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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1919
Page
6
Local notes from Portland discuss Marguerite Clark at Tom’s Cabin and a cheerful farewell party for Sid Absberg and Lauer Larson bound for City Kansas. City events include a Board of Trade meeting, shop openings, and church society entertainments with plans for dancing and a 7:45 pm performance at Memorial parish house. Also mentioned are military moves, marriage licenses, and weather impacts on roads.
Durham items report Mrs. George II returning from a stay with her father Webster R. allee in town on business by Ward Church of New Haven in town Saturday. W. W. Stannard buys Roges Camp place on Hubbard av en mce Walkley of New York spent Saturday at his grandfather’s home. A Boy Scout squad passed through Middletown en route from Brooklyn. H. Ham Gran of H. to meet Friday night at town hall. E L. Page spoke at Lincoln memorial service at Congregational church Sunday. Knights of Pythias set a meeting at O. U. A. M Tuesday at 8. Ice weather hoped after the February thaw. Dance Friday at Woodmen hall. “Jimham” Lewis ridiculed by Omaha Bee. Senator Lewis to keep piers despite fourteen points. Higher prices for commodities noted by Louisville paper.
A wartime era notice touts patent medicines including Sarsaparilla Peptiron and Hood's Sarsaparilla as a daily health routine before meals and at night. It claims regular use purifies the blood and builds up strength, promising improved health and readiness, urging readers to obtain from their druggist.
The Connecticut Foundry Company buys the Foster Merriams lease and will expand with a 100 by 160 foot steel factory facing the railroad and river at Rocky Hill. Project cost about 35000 dollars, with J H Grazier Co of Hartford as contractors.
William Connery of New York visits his daughter Mrs. B C Broome in Chatham Middle Haddam. Mr and Mrs Martin Kavanaugh and family were visitors on Sunday. The Red Cross meets at Mrs G N Lawson's Tuesday from 2 to 5 PM.
The East Hampton Press reports Mrs. C W Reinhardt buried in Marlboro after dying in Arlington N J, with seven children surviving. Local gatherings include Red Cross meetings, lodge activities, drill and inspection for Company C units, fire brigade incidents, and social notices featuring residents and visitors from Hartford Bristol Willimantic New Britain and South Manchester.
East Berlin reports visitors from New Britain Hartford Bridgeport and Patterson New Jersey and Middletown. Mr and Mrs Correll and Mr and Mrs Murray and Mrs Correll of Midpgtaba were in town Sunday. A new teacher is to be installed in the local school. Mrs Hazlewood and Miss Susie Hazlewood of West Cromwell visited with Mr and Mrs Reed. Grace Larabee of Middletown visited Dorothy Sugenhime Sunday.
Merritt Pen deton was home from Connecticut Agricultural College for the week. The cottage prayer meeting will be held at the home of Charles P. Augur on Wednesday evening. Mrs. George Wetherill has gone to Middlesex Hospital for an operation. The father and son banquet will be held this evening served by the Mothers' Club.
Mrs Win Porter and Mrs Elizabeth C of Hebron visited Mrs W E Strong on Sunday. Miss Elizabeth G Day returned from New York. Rev Irving Burnap preached at the Congregational chapel. Regular band meeting tonight at 8 in the firemen's hall. Max Siegel and daughter Annie spent Sunday in New York. Walter and Leo White were home from Hartford for Sunday. John O'Brien of East Hampton visited. Miss Nellie Gray returned to Canton Bridge after a Sunday at home. Ice men welcomed the late cold snap. A party of fishermen from East Haddam visited Hayward's Lake today. Public meeting tonight in Grange hall with four minute talks by school children and teachers' demonstration. The public invited. Mr and Mrs David Rosenthal left for New York after visiting Mr and Mrs Samuel Levine. A neighbor's piano racket after 10 o'clock noted.
An old time advertisement extols Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a mild laxative and liver aid. It claims they replace calomel, protect teeth and gums, relieve dullness and heaviness from constipation, and improve mood. Available in 10c and 25c boxes at all druggists.
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