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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1922
Page
9
Feathers frosted in plaster of paris are the latest hat trimming trend. Ostrich plumes dipped in a plaster bath emerge stiff and dry, making feathers look cut from leather or cloth. Large straw hats with wide brims return, featuring plaited straw, bold ribbons, and black taffeta options, as spring fashion shifts.
Over 15 guests from New Haven Boston and Stamford attended a surprise party at Germania hall in honor of Miss Bes sip McClure for her eighteenth birthday. The event featured pink and white decor an orchestra dancing a Vera Rogers and C Quinn exhibition dance and an old fashioned waltz performed by John H McClure and Mrs Catherine Milbauer at the guests request. A buffet luncheon followed with a purse of money and other gifts presented to Miss McClure.
At the Brooklawn Counts club opening, society showcased chiffon gowns in coral, orchid, emerald, and other bright hues. Beaded designs, silver armor-inspired details, and elaborate gowns by Mrs Dever Warner, Mrs Harsves Hubbell, and Joan of Arc echoes highlighted the glamorous evening.
Mrsellie Kerns and assistants sold poppies in Polis lobby for the Womens Auxiliary of the American Legion raising twenty dollars in two hours. Lawrence W Rogers of City College of New York will speak to Applied Psychology Club at Stratfield on The Message of the New Time. Unrdic? falmud Torah society to give concert at Fairfield High School next Sunday at 8. Adelaide Zeigler and David Greenspun will be soloists. Cantor Silverman of New York City to appear with 20 boy singers. Attorney Charles Shapiro chairs the event. Colonial Dames of America held annual meeting at Mrs Oliver Gould Jennings’s home in Fairfield. 174 members attended, Mrs Leonard Daggett reelected president. Card party tickets sold for Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion welfare work, hosted by Mrs John Feyers, H EF Edge, Mrs E J WarStone, and Mrs Sarah Grant at Stratfield next Saturday. Proceeds support veterans’ families with entertainment. event includes ballet, dancing, singing, elocution, at Kenbell Studio Cannon Street on Monday night, June 15 at 8 o’clock. Mrs James E Green hosted a kitchen shower for Miss Helen Finnell, soon to be a bride, at 162 Catherine Street. pink and white decor. gifts received. Prof and Dr Herbert Strout announce recitals at Fairfield County Music School, including vocal and piano recitals at Stratfield Community House June 12 and Grace Church June 20 to 24, plus a Grace Church concert. Large gathering attended annual musical tea and card party by the Ladies of Charity St Vincent de Paul at Surees’ Hunting Street home Saturday afternoon. short musical program presented.
A memorial service in the Red Cross building honored late Henry P. Davison, former War Council chairman, with ambassadors present. Axson Stockton Pearson spoke of Davison as a principled leader who organized Red Cross war work, noting his condition that major war fundraising would be scaled to need and that his influence extended beyond mere sentiment.
Archaeologists uncover a Babylonian colony at Korsu Nyekip in Asia Minor dating to 2400 years BC. Inscriptions reveal a mixed military and commercial community governed by a prince and a prefect with a princess and a woman prefect holding equal power to male officials. The site, once called Burus, shows early female emancipation and a postal delivery system on baked tile seals with bearer checks directing payments.
Packed in a black cobra leather case fastening with a snap clasp. Cards have gold edges. One dollar for leather section main floor pearl beads twenty four inch opera length graduated very fine quality. One dollar for Jewelry Section Colored Poplins for draperies pillow coverings and general upholstery uses in brown rose mulberry and green fifty inches wide one dollar twenty five cents a yard in green brown gold mulberry and rose One yard wide seventy five cents
Two burglars broke into the Nugent Eichberg Company shop in Orange New Jersey. They carried the safe into the ice box and drilled it open. They removed 2800 dollars and fled after being spotted by a newsboy as they switched off the lights.
A 16 year old Torrington girl was held without bail after a home shooting in which James Lajame was wounded in the chest. She telephoned police and stated she fired after he drew a revolver when she wanted to delay their marriage. His condition was reported as critical.
Soft cambric with dainty lace trimming offered as a child’s dress model sizes 3 to 14 years. Features a design suitable for skirts to be buttoned on, presenting a practical garment option for young wearers.
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