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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1919
Page
6
A Portland report highlights a district nurse program detailing 1,076 calls in four months since Oct 1 1918. The fundraiser seeks continued support independent of regular dues, with events this week and a Young men’s donation drive praised for aiding the District Worse Association.
Cromwell notices list church services across multiple denominations with morning and evening schedules. Rev. Homer Wesley Hildreth leads First Congregational with a midday Bible school and a monthly union meeting at the Baptist church. Swedish Mission Church details Sunday and midweek services, plus a forthcoming choir rehearsal. Also noted are a hospital transfer for Inwood resident Howard Rich, local club meetings, and a short commerce ad for farm supplies and foods.
Westchester reports social visits and gatherings amid illnesses and travel. Local families, including the Nortons and Browns, hosted guests and celebrated birthdays. A prize speech contest, a salute from Lawrence Carrier in France, and a tribute to Miss Ida Williams mark the section.
Local notes record Red Cross volunteers increasing activity aiding French and Belgian relief with a Thursday all day session. Social visits include Mrs. C B Carlson's family, Mrs. Burr and Mrs. Spencer in Cromwell, and gatherings at Mrs. Jarvis Kingsland home. Carl Lindquist returns from navy service then heads to New York. other townsfolk travel to Middletown and Brainard Hill.
Rocky Hill February 1 attendance at the Motherhood club meeting held Friday afternoon at Library hall. Churches will hold Sunday services. D W McNamara was in Hartford on business. Mrs Fred Filmore visited Middletown Friday. Everett L Peck, son of Harry H Peck in France with the hospital corps, reports move orders and hopes to return to the States. Charles Gilbert works in Dividend factory. Joseph Conlon resumed work at Billings and Spencer Co. Miss Josephine Stickles recovered from illness. Mrs Harriet Hyde hosted a visitor from out of town Friday.
The Colchester C B C basketball team meets the Willimantic YMCA squad on Wednesday evening February 5 in Tip-Top hall with a dance to follow. John Sullivan and Louis Weill, both of New Haven, were in town yesterday. Miss Jennie Mintz returns from New London. Baptist services Sunday with band rehearsal Monday at 8. Co D Barton and brother of East Hampton visited yesterday.
East Hampton hosts a weekend of visits and social happenings. Miss Helen Gates visits her parents in New Britain while Howard House heads to Camp Devens for military discharge. Local dancers, church services, choir events, and a spirited basketball game between the Outlaws and YMC A fill the town schedule.
Mrs J B Atwell confined to home. Mrs Roy T Thawley returning tonight from Maryland visit. Frank Arrigoni and brother unloading 2000 bushels oats at Middlefield. Mrs Reuben Thompson and children picked wild May flowers. Silas W Fowler notary public appointed by Governor Holcomb. A J Smith lodge to meet Feb 4. Birch brush hauled to Dickinson’s mill. Candlemas day notes. ground hog shadow forecast. Church services Feb 2. Epiphany Feast observed.
Captain Frank Harding, commander of a government transport, is at home and shares stories of his duties and responsibility. Robert Havens becomes janitor at an Essex school. Miss Stannard of Westbrook, former librarian at Acton library, visited town Thursday. Miss Hazel Schley was an out of town visitor yesterday. Frank Gates is ill with the influenza at his home.
Clinton and Mrs C D Clinton relocate from Merrill tenement to New Haven. Church service at Holy Advent on the fourth Sunday after Epiphany with communion at 10 45 and Sunday school at noon. Local residents entertain and recoveries noted including Levi Gaylord arriving overseas and Willis returning to Arkansas. Visitors from South Norwalk and Brimfield are mentioned along with Eliot family travel in Norton Massachusetts.
A son was born Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Maustan in Westbrook. Susan Butts and Miss Jackson, recently ill, are improving. Influenza victims are gradually recovering enough to go outdoors. Private Elihu C. Stevens has returned from overseas and is stationed at a Long Island camp. Mrs. John A. Stannard, in Ivoryton, visited town friends before returning to New Haven for the winter. Mrs. E. R. Ames hosts her Florida-bound mother Mrs. Bernhardt. The Golden Rule Club met at Miss Florence Eastland’s home yesterday afternoon.
A worried mother sees her sick child refuse castor oil and calomel, fearing a painful dose. The piece contrasts the child’s aversion with the suggested benefit of Cascarets candy as a gentler laxative and candy treat hoped to aid liver and bowels.
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