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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1919
Page
14
Miss Margaret Macdonald hosts a farewell bridge party at 225 Brooklawn Avenue as friends bid her and family a winter move to New York. The town buzzes with visiting guests, Christmas plans, dances, and church observances as residents prepare for the holiday season.
Changes in sessions at the Barnum school and Hall Community Center due to the holiday. The Barnum meeting is postponed to December 45 and regular sessions resume then. Lincoln district will open early in December while the Hall center moves its meeting from Friday to the next week.
Mrs Susan Hawley Davis and John Adam Hugo with John Barnes Wells and August Berger headlined a high school auditorium concert Monday night. Davis delighted with Cavalier de Belle Etoile and On the Store, Hugo opened with original compositions, Wells sang The Swan and My Love's Like a Red Rose, praised for effort after few days of prep. Beardsley and Northrop accompanied.
Downe Warburton and Alprencer Calrness faced arraignment before Judge Wilder in city court on a shoplifting charge. Nearly $109 worth of jewelry and dry goods was found in their rooms. They admitted taking items but claimed irresistible urges. Judge Wilder ordered commitment to the state farm for women for an indefinite period.
City Auditor Keating orders all spending bodies to file requests in December. Notices went to about 40 department heads and more will follow as council committees are named. Sewer, lamp, street and sidewall panels rely heavily on appropriations for a budget near six million dollars. Health notes report six measles and six diphtheria cases. Health Officer Brown says not an epidemic and no typhoid or whooping cough in Bridgeport.
One of the finest chamber music concerts in Bridgeport in years featured the Tollefsen trio from New York at the Seaside club rooms. Carl and Augusta Tollefsen with Michel Penha performed Dvorak Dumky Trio Op.90, Liszt Love's Dream, Neapolitan Songs, Liszt Dans la Nuit, Saens violin solos, and Tschaikowsky Trio in A minor Op.49, to robust audience enthusiasm despite stormy weather.
Washington officials announced plans by the Shipping Board to establish passenger lines on major ocean routes. The plan envisions a fleet of about 60 ships, with roughly half being German ships formerly army transports now under repair, including the Leviathan. About 26 ships are to be built as transports during the war, each around 9,000 dead weight tons.
George Ritz of 110 Albion street was fined 445 dollars and costs and sentenced to four months in jail by Judge Wilder in city court yesterday for kicking his wife a little bit. She had accused him of habitual assaults over the past ten years during separate complaints. In Bayminette Alabama twelve white men indicted for lynching Frank Foukal pleaded guilty by agreement, paying fines from 100 to 300 dollars. Foukal was shot by a white mob in jail.
Washington cable reports the Government of the Serbs Croats and Slovaks has authorized its peace delegates to sign the peace treaty with Austria, enabling formalization of postwar settlements.
Natalie recounts Harold’s mood at breakfast blaming overwork not failing marriage. She plans horseback riding lessons, shopping, and gifts for Christmas, naming W. G. A. members, Mrs Bellwood, Vogue Dress Shop, Osgood Shoe Shop, Madame Vera, and Fairchild's, with aims to improve mood and keep Harold active and agreeable.
Under Visit ing Nurse association the Welfare building hosts lectures for pupil nurses at St. Vincent's and Bridgeport hospitals. Miss Helen J Boyd organizes the course with dates, speakers and subjects from November to April covering public health, housing, communicable diseases, dental hygiene, school nursing, infant welfare, prenatal care, hospital social service and rural nursing.
New York November 25 Approximately 75 percent or 16 million of American school children have health defects and lack of vision care. Dr Thomas D Wood of Columbia University told the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness meeting that 25 to 30 percent of children have eye defects, with few cases diagnosed or corrected. He warned abnormal eyes have been linked to seizures permanent health loss and juvenile delinquency.
A Read Annex offering women's handkerchiefs with floral embroidery in 38 inch boxes priced at 50 cents, colored bordered finer quality at 3 in boxes for 75 cents, children's nursery bordered at 15 cents each, and men's hem stitched handkerchiefs with various options. Initials embroidered on men's fine quality handkerchiefs priced 25 and 35 cents, plus plain hemstitched squares for men at 12 to 12 1/2 cents each.
Slippers for everybody feature brown slip ons with hand painted borders in original designs and colors priced at 1.49. A stitched down durable leather sole version in sizes 8 1 2 to 11 and 11 1 2 to 2 costs 1.69. Dutch figures dance on children's brown slippers in sizes 8 1 2 to 11 and 11 1 2 to 2 priced 0.79. Little Red Romeos for babies and tots with elk skin soles come in sizes 5 to 8 and 8 1 2 to 11 at 0.98.
Reader friendly ad notes low priced quilts with rose and blue borders in white voile, plus Persian patterned comforters, crib blankets, and reversible outdoor sleep blankets. Prices range from $1.00 to $5.50, highlighting durable fabrics and appealing color schemes for bedrooms.
The advertisement outlines blue bordered Turkish towels 36 inches long at 35 cents and hemmed Huck towels of heavy quality 36 inches for 19 cents. Cotton Huck towel ing by the yard offers an 18 inch width at 39 cents. Yard goods include brown embroidery material sold by Annex at 59 cents, and white material for shirts in madras and poplin 27 inches wide at 25 cents.
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