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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1909
Page
3
Thursday marks the 22nd Mill End Sale described as the city’s premier merchandise event. The store promises larger, better arranged facilities with more lots and easier shopping. Stores close early Wednesday for preparations. sale starts Thursday at 8:30. Newspaper previews urge attendance and note need for experienced sales staff for yard goods and men’s furnishings.
Obituary notices for D Hunt and Laney in this city dated January 11 and 12 1909 invite funeral attendance with interment details. Trumbull Millie Burton daughter of Orville B and Carrie Burton dies at 22 10 27. services at Congregational church. Freidnschaft Rebekah lodge reports officers installed for 21st term and large gains. forthcoming Widows Society meeting. Died notices include Alonzo L Harris Elizabeth Hampshire Homer B Hoyt Sophia Bennett with burial details and funeral notices.
City brief reports a Pembroke street birthday surprise for Miss Elsie and Mr. Harold Horkheimer with gifts and lunch. Guests listed include Lavinia Hooper Julia McKeon Bessie Maloney Alice Mooney and several Horkheimer family friends. Mrs. T H Macdonald plans a dinner for Mr. and Mrs. John Hawley of New York and a bridge party for Mrs. Hawley.
State probate court in Bridgeport schedules January 18 1909 hearing at 10 oclock in the forenoon on the administrator s account for the estate of Bernard J Murtha deceased. Notice required four days prior via newspaper circulation in the district. Judge Edward P Nobbs signatures.
Rome adopts the American relief plan after the Messina earthquake with departments for science rehabilitation food health hospitals and shelter. Archbishops of Messina and Reggio urge broader aid from America and England while church leaders oppose government reluctance to rely on foreign help. Survivors are found in ruins as tensions rise over national pride versus aid.
Frank Donnelly, 56, of Oxford, shoots his wife with a revolver then turns on himself. He shoots five times, slashes his throat, carries a razor, and walks 16 miles to Hamilton. He lies dying at Mercy Hospital.
The Ramona Club of the YWCA schedules an evening program at 8 o clock this Thursday at Mrs Wilbur A Smith home. A fine program is expected with tickets at twenty five cents including refreshments. Tickets available from members or at Association Rooms 629 State St.
Helen Brazis a 17 year old charged with incorrigibility was sent to the House of the Good Shepherd Hartford by Judge Foster this morning. The case notes describe her as modest and unassuming and Miss Helen King the probation officer testified the mother could not control her and she had disobeyed repeatedly.
East Side manufacturers and merchants secured assurances from the Congress Street Bridge Commission that a pontoon crossing will be built. The eight foot bridge will include a draw opening and extend from United Illuminating Co. wharf to Wheeler & Howes wharf on the north side of the old bridge.
The New Haven forecast calls for rain or snow and a chilly night with Wednesday fair and colder. A northwest cold wave eased in intensity, while a Virginia disturbance brings cloudy skies with light snow or rain east. Temperatures plunge below zero from the Rockies to the lake region, with White River Canada registering 46 degrees below zero. A weather bureau bulletin warns heavy snow likely this afternoon and night for central and eastern New York New Jersey and southern New England.
William Dunn paid $5 and costs after seeking lodging at headquarters. Charles A. Smith faced a $5 and costs fine for a disturbance at his North End home. Terry Martin was fined $5 for embracing the Seaside Park soldier’s monument, and Thomas Gagan John Keating and John McCullough were each fined for drunkenness. Shierman and Kiss discharged for breach of the peace with no evidence of assault. Pelegrina Carafelio sought reopening of his coal theft case. after bond forfeiture, he paid a $5 fine.
Washington January 12 on motion by Senator Foraker the Senate passed a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report in detail the expenditures from the 3 million dollar emergency fund appropriated in 1899.
Thomas Hillyard prominent Englishman was found in Central Park with a chest wound after a night stroll from a theater. He tells doctors he was robbed by a highwayman. detectives pursue whether he attempted suicide. He has ties to J P Morgan & Co and a Denver office. residence in London. Condition serious.
Nineteenth century brief reports a resident at 29 Laurel Avenue reporting a window peeper. A tall thin well dressed man with light beard is described. another witness near 80 Elmwood Avenue saw a man loitering. Sergeant O Connell arrested a man who claimed to be James Kerwin from New York and staying at the Arlington Hotel but the suspect was released after being cleared.
Several hundred copies of the sewer commission report favoring a $1,750,000 sewer system have been printed and delivered to the Aldermanic Sewer committee. Chairman Wilder directs 100 copies to the Board of Trade, Manufacturers' Association, and Business Men's Association for distribution.
Police hold Atannioso and Giuseppe Bolotti at headquarters for investigation into an incendiary fire that damaged Fernando Cotten’s barber shop at 624 Pembroke Street. Fire Chief Mooney and Captain Arnold are overseeing the inquiry. the shop owner is missing. The building belongs to John McElroy. This is the fifth blaze at the same site in a year. Neither prisoner faces charges yet. Also noted is news of Mrs. Charles H. Marshall of Rye New York, formerly of Bridgeport, suffering a severe illness.
A crowd at Eckler's cigar store on Main Street sparked a fist fight between John Clancey and Spike Kennedy. Patrolman Sullivan intervened, guiding them back into the store where Kennedy escaped. Clancey was fined $5 for breach of the peace. In other news Skidmore may win the school board job with a $1,200 salary.
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