St Marys Church Benefit Planned
A fundraising effort for rebuilding St Marys Church advances with a Ritz ballroom benefit dance on Monday evening November 21. Committee chair Robert Bruno leads a long list of local volunteers including George B McCormick, Joseph Barry, William Nuttal, John W Dial, and many others. the ballroom has been donated for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's Church
The
Ritz
Robert Bruno
George 8. McCormick
Joseph Barry
William Nuttal
John W. Dial
William Herding
Joseph Matsicotte
Frank Mc
William Ludford
Thomas Guerin
Patrick McDonough
William Pascone
Anthony Pascone
William Stapleton
Alfred Spencer
Gus Mullins
Thomas Green
Helen O'Neil
Mary Spencer
Myrtle Spencer
Helen Fitzgerald
Gladys Volner
Kay Burn
Elizabeth Spinning
Marie Martin
Meble Sherry
Grace Kane
Mary Guerin
Adele Cuneo
Helen Malone
Catherine Burns
Ethel Murphy
Gertrude Brannigan
Frank McGuirk
Agnes Walsh
Stanley Schultheiss
H. Daskam
John Lavey
Edward Fitzgerald
Eleanor McElroy
Edna Goodwin
Kenneth I. Miller
Catherine Regan
John Welsh
Martin Taulty
W. C. Watson
M. Hal- Pin
Robert Walsh
Mary Green
Progress fellow and two generations to decide migration
A fragment notes a progress fellow remark about an alien family typically needing two generations to decide that it came over on the Mayflower. The line conveys a humorous or observational take on assimilation and heritage across generations.
Bridgeport Women's Activities Run Charity Card Parties
Bridgeport alumnae chapters of Mount St. Joseph academy plan a card party at the Catholic Community house on Tuesday evening November 1 to aid St. Mary’s Church. Key organizers include Miss Margaret McNamara and Mrs. A A McLaughtin with several helpers. Other clubs announce meetings and fundraisers across Bridgeport and nearby towns, from Calanthe Temple to Odd Fellows and Rebekah Lodge events, with charity sales and lectures planned for late November and early December.
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Bridgeport Alumiae
Mount St. Joseph Academy
St. Mary's Cureh
M. %. Wilson
Margaret McNamara
D .E. McNamara
Colorado Avenue
A. A. McLaughtin
Evelyn Halley
Eleanor Lee
Dorothea Leonard
Preundachaft
Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows
Rebekah Lodge Infirmary
Entertain Garden Club at Foster home in Bridgeport
Carl Foster will entertain Bridgeport Garden Club members at 2440 North Avenue Thursday at 2 30 PM with a display of flowers and Christmas decorations and a talk by Mrs Walter J Tait on Winter Bouquets.
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Fidelity Sewing Circle
North End
Talmud Torah
Jacob Rapoport
E. Gordon
W. Rapoport
B. Bernstein
M. Dick
I. Bauman
H. Whitman
M. Schafestein
M Chasin
A. Shelinsky
Abrams
8. Scimall
J. Hollander
L. Korff
M. Cooper
H. Wishenered
D. Ruderman
J. Weinstein
Carl Foster
Bridgeport Garden Club
North Avenue
Walter J. Tait
Anna Marie Brown
Rasmus G Brown
Windle
Stratford
E. N. Nielson
Natalie's Hastings Visit Shows Domestic Struggles and Burns
Natalie frets over Harold's silent guilt after a car mishap in Hastings on Hudson and a spree of domestic musings. She chats about Doris, a music student in Bridgeport with Blanche Griffin, while eyeing a Forty-Second Anniversary sale at Fairchild and Son and plans a Bermuda cruise for her parents. The piece blends household finances, shopping frills, a new saxophone and a family contemplating life in a growing Fairfield colony with warm domestic detail.
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Harold
Hastings-on-Hudson
Hastings
New York
Farola
Doris
Griffin Music School
Bridgeport
Blanche M Griffin
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Courtright
Griffin
Court Exchange
Les
Hallan
Paul Revere
Martha Washington
Hadd
Hastings Parage
Edgar Gerst
Tivol
Knollwood
Ediths
Fair Acres
Fairfield
F. E Lalley
William J Histon
Monroe Marion F Johnson Wed in Monroe
Miss Marion Frances Johnson daughter of Mrs. M W Johnson of Monroe and G Kenneth Merrill son of Mr and Mrs George Merrill of New York and Monroe were married at Monroe Congregational Church by Rev Walter Homan. The bridal party wore georgette gowns, flowers included brines roses and ophelia roses, reception followed at the bride’s home, guests from Providence New York Norwalk Bridgeport New Milford Easton and nearby towns attended. The couple left for a wedding trip as gifts poured in from relatives and friends.
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Monroe
Marion Frances
M. W. Johnson
G. Kenneth Merrill
George Merrll
New York
Walter Homan
Congregational Church
George Clark
Long Hill
Lora Hickey
Long Hi
Georgette
Maid of
Elizabeth Hurd
Edward Merrill
Benjamin Hurd
E. Merrill Beach
Bridgeport
Rowland BM. Beach
Arthur Co. Emmerson
Norwalk
Providence
New Milford
Easton
Long Hill Stepney
Hans Dineson
Alexander Sinclair
Philip Jone
Percival Standish
J. Kessler Jones and Son
Elizabeth, NJ
Solon B. Wales
L. Eeith Wales
Nan Huntley
South Glastonbury
Johnson
Obituary notices from local paper list several funeral services
Obituaries report funeral services for David G Wohlgemuth and others. Services are scheduled at local homes and churches in Stratford, Sandisfield, Colebrook River, and nearby cemeteries, with burial in St Michael's and Mountain Grove. Names include James W Keegan Anna Marie Brown Gustave Meunier Elizabeth Shaw Eugene Keenan Fritz Holmer.
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David G. Yoluigemntn
David G . Wohlgemuth
Cotebrook
Connecticut
George P. Potter
Fairfield Avenue
Lakevies
Mr. Wohlgemuth
Nof Sandisfield
Massachusetts
Yeers
Germany
Philip and
Mary Wohlgemuth
James W. Keegan
James W Keegan
Norman Street
St. Augustine's Church
St Michael's Cemetery
Gustave Meunier
High Street
St. Anthony's Church
St. Michael's Cemetery
Elizabeth A. Shaw
Elizabeth A
James F. Shaw
Grace M E Church
Hte
W. H. Layton
George Sweezey
Arthur Miller
James Walsh
John Clift
Mountain Grove Cemetery
Red Cross Toll Call Meeting Planned in Fairfield
Canvassers for the Red Cross toll call in Fairfield begin Armistice Day activities meeting at 3 30 at Miss Deborah N. Glover home. Mrs Walter Bashar will speak in the afternoon. Mrs Lasher chairing Bridgeport chapter will share toll call experiences.
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Red Cross
Fairfield
Dany
Thorecay
Deborah N. Glover
Walter . Bashar
Lasher
Bridgeport
Artists' Colony Couple Rescued by Neighbors
NORWALK Nov 7 Mr and Mrs Charles Berrall residents of the Silvermine artists colony were rescued from a morning fire by neighbors who discovered the flames rushed in carried both out and kept flames in check until firemen arrived A ghted oil stove near the bedroom door started the fire and cut off escape leaving the couple in peril
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Norwalk
Charles Berrall
Silvermine
Berrall
Berralls
Milford Woman Alice Van Alstyne Dies at 75
Alice Decker Van Alstyne, widow of Thomas Van Alstyne, died yesterday in Milford in her seventy fifth year. She lived at 1112 Howard Avenue.
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Howard Avenue
Alice Decker van Alstyne
Milford
Thomas van Alstyne
Nichols Cow Died Believed From Eating Wire
Special Reporter notes a suspected plot in Nichols involving arsenic found near a silo on Walter Cooper property. Constable Miller suspects the cow died after swallowing wire from bran feed, pending chemical analysis of a bottle contents.
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Nichols
Poleon Vattle
Constanle Shanning Miller
Walter Cooper
Miller
Cooper
Federation of Women’s Clubs Meeting at Stratfield Today
Miss Emily Lous Plunney state president will preside at 1080 this morning with a club forum then a 1230 luncheon and an afternoon session. Greetings will come from the Mary Silliman chapter D A R and Connecticut Women's clubs. Mrs Frederick Monroe Card leads. Miss Mary Carter will speak in the morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Lous Plunney
Federation of Women's Clubs
Stratfield
Fedeation
Mary Silliman
Connecticut Women's Clubs
Frederick Monroe Card
Mary Carter
State Board of Education
Burrht to Speak on Rhythm of Stars at Stistfield
Edgar White Buriill will speak this afternoon at Stistfield on The Rhythm of Stars using Angela Morgan's Silver Clothes and quotations from Carlyle's Sister Resortai. He will also continue his discussion of Current Events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar White Buriill
Stistfield
Angela Mor-gan
Carrlyle
Sister Resortai
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G. Greeley
Mark Rothferbury
W. E. Halty
C. G. Lawson
Washington Avenue
John Swanson
Calanthe Temple
Pythian Sisters
Mary Cave
Officers’ Club of
Orient
Ter
Zelta Willis
Southland Court
Bridgeport Mothers Club
Amercan Legion Hall
Golden Hill Street
A J Barnards
Lodge
No. 16
Cannon Street
Grasmere
Parent-Teacher Association of
Pairfield
Ethel Wooster
Bidgeport
Columbia River
Harold €. Edgerton
Stratfield Road
Jean MacLean
Bridgeport Hospital
Edgerton
Mss
Beatree Payne
N. Payne
Ann Ring
New Haven
Janet Levy
Harry Howard
Herkimer Street
Forsythe Institute
Boston
Charles G. Sanford
Coleman Street
First National Bank
Sanford
Pauline Little
Newfield Avenue
W. H. Donaldson
Fair Held
Southport
Donaldson
Europe
U. S. Lapland
Scotland
England
France
James W. Shafer
Pacific Street
Stratfield Hotel
Lab
Doothy Stevenson
Jennie Fitzroy
Lawrence F. Hendry
Stuart Naramore
Mary Kirk
Wiliam H. Comley, Jr
Catherie Russell
Minnie Silverman
Dorothy Smith
Elizabeth Seeley
Brooklawn Avenue
Little Sisters
Annie Barr Jennings
Fairfield Historical Society
Henry B. Stoddard
Junior League
Visiting Nurse Association
Province Pogue
Louise C. Boence
Mary Cullinan
John Cullinan
Poll Stock Company
Miss Cullinan
Carnegie Tech
Elizabeth Oppel
North Park Avenue
Mary Ones
Mary Oncurka
John Mecel
Hallam Street
A. Mencel
BM. Biunsetisk
L. Mato
MM. Kentos
A. Metzger
M. Telicky
M Charm
A Jontoshis
M. Kola
M. Lusksvich
Mary Plikosky
A. Yarusinsky
M. Yash
G. Dolyma
KK. Homnyak Ang
A Gentol
Mrs
Natalie
Bavere Arcades
Bavers
Allah
Conn
John
Irving Berlin
Bayers
Ike
Megs End Company
Meigs
Harole
Crawford
Hudler
Toilsome Hill
William A . Nichols
D. M Read
China
Mother Bab
Bermuda
Mediterranean
Leewith and Company
Bankstreet
Madeira
Cadiz
Seville
Gibraltar
Algiers
Naples
Tunis
Athens
Constantinople
Beirut
Hala
Jeusalem
Alexandria
Cairo
Cattaro
Ragusa
Venice
Monaco
Riviera
Steiger-Poole Company
Wilo Ray
Napoleon
Radford
B. Smith Co
Elm Street
Marion F. Johnson
Eugene J. Keenan
Mullinsscott
Redgate
Golden Hil Street
Patrick
Jennie Conners Keenan
Helen Chase
City
Jennie Lawlor
Waterbury
Fritz HW. Holmer
Fritz H. Holmer
Remington
Remington Typewriter Company
Remington Rand
R. C. Smith
Hone Barnum
Kardex
Vawter
Library Bureau
Camphorole
N. J
Brigedell
S Druggists
Camphorole, Inc
Atlantic City
Avor
Burlington
Vermont
Club Federation
Alton
Lyeyars
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