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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1918
Page
7
The Firefly of France features Wallace with Ann Little in a wartime drama promised for tonight and Saturday at the Middlesex. Varying pleas of the great war in Europe are touched upon, with action crowding the screen.
A Grand Theatre program showcases The Blindness of Divorce by Fox directed by Frank Lloyd with Roosevelt commentary, plus a nine act vaudeville bill led by A Bachelor's Vision. The program also includes Triangle feature The Hop and Universal's The Lion's Claw. Also presented are Main's Circus in Middletown and Selfish Yates with William S. Hart.
An advertisement notes Moodus J Mittelmans at 510 Main Street Stiddietown will close all day with a Monday reopening featuring special ales in all departments. The text reflects a broader concern about sickness linked to kidney and bladder disorders, warning of impacts on daily duties.
Benjamin Allen and Charles H. Chalker returned from a two month business and pleasure trip through York state. Marguerite Heppelli resumed teaching duties in Torrington for the year. Church services are slated for Sunday at multiple venues with Sunday school at noon. Principal H. W. Pease heads to Glastonbury for the opening next week as his family plans to move later. Selective draft events send eleven to Camp Greenleaf and sixteen to Camp Upton under Judson Watrous. A stray horse from the Great Hammocks is found. Daniel M. Holmes attends Charter Oak Park races this week. Mr and Mrs Edward Maloney relocate to Waterbury for employment. Captain William Bates moves back to Old Lyme. Foreman Filton C. Dibble visits Hartford. Judson Watrous and Herbert Loveland depart for Camp Upton, N. Y. Frederick A. Fuller and Adelaide S. Merrill wed at the bride’s home. Marguerite Clark in Rab’s Diary at Saybrook Town hall Saturday night.
A special meeting of the Congregational society will be held on Thursday evening September 12 at the Parish house to arrange for hiring a minister during Rev Howard A Morton’s absence. Local items note travel and visits by residents and a town hall program featuring Monroe Salisbury in The Winner Takes All with dancing and upcoming Mary Pickford showing How Could You Jean.
Ivoryton on September 6 reports a Sunday service at All Saints mission with Father Colloque officiating. Local notes mention Sergeant Frank Watrous from Camp Mills and Lieutenant Arthur Burnap of the 103rd Infantry arriving home, along with several town-moving errands and residents’ activities.
Chester notes reveal Frank Davis has received his call to report at Pelham Bay on the 12th. H. C. Brooks and family return from Westbrook, L. M. Brooks family visit at the shore, Mrs. Marry Johnson returns to Middletown after a few days with relatives. J. H. Weston of Hartford was a business caller. Also a cinema advertisement listing Princess, Saturday Night, Dorothy Dalton in Love Letters, Gaumont news and Staingdree, Crusaders.
Higganum J. Mittelman's at 510 Main Street Middletown will be closed all day Saturday and reopen Monday with special sales in all departments. Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for kindness during illness and death of a husband and brother, noting flowers from Mrs. Frank J. Emmons, Mrs. Robert Spangler, and Mrs. Anna L. Brown.
A fragment from the Baltimore American hints at reflections on Russia and personal feeling as the dialogue threads through a moment of restraint and lingering tension.
Ira T. Hayden from New Haven visited Essex yesterday Wilbur Prescott departs for Fort Slocum Mrs Frances Hughes and granddaughter head to New York after two months on Novelty avenue William Mather returns from Montauk fishing grounds Charles Dervis finishes shipping clerk duties at E B Dickinson witch hazel warehouse Mrs Henry Howell from New London visits Ella Parker Henry K Post Earl Price and Carl Carlson depart for Camp Upton Charles Westbrook becomes occupant of Paul Stevens cottage Grammar school resumes session Mrs Clarence Bushnell admitted to Hartford hospital Elizabeth Finney back from Hartford Thelma Saturday Night features Elsie Ferguson in The Rise of Jennie Cushing and Roscoe Arbuckle in His Wedding Night.
Robert E. Rinehart extols advertising power through a clock motif. The piece argues repetition and persistence sell, claiming advertising must act now and again tomorrow as time itself repeats the old warning that time flies and the world forgets.
Advert shows Schenck's Mandrake Pills as a cure for dullness and fatigue linked to liver activity. Claims 80 years of success as a vegetable alternative to calomel with no after effect. Mentions constipation biliousness and headaches as responsive. Sold at 25 cents per box from druggists or by mail. Dr J H Schenck and Son, Philadelphia.
Sept. 6 notes from Hadlyme report Mae Gates visiting Hartford. Arthur Hanna heads to Boston to enter a commercial college. Miss Mattie Warner visits her mother in Hartford. Mrs. Samuel Hooker hosts Worcester guests Edgar and Walter Warner. Miss McCluney returns to Hartford after stay with Mrs. Day. F. E. Banning family to Brattleboro for Lillian’s Memorial Hospital graduation. Sheriden Hall to East Hampton for work with E. H. Electric Light Co. Raphael Passerella, longtime J. S. Hall clerk, enlists for Camp Upton. Jerry Sioboda also called, leaves for Sackett's Harbor.
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