs Joseph Grauli Aerl with three units heavily damaged by flames and water. The boy was alone and fled after raising the alarm, neighbors later found the roof gone and interiors soaked.
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Danbury
Associated Press
Joseph Graui- Aerl
Franklin Street
Wee
Obsolete Connecticut Laws To Be Probed
Hartford June 28 By Associated Press a commission on revision of the statutes will survey which Connecticut laws are obsolete and which should be amended or struck out. Chairman Fred A Scott and Secretary John H King led a first meeting to prepare a questionnaire for state departments and attorneys.
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Hartford
Associated Press
Connecticut
State Department
Fred A. Scott
Plymouth
John H King
Willimantic
Thomas Hewes
Farmington
Scott
King
Edward Thompson Company
Northport
L. I
Newtown Club Plans Three Day Sports Event
Newtown County club maps a three day program for July 2 to 4 featuring an Independence Day dinner from 12 to 1 40 p m daylight saving time and a beef barbecue plus a full sports slate. Highlights include 18 hole medal play on July 2 3 and 4 with two ball foursome and best gross prizes and ladies contests on July 4 at 3 p m to use the second fairway and first green. Proceeds fund club improvements from the past year.
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Newtown
Newtown Count Club
Jay
Long Hill Weekend Notes and Social Outings
Long Hill June 28 special Alys. Clarice Radcliffe and son Wesley with a friend, Mrs. James Cronk of Bridgeport, and RE. Warren Griffith of Long Hill vacationing in Reynoldsville N Y. A charity shortcake supper at Linn B Abbott's home raised a neat sum for the M E church though attendance was light due to many traveling.ious.
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Long Hill
Clarice Radcliffe
Wesley
James Cronk
Bridgeport
Warren Griffith
Long Hi
Reynolisville
N. Y
Linn B. Abbott Safurd
M. E. Church
Treasury
M. Kelkir Briggs
Lavers
Sears
Huntington
Briggs
Camp Nye
Tuxedo
Linn B .Abbott
Lois Abbott
Ruth Abbott
Helen LaBarr
Maite Alyce Layendorf
Waterbour
Eawar Wadway
Cheshire
Christchapel
Waterbury
Louis Fuller
Stepney
John Street
Wilson Sherman
William Lyon
William Andrews
Stratford
James Clark
Judd
Hurd
Hurdsden
Fomeis Wikinson
Gunbury
George Griff
Ber Ho
John Mallett
Eleanor R Mallett
Harttor
Edwin Veipp
Charles Kellogg
Chart Hall
E. Merri Beach
Bridgeport Hospital
Ambrose
Mouror
Newtown Brings Amy Bantle to Bride of Harry F Bradley
Newtown June 28 Miss Amy Marie Bantle daughter of Mrs Catherine Jacobson of Sandy Hook and Harry F Bradley son of Register of Voters Thomas F Broadley were married in St Rose Roman Catholic Church. Rev Wilam H Kennedy officiated. Bride wore white ivory satin with rhinestones. Bridesmaid Miss Louise Jacobsen escorted entry in orchid satin. Best man Dr John J Kersey. Breakfast followed at the home and couple to motor trip. will reside on Sugar Street after July 15.
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Newtown
Amy Marie Ban He
Catherine Jacobson
Sandy Hook
Harry F. Bradley
Register of Voters
Thomas F. Broadley
St. Rose's
Wilam H. Kennedy
St. Rose's Church
Anna MecCartan
Lohengrin
Jon J. Kers
Ty Uridesiata
Louise Jacobsen
John J. Kersey
Bridgeport
Mary H. Burns
Tarvington
Solaint
Gounod
Ave Mart
Bradley
Sugar Street
Ling
Torrington
Newtown High School
Yale University
Torrhigion
Teleric Fire Hose Company
Parker House
Unclaimed Letters At Main Post Office
The following unclaimed letters mailed in foreign countries to residents of Bridgeport are at the post office. Claim at the general delivery window of the main post office. List includes Marty Woodworth Williams Ellen Weitliss M Bregoni Yen Buvik Louis Baker R Brenenik Yosef Barton Belensch Domenico Carlinon Mrs William A Churchill Salvator Cipriani Herbert Caneghan Michael Carey Ferdinande Devietro Lenda Dolbrower Louis Fico Angela Fabilis Gundrey Co Wiliam Grey John Grekon Giovenni Goestella Pietre Generali W J Jackson Karl Klein A Kabrowskacy Bill Krommuller Bessy Lindy Giuseppe Lombardo Willem Lurk hard Katy McKenna C D Matthewson Ciovanni Mastenere Mrs Julia OGramas Filomena Posta Renda Mr and Mrs Seal John Slithol Marcello Stmtone Velser Tria Mt Teach and Margaret Walsh.
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Bridgeport
Marty Woodworth
Emil Williams
Ellen Weitlss
M. Bregoni
Perceli
Yen Buvik
Louis Baker
R. Brenenik
Yosef Barton
Mr. Belensch
Domenico Carlinon
William A. Churchill
Salvator Cipriani
Herbert Francis Caneghan
Michael Carey
Ferdinande Devietro
Lenda Dolbrower
Louis Fico
Angela Fabilis
Gundrey and Company
Wiliam L. Grey
John G. Grekon
Giovenni Goestella
Pietre Generali
W. J. Jackson
Karl Kiein
A. Kabrowskacy
Bill Krommuller
Bessy Lindy
Giuseppe Lombardo
Willem
Man pleads home use fined as rum seller
Greenwich, Conn June 28 Rescue of Stanwich tried to provide a dudge Jame R Mead a town court here today wat the and four board had been making home brew and has distilled liquor for their personals. The judge considered the fact tai por Hee hed found a still seven gallons of distilled liquor seventy five gallons of mash and seventy five bottles of home brew at the Boscoe place and decided it was too much for fi men. Boscoe win fined 100 and ost, having been cesged with keepin a place where liquor was reputed to be sole and with keeping Hquor with in tent Lo Bell.
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Greenwich
Conn
Stanwich
Dudge Jame R. Mead
Tai Por Hee
Boscoe Place
Boscoe Win
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U.S
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As Hatte
Rane Ane CO
Bridgeport, Conn
Per & Graethering
Pennanses Day
Fairtieta, Mongrain
Wood Ave
Ja. Ludwig
Wade St
E. Russell
Park Ave
Bertison Co
Fairti
Mem St
Amatfore
Ronson Fd
Wall Ut
Han
Freenent
Chucein St
Man
S. Main St
Water St
Farhan Ave
Ansonia mM
Souily
Ser
Ornison Rkey
George Whitton
Thomaston H. L. Biakeslee
Barrow
Bres
Grand Connetlan
East_Minn Jos
Cosgrove Gherry Ff
Garrity
Willow P Oh
Mono
Stabil ci
Tddres
Telep Traaber
Whitman Advertisers’ Service
New York City
Nichols
Pittsburgh
Deby Road
Vincent BR. Georgehan
Dover Street
Lesie Kempton
Christie
M. H. Kreuger
John Beach
Miller Thi
Bridgepeart
Lim
Justice of the Peace
Ernest C. Kingston
John A. Goda
Brentwood Avenue
Fairfield
Miller
William Cooger
Mildrea
Curtis Mise
Elliott P. Curtiss
Nicho
Miss Curtiss
Europe
Elizabetly
MacDermott
Bridgeport Wis
Methodist Episcopal Church
Miss MacDermott
Clifford Curtiss
Vermont
Parker Seeley
Paris
Enope
Sunde School Board
Bern
Corpo Beusch
Trinity Guild
Hut ‘Nation
Amy Bantle
The Smith=Murray Co
Main St
Sitars Faurfield Ave
Union
Batiste
Oxfords
Slater’s
Eas
Lice
FOR
Leverty Drug Stores
Hindle Pharmacies, Inc
J. N. McNamara
Paul Ricker
Broad St
Noble
Smithr Martay
the Frank. Fargo
JOO! Broad Street
Bank Street
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