The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-26
Personal Mention

bury. Lines B. Curtis played the wedding march. After a reception the bride and groom left town for Washington, D. C., where Captain Booth is stationed and where the couple will make their home.
 The members of Memorial Baptist church, Maplewood and Howard ave- nue, will tender a farewell reception to the Rev. and Mrs. H. D. Pierce tomorrow evening at the church. Rev. Pierce will take up his new du- ties as pastor of the Baptist church of Stockbridge, Mass.
 Rev. Edward Walsh, son of MT. and Mrs. Edward Walsh of 5S2 Myrtle avenue graduated today from the Chaplain Training school, Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky, with the rank of First Lieutenant, U. 8. A. Rev. Walsh was formerly from Bridgeport. He attended the Sacred Heart school, Is a graduate of Niagara University, and also Louvain univer- sity, Louvain, Belgium.
 In a letter, the Rev. Walsh states that the Chaplain Training school at Camp Zachary Taylor, has 105 priests and 19O ministers. The students study, drill and go horseback riding 1 with the beginning of the day at 5:45 a. m. and until 10:30 p. m. Until recently Rev. Walsh was chaplain of the Cheshire Reforma- l tory.
 ;rI n New York after having spent . few days with his parents MT. and Mrs. 1 S. Gird of Poplar street.
 Miss Irene Wells of Main street is spending few days in Hartford vis- iting friends.
 Although James J. Butler of this city, had been severely wounded some time ago while in active service lover there," and has now almost recovered from the shrapnel wounds, he still wishes to return to the front if the local board authorities should find l him physically fit. He was dis
 charged from the army last week and is now visiting his friends in Bridgeport, and meanwhile is look ing for a possible chance to return to active service again.
 There is no doubt now that Bridge
 port will have the distinction of being
 the first city where the women have
 voluntarily come forward to make
 things the boys lover there'' must
 have to win the war. From the first
 day of the big campaign in which the
 census of the women of this city
 have been taken shows that over l.
 900 women have already signed the
 registration cards, volunteering to en- ter munition factories.
 | Reports from the first days work shows 5,192 enrollments, nearly 50o
 have volunteered for full time; 1,131
 for part time. It is reported that
 the majority women of the city are willing to work and have expressed their desire to do so to the canvass l CTS.
 All the women of the city are in
 vited to attend the great celebration
 that will be held in the nature of g ; patriotic mass meeting at the ArmorJ tomorrow evening as the culminatins event in the census taking of the womanpower of Bridgeport. A wonderfully interesting program ) has been arranged and such noted speakers as Mime. Anne AZadetetian
 wife of Gen. Azadetetian of the Per
 sian army, and later of the Russian ' army, prominent in patriotic acttvi ties in Russia, will tell some of hel l experiences in stricken Russia. An other speaker will be Scout Joe Gas . sells, who has been wounded while il t action in France, and who took par in many thrilling battles while love
 there"
 Mrs. H. Willard Fleck, commando e of the Minute Women, has issued ; a request that all should be present e The meeting of the Bridgepor f Protestant Widows society will b. e held on Friday morning at 1O:30 a Il the Sterling Widows home on Pros @ pect street.
 The Woman's Relief corps of tn T Elias Howe, Jr. post, will hold thei 5 regular meeting at 80 Thursday af '" ternoon at Grand Army hall.