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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1918
Page
7
Berlin Fair this week centers on war themes with a strong military exhibit and Food Administration displays. Children’s day, three days of horse racing, and state championship athletics are planned, plus nightly grounds open. Also notable are upcoming film showings at local theaters featuring Cecil B. De Mille, Theda Bara, and Chaplin with schedules through the week.
The Lady Bountiful Minstrels for Middlesex on Tuesday the 24th will not appear as scheduled. A new date will be announced later when the show is presented.
Centerbrook residents note Kenneth In spent the weekend in Middletown with his family. Jr. and Mrs. Newcomb of Holyoke are guests of their daughter Mrs. Alfred Wright. Mr. and Mrs. H. Wells Tibball and a sister from Winthrop attended the Tib b celebration. Charles Looby of Clinton visited friends here yesterday. Several vacant tenements loom this fall amid lingering illness at a local boarding place and a light frost was observed this morning.
A fragmented passage shows a sentry dialogue about advancing or halting and reciting the Star-Spangled Banner, with an uncertain speaker asking to proceed and another affirming authority.
A fragmentary quotation notes a young man on vacation praising freshness while another girl suggests the freshness varies by place. The text reflects light, humorous travel chatter with local color from the New Haven Register edition.
Old Saybrook items note travels of Mr and Mrs George W McCoombs in Middletown and Hartford. Valley trains run to Oct 27 between Hartford and New London. Capt H P Blish on official business in Washington DC. John M Golden returns to New Haven after visit home. Lewis B Gross to Camp Meade, chooses Rochester, NY district then returns. H P Bliss at Chalker Beach. G B Chandler to address War Bureau in town hall. Weather cooler with frost risk. Auto traffic similar to last week. Delia Lamay visits East Haddam. Mary Morrow resumes studies at New Britain. Clayton B Spencer, Cornell aeronautics grad, on ten day furlough, may be stationed in Texas. Dickinson and Spencer registrar voters add 46 names. plan October voting. Frank Epright and sister visit.
Colchester's regular Grange session Tuesday evening included Mr and Mrs J J Sullivan and family as callers from Norwich. News reached of Charles H Blacker ill with pneumonia at Camp Devens. James Case, recently in France, returned home with Mrs Case from New York. Funeral of John V Reynolds drew attendees including Mrs Philip Carling and Miss Ethel Lewis. Charles L Strong left town for Waterbury.
Cromwell scene reports Mr. and Mrs. John Quinn and family of Hartford visiting yesterday. Mrs Ruth Lindwall leaves today for New London to attend Connecticut College. Mrs Ruth Beckwith visited her East Hamp ton parents over the weekend. Mr and Mrs Robert Kalstrom hosted friends from New Jersey.
In a brief Washington Star quip, Mr. Culmrox jokes that though he has a large family and a house full of servants, they are the most independent people he has encountered, prompting the line about dependent status.
A Springfield Union item humorously critiques how the Kaiser views international law. It quips that the peace loving ruler forbids the Allies from doing to Germany what Germany does to them, reflecting wartime sentiment and satire.
The Essex community gathered for John Flynn's funeral with prayers at Mrs. F. M. Hughes home and a burial at Riverview cemetery Saybrook. A hospital relief drive urged canned fruits vegetables jellies jams pickles to Mrs. A. D. W. Chalker on Sept 27. New names added to the honor roll include Clarence Lynn Alfred Burdick James Post and many others with several deceased. A Catholic mass was celebrated by Father Riley, a Brooklyn priest and nephew of P. J. Campbell, who has ties to Essex. News notes mention births visits and social gatherings including Daughters of Veterans meeting and Belgian refugee clothing campaign with Essex Ivoryton Centerbrook residents invited to donate at Mrs. F. B. Bradeen Essex.
Mary Pickford stars in How Could You Jean as matinee and evening features at Thelma theater on Wednesday with additional ad listings for showtimes and promotions.
Regenia Miller visits her mother in Higganum as the Kelsey family returns to Montclair New Jersey. A ministers convention at Congregational church Tuesday draws about fifty out of town attendees with luncheon by church ladies. Local residents visiting or visiting from out of town include Burr and Ponder from Wilmington Daisy Marble from Middletown and Carl Lindquist in the navy. A fair at the Methodist church on Wednesday September 25 offers ice cream at 3 pm lunch and evening entertainment with prices 25 cents for supper and 10 cents for entertainment. If stormy the event will shift to Thursday.
The Berlin State Fair 1918 presents exhibits organized by federal departments including Agriculture Navy Interior and Commerce plus the Food Administration. Highlights cover machine guns cannons uniforms aircraft gear trench warfare tents insignia weapons and military craft, weather forecasting animal industry chemistry Pure Food enforcement and misbranding frauds, with moving pictures of soldiers farmers and fuel and food conservation. The Junior Food Army of Connecticut reports nearly 50 000 youths enrolled producing food on about 1 000 acres with 3 000 pigs and 25 000 chickens. Premiums totaling 1 000 are offered to young farmers, and opening events run Tuesday through Saturday with games horse races governor’s day athletics and free vaudeville. Admission days 50c nights 25c.
A simple home recipe mixes two lemons with three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint freckle removing lotion. Grocers carry lemons and drugstores supply orchard white for a few cents. Massage the fragrant mixture onto face neck arms and hands daily to fade freckles and blemishes for clear soft white skin. Harmless.
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