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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1925
Page
4
A concise public service reminder urges readers to prioritize frugality and prudent budgeting to protect finances. It emphasizes awareness of spending, slower consumption, and wise choices to safeguard financial health.
Associate Justice John Kimberley Beach of New Haven retires from the Supreme Court of Connecticut at age seventy. He will be replaced by Judge Frank J Jameson of Portland. Beach, born October 18, 1885 in New Haven, earned four Yale degrees and taught commercial and admiralty law at Yale Law School. He was a Connecticut Bar and American Bar Association member. He authored notable Bridgeport area decisions, including the Bridgeport Brass certificate of error and the Lake decision on city liability for on duty police.
Washington October 18 Rev William Horace Pay head of a 12 member National Council of Congregational Churches committee says a merger of about twenty independent missionary groups is likely to spark a spirited contest during the council’s nine day session. Delegates totaling nearly 3000 will hear President Coolidge speak as battles over lay moderator and clergy moderatorships unfold.
In Waterbury on October 18 a Connecticut Zionist Regional Union meeting adopted a resolution favoring a central Zionist bureau in Hartford to coordinate work with the Jewish National Fund. Delegates totaling 250 elected officers and a large executive committee from multiple cities. The new roster includes Goldstein Hartford as president and Schwarta Waterbury as third vice president, with officers and committee members named from Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven, and other towns. A Missouri-born woman is noted as the first to teach domestic science in Turkish schools in Constantinople.
In Cheshire on October 18 two people suffered serious injuries when a car driven by John D. Douglas of New Haven collided with Calvin Martin’s auto from Waterbury near Higgins Corner. Martin occupants received first aid and went home. Mrs Martin and Mrs Vandebogart suffered head neck and back injuries respectively, with full extent to be learned tomorrow.
Judge Arthur I. Ells rules against the hydraulic company, upholding the city's view that the 20 year water contract cannot shield property from full assessment. The decision states contracts do not bind assessors to a contract’s valuation, affecting taxes on all city property. The case proceeds toward the Supreme Court for further action.
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