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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1923
Page
6
Preparations are complete for the opening of the Evening High School on Monday September 24. Pupils register in Lyot terrace building from 7 to 9 o clock. Officials expect record enrollment as classes start Tuesday evening. More courses than last year will be offered including journalism, salesmanship, public speaking, advertising, economics and physical training added to the curriculum.
Prospective students may enroll in numerous courses including shorthand bookkeeping arithmetic 2 manship English history sewing dressmaking typing chemistry physics machine shop mathematics algebra trigonometry and cooking. Certificates awarded at year end may count toward a high school diploma.
Windham County jailer Charles Parker submitted his resignation to Sheriff Charles Gates this morning, effective when a successor is named. He declined to state reasons, but observers linked the move to a spike in visitors to Willimantic and Putnam inmates jailed for liquor violations, with admission denied today. Parker, a two year prior keeper and seven and a half years on the job, succeeded Albert Field. Gates questioned whether the resignation would be accepted.
Greenwich Sep 20 Special to the Telegram Mrs Emerson R Newell declined nomination as Selectman on the Democratic ticket. Town Committee named Mrs Frederick C Bursch to fill the vacancy. Bursch is the third candidate on the ticket for that office. Newell, away several months, was not present when her name was presented. a nomination letter was followed by a letter of declination.
Fairfield September 20 Special to the Telegram For the second time this week Judge Jonathan Grout fined an automobile violator on a reckless driving charge Albert Witter of New Haven was arrested by Constable Arthur J Bennett and paid the fine after passing a truck and striking a Bridgeport car driven by Alexander Osuch sending it against a trolley car and fleeing The trolley operator furnished Witters license number Bennett caught him after a chase A separate theft case involved Joseph Frank who said he found clothes on a truck and was sent back to Cheshire by parole authorities Other drivers faced charges of lack of registration improper headlights and reckless driving with fines suspended sentences and bonds assessed for various infractions and routine village court dispositions
In Chicago on September 20 Judge Harry W. Lewis said enough evidence exists to implicate half the Police Department and half the sheriff's office in a beer running scandal linked to the slayings of alleged beer runners. He ordered William O'Donnell and William Califarala held as habeas corpus hearings resumed Monday. O'Donnell warned Califarala to stay silent. Bailiffs guarded the courtroom as Joseph Laynon surrendered, denying knowledge of the affair.
Arthur Platt, supervisor of the Fire alarm and Police telegraph signals, will attend the annual convention of the International Association of Municipal Electricians in Reading, Pennsylvania. He will give an address on Fire and Police Signal Lights as used in Bridgeport. Delegates from Europe, Canada, and the United States attend the event, which runs Tuesday to Friday.
Touls J. Greenholde, long time vocational education instructor, appointed by the State Board of Education to lead the automobile department at the local Trade school. He arrives from a New York vocational school and will begin duties immediately.
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