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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1925
Page
14
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Elias Barnes known as an oil magnate in Garfield County died in a local hospital at age sixty two. He lived in a two room farm house with his 91 year old mother and owned the Barnes oil field with five producing wells. Barnes resisted leasing adjacent land saying oil work suited farming. his death may lead to field expansion as five brothers inherit the land and are not opposed to exploitation.
Mrs George Herman Ruth plans to reach the Sudbury estate this week while Babe Ruth himself is not expected until Labor Day. Dorothy Ruth, the Bambino’s daughter, is already at the Sudbury residence with Mrs Balley. The Sudbury farm remains advertised for sale and speculation grows about Ruth spending winters in Florida to stay in shape for future seasons.
The New York Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the home rule amendment, passed in 1922 and 1923 and approved by voters in 1923, was properly placed in the basic law and grants municipalities the right to govern their property affairs and government.
Frank R. Davison seventy three of Moordus was watching cattle judging at Haddam Fair when he slipped to the grass and was gored by a bull. He lay in Middlesex hospital at Middletown in critical condition as bystanders pulled him away.
Miss Julia Dilucia 59 Mill street New Haven sustained a small head laceration when a car driven by Jamea Pacelli Whiting Street New Haven skidded and struck a telegraph pole in Black Rock around 11 PM. Pacelli was uninjured and the car was badly damaged.
Rear Admiral Nurton, superintendent of the Naval Academy, urges dismissal for two midshipmen, require two to repeat last year’s work, and approve graduation for six. Names withheld pending Secretary Wilbur’s decision.
A west wall of a village concrete ice house on Arlington avenue in West Auburn toppled this morning. Firemen narrowly escaped injury as a heavy block fell and missed them. The ice house is owned by the Genezee National.
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