Portland Red Cross Drive and Local Notes for 1919
Portland residents urged universal one dollar per household to boost Red Cross membership aiming for 1 600 members. town officials, captains, and treasurer F S Lewis coordinate reports from captains, with a flag display and 1919 service in the window. Also covered are lectures, choir rehearsals, influenza illness updates, local visits, and Memorial Navy veteran notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toby
Margaret Colbert
O’brien
Timothy
John Murnane
Michael Ahern
Harry Howeytenants
James Kingsis
Oscar Wemsler
Annie
Anna Cohen
Emma Colbert
Miss Taylor
Mary Lynch
Lillian R. Cohen
W. H. Baer
H. Leatherby
John .Frank Magnuson
Francis Id
Emanuel Ostergren
C. F. Walk
Harry Pratt
S. D
Stewart Strick
George E
Leutenants
Ralph
Marie Cornwall
George E. Stocking
D. A. Oster
Catherine
George E. Payne
Elmer
Ellen Martinson
Port
Red Cross
F. S. Lewis
Methodist Church Notes Preaches The New World
In the morning the pastor preached The New World showing the world will become new nationally and spiritually Old creeds pass and real Christ is coming into His own.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
Jon
Christ
Complete Xmas Gift Line at F W Nelson Adv
The Swedish church with the same good effect as before notes a full line of useful gifts for all family members. Call and see them this season. They will solve many of the Xmas shopping problems. Adv.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Nelson
Adv
Durham Briefs Include Auto Crash and Education Meeting
Bishop Atwell returns from New London as Mrs. Camp remains ill at home. John Wolfe, in France, reports good health and possible continued overseas service next summer. C G Stone’s Ford collides head on with a Guilford driver in fog. both cars damaged but drivers uninjured. A town hall education meeting is set for Thursday at 8 pm. War savings pledges urging immediate attention as two weeks remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
Bishop Atwell
United States Navy
New London
W. P. Camp
M. P. Hull
Hartford
F. P. Hull
Clemen E. Burr
Rhode Island
Walter Wilcox
John Wolfe
France
C. G. Stone
Durham Center
Middletown
Rosconi
Guilford
Adv
Colchester Socials and Local Notes
Colchester residents note visits from Willimantic Norwich and Hartford visitors. Mrs Hattie Reynolds of Norwich stays with her mother Mrs W E Strong. Miss Mary Shugrue returns from Hartford. John N Strong serves on the Norwich jury again. A Fire Company band meeting is set for 8 pm. furoras of Mrs Eunice Hunt attract visitors from Columbia. Market ads offer round steak at 20c per lb and soup meat at 15c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colchester
Max Siegel
Willimantic
Hattie Reynolds
Norwich
W. E. Strong
John N. Strong
Champlain
Dennis Bigelow
Mary Shugrue
Hartford
Belle Strong
J. W. Reynolds
Columbia
Eunice Hunt
Sam Kawonitz
Lebanon
Avennue
Garade
About Nuts and a Bountiful Orchard Yield
The passage lists that one acre of walnut trees yields in one year food equal to fourteen thousand pounds of red bass, fifteen thousand pounds of lobsters, sixty thousand eggs, two hundred fifty thousand frogs, or one ton of mutton from thirteen sheep. It concludes with a proverb about ignorance.
Influenza Concerns Rise in East Hampton Area
Influenza cases surge with warnings to avoid crowds and practice hygiene. Local residents Miss Phylis White and Mrs. Fitch listed among those ill while John Fitzgerald mourns five year old Margaret’s diphtheria death. Community notices include military drill, discharges, social events, and local business ads.
Amston Notes Include Visitors and Local Health Updates
Amston reports Alfred Blumi visiting Willimantic on Saturday. Mrs Leon Rathbone shows marked improvement and expects to return home this week. Fred Burnham learned from Earl Tucker that he is back from England and is hospitalized in Hempstead. Corporal Dwight Tuckettd is en route to Camp Devens from Watertown and near discharge. Rufus Rathbun sick after Rockville jury duty but recovering. Colin MacPhail on sick list. A group from Rothville toured Willimantic last Wednesday. Walter Gillis acts as station relief agent for a few days. Ward received word from Teleo Florian that he was wounded and he is in hospital. Ned Raymond and the Porter boys with William Brehant visited Willimantic Saturday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amston
Alfred Blumi
Willimantic
Leon Rathbone
Fred Burnham
Ser
Earl Tucker
England
Hempstead
Dwight Tuckedt
Camp Devens
Watertown
Mass
Rufus Rathbun
Rockville
Colin MacPhail
Howard Porter
John Miner
J. Ward Porter
F. Bailey
Rothville
Walter Gillis
Ward
Teleo Florian
Ned Rayomnd
Porter Boys
William Brehant
Infant Christened. House Rented for Winter in Hartford
The infant child of Mr and Mrs Joseph Caruso was christened at St James church on Sunday. A family dinner followed at their home. Carl Petersen and family have rented a house on Washington Street Hartford and will spend the winter there. Mrs Laurence Brooks entertained guests at home in Rocky Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Leigh Dagnall Hale
Orzgan
J. B. Hurlburt
Freestone Avenue
Rocky Hill
Joseph Caruso
St. James Church
Carl Petersen
Washington Street
Hartford
Will
Laurence Brooks
Local Social Notes and Post Office Unclaimed Letters
A party of friends gathered at a Windsor home while Miss Faith Harney visits her sister Mrs. W. A. Collins Jr. of Main Street. Unclaimed letters list Mrs Emery Stone Mr and Mrs C Hanney and Miss Emily Mears. Private Clifford Wright from Camp Upton Yaphank L I has been honorably discharged. John Shipmaker formerly of this town died in Hartford. Miss Ella Bailey granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Wilbur H Hale ill with influenza in East Hampton. Walter N Doolittle of Springfield weekend guest of Mr and Mrs E A Peck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Brainerd
Arthur J. Foley
New York
Emerald Hall
Blodgett’s
Robert Larson
Springfield
Mass
Commerce Street
Frederick Dahlberg
John Dahlberg
Main Street
Timothy J. McDonald
William J. O’brien
Marlborough Street
William B. Keser
United States Navy
Portland
Alfred Gildersleeve
Cotter Place
High Street
William Ahrens
John Robinson
Freestone Avenue
First National Bank
Ruth Edwards
Charles H. Edwards
Camp Upton
Yaphank
L. I
Frank C. Barker
U.S. Army
J. H. Leahy
John N. Ahlberg
Children’s Society
Hampton
Phylis White
Hartford
G. K. White
F. T. Fitch
Frederick
Helen Fitch
John Fitgerald
Margaret
Fitzgerald
Annie Cook
Sarah O'Connell
R. Youngs
Co. L. Sixth Infantry
Siebert
Opera House
Jane Quigg
William Quigg
George T. Cavanaugh
U.S. S. Salem
Ralph Thatcher
Samuel Thatcher
Luther League of the Swedish Lutheran Church
Joseph Walsh
John Walsh
Cecelia Reardon
New Haven
James Reardon
Bart Cavanaugh
Carrier’s Department Store
Quincy
Kenneth Wall
Middletown
M. W. Wall
John McCormac
St. Patrick’s Church
Harry Benton
Leonard Siebert
J. W. Perkins
Faith Harney
Windsor
W. A. Collins Jr
Emery Stone
C. Hanney
Emily Mears
Clifford Wright
L. L
United States Army
John Shipmaker
Ella Bailey
Wilbur H. Hale
East Hampton
Walter N. Doolittle
E. A. Peck
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