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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1925
Page
11
Mayor Behrens wins unanimous endorsement at Fifth District Republican Club. Robert Barrows, club president, renounces taking part in primaries and declares neutrality to reduce factional friction. He urges open dialogue and warns against covert influence from opposition.
A drive to endorse Alderman August eh for a second term in the Board of Aldermen is advancing. A formal action may occur at the club meeting tomorrow night. Leht completes his first term this November and chairs the Lands committee while serving on Ways and Means and Miscellaneous. Ninth district leaders say no opposition is known.
Seventeen matters on streets and sewers were set for hearing before the Board of Appraisals of Benefits and Damages. Hearings include right of way for sewer on Brookfield Avenue to Bruce's Pond and private property sewer lines between Bishop Avenue and Bruns's Brook, Madison Terrace layouts and building lines, Harvey and Weber street grades and layouts, Kelsey Street discontinuance, Beers Street building lines, Savoy Street and Savoy Place layouts and grades, Merritt Street, Wayne Street, and related street works.
Republican District Chairman Thomas Connor and former alderman Thomas Tierney of the Sixth district are said to be inclined to return to the Common Council. The aldermanic question is expected to be discussed at a meeting to be held in the clubrooms at 1173 North Avenue a week from this Thursday.
Julius Reis, 30, and Ferras were arrested after Reis chased Manuel Mertas, 28, with a butcher knife outside their Lexington Avenue home. Reis faces assault charges in bond set at $30, Ferras charged with breach of peace and held on $30 bond. Police cite unclear motive for the 2 pm incident.
The Sixth District Democratic Association, an anti Cornell faction, planned a meeting on Center Street and North Avenue but postponed indefinitely when United Illuminating Co failed to install the electric meter. Mrs Neary, a prominent member, said members sat in darkness and adjourned.
James Pickett of 56 Te ington Avenue, known as Old Folks, was arrested on a breach of the peace charge after a disturbance at 96 Lexington Avenue. Witnesses saw him flourish a revolver but no weapon was found. he was bonded at 509 dollars. He had been acquitted six months ago of killing a man, claiming self defense.
Edward J. Dessereau died yesterday at Allingtown hospital from tuberculosis after gas exposure in the war. He was a member of the American Legion post in Meriden and survived by a wife, six brothers, two sisters, and his parents. Funeral arrangements are in Meriden with services at St Laurest’s and the F.8 Ferry parlors. The obituaries note several other local deaths with funeral details, cemeteries, and mourners.
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