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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1922
Page
5
The city treasurer and judge probate discuss two requisitions for the upcoming fiscal year. Treasurer J. He Shthama seeks 6416 to cover office needs including printing, stationery, rent, deposits, and salaries. Expenses listed include bonds, salaries for treasurer and assistant, and office supplies.
Fragmentary text mentions commitments of insane and inebriates and notes that several importing requirements remain to be fed. No identifiable persons or organizations are clear, making it difficult to determine a concrete event or outcome from the readable content.
In Boston the Entomological Society of America heard Dr. Annette F Braun describe a tiny caterpillar that sews a silk sheet to seal seed capsules, feeding inside as the capsule opens. The moth is named Calephora cocnosipennella, and the description highlights its silk-guarded food supply strategy.
Plans by architect L Vannucci outline major additions to Columbus hospital on Washington Avenue to create a modern facility. A new brick wing four stories high will include private and ward rooms, a dining area, autopsy and emergency rooms, and a roof garden. The project adds a main entrance with Tuscan pillars and a marble entrance hall, with a boiler house and modern equipment planned.
Wills M. Benham aged 88 a retired policeman and Civil War veteran died yesterday at the home of Mrs Carrs St Jacques 101 Garnett Street New Haven after a protracted illness He served nearly 49 years on the Toral police force as patrolman court officer and doorman born Middlebury Conn April 29 1824 he fought in Fort Morgan Fort Gaines and Geaysoureh Civil War service included with the Second Connecticut Light Battery Survived by son Edson of Mount Vernon N W Funeral at the mortuary chapel Henry I Bishop 214 Fairfield Avenue
City files outline of protest against water rate rise by Bridgeport Hydraulic Company. City Attorney John A. Cornell filed the brief with the Public Utilities Commission yesterday. A meeting will be scheduled with company attorneys to present arguments.
A string of death notices and funeral details from Stratford and nearby areas. Names include Mes, Margaret Ty Vy, Margeret T, Morbes Inez, Wi er Whilam Lynch, Bliss Anna Gertrude, Grace Bivaueth Unsderfer, Helen Smalley, Freeman M Sanford, Thomas Veron, Thomas Osborne, Wilda Thompsen, Jane Collins and others. Services range from high masses to Lutheran and RC ceremonies with local church and cemetery placements.
Derby area notices report Miss Mildred Tomko of East Derby died at 8 this morning at home on Pleasant Street. She leaves parents Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tomko, two sisters Anne and Esther, and three brothers John, Torxeph and others. Funeral from home Saturday at 8:20, then Peter and Paul church at 4, burial in Mt. Peter and Paul cemetery Ansonia. Also noted are funeral details for Anthony Vinta and Frank Nicolari with services at local churches and Mt. St. Peter's cemetery.
Rev Huber Dahme of St Joseph's Ronin Cathedral through the parish pastor buys the Cody property on Catherine Street to build a new church. The parcel fronts Catherine Street and Madison Avenue, with frontage and depth described, as parish plans remain unsettled and construction undecided.
A Milford parish meeting discussed successor to Rev William Gargenhelm of Bridgeport who resigned. The body unanimously voted to call Gargenheim, with a committee of Miss Mabel Evaria and Henry Hanks to write to the former pastor and notify him about the decision. The committee will coordinate with him on timing and parish duties.
Dr George Walter Stewart of the University of Town argues that chemical elements may be purely electrical. He describes atoms as central nuclei with numerous electric charges and electrons in varied orbits, noting hydrogen nucleus interactions could release kinetic energy for potential cheap power.
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