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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1918
Page
6
Church notes outline services at various congregations, including Lutheran and Congregational churches. Details cover communion, Sunday school times, sermons titled The Great Crisis and The World's Hope, and pastor changes. Also mentions clergy moves, draft examinations, local weather and farming notes, and Red Cross surgery rooms closure until supplies arrive.
Edward Spencer Britain visited town for the Fourth as Dodd of Newark and families joined Otto Carlson’s home gathering. Edith Best Barbara and Josephine Augar hosted and entertained guests. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olson and Cook family toured Park and other sites. Swedish Lutherans plan a 2:30 service at the M E church.
Haddam notes a calm Fourth of July with social calls from Mrs. Louis Mosher and visiting guests from Portland. In Ponsett district several arrests occurred for disorderly conduct and beer violations, with fines of ten to thirty three dollars, as residents faced petty charges and a few property incidents described by local reports.
Gustaf Johnson of Fort Adana returns home on a twenty day leave after spinal illness. Starkey and family vacationing at the shore. William Casey of Fort Slo cum home for a few days. Mr and Mrs Harry A Moore host Mr and Mrs J H Rogers of Naugatuck. Uncalled letters for H R Krause Miss Jessie Merwin and Mrs W W Tyler. Mrs Edwin Holmes returns to New York after visiting parents Rev and Mrs Byron Hatfield. Prof Geer of Hartford Theological School to preach at local church. Lord's Supper to be served. O B Dowd and family visit from New York. E H Pelton visits Westbrook. Dr F W Devitt Gus Heubner and Anthony M Steib guests of Dr Ellis K Devitt at Lyme. James L Henry resigns from Russell Jennings Mfg Co Chester. aims for munition factory job in Springfield Mass. Catholic Mass Sunday at 10:30. Mrs Frederick G Comstock returns from Hartford hospital. Rev and Mrs Byron Hatfield and son Raymond visit Mystic. Harry D Tyler resigns from Winchester Arms Co New Haven. to work for Dudley Garage Co South Main St. F L Pelton leaves Pratt Read & Co. to join C J Bates & Son Chester. Orville Schlick and Henry Troeger now in France. they've written to friends. Stanley Fisher family to spend summer at H H Mather cottage Kelsey Point.
Mr and Mrs L M McCallum returned from New Haven where guests of friends. Emma Ferrato back from two weeks in Hartford and South Manchester. Liberty chorus to meet at Leet's hall Monday. Teresa Scutto visiting New York. Chester Military band to elect officers Monday evening. Congregational church services Sunday morning and evening with subject Self Sacrifice and How to Have Friends. Lord's Supper observed. Mrs. Alexander Hall visiting town. Rev George B Gilbert visiting friends in town. Baptist church services Sunday. Pastor to preach The Church Its Nature and Identity at 10:30 am with Lord's Supper following. Evening sermon Arrangement Order Adaptation. Woman's Foreign Home missionary meeting March 11 at 3 pm at Mrs Maud Wilson's.
Richard Doubleday and Miss Faircloth of Moodus wed at the home of W. Doubleday with Rev. Dr. Sherwood Roosevelt officiating. Newlyweds plan residence in Amston after a short trip. Also notes guests, travel, and a divorce case involving William Porter and a Miss Grey.
Colchester July update reports Mr and Mrs Fred Bock of New York at their summer Broadway home Leo White returning from Bridgeport L Broder's out of town F E Baker and family in Norwich moving to the town to reside with M Day on the Norwich road Mrs E S Munson visiting Norwich Local orders for July coal delivery notes L Broder now taking July coal orders at ten fifty per ton.
In the Washington Times report, more than 15 million gallons of molasses rich in sugar sit in Southern warehouses as a potential relief for a sugar shortage. Judge Robert E Milling of New Orleans urged Food Administrator Hoover to release the surplus, but no decision has been made. The piece notes tin can shortages and retailer stock restrictions hindering the surplus’s deployment.
Essex items list visitors, visits, and small town doings from Lyme to Mon tauk. Short news includes vacation breaks, estate administrator appointment, lawn social plans, Red Cross drive notice, and a vaudeville and dance event at Public hall. Church services and Sunday activities are noted for St Johns and Congregational. A film showing at Thelma is announced.
Morse of Noroton visits Durham while Guilford and Waterbury guests stay with locals. Airship sightings and a heavy frost mark the week. The state canning drive urges household canning for winter, factory goods go to troops, and a union service replaces a preacher’s absence with Rev. Louis H. Ruge speaking.
The article argues the next Liberty loan should not exceed four and a fourth percent. It notes treasury certificates up to six billion will bear four and a half percent, but asserts no basis for higher future rates. It cites past conversions and market pricing supporting the four and a fourth percent covenant.
Moodus reports a busy July with return visits and family events. Notables include Mrs C S Gates returning from Ellington, Miss Nellie Griffin visiting Anna Harvey in Middletown, and attendance at Mrs Arelena Loomis funeral in Willimantic. John the delivery horse sold as auto deliveries begin. Several locals vacation, move homes, or marry, including Mae Williams bridal news. Fourth of July parade capped by a modest but fitting observance with Moodus Fife and Drum, State Guard, Red Cross, and veterans. some events canceled due to rain. Daniel Lord returns from New Haven to help on the farm and Moodus Drum and Fife Corps join Hadlyme exercises, with praise for courtesies received.
In Old Saybrook on July 6 the New London and Hartford express train did not run at 7:24 a.m. causing disappointment. A temperature drop was noted last evening. Night Watchman Bugbee resumed duties at the junction after visiting his son at Camp Upton. Rev. Melville K. Bailey of Chalker Beach was in New London on business. Several locals including B. B. Warren and J. J. Mooney traveled to New London to see the ball game in Warren's car. There are 45 workers at the railroad camp. Mrs. George Arnold of Saybrook Point visited relatives in Middletown. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Getthell plan a few weeks at Saybrook Manor Cottage.
Ivoryton hosts the Stickneys and daughter Virginia for the weekend in South Lyme. R L Smith of Niantic visited Monday. A Thursday hailstorm caused little damage, with corn fields hardest hit. Charles Lynn, bridge worker on the Housatonic River project, visits with his wife. Swedish service Sunday evening noted.
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