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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1925
Page
12
Mayor Behrens won unanimous endorsement from the Fifth District Republican club. President Barrows announced neutrality for the primaries, vowing to avoid factional bias and to welcome open discussion, while warning against backroom whispers and “gum shoe” tactics.
Move to endorse Alderman August eh for a second term in the Board of Aldermen gains traction in the Ninth district. A formal action may come at tomorrow night’s club meeting as Leht finishes his first term this November. he chairs the Lands committee and sits on Ways and Means and Miscellaneous. Ninth district leaders report no opposition to his candidacy.
Seventeen matters related to street and sewer layouts have been scheduled for hearing before the Board of Appraisals of Benefits and Damages. The issues include right of way for a sewer, building lines on Madison terrace, street grades and layouts for Harvey, Weber, Beers, Savoy, Merritt, Hanford, Wayne, and Savoy places, and the discontinuance of Kelsey street. The hearing is set for Tuesday, September, at an unspecified time.
Republican District Chairman Thomas Connor and former Sixth district alderman Thomas Tierney aim to rejoin the Common Council. A meeting to discuss the aldermanic question is planned at the clubrooms 1173 North Avenue a week from Thursday.
Julius Reis and Ferras were arrested after a manhunt on Lexington Avenue. Reis, 30, chased Manuel Mertas, 28, with a butcher knife near their home at 112 Lexington Avenue. Both face charges, Reis for assault and Ferras for breach of the peace, each held on $30 bond.
The Sixth District Democratic Association, an anti Cornell faction, planned a meeting in their new club rooms on Center Street and North Avenue but postponed indefinitely after the United Illuminating Company failed to install the electric meter. Mrs Thomas Neary said members sat in darkness before adjournment.
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 none was found. he was held on $509 bond and later acquitted six months ago of killing a man in self defense.
Edward J. Dessereau an Allingtown hospital tuberculosis victim who endured war gas exposure. Survived by wife, parents, six brothers, two sisters. funeral in Meriden from F. 8. Ferry parlors and St Laurest church. Multiple other obituaries list services, burial sites, and survivors for Dorahus LaBar Farrar Nichols Swinnerton Gesner O Donnell Danlin Smith and relatives across Meriden and surrounding towns.
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