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Bridgeport Telegram

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Feb 06, 1920

Page

5

Municipal Garage budget hike fuels $30,734 ask

At tonight's board of apportionment and taxation meeting the Municipal Garage commission seeks more than thirty thousand dollars for salaries maintenance and supplies tied to a new municipal garage not expected to be usable until July or August. Budget items include salaries wash costs machinists and various operating expenses with a grand total of 80 724 dollars.

Municipal Garage Commission Board of Apportionment Feanest Medy Wiliam E. Seeley

Quint To Enter Business In St Louis

Joseph Quint, longtime employee of John Ifcock Insurance and five year Pav ing and Sewer commissioner, leaves Bridgeport for St Louis to start a business with his five sons. Mrs Quint and two daughters have moved west. Quint came to Bridgeport 20 years ago from Springfigla, became assistant superintendent in 1907, and has been active in local fraternal and Republican groups.

Joseph Quint Faving and Sower Commission John Ifcock Insurance Company St. Louis Missouri Mr &J. Louis Paving and Sewer Commission Fifth District Republican Club Bridgeport Lodge Wowompom Tribe T. O Hebrew Sick Benefit Association Abraham Lodge I. O, BR

Court Business Hit by Blizzard Shutdowns

Court activity slowed to a near standstill as a blizzard kept officials away. Naturalization Judge John E. Keeler presided while others, including Judge J. J. Walsh and Judge John R. Booth, could not attend. County Commissioners Crawford and Hart were snowbound in Greenwich and Bethel, and Hart reported severe conditions around Bethel over the phone.

Naturalization Court John E. Keeler County Court House J. J. Walsh Norwalk John R. Booth Danbury Crawford and Hart Greenwich Bethel Bothel

Naturalize Sixty Citizens at Local Court Session

Judge J. EB. Keeler admitted 60 new citizens at the naturalization court yesterday, referred some cases for further study and depositions, and rejected a few applications. Among new citizens is Ernest Rommell a vaudeville figure formerly with Captain George M. Augur now a Stratfield bell boy born in Germany married and living in the city with his wife and family.

J. EB. Keeler Airfield County Naturalization Court Ernest Rommell George M. Augur Stratfield Germany

Govt Won’t Object To Spiker Knowles Marriage

Washington Feb 5 Guy Spiker of Baltimore called at the immigration bureau to learn if the government would object to his marriage to Miss Emily Knowles a young Gaelic woman who arrived recently from England with her child which Mrs Perley R Spiker claims to be the father of the child has offered to adopt Spiker was told the government had no further interest in the matter.

Washington Guy &. Spiker Baltimore Emily Knowles England Perley R. Spiker

ExKing Constantine I Breaks With Family

Former King Constantine of Greece cuts ties with his mother Queen Olga and brother Prince Christopher after Christopher’s marriage to Mrs W S Leeds last Sunday. Constantine reportedly would have boycotted the wedding and still hopes to return to Athens.

Geneva

Break Between Soviet and Persia Feared as Troops Move

London reports indicate growing hostility between Bolsheviks and Afghans toward Persia. Unverified dispatches from the Trans Caucasus area claim Bolshevik forces are continuing at about 22,000 men weekly, well equipped and led by former Prussian officers.

London Britiv Wer triang-Gaspan

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