Missing Porker Recovered After Midnight Pig Chase
A 200 pound pig stolen near South Farms triggered a late night chase as three men fled in a car. The animal wandered through yards, vanished on a bank, and was found safe in Farm Hill yard the next morning, returning to owner F L Bielefield. Police were notified but the trio claimed they misdelivered the pig.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Company
Edward Fiempke
Fow
South Farms
F. L. Bielefield
Vorwartz Club
Farm Hill
Social Service League appeals for Christmas donations
The Social Service League held a directors meeting with fifteen members present. Miss Hall logged 58 calls made 50 and secured work for six. Reports show active participation in Hartford conferences on employment protection and Americanization, plus success of the second hand clothing bureau. The league seeks clothing, toys, books and funds as sixteen families await Christmas meals. rooms operate daily 9 to 12, with Saturday afternoon and evening hours for the store. donors are urged to mail or drop items and even a quarter or dime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Social Service League
Miss Hall
League
United States Employment Bureau
Hartford
Committee On Protection of
State Council of Defense
New Haven
Eastman
Santa Claus
Lecture on Old English Christmas Carols by Dr. Dearmer
Dr. Percy Dearmer of Berkeley Divinity School will lecture on Old English Christmas Carols at High School Hall Thursday evening December 19 at 8 o'clock. He is a noted authority on folk music and helped compile the English Carol book. Mrs. Ladd and a choir will sing from the collection under William B. Davis. Admission is free. a collection will be taken for Christmas charities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy Dearmer
High School Hall
Berkeley Divinity School
Dearmer
Michael Sheedy Hartford Mason Contractor Dies
Michael Sheedy, a well known retired Hartford mason contractor, died at his home in Hartford on Tuesday in his 80s. He helped lay foundation work for major Hartford buildings and in 1873 cut the first stone for the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane in Middletown. He is survived by his wife and five children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Sheedy
Hartford
Connecticut Hospital
Innn -Middletown
Bride Elect Edla Thayer Receives Shower Gifts
A miscellaneous shower was held at Miss Fern Spatcher’s home on Main Street for Miss Edla Thayer of Pine Street who will wed Fritz Salmonson on Christmas day. Guests praised her and included a $50 gift from Travelers Insurance Co. Four-Minute Men promote War Savings Stamps at local theaters Friday with Ernest A. Inglis as speaker. Prof. E S Brightman speaks Monday on A Tribute to the Allies. last of the local four-minute talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fern Spatcher
Main Street
Edla Thayer
Pine Street
Fritz Salmonson
Miss Thayer
Travelers Insurance Co
Ernest A. Inglis
E. S. Brightman
Middlefield Soldier Marries in Spartansburg
Private Herbert Redfern of Middlefield wed Miss Doris Lorene Owens of Spartansburg in a December 7 ceremony in Spartansburg. Redfern is stationed at Camp Wadsworth, S C, and will live with his wife there upon discharge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlefield
Spartansbury
S. C
Herbert Redfern
Doris Lorene Owens
Redfern
Camp Wadsworth
Spartansburg
Prisoner Safe Confirmed and Ukraine Conference Note
Carl F. Peterson of 32 Walnut Street received a telegram from General Pershing confirming his son Paul Peterson of Company C 102nd U S Infantry is safe in France after capture by Germans last April and time in prison camps including Camp Rastatt. M Salamandra of Middlefield attended a three day Ukrainian conference in Washington with about five hundred delegates urging free Ukraine at the Versailles peace talks. about one million Ukrainians live in the U S. Dominick College and his son John, both of New Britain, were fined 75 dollars and costs for stealing a bale of cotton from American Hosiery Co. and earlier thefts were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl F. Peterson
Walnut Street
General Pershing
Paul Peterson
France
102Nd U. S. Infantry
Camp Rastatt
M. Salamandra of
Middlefield
Washington, D. C
Ukraine
Versailles
New Britain
Dominick College
John
American Hosiery Co
Grand theatre vaudeville and surrender of the German Fleet
City briefs note light vehicle lamps at 4 50 this evening. Four big vaudeville and feature acts run Thursday Friday and Saturday at the Grand theatre with the feature film The Surrender of the German Fleet. Ada B Mead, a dressmaker from Main street Caulking block, was taken to Middlesex Hospital with a severe cold. R J White, overseas service former resident of 11 Alsop avenue, writes of armistice joy in a postal card to the Evening Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Theatre
Ada B. Mead
Main Street
Middlesex Hospital
R. J. White
Alsop Avenue
Adv
Funeral notices and obituaries for local residents
The issue lists multiple funeral services and obituaries including George Ruscoe, Mary Lynch, John Maher, John Hayes, and Oscar Savage Davis. Details cover service times, locations at St John's church and St John's cemetery, officiating clergy, pallbearers, floral tributes, and burial arrangements, with notes on survivors and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Ruscoe
Main Street
St. John’s Church
James P. Donovan
Thomas J. Laden
Michael E. Kearney
John Hazelton
Schmidt
St. John’s
Father Laden
Father Kearney
Joseph Walsh
Thomas’ Shea
Charles Strahan
Louis Gibbons
John Cleary
John McDonough
Arthur Leonard
Louis Saidenberg
St. John’s Cemetery
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Joseph Travaia
Isaae
R Rockfall P
At &Wii
Alaska Gold
Tel & Tel
Conda
Am Loco
Am Car Foundry
AT &S Fe
Balt & Ohio
Bethlehem Steel
Butte & Sup
Hile Copper
Col Fuel
Cé&O
Pac
Erie
Erie Ist
Elec
Gt Northern
Ill Cent
Interboro
Interboro Pfd
Lehigh Vailey
Mer M
Miami Copper
Norfolk & West
North Pacific
Cen
Ann
Penna
People’s Gas
Repub I &S
Chic RI & Pac
Sou Pac
Sou Ry St Paul
UN Pac
U S Steel
U S Steel Pfd
Utah Copper
Westinghouse Sateen
Thomas M. Lynch
Mary
Meriden Road
Staddie Hill
Ireland
James Curran
Mary O’keefe
William Jones
E. H. Clifford
William T
11Th Engineers
Thomas J
Coast Artillery
Fortress Monroe
John P
Ordnance Corps
James G
Philadelphia
Joseph P
Maurice Kidney
Ames Curran
Ynch
John Maher
Bond Street
St. Augustine’s Church
Michael Barry
St. John's Cemetery
This City
John Hayes
William Dunn
Pearl Street
Daniel
Margaret Hayes
New York
Catherine
St. Francis Hospital
Anna
East Hartford
Oscar Savage Davis
Oscar Savage
Davis
Pine Grove Cemetery
Sixth Regiment
Bell
Algota Presents
Bacon Bros
Richter & CO
North & Judd Co
A. L. Southmayd
Main
Popham
Williams Mfg. CO
Gceveland
Hartman Drug CO
Louis M. Schmidt
The
New England
Middletown
Pythian Building
Wool
Arthur B. Jenkins
U. S
Mutual Guiding Hartford
A. E. Holmes
Dr. McKee
Walter A. Blau
Electrical Contracting and Supplies
Eureka
Connecticut Power CO
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