Social activities highlight Bridgeport community groups
Mim Chalotte Peck remains treasurer of the Bridgeport Protestant Widows' society at Sterling Home. The Newfield M E church Ladies Aid meets Thursday at 2 20 in the church parlor. Fannie A. Smith arranges a May program for school pupils Friday at 3 in People's church parlors featuring a French play and an Old English Folk dance. Mrs EB Jennings hosts a Brooklawn Country club bridge party for Miss Emly Sterling of Montclair. The Catholic Charitable Bureau holds a mass meeting May 23 at Empire theatre to launch a financial drive. Sisterhood of Park Avenue Temple elects Mrs Max Buechler president and appoints officers. board members named for two and one year terms. Summer work outline presented. Ida Benedict visits from New York. Edwin Shea from Springfield, Mass., visits. Tea for American Institute of Banking hosted at Brooklawn by Mrs D Fairchild Wheeler and L B Powe. Mary Hincks to return Friday. Lorraine Clark to attend Colonial School commencement in Washington D C. Clark serves as alumni secretary. Mr and Mrs Edwin Hoyt guests of Miss Irene Davis at Ardsley-on-the-Hudson. Judge and Mrs Beardsley and Mr Curtiss attend S A R Congress in Hartford. Visiting Nurses tea honors Miss Helen E Sheehan, bride-to-be Ralph Carter in June. Mrs John Reddy returns to New York after visit with her mother. Vaudeville raise about 60 for Bridgeport High School to buy a graphophone for the typing department. Edward Hanley hosts a lanco dancing party for daughter Ethel. No T O T club meeting this week. next host yet unnamed. Mrs H W Fleck to visit Camden, N J.
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Bridgeport High School
Edward Hanley
Grand Street
Ethel
Exhibition of War Relics Opens in Bridgeport Week of May 20
Ex servicemen and the public may inspect for free a vast collection of 650 World War I artifacts loaned by Captain Charles G. Percival, former First Army. The display, hosted at Arthur L. Clark Co. in Bridgeport, features items from many nations and battles. Captain Percival will speak, and military groups are invited Thursday afternoon and evening May 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
America
France
Belgium
Chas. G. Percival
First Army
A. E
Germany
A. T. Clark
Arthur L. Clark Co
St. Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne
Stites Army
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Spanish War Post
Percival
Main Street
Spain to Stage Fan Exposition in Madrid
Madrid May 19 Spaniards show strong support for a fan exposition this month. More than 400 exquisite fans illustrating three centuries of fan making will be displayed. Queen Victoria aided by offering backing and participation, joined by the Queen Mother the Infantas Isabel and Luisa and other Spanish nobility.
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Madrid
Victoria
Queen Mother
Isabel
Luisa
Duchess of
Potatoes urged for home gardens to ease prices
The United States Department of Agriculture advises home gardeners to plant potatoes to cushion expected high prices next fall. Guidance covers seed preparation, planting depth, row spacing, and timing for varieties like Rural New Yorker Green Mountain and McCormick, with regional planting windows through June and July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Diamond Dyes Promise Easy Fadeless Color Revival
Dye It Right advertises Diamond Dyes with simple directions for dyeing worn garments and fabrics. It claims perfect results for wool silk linen cotton or blends and offers a color card from the druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drugsist
Ady
Speech by Miss Elizabeth Marbury Questions Wood Remarks
Miss Elizabeth Marbury, a Democratic National Committee member and New York delegate, urged women at a Democratic club to critique Gen. Wood’s utterances daily and promised a prize for any statement a fifteen year old could not improve. She argued Republican candidates lacked substantial content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Marbury
Democratic National Executive Committee
New York City
Women's Democratic Club
Gen. Wood
Wood
Miss Staub to Lead Sunday School Conferences
Miss Katherine E. Staub of New York will conduct four Sunday school conferences at First Christian church Iranistan and Maplewood Avenues. Sessions are Wednesday at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Thursday at the same hours. All Sunday school workers are invited. Staub is regional superintendent for New York and New England of the Disciples of Christ Bible School work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine E. Staub
New York
First Christian Church
Iranistan
Maplewood Avenues
Miss Staub
New England
Disciples of Christ
Miss Ottley Resigns Visiting Nurses Post
Miss Jeanette Ottley assistant superintendent of the Visiting Nurses resigns after one year to lead hospital social service work at Bridgeport Hospital. She is a Wickford Rhode Island High School and Rhode Island Normal School graduate and has completed courses at Simmons College and the Industrial District Nursing Association in Boston. She previously served one year with the L S A as supervising nurse and has shown the need for hospital social services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeanette Ottley
Bridgeport Hospital
Miss Ottley
Wickworth High School
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Normal School
Providence
Simmons’ College
Industrial District Nursing Association
Boston
L 5. A
Bridgeport
Suffrage Delegates Sail for Geneva Congress
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt leads 30 delegates and visitors sailing from New York to attend the International Woman Suffrage Alliance congress in Geneva from June 6 to 12. They plan to promote a world league of women voters across 20 nations, involving about 100 million women. Mrs. Josephus Daniels will represent the U S government. The party includes Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Miss Marjorie Shuler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Carrie Chapman Catt
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Geneva
Switzerland
World League of Women Voters
Josephus Daniels
United States
Stanley McCormick
Marjorie Shuler
The
National American Suffrage Association
Lipton Dinner at Elks Club Promises Gala Event
William E. Burnham announced that Sir Thomas Lipton will attend the Elks Shore club opening banquet on Saturday May 22. Lipton will be the guest of Wilson Marshall with prominent yachtsmen present. Edward T. Leach and William T. Phillips will speak, followed by a four hour vaudeville show from New York City acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William E. Burnham
Thomas Lipton
Elks Shore Club
Wilson Marshall
Elks
Edward T. Leach
New York City
William T. Phillips
New York
Burmese man seeks bridgeport aviation agency post
Maung Than Tin of Rangoon India requests appointment as agent for the Connecticut Aerial Transportation Co in India. He offers to collect freight sell tickets and repair aeroplanes. Attorney W Parker Seeley is intrigued by word of a flying company organized in Bridgeport as a national movement challenges current prices.
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Maung Than Tin
Rangoon
India
W. Parker Seeley
Connecticut Aerial Transportation Company
Seeley
Bridgeport
Exclusive Styles in Men’s Shirts and Accessories
New Jersey cloth in tan and white makes excel shirts with or without collars priced at $4.65. White shirts with detached collars, tan shirts with attached collars. Wash ties in novelty cottons silks and imported fabrics range 50 cents to $1.50. Silk gloves on main floor include sixteen button taupe champagne navy and gray options at $3.50. Eight button gloves in beaver pongee white and black at $2.25. Shorter two button gloves in brown pongee beaver white black with colored stitching $1.50 to $2.00.
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New Jersey
Brushed Angora Bands for Sweater Trim In Multiple Colors
Sixteen inch bands for sweater collars and cuffs offered in white rose tan navy green and plaid tan and blue. Easy to sew onto sweaters and provide quick practical contrast for collar cuffs and pockets. Main floor center aisle.
Painted Pendants Inspire Wide Demand in Decorations
A new lot of Painted Pendants proves popular for dresses sashes and house decorations. Shoppers use them for lamp shades curtain pulls and electric light pulls. Prices range 18 25 35 50 75 cents and 1.00. Timiming Section main floor.
Start Canning at Food Hut
The first of the demonstrations of canning will be given at the Food Hut on Thursday afternoon at 2 30. Miss Gladys B Green will demonstrate cold pack canning of pineapple rhubarb and asparagus and discuss rhubarb in cold water as a method saving sugar. Fruit may be canned without sugar by this method if desired.
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Gladys B. Green
Miss Alice Lonegan to Wed William Sweeney
A pink and white themed miscellaneous shower for Miss Alice Lonegan of Park Avenue Brooklyn New York was hosted by Miss Genevieve Crehan at 47 Fremont Street. Guests included Evelyn Doherty Josephine Lucey Beatrice Burns Clare Rourke Batty Crehan Veronica Smith Mrs Thomas Clancy Esther Waisn Marion Terry and Catherine Sweeney.
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William Sweeney
Brooklyn
N. Y
Alice Lonegan
Park Avenue
Genevieve Crehan
Fremont Street
Miss Lonegan
Evelyn Doherty
Josephine Lucey
Beatrice Burns
Clare Rourke
Batty Crehan
Veronica Smith
Thomas Clancy
Esther Waisn
Marion Terry
Catherine Sweeney
Special Sale of Linen Table Damask
Limited quantity available in times of linen scarcity. Five patterns include three lilies the meadow lily the calla lily and lily of the valley plus grape and thistle designs. 70 inches wide regular price 4.50 a yard may not be duplicated at 5.00. Irish Linen Napkins 20 inches square regular price 10.00.
White Muslin Petticoats for Children
Several styles with lace trimmed ruffles or embroidery without waists, fastenable to underwaist. Sizes 4 to 12 and 14 years priced 75 to 200 cents. Plain hemstitched petticoat 4 to 14 years 150 cents. Misses petticoats 32 and 34 inch lengths with lace or embroidery, previously 2.50, now 2.00. Second floor.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mim Chalotte Peck
Bridgeport- Protestant Widows' Society
Sterling
Prospect Street
Ladies Aid Society of
Newfeld M. E. Church
Fannie A. Smith
Mra
EB. A. Jennings
Brook- Jawn Avenue
Brooklawn Country Club
Emly Sterling
Montclair, N. x
Catholic Charitable Bureau
Empire Theatre
Mathew Judge
Sisterhood of the
Park Avenue Temple
Temple
Max Buechler
H. A. Goldstein
Charles Mintz
William Loveman
Richard Oppel
Maximilian Stein
A. A. Levy
B. Rubinstein
I. Birnbaum
H. J. Bishop
Benjamin Brownstein
Freq H. Levy
Daniel Taft
Ida Benedict
John F. Fay
Sterling Place
Edwin Shea
Springfeld, Mass
D. Fairchild Wheeler
L. B. Powe
American Institute of Banking
Mary Hincks
Park Place
Lorraine Clark
Fayette Clark
North Avenue
Colonial School
Clark
Edwin Hoyt
Irene Davis
Ardsley-on-the-Hudson
Helen E. Sheehan
Ralph Carter
John Reddy
Florence
Madeline
John
T. O. T. Club
H. W. Fleck
Lafayette Street
Camden, N. J
Roosevelt
Singer Mr. Co
Theo
Salts Textile Co
John G. Howland
Howland Dry Goods Co
Augustine School
James F. Nichitl
Tracy B. Warren
Susan V. Sanford
F. M. Hamley
American Chain Co
Bullard Machine Co
Cornwall & Patterson
Harvey Hubbell
Baird Machine
Artistic Bronze Co
Bryant Electric Co
B. & EF. Zink
Monumental Bronze Co
Bead Chain Co
Women's Committee
the Times
Spain
Monroe
Edwin C. Shetor
White Hills
William B. French
Lois Standish
Charles F. Silliman
Claremont Standish
Easton
Mira F. Standish
Dickerman
Mt Carmel
Edward L. Hurd
Ppworth League
Marshall Beach
Alice Deardon
F. W. Knight
Lone Hill
Edwin C. Shelton
Down
Cutlers Farm School
Harmony Granse
Brundise
Danbury
Harmony Granze
Ed Ward H Curtiss
John M. Burr
Galen Hospital
Edith Richdale
Mabel Morgan
Stepney
New Yorker
Green Mountains
Wisconsin
Michigan
Indiana
Maryland
Virginia
Atlantic
Long Island
Green Mountain
McCormick
Miss Attley
Lipton
Elks Club
Troy
Che
van Dyk
Duchess Coffee
Soese
Angora
Che DY
Hous Shower
Knoxville Journal-Tribune
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