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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1919
Page
10
Unclear OCR notes indicate actions planned for June including uncontested probate cases and foreclosure matters. Mentions a Con F $10,000 amount and a potential fan in the context of municipal or court proceedings.
A Connecticut church notice recalls Margaret Jackson, longtime society leader, as the key figure behind the Jackson Endowment Fund at Vacation House. The message honors her faithfulness and notes the gift’s personal significance to her, urging appropriate recognition and support for the fund’s needs.
An ad seeks to help a returning serviceman he needs funds to start anew. It notes he will require money for clothes and home essentials and mentions the Morris Plan supplying the needed finance and a $325 advance.
The document lists lodge officers and members including Ralph H Burr, J S Wallace EK Bacon, John A Simons marshal, Edward organist, Ernest 8 Davis, Harvey Stiles worshipful master, Harrie A Pratt senior warden, George H junior warden, Joseph T Elliot secretary, Arthur L Clark treasurer, Wayne Magury junior deacon, Reverend Frank F German chaplain, Osgood H Wells senior steward, and others. It records positions such as master, wardens, stewards, organist, and tyler, with a note of trustees Abram P Bilfott and Turner, among names associated with lodge sections and roles.
The Forest City Council Knights of Columbus will hold the first degree last night led by Grand Knight Arthur Neville. The second degree is set for Sunday at 3 pm in the club room with District Deputy Thomas C. Flood from Portland and officers. Prof. James P. Borden directs the musical program. The third degree, led by Flood and a visiting team, will occur Sunday at 2 pm in the Knights of Pythian hall, followed by a banquet at Stueck's Modern Tavern with Captain Joseph P. Quirk as toastmaster. The third degree committee meets Sunday morning for arrangements, and the building committee including O'Brien, Connery, Boylan, Brown, Convey, Coughlin, Walsh, Boylan, Campbell, Murphy, O'Keefe, and Quirk will convene.
Freestone Lodge No 93 Sons of St George will attend divine services tomorrow night at Holy Trinity Church. Rev Dr Frank Fr German will preach. A large attendance of members is hoped. Thimble Club hosted by Mrs Mary Bliss at 487 High Street for the Woman's Relief Corps yesterday afternoon.
Priscilla Rebekah lodge will entertain members of Central and Schiller lodges of Odd Fellows on Monday evening at Odd Fellows hall.
A meeting of L. C. B. A. is scheduled for Monday evening at St. Aloysius hall. Members are urged to attend for discussion of local activities and planning.
A Friday evening dance and cabaret at Holy Trinity parish house, run by the Girls' Friendly Society, drew a large crowd. Vocal solos by Ruth Kellogg and Anita Griswold, a Wesleyan jazz band set, and Griswold's oriental dance showcased the program. Cronin's orchestra provided music while Madeline and Marjory Smith and Bertha Wells managed the candy table and Marsha Bliss and Imogene Forbush supervised refreshments. Associates acted as patronesses with Elsie Gill Florence Broderick and Mae Clarkson leading the organizing committee.
Miss Esther M. Northrop closes her house at 162 Church Street and moves to Ivoryton to live in retirement. For 55 years she ran a select boarding house near Wesleyan University, serving professors, students, and local businesspeople, with the last meal served Tuesday evening.
Cold snaps over two nights injure strawberries, asparagus, rhubarb, and dandelions. Buds on plums, cherries, apricots, peaches, and apples suffer severely, with currants, gooseberries, raspberries, and blackberries likely fail to yield a crop this year. Huckleberries also appear unable to yield.
The launching of the coal scow from the am 5 goat was postponed delaying the planned 8 o'clock departure this afternoon.
An onscreen notice advertises a strange event titled A Poor Married Man at Odd Pel- Ww hell on May 24. The brief listing mentions a dancing scene and a price of $34 for admission.
A mixed Middletown column lists personal notices and community happenings. Elisabeth M Hanley, Hartford City hospital graduate nurse, resumes duties after a 28 day furlough with Mrs Mollie H Waller of 76 Union Street and prior service at Fort Ogelthorpe and Ellis Island. Investigations committee of Middletown Homes Inc. meets Sunday at 7:30 at Henry C Ward’s residence. Read of sales, raffles, dances, lectures, and a boat line schedule for Fishers Island to New London beginning May 1. Also noted are weather glimpses, fire department parade plans, and local business ads.
A still alarm reported at 5 40 p m yesterday afternoon from the Kosinski home on William Street above Hamlin. The chimney was foul and a large amount of soot behind boards covering an old fireplace ignited from kitchen range sparks. The boarded up fireplace had been forgotten and soot had accumulated long. Outside the burned boarding near the chimney, damage was trifling.
James Windridge former resident of Middletown died at his home 115 Ivy Street New Haven yesterday in his fifty third year. He is survived by his wife one daughter Miss Beatrice and one son Thomas Windridge of Buffalo NY. Prayers will be said at his late residence Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Funeral services will be conducted by St Johns Lodge at Indian Hill Chapel this city at 3 o'clock.
Funeral services for Thomas Noble were held this afternoon with prayers at the late home at 2 30 and a Congregational church service at 3 o'clock conducted by Rev H W Hildreth Interment followed at Cromwell East cemetery
The Middletown High School Girls Patriotic League plans a minstrel show titled The Black and White Revte on Friday May 2 to raise funds for the Polish War Orphans fund. Cast includes Clarissa Mackie Katherine Wells Helen Forst Helen Ferree Anna Gilligan Helen FitzGerald Catherine Daly Grace Ingersoll Helen Davis Leonora Germaine Pauline McNulty Elizabeth Brazos Earldine Hastings Catherine Deasy Evelene Kelehey Katherine Galligan Caroline Hyde Mable Dugan Clarice Williams Antoinette Meech Grace Balsley Alice Schaefer Margaret Kavanaugh Arazel Baldwin Viola Norris Dorothy Wigmore Delphine Acerboni Teresa Carey Beatrice Cronin Esther Scully Marjorie Pike Luella Bacon Anna Astel Catherine Harris.
Postmaster D J McCarthy received notice that the prohibition on Canadian mail transmission of publications printed in foreign languages has been amended the term enemy language now covers German Bulgarian Hungarian and Turkish foreign law includes all others except French and except scientific legal or religious writings that do not contain objectionable content
The Senior Girls club at North church presented Boosting Bridget to a large audience in the Sunday school room. Participants included Barbara Payne Loyale Ives Dorothy Hull Georgia Kaumann Mabel Case Della Parsons and Mildred Meader in the playlet and Marion Little Marion Curtis Elsie McConochie Isabel Stow Vera Wilcox Lucy Armour and Helen Baldwin in the tableaux and readings. Mrs Richard H Bunce organized the entertainment and home made candy was sold and shared by ushering helpers.
Wesleyan University baseball, under Coach Liston, travels to New York to face Columbia on South Field this afternoon. Next week they meet Springfield Y M C A college at Springfield on April 30, then Amherst on May 31 at home. Wesleyan track also duels NYU here on the same day.
Hesman J. Klien of the Granolite Corporation of New York will conduct test blasts on the feldspar property in the straits as soon as the dynamite magazine is constructed. The tests aim to determine the qualities of the underlying stone and decide if enough good material is available to warrant development.
James Windridge formerly of Idletown died at his late residence 115 Ivy Street New Haven on Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Funeral services will be conducted by St John's Lodge at Indian Hill Chapel at 8 o'clock this evening. Friends are invited to attend.
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