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The general committee of the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church announced that it had decided to rebuild the church at its present location. The announcement followed Sunday service and two meetings.
The general committee of Asylum Avenue Baptist Church met this evening and accepted a settlement offer from the insurance companies in payment for damage caused by the fire to the church.
The New York & Hartford House Wrecking Company pulled down the tower of the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church.
The Asylum Avenue Baptist Committee held a meeting at the home of Frank B. Haggard to discuss the church’s present circumstances and its future.
W. D. Mackenzie, during the Sunday service at Asylum Hill Congregational Church, announced that the Prudential Committee and Societies Committee had invited the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church to use Asylum Hill Congregational Church’s auditorium, chapel, parish house, and equipment for services while Asylum Avenue Baptist Church was “unfit for occupancy.”
A two-alarm fire this morning destroyed the Asylum Avenue Baptist Church.
Aetna Life Insurance Company officially opened its new office building on Farmington Avenue this afternoon from 2:00p through 6:00p.
The Hartford Courant reported that reproductions of a woodcut of the new home office of the Aetna Life Insurance Company on Farmington Avenue were being mailed to 2,500 employees of the company.
The funeral of Willis Howard Butler was held at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church this afternoon.
Willis Howard Butler died at the parsonage, 854 Asylum Avenue, at the age of 57.