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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1911
Page
3
Frances Ferguson, 12, will be raised by Walter Ferguson Jr. after Judge Curtis formally awarded custody to the father. Mrs. Ferguson may visit twice monthly and during part of summer, provided home conditions are suitable.
Montclair New Jersey report notes the M W of A group will elect officers in Steuben hall this evening with broad turnout expected. The item highlights strong interest in the year's elections and mentions disciplinary rules and fines for flirting grouchiness slang and gas wiping.
Funeral details for Stiles Smith age 74 from Stratford Conn with service on Monday December 11 at 2 30 pm and burial at Univ Soramey Ord. Also notices for Robert W Burritt age 9 months 22 days and residence 2128 Kossuth Street with flowers only. and Nellis aged 42 at 317 Fairfield with service at Henry E Bishop Chapel on Saturday December 9 at 2 30 pm with interment at Park cemetery.
Building commission issued permits valued at 45000 with projects including New York & Bridgeport Building Co. three two family dwellings on Butler avenue and Carroll avenue dwellings. Other items include a brick engine house addition, several frame houses, a power house contract, and plans for a new factory building in Water street for Sprague Meter Co. Local officials note remodels and new banking offices forthcoming.
The Berkshire pond lay smooth as glass with a large early crowd of children and adults skating as the season opened. Officials declared ice sports officially open for the winter and noted the pond’s safety pending a couple more cold nights to reach midwinter standards.
The funeral of Bridget Collins widow of John Collins was held this morning from her daughter Mrs. Anna Costello's residence at 7 45 and from St Marys church at 8 oclock. Rev Father Fitzpatrick sang a Mass for the repose of her soul. The body was taken to Newtown Connecticut at 9 50 train for interment in St Roses cemetery.
A Evansville man leaves a funeral for men only after claiming his wife ruined his life by taking half his property. An Upper Sandusky man devotes $15 000 income to church and university work with weekly preaching and Sunday school. A Moorestown will directs 6000 to a fund for the Nation Woman's Suffrage Association until women gain voting rights, then to a niece. Anna Shaw tops a list of influential women alongside Susan B Anthony. Boston roils over Charlestown Navy Yard’s possible abandonment seen as sacrilege.
The Sewer committee of the Common Council will hold its initial meeting next Friday evening. Chairman MacFayden issued the call. The panel will draft a schedule of proposed sewer costs and a list of sewers to recommend for the year for submission to the city engineer and the board of apportionment.
Royal yacht Medina sails with King George and Queen Mary amid growing mutiny suspicions among 54 sailors. Government admits mutiny revealed hours before sail, Churchill to address Commons December 18.
H F Potter New Haven dairy and food commissioner has empowered inspectors to stop unsanitary cans in transit from Connecticut dairies. Three inspectors are touring the state to inspect dairies and enforce cleanup within thirty days. failures lead to prosecution.
A United Press dispatch says Los Angeles elected May or Alexander over Job Harriman, with women voters swaying the result weeks earlier. Mrs. Arthur H. Dodge claims women opposed suffrage and backed good government, saying the victory showed women’s stand against dreamers and theorists and their turnout mattered.
Rev Frank W Sandford leader of the Holy Ghost Us Society testifies in Maine court about revelations from God He says he and the Creator are closer than Elijah I and that his actions were divinely guided The manslaughter case concerns six crew members who died aboard the yacht Coronet during its Atlantic crossing last summer.
Martelli, a Sicilian immigrant living in Bridgeport since 1909, was slain with five .38 caliber bullets. Detectives Arnold and Cronan, ex-Sheriff Louis Richards, and Corpher Wilson investigate while relatives withhold identities of possible killers. Funeral arrangements by Undertaker Wouls Richards are planned for tomorrow.
Washington dispatch says Charles D. Hilles is seen as likely National Republican chairman with Will Hayward and Victor Rosewater. Key items for the meeting include primaries remedy, platform discussion, and selecting a convention city, with Chicago and St. Louis contending. Several members will vote by proxy from California Hawaii Oklahoma Philippines Utah Vermont.
Jessie E. Reed, 16, daughter of Charles B. Reed, appeals the Greenwich probate court ruling that allowed her father’s will to be filed. The Greenwich resident died in 1911 leaving most of his estate to Dr James P. Fiske of Greenwich. The girl was not mentioned in the will and claims she was not given a hearing in the probate proceeding.
Bridgeport residents are invited to a Revillon fur sale at The Howland store offering coats, scarfs and muffs at unusually low prices. Each piece carries a guarantee of satisfaction and long wear beyond winter. Items include mink, nearseal, sable, muskrat, pony skin, and more with prices ranging from five to several hundred dollars. Sale opens Monday morning with limited stock on display on the second floor.
In Hartford on December 9 Judge Gager held that a beer wagon driver acting as an agent of a licensed liquor dealer need not obtain a written order for beer sold to Joseph Bordelli at 13 Morgan Street on November 25. Primo Francini, employed by Donato Laraia, was acquitted. State Attorney Alevin announced an appeal to the Supreme Court for statutory interpretation.
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