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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1918
Page
7
An advertisement touts Fruit-a-tives as a tonic to resist Spanish influenza and boost digestion and purification of blood. It claims benefits for the elderly and run-down individuals, urging regular use to support kidneys, bowels, and skin, with prices 50c a box or 6 for $2.50. It lists dealers locally and mailing option.
The note prompts supplying soldiers with basic comforts in rest camps such as coffee real food and tobacco. It suggests small comforts and unobtainable items like ties to remind soldiers of home and support their morale during hard fighting periods.
Nov 9 Miss Katherine Waterbury and Miss Frances Old Mystic visit First Congregational Church with Rev Homer W Hildreth. Bible school at noon. Great Nation wide Recruiting Campaign for Edith Russell at 6 30 pm. Illustrated address on Our Soldiers and Sailors Ashore and Afloat. Potatoes flour salt and feeds advertised by Theodore Aulerson. Baptist church morning worship 10 30 Sunday school noon B Y P U 6 30 Evening 7 30. Swedish Mission Church services 10 30 morning sermon by Rev Clemens Mortenson 12 m Sunday school 6 45 Christian Endeavor 7 30 devotional evening service mid week Wednesday 7 30. }
A Thursday townwide United War Fund rally in Briggs hall drew a crowded crowd after a July Fourth parade film for children. Dr. F. K. Halleck chaired, with E W Johnson and others outlining Cromwell war chest officers and urging public sacrifice for the war effort. Richard F. Higgins spoke on duties to service members, stage songs followed, and Rev Homer W Hildreth brought the meeting to a close.
We desire to extend our heartfelt thanks to kind friends and neighbors for assistance during the illness and death of our husband and father. Also for floral contributions. Mrs. Frank Baisden, Florence and Eva Baisden.
Bluebird photoplay Hell Morgan's Girl screens Monday and Tuesday at Middlesex Theatre. Dorothy Philips stars in a drama about events just before the San Francisco earthquake and fire with vivid scenes including refugees at the Presidio. Also shown are Current Events and Mack Sennett comedy Ladies First.
The feature film Tarzan of the Apes is set for the Grand theatre in New York next week along with the Rivoli Rialto and Strand weekly changes. The film, produced from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ story, reportedly cost about 300000 dollars to make and will screen Monday and Tuesday. Animated Weekly and other features also join the lineup.
Doors open at six with four acts of vaudeville. Feature film The Shooting of Dan McCrew stars Edmund Breese and Marie Walcamp in The Lion's Claws chapter 15. On Monday and Tuesday November 18 and 19 Charlie Chaplin in Shoulder Arms, billed as the greatest comedy he made.
Jealous men are warned as Dorothy Dalton stars in the Paramount photoplay Green Eyes at the Middlesex theatre this evening along with a Mack Sennett comedy and three acts of vaudeville.
In Rock Hill on Sunday regular church services are held. Mrs. Leon Everett Taylor visited Hartford yesterday. George Beckett and family plan to move into Mrs. Bartholomew Coffrey's house in the south part of town. Mrs. Lombard of Hartford and her husband celebrate the birth of a daughter Jane at Niles Street Hospital. State Guard drill is scheduled for Monday evening. William Quinn returns home on furlough from Camp Devens. Gas mask day prompts outings for hickory and butternuts.
New Haven mother cares for ailing son while daughter returns to Hartford. The New York Net & Twine Co. repairs the red mill dam. Coles & Co. grain dealers visit Middletown with a large feed shipment for W. W. Gates. Baker Louis Klapper dies of pneumonia after influenza at Middlesex Hospital at age 40, survived by wife, eight children, and sister Mrs. Aaron Greenber. Red mill operations halt due to illness of fourteen workers. A. C. Richmond drives to Middletown. Mrs. C. H. Rogers learns overseas ship arrival in connection with her son Charles Ely Rogers on ninth transport voyage.
Monday evening chamber supper to inaugurate the United War Workers drive at Stueck's Ballroom. Event begins 6:30 pm with tickets priced at 1.00, available at the Chamber of Commerce rooms.
Chester items note visitors from Hartford and local gatherings. The King's Daughters meet at Baptist parsonage on Monday November 11. Red Cross branch meeting and bank offering planned for Monday at Leet's Hall. Church services Sunday feature a lyric themed sermon and Honor Roll dedication with Governor Holcomb present. A large parade with 80 service members and 100 chorus voices to honor veterans. The Sixth Infantry unit will perform in the parade. A railway restaurant robbers note closes the page.
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