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Newspaper

The Evening Press

Location

Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1918

Page

7

The Safety Curtain and Mile a Minute Kendall at Grand Middlesex

The Safety Curtain with Norma Talmadge plays Tuesday and Wednesday at Grand theatre in a dramatic tale of Puck amid a theatre disaster and a troubled past. Mile a Minute Kendall, a Paramount feature with Pickford and Louise Huff, screens at Middlesex with drama, comedy, and a moral lesson, following a popular NY success.

Grand Theatre Norma Talmadge Puck London India Capton Merryon Ares Vulcan Dees Kendall Kent Paramount Pickford Louise Huff New York Burton Holmes Lyons’Moran Middlesex Theatre Middlesex Tonight City of Dim Faces Sennett

East Haddam Benefit Whist At Masons Hall

A brief notice for a Bast pote opera house event in East Haddam on Monday features a benefit hosted by the Masons. Tickets list 25 cents with proceeds likely aiding a local cause and a 500 cad prize as a highlight for players in the whist game.

East Haddam Opera House Benefit Whist Night

East Haddam venue hosts a Monday event titled Rept. 2 benefit Masons with a 25 cent whist game and a plea to come for a good time and advance fundraising for the lodge action.

East Haddam Opera House Masons

Hebron Notes From August Town Activities

Hebron residents report Congregational choir members attending aWillimantic camp meeting with Mrs. Porter at the organ and Miss Thelma Karcher singing. Local visitors include Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Gellert in Hebron and Mrs. Gellert’s parents in town. Dr Pendleton and family plan to move to Colchester. School opens Tuesday with H. K. Viner to teach upper grades and Miss Eleanor P. Lord to teach lower.

Willimantic Irving Rogers Rogers Middle Haddam Hebron Colchester Jared Tennant Norwich H. K. Viner Eleanor P. Lord Elizabeth Clark Glastonbury

Colchester News Briefs and Local Events

Mrs. Sarah Chapfell is seriously ill at her daughter’s home on Norwich avenue. Mrs. Albert Reed of Groton visits her sister Mrs. William Purcell. Attorney David Day of Bridgeport spends weekend with his father Hon. E. S. Day. Local park game today vs Lebanon ends tied after a 16 inning contest two weeks prior. Fund drive underway for an honor roll to be placed in the park. Mrs. Josephine Wallis and family travel to New Jersey. Park band concert Monday at 4 pm. Grange hall grand ball that evening. Max Siegel relocates harness and shoemaker shops from Lebanon avenue to Mill Street.

Colchester Sarah Chapfell Thomas S. Clark Norwich Avenue Albert Reed Groton William Purcell David S. Day Bridgeport E. S Lebanon Josephine Wallis New Jersey Grange Hall Wee Max Siegel Lebanon Avenue Mill Street

East Hampton Home Guard Drill resumes after layoff

East Hampton August 31 Sixth Infantry Co L CS GG will resume drilling on school house grounds next Tuesday evening at 7:45 after a two month layoff. Several new members joined and new officer instruction at Niantic will be reviewed. Everyone is urged to attend. Church notes include services at Congregational Methodist and St Patrick churches with Holy Communion and sermons. A public note lists local visits and plans for Haddam Neck fair on Labor Day and other social items.

Grand Theatre Harry Mason and Co Hunter and Brown Mercedes Sisters Whitney’s Dolls Res East Hampton Sixth Infantry Niantic Congregational Church Frederick L. Grant Methodist Church Samuel Thatcher Marlborough

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