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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1919
Page
8
The county printery plans to resume business with new equipment including a Linotype and presses. A guest list from New York arrives as the firm completes its modernization, while renovations add windows and allied buildings. Community updates mention local events, school activities, and a fundraising carnival ending with about $500 to support hall repairs.
A roundup of visiting guests from New Jersey Connecticut and nearby towns includes Mr and Mrs George Ervin in Durham to see Mrs Walkley and neighbors welcoming Cleman Burr from New Haven and Mrs Jacob Zissett of Bridgeport. Local residents Franklin Bailey Eugene de Macarty and Welden Decroft host and travel. A land purchase by Melville Bristol and social visits by Harold Stalisbury and Floyd Gavette are noted along with church youth activities and a forthcoming one hundredth anniversary gathering at the Hartford capitol. The Springfield death of Webster Field’s son Webster Jr is reported and Lylean Fowler noted as Field’s former name.
Hartford Times voices concern over a looming crisis in the trolley company affairs. The piece suggests crisis may arrive regardless of general assembly action, proposing that a decisive moment could force clearer transportation policy and greater public awareness of the issue.
Town lauds Liberty loan over the top with receipts reaching 81 000 on a 56 900 goal while a war relic train and aerial bombs are announced for town events. Community notices include church devotions, May and June children's instructions, tax visits, and a company drill at Siebert's opera house with local residents travelling and returning from nearby towns.
Saybrook Point May 6. Mrs Olmstead and daughter have taken rooms in the house of Stanley Davis. The Rev W H Robinson new Grace church rector settled at the rectory. Mrs Bessie Brown and daughter of New Haven guests of Mrs Sarah Reed. Infant son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Chase ill with pneumonia improved. John S Dickinson returned from the South. Mr and Mrs Henry Mahoney of Hartford guests of Oyster River relatives. Mrs W K Bill of Hamburg guest of sister Miss Belle Pratt. Hon Morgan G Bulkeley of Hartford inspected his farm here Saturday.
Colchester residents and visitors share weekend calls and trips to nearby towns. The Lebanon baseball team beat Colchester 7 to 5 in a Park contest. The Victory Liberty Loan quota was over the top as the town enjoyed a patriotic band performance. Local meetings set for church preparations, health notes, and a Memorial Day social for soldiers in uniform. Mexico to enact national workmen recompense law mirroring U.S. state models.
Corporal Norman Littlefield, last of the week, ends a year and a half in France after gas injuries. He served in the Mexican expedition, joined the 102nd Regiment, U.S.A., and went out with the 26th Yankee division, returning as one of Westbrook’s first overseas veterans. Also in town, Ames and Bushnell caught 320 large shod yesterday. Mrs. John A. Littlefield and daughter Phylis returned from Hartford. Miss Carolyn Marchant, Miss Janette Purdue, and Moore visited Madison yesterday. Advertising note: Risse process tires rebuilt by Ely & Bushnell Center Brook Conn.
Eight girls from the Y W C A and a chaperon left Essex Saturday morning and rode to Higganum arriving about nine. Essex Grammar School defeated Deep River on Centerbrook grounds, 30 to 4. Dr Hulbert spoke to about one hundred people in the new town hall last night. Special one cent sale May 7 8 9 and 10 at Neidlinger's drug store Westbrook Conn. Ivory chocolates and Prince tobacco promos listed.
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