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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1918
Page
8
Nonspecific exhortation urging Middletown residents to plant and tend home gardens this spring. Emphasizes health, learning for children, and the enduring value of farming, noting crops grow even while sleeping and the world owes nothing without soil work. Encourages utilitarian use of land and dismissal of claim to superior status.
Niantic reports a surprise party for Marian Howard of Pattagansett avenue with guests including Selena Beckwith and Marjorie Sebbits among others. Fire destroys a Lincoln street house due to an attempted thawing fire. Wildlife sightings note 24 wild geese, robins, fish hawks near Niantic river. Local residents relocate, travel, and family news updates appear alongside community notes and minor movements.
The Springfield Union recounts a British trawler captain who used a coal shovel to attack a German U-boat when it surfaced near his vessel. The feat is described as brave resourceful and worthy of a medal or honorable mention, likening the skipper to a courageous Yankee in similar odds.
Cromwell notes a special communication of Washington lodge No. 81 A F and A M at 7 30 pm with B A degrees to be conferred. Vera Bugbee of Connecticut College is home for Easter. Nellie Oberg visits New York. Baptist church prayer meeting and choir rehearsal tonight. Leslie Darling honored at a birthday surprise with games and clam chowder supper. well wishes extend into the night.
D W Mc Namara was out of town on business Thursday Ernest Collins moved to Hazel street Hartford Mrs Edward Carroll left for several weeks visit with friends Mrs L C Austin of Portland visiting her daughter Elwood Backe of Ferry street Library open today for book exchange Library association to meet this evening at Library hall committee members Miss May Robbins Mrs Eugene Brown Lawrence Shepard Miss Anne Robbins and Mr and Mrs Frank Griswold will present the literary program
Killingworth reports residents relocating with a large auto truck taking the Anderson furniture to Rockville. Clarence Chittenden and James Smith bought horses from out of town buyers on Wednesday. Herbert Martin and his wife visited Ivoryton relatives. Charles Zimmerman, ill for weeks, is cared for by his daughter from Hartford.
Saybrook Point guests include Mrs Perc y Willard visiting sister Mrs Henry Grieder and Arthur Taintor from New York visiting his father Ralph S Taintor. Miss Cloe Whittlesey of Boston stays with friends while Mrs Harry W Acton of New York visits her parents Mr and Mrs Samuel H Pratt. James Ripley and wife of Westbrook are in town and Mrs Pulia Rankin, formerly ill in Hartford, shows slight improvement.
Washington March 22 The Senate cleared the legislative right of way for prompt action on dozens of military bills urged by the War Department to speed up the fighting force. Key measures include universal draft for men 21 and older and a plan to extend it after the war, plus registrations under treaties with Britain and Canada and a broad powers bill over lumber for aircraft programs.
Mrs Olive Nichols Fay and her new husband William Fay of Bristol wed recently. William Fay is the former husband’s brother. Joseph Fay, her ex husband, lives in New Jersey with their two children. The couple spent their honeymoon at the ex husband's home in New Jersey.
Aimed at mothers, an external Vicks VapoRub treatment claims quick relief for croup and colds in children. Rub on throat and chest, cover loosely with a warm cloth, inhaled vapors loosen phlegm and aid breathing overnight. Drugstores offer 25c 50c or 1.00 sizes with 30 day trial and refund if unsatisfied.
James B. Kenyon in Harper’s Magazine February paints an airman as a gray eagle above war torn valleys and ocean roars. The scene shifts to the battlefield where he hovers over shattered ranks and burning homes then dives to strike for God and Liberty.
Hartford reports that Connecticut officials inspire a regional effort as commercial groups form the Highway Transport League of Southern New England in Providence. William S. Canning, chair of Connecticut State Council of Defense transport committee, speaks and joins the executive committee. Try a Press Want Adv.
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