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Newspaper

The Evening Press

Location

Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Aug 10, 1918

Page

3

Local Sale Notices From Cromwell and Nearby Towns

A collage of classified sale items from Cromwell and surrounding towns lists farm animals household goods vehicles and real estate. Entries include brood mares pigs boats tires vehicles and a two acre Long Hill area property near Middletown Road with sale on premises. Listings mention Jersey cows iceboxes furniture second hand trucks and an Overland touring car among others with details and contact notes.

H. P Neck H. C. Smith Route 1 East N Washington Joseph Minnit Mary van Sands West Long Biil E. Evans, Jr Middlesex Ave Portland Perry Marlborough St Ford A. Russell Catherine St J. B. Stocking Cromwell

Sunday church notes on services across multiple congregations

Sunday services listed for First Church of Christ, Scientist, Church of the Holy Trinity, All Saints Chapel, Associated Bible Students, Christ Church, South Farms M. B. P. Church, and an address by Edwin K. Holden of Wesleyan. Times include 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Holy Communion and sermons noted with pastors and visiting speakers. Services span Sunday and weekday Bible study sessions.

First Church of Christ Scientist— College Broad Streets Church of the Holy Trinity Harold Jdwards All Saints’ Chapel Staddle Hill W. E. Hooker Portland Associated Bible Students H. L. Addington New York Bible Students’ Hall Cromwell Christ Church South Farms Edwin K. Holden Wesleyan Northfield

Connecticut Patents in Official Gazette July 9 1918

A list of Connecticut citizens granted U S patents reported from Arthur B Jenkins Hartford and summarizing patents for light distribution charts fuel tanks submarine barriers typewriter attachments pedal devices electric lamp sockets switches card indicators cartwork wrenches and folding back among others with notes of assignors and assignees including Harvey Hubbell Bry ant Electric Co Perkins Electric Switch Mfg Co and G Piel R G Cleveland Sargent & Co and others The closing line encourages amateur violinists with a note on encouragement and elbow room.

Connecticut U. S. Patent Office Official Arthur B. Jenkins Connecticut Mutual Main Street Hartford Henry D. D’olier, Jr Bridgeport Harvey Hubbell, Inc Julian F. Denison New Haven G. Piel New York City Benjamin M. Desjardins West Hart- Hartford J. T. Underwood Brooklyn Lucius N. Digney Willis F. Hobbs Simon Lake Milford Burdett Loomis Friederich Muller George H. Parsons Kroeger Piano Co Stamford Clarence D. Platt Thomas H. Quinn George B. Thomas Bryant Electric Co Perkins Electric Switch Mfg. Co John H. Thompson R. G. Cleveland Charley Vincent Alfred Fontaine Wrench Henry G. Weight New Britain Sargent & Co Eck Howard W. Weed

Wanted items and services advertised in Evening Press

A compact classified list seeks: WANTED general men’s suits and overcoats sizes 34 to 38 and shoes sizes 6 to 7. also gas engines 8 to 10 hp at reasonable price. camping outfit rental. furnished rooms. rental of a tent. general house cleaning rooms. vacant farm spaces. single man room. Brionne in New York seeks farm info. plus dead horses and cattle buyers Allison Bros. Inc. in Middletown.

Evening Press Price Brionne Nasasau St New York

Probate Notice in Portland District Court 1918

Probate court of Portland district on August 16 1918 will hear Neta Person widow's petition to admit May 4 1908 will to probate for Carl Oscar Larson deceased. Public notice with order to publish twice in a Portland newspaper and post at the public signpost three days before the hearing. Judge Thomas C Flood signs.

Portland Carl Oscar Larson Neta P.rson Conn A. D Thomas C, Flood

Musical Madame Delina Miller Peckham Educates Singers

Delina Miller Peckham offers singing instruction with summer rates in August and September on Wednesdays 2 to 9 and Thursdays with free advice. Located at 91 Main St Middle Town. residence at 210 West 103 St New York. Also CHAS SY Clarke provides practical piano tuning and repairs with new and second hand pianos for sale and old pianos rebuilt at 10 Johnson St City.

Mme Delina Miller Peckham Main St Middletown West New York Chas. SY Clarke Johnson St City

Williams Real Estate Rentals Ad

Eee to rent two three room flats on William Street at seven and eight dollars. One five room flat on Sum ner Street at ten dollars. Walter C. Jones Insurance 263 Main Street. To rent several desirable furnished or housekeeping flats in a fine location Tel 86 Williams real estate rents and appraisals.

Cider Mill Stegmr Ress All If Good Con- Smith West Rats Anger Paige Anderson Cromwell Conn Hillside Ave South Farms Main St Walter C. Jones Sam Kabas- Mick Colchester Tel Fish and Firestone Garage Co Washington St Philip Moriarty Rockfall William St Sumner St Williams

Southern Pine Home Withstands Nearly Century's Use

A feature on enduring Southern pine frame construction highlights early Colonial houses along the Atlantic coast. Notable examples include the Barker house of Pembroke Massachusetts begun in 1628 and the Quitman Mississippi residence built by General A W Trotter in 1834, later home to Eugene B Smith, with pine shingles and hand sawn lumber. Nearby, a Vanderbilt-linked Mobile native frequented dances at an older nearby house built of Southern pine.

England Atlantic Seaboard America Barker Pembroke Mass Central South Quitman Miss A. W. Trotter Eugene B. Smith Trotter Cornells Vanderbilt Mobile

Connecticut Farm Census Tracks War Time Food Push

Connecticut farmers in five counties show increased land under cultivation for 1918 with 26 371 acres more than last year in four counties. Hartford leads in corn for grain and potatoes while Litchfield drives hay and silage, tobacco strong in Hartford. Census totals cover 85 532 acres in Hartford 66 851 New Haven 48 770 Fairfield 37 628 Tolland with 13 000 farms surveyed and plans for higher yields to aid the war effort.

Connecticut Connecticut State Council of Defense Litchfield County Hartford County New Haven County Fairfield County Tolland County Litchfield New Haven Fairfield Gar Cerfsus Hartford Tolland Fund of Statistical Information George S. Godard United States Department of Agriculture State Agricultural College At Storrs Food Supply Committee On Food Supply and Conservation

Baseball scores and standings from national leagues and games today

National League results show Chicago 8 Brooklyn 2 and Pittsburgh 4 Cincinnati 3 in two games. Newark 4 Hamilton 0 and Jersey City 8 Rochester L in International League. Today’s listed games feature Boston at New York and Philadelphia at Brooklyn among others, plus horse racing news Billy Kelly sold to J K L Ross for 30000 after winning the Flash and United States hotel stakes.

Chicago Washington Eesee Ereeee New York Plane i St. Louis Brooklyn Pittsburgh Cincinnati Newark Hamilton Jersey City Rochester Boston Philadelphia Detroit Cleveland Buffalo Toronto Binghamton Baltimore Billy Kelly Saratoga Springs N. Y J. K. L. Ross W. P. Poison

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