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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1926
Page
9
Danbury reports a wagon horse owned by Edward Metcalf was hitched to a sedan and lost its harness when the auto driver drove off. The harness vanished, two hours passed while police searched the city for it. Metcalf vowed not to hitch the horse to cars again.
Captain Anton Heinen, noted designer, told an exchange club lunch that long distance airship travel is possible now with a fare of a cent per mile. He insisted airships are safest and most economical, denied storms as a major danger, and cited steering Shenandoah away from a storm as proof. He predicted a New York to Buenos Aires trip in four days eight hours at about 50 dollars per passenger within a few years.
Dusty Wille agrees to work planting watermelons if allowed to plant them at his home. Haig asks where Wille lives and receives the quip that his home is currently in the garage.
Nine persons will appear before a deputy motor vehicle commissioner at the county courthouse Thursday at 10 30 am to request the return of their operators licenses. Hearings include charges for operating under the influence of liquor, reckless driving, and a fatal accident report. Names and addresses of several defendants are listed among others awaiting determination.
Newtown sept 30 special grover harrison of roxbury fined 100 and costs for operating a motor vehicle under the influence. he and his brother olsen and a mr johnson were arrested on samatr hook road and lodged in the lockup. the elder harrison promised to settle half the fine, another neighbor paid the rest, judge mcCarthy warned sobriety in newtown. funeral notices and local events follow including dairymen viewing an educational film and a pennsylvania railroad red caps game scheduled for baxterfield.
Portland Maine Sept 36 AP Golghalla ruling says balls lying in bushes or trees on a golf course are not legally lost. Rocco Pesce 16 charged with stealing balls from Portland Country Club rounds was sentenced to the reformatory then placed on probation. Court heard club officials paid boys five cents for recovered balls but some sold balls to players at higher prices.
Mrs Willard Fleon, Bridgeport Red Cross roll call chairwoman, warns Bridgeport may fall low in the drive. She clarifies the roll call funds stay with Red Cross work next year and urges higher membership to fund services for disabled veterans and families, home hygiene, first aid, and Junior Red Cross. Easton Monroe Nichola Huntington have surpassed quotas, while Bridgeport lags.
Arthur L. Vance of Danbury, claiming to be a moving picture actor, sues Sinclair Refining Co for 50000 for injuries from an alleged July 6 assault by oil company agent Everett Waite. He says the attack cost him his sight in the right eye and ruined his employment and savings. Property at Crescent and Iranistan avenues and Colonial avenue in Fairfield is attached.
Junior Red Cross spokesman at Hall school led a voluntary $25 donation to the Florida Relief Fund. Children collected donations amid slow local receipts, while Miami reports show rising need greater than any Red Cross relief since the San Francisco fire. National orders call for daily forward of receipts to Washington. Florida chapters amass funds to aid wind toppled homes.
In Galt Ontario on September 30 AP reports a bank employee named Neil confessed to stealing thirty thousand dollars from a local bank. He buried the money a mile from town but was captured. about twenty nine thousand five hundred dollars were recovered with the rest missing.
Mr George Neville of 285 Hancock Street Bridgeport claims a month of Mata Mel cured long battles with kidney and bladder disease and breathlessness after failing others. He swears by the fresh sap of the Mexican Maguey Plant as witnessed in a notary public statement.
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