Tuition rates fixed by board and staff changes
The board approved a new tuition schedule at 75 cents weekly paid in advance. A revised high school program introduces Spanish with Miss Florence Beane and new teachers for Johnson and training schools. The calendar for 1918 1919 runs 190 days across four terms. A separate suit in superior court seeks 5000 damages from Grace R Pratt estate executor over a 1908 promise to pay 4000 to Charles A Kirtland in return for dropping claims against the will.
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Charles le
Florence Beane
Ayres
Eisie Green
Johnson School
Trai Echool
Charles A. Kirtland
Grace R. Pratt
E. R. W. Kirtland
Old Saybrook
M. Me Culver
Kirtland
Stratford Avenue
Bridgeport
Middlesex County
Down County
Reverend Hall of North Church on Turkey article
The National Geographic piece Under the Heel of the Turk by Rev William H Hall is highlighted. Hall, a veteran educator and wartime pastor, has advised the Syrian Armenian relief committee and the government on Near East relations. He plans to return to Turkey after the war to resume his interrupted missionary education work. The Maine express carried the travel news in two sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Church
National Geographic Magazine
William H. Hall
North Congregatio Church
Turkey
Hall
Near East
Committee For
Dodge
Middletown
State of Maine
Four-Minute Men Meet at Highland Club
Governor Holcomb and other speakers addressed the Connecticut Four Minute Men gathering at Highland Country Club. The program began at 10 am with welcome remarks by W. W. Wilcox. Morris A. Alling Hartford and Marcus H. Holcomb spoke on military and defense topics, a Treasury department representative discussed loan preparations, and war films were shown on the golf links. Dinner followed at 7 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Governor Holcomb
Highland Club
Connecticut
Highland Country Club
W. W. Wilcox
Morris A. Alling
Hartford
Gover- Marcus H. Holcomb
Fapetian
Ge B. Chandler
After sickness page tells how vind strengthened and cured cough
Jocklyn Connecticut tale describes recovery from pneumonia with tonic remedies. A Virginia reader credits beef and cod liver peptones plus peptonates for restoring appetite, strength, and easing persistent cough after six weeks without progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Page
Vind
Jocklyn
Conn
Virginia
Farewell to President Tynan of St Aloysius YMTA
Members of the St. Aloysius Y M T A R society gathered at their club house last night to pay tribute to their head, John J. Tynan, who departed for Camp Devens this morning. A regular meeting preceded the tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Aloysius Y. M. T. A. R. Society
John J. Tynan
Camp Devens
Society honors Tynan as honorary president after gift
Session officers presented President Tynan with a leather case containing camp life gear on behalf of members. Tynan thanked the group and urged keeping home fires burning until all return safely. The society granted him honorary president with 60 current members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas O'Keefe
Tynan
City Court Clears Farieri In Medical License Case
In city court Luigi Farieri faced a charge of practicing medicine without a license. He pleaded not guilty, was defended by Judge Gustaf B. Carlson, and after a lengthy trial was found not guilty. The session lasted over two hours. An additional man was fined one dollar and costs for intoxication, his first offense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farieri
Luigi Farieri
Minnie Guarino
Neuville's Candy Shop Moves to New Main Street Location
Our motto remains Service First Last and Always. We close the old store at 224 Main Street and extend courtesy and attention to customers at the new address 366 370 Main Street. Adv. 59.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Main Street
Neuville’s
Council Meeting Tonight with Health Officer Study
The common council meets at 8 o clock this evening with little new business beyond the monthly schedule. A special committee, appointed by Mayor Mc Dowell, will report on the advisability of employing a full time health officer for the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDowell
Mt Vernon school to begin seventh year this September
The Mt. Vernon school will open for its seventh year September 17. Vacancies exist and applications should be made promptly to Miss Elizabeth Fisher or Robert W. Merriam, secretary of G Ellsworth Meech, president. Miss Alice Hilliard of Providence, R. I., a cer of wide one DS. principal this year Adv 88.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Vernon
Elizabeth Fisher
Robert W. Merriam
G. Ellsworth Meech
Alice Hilliard
Providence
R. L
City Briefs and Local Gossip Round Up
Light vehicle lamps at 7:47 this evening. Teresa Kelly and nephew leave High Street for a trip in the rain. Ernest Johnson and sons return from Westbrook. Various ads note trunks, traveling gear, and Schaefer's bread sales. Local events include dances at St. Aloysius and a big opening at Schaefer's. Plus notes on dogs attacking sheep, road plans, and routine travel, with several residents returning from New York trips.
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Teresa Kelly
High Street
Ernest Johnson
Emil
Raymond
Lakeside
Westbrook
John T. Wi 'S
Adv
Dorothy Evans
Margaret Peterson
Richard Donnelly
North High Street
New York
Broatch
P. J. Kelley
Dorothy Wans
East Orange
N. J
Zoar
Lyman Payne
Arrigoni Hotel
Louis Negrelli
Mathew Negrelli
Middlesex Hospital
St. Aloysius
S. C. Cannon
Leroy Cannon
Northfield
Minnie Enovitch
William Street
William Travers
George Johnson
Cromwell
Devens
Charles Jackson
Arthur Johnson
Vienna
Schaefer’s
B. Y. P. Uvof C. E
Baptist Church
Lady Washington
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Schaefer
Connecticut
James M. Whittlesey
Broatch’s
Second Connecticut Volunteers
Heavy Artillery
Nineteenth
Connecticut Volunteers Infantry
Waterbury
St. Aloysius Big Hall
Railroad Administration
Washington
Whittlesey
Jeffrey
Ford
Walter C. Jones
Stony Creek
Nicholas Carata
Elm Street
Internal Revenue
James J. Walsh
Secretary of the State
East Haddam
Dennis McMahon
Randolph Avenue
Meriden
Main Street
Bone Globe
Sebastiano Vince
Carmelo Vince
George B. Kieft
United Ireland Loyalty At Hibernians Convention
A Springfield Republican note lauds the Hibernians in this city for patriotic display amid Ireland's troubled five year period. It emphasizes Irish American loyalty to the United States and hopes future antipathies will fade as they settle into civic virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sprigfield Republican
Hibernians
Ireland
British Isles
Painless Chiropody Advertisement by Dr John Gieselbreth
An advertisement for foot care by Dr John Gieselbreth offering procaine for ingrowing toenails corns and foot disorders. Claims arch support with a one ounce Wizard arch builder no metal and free advice with contact at 238 Main Street and phone 351-5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wizyard
Main Street
John Gieselbreth
Gas Defense Seeks Fruit Pits and Nut Shells for Masks
The Chemical Warfare Service asks the public to save shells and pits from peaches prunes apricots dates and Brazil and black walnuts to make charcoal for gas defense masks. Dry materials should be sent to local Red Cross branches. cocoanut shells remain best but pits and shells provide a key substitute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chemical Warfare Service
Brazil
Red Cross
Association of Manufacturers of Confectionery and Chocolate of
New York
Boston
Bunce
Red Cross Rooms
Christ Church Notes Seeks Full Attendance at Rectory Meeting
Wednesday at 7 30 p m there will be a meeting of servers and acolytes at the rectory. The choir rehearses Friday at 8 00 p m. Sunday school resumes next Sunday with gifts for every scholar. class hour is 9 30 a m. A Baltimore American quip follows.
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Christ Church
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Just Star
Philadelphia Bulletin
President Tynan
St. Aloysius Society
City Court
The
Mount Vernon School
George
Samuel P. Willard
State Board of Education
Town Hall
Andrew P. Drennan
Mary Martin
R.I
James Drennan
Pike Place
Sebastiano Aresco
Mary Daniels
Spring Street
Middlesex Real Estate and Investment Co
Sebastiano and
Carmela Vinci
Higginson Business Institute
Court Street
Charlotte Connolly
Patrick Connolly
Elizabeth Terry
Brooklyn
N. Y
Joseph O’brien
Central National, Bank
New York City
Thomas F. Gray
Arthur M. Coughlin
Bethlehem
N. H
Serge
Spear Bros
Middletown’s
Broatch’s Modern Book Shop
James Francis Sullivan
Bellevue Hospital
Outoor
Newark
Westchester
Hon
Hartma
Treasury
Iowa
Uni
United States
Chas.a. Towne
John L. Clem
Shiloh
U.S. Army
W. Atkinson Ee Sotee
Vane
Sieced Dreasiots N Drug CO
Francis A. Zito
Pearl Street
Frank
Grand Central Station
Spear Brothers
Baltimore American
Caulkins & Post Co
Victory
Pyrex
Est Scientific Develop
Thor
Oughly
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