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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1918
Page
6
Names of auditors, jurors, tax collectors, registrars, and other town officials appear alongside civic items. A Red Cross appeal seeks linen donations and towels, with illness updates and hospital notes for residents, plus social notices about meetings and gatherings at local halls and homes.
Moodus notes show the Personal class meets at 8 PM at the Metho parsonage. Walter Lewis returns from Westchester visit. Gerald Gorman ill with colds. Mrs. Mary Burdick of Niantic injured hip. Dr. E E Williams visits Niantic. Gates and a son of Ivoryton linked to Spanish influenza. River High School student involved. Announcements include a birth on October 7 to Mr. and Mrs. Lecrenier of Hartford. town election results listing Assessor, Selectmen, town deposit fund agent, auditor, grand jurors, collectors, constables, and town school committee members.
Centerbrook notes that Norman Rob spent the weekend with Mrs. H D Robinson while William Magee’s friends hope for a recovery from influenza. Mrs. William Griffin visited Iddletown Saturday evening. Lenore Holt has been off work at W J Prann’s for three days due to illness. Carter is working at C H.
Partial OCR reads that Clarence Mom is recovering at Harding tone, Lewis Hughes house hosts Mr Davison able to sit up, Jenny Davison improving at her mother’s in New Hampshire. Bradbury tries out his hound and family extend sympathy for the loss of a prominent young man at a boarding school in Massachusetts.
Early court records reveal multiple divorce judgments issued by judges in the area. The filings show petitions for dissolution and related rulings, reflecting a wave of separations proceeding through the docket.
Westbrook hosts the W C T U annual meeting at the president Mrs C S Chapman home at 2 30. Rev W B Sherret of Yale takes supply of the Congregational church through Aug 1 1919 during the pastor’s absence. Dayton W H Bobling, a Westbrook native in the U S Navy, died in France of pneumonia near his 21st birthday. Fourth Liberty Loan aims report $42 000 with $12 800 raised. local committees and solicitors listed for the campaign.
Regular Grange meeting set for eight this evening. A frost and several influenza cases reported. The town saw its smallest ballot in years as the entire Democratic ticket won except a tied first selectman race between E R Gillett and Samuel McDonald. Principal Currie from Vermont to lead Bacon Academy starting today.
Old Saybrook daily notes guests from New Haven and New London, a death confirms Motorman George Mitchell in Lake Saranac. Local influenza rise, school closed another week, and town meetings plan caucuses. Election results list multiple incumbents and challengers for town offices and school committee.
Saybrook Point residents report several illnesses including influenza and rheumatism. Mr and Mrs Ralph S Tainter return from New York, J O'Brien remains comfortable after a shooting incident, and Margaret Bushnell of Boston suffers pneumonia after influenza. The Old Saybrook honor roll will be unveiled next Sunday designed by Elizabeth Bailey and Frank Pratt. Five hundred ordnance bureau civilian workers fall ill with Spanish influenza nationwide.
Clinton residents report family visits and travel as Harold Kelsey and wife from Mount Vernon New York visited the Kelsey home. James Wellman hosted guests Hast Main Street over the weekend including H B Jevely and Miss Julia Jevely of New York. Edith Lane and Mrs Sarah S Pelton returned from Walpole New Hampshire after a week with friends. A P Fettig traveled to Buffalo New York on business. William Gauplaw takes a vacation from local freight depot duties. Peter Lupach will oversee in his absence. Burton Wright U N Newport Rhode Island visits his aunt Miss Nellie J Wright. Miss Ruth Buell left Monday to attend Connecticut Agricultural College.
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