Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-30
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Their Meeting at hoOmis' Hall Last Night Warned to Beware of the Mer- lden Meeting.

Their Meeting at hoOmis' Hall Last
 Night Warned to Beware of the Mer-
 lden Meeting.
 The Butler club held meeting last even ing at Loomis Temple of Music hall. Mr. Hay | es presided. Rules for adoption by the club l were read and were as follows: First, honesty l in the offices and members is required. Sec l ond, the president shall preside at the meet ings of the club when present and in his ab- l sence the vice president. Third, the seere- tary shall keep record of the meetidgs and doings of the club and read the same at the | next meeting, and attend to the correspon- dence, also receive all money paid the club, keep just and true account of the same, pay it over to the treasurer and take his receipt therefore. Fourth, the treasurer shall re- ceive the money from the hands of the secre- tary, keep just and true account of the same, pay it out with the written approval or order of the finance committee.
 The finance committee shall examine the accounts of the secretary and treasurer when requested to do so by a vote of the club; also examine all bills presented to the club and if correct, approve and order the treasurer to pay them The executive committee shall provide the place for holding public meetings during the campaign and all other business that properly belongs to such committee.
 The punishment for violation of one or more of the foregoing rules by any officer or member of the club shall be the loss of the respect of honest men.
 After these rules were read the following names were read and elected: President, I. W. Butler; vice-president, George Mansfield; secretary, William G. Butler; treasurer, c. B. uor-o o4 Da%ar Finance committee-Willian G. Butler, A. J. Morton, Joseph Purcell. Executive com mittee-B. F. Crockett, Abel Wheelock, Thomas Layden, Anthony Carroll M. McCul- tough.
 About fifty people were present at the meeting and dozen new names were added to the roll. 4
 MT. Hayes read pamphlet and said that he believed that the meeting next Monday in Meriden is a movement calculated to deceive the New Haven Greenbackers and leave them out in the cold.
 After considerable discussion the meeting adjourned.
 Personal.
 Miss Mollie O'Brien, daughter of P. B. O'Brien, is seriously ill with pneumonia.
 The families of the late Frederick R. Hard, of -Ansonia, and Christian Frey, of New York, have been voted 5000 each by the Odd Fellows Mutual Aid association which, since it's organization seventeen years ago, has paid $420, 239 on account of 272 deaths The present membership of the as- sociation is 4,075 Twelve members have been added.
 Mr. H. Machol, the Chapel street mer- chant tailor, has out fine delivery wagon, built specially for his wants and handsomely finished. It is used in the delivery of gar ments to customers and to facilitate the handling of goods between the store and the corps of tailors in his employ. His inereas- ing business required the increase of facili- ties, and his trade this year has far exceeded former years.
 Mrs. David Shelton, of Huntington, died on Thursday night. She was an old and es- teemed resident.
 Rev. Hugh E. Dinnen of Ansonia, son of Hugh Dinnen of BIO Congress avenue, 8 graduate of the last class of the Catholic The o1ogical seminary of St. Bonaventure's of AL | leghany, N. Y, lies dangerously i'll at his parents home. He is not expected to live. MT. Charles Beardsley, fourth auditor of the United States Treasury department, has ] been spending few days in Stratford and 1 New Haven. His father and mother were ' natives of Connecticut, the former of Strat- l ford and the latter of New Haven, and were ! married at the latter place over sixty years ago. At Stratford MT. Beardsley found two venerable citizens who remembered his father, John Beardsley, one of them having ! been near neighbor and schoolmate of his more than eighty years ago. Both these Stratford people are ninety years of age, and each lives in the house in which he was born. Nr. John Beardsley still resides on his farm in Knox county, Ohio, where he settled in 1929. He is 91 years of age. The two stratford men are Elias Wells, a de- scendant of Governor Wells, and Henry Curtis, also descendant of one of the first settlers. The Beardsleys were likewise on the ground at an early day, William, as some say, having named the town after Stratford-on-Avon, whence he came in 1885, Bridgeport Standard.
 Captain E. G. Woodhouse, station agent for the Valley road at Wsthersfeld, has re- signed that position. He has held it for thirteen years, and during the time has had only one weeks vacation.
 General Warwick, who gave such general satisfaction at the Republican rally in An sonia on Wednesday evening, when a boy lived in New Haven, his parents moving from here to Bridgeport in 1888. Since then he has lived in different parts of the United States, residing in California for a number of years. He expressed the hope that some time this fall he might have the pleasure of speaking in the city where he passed his boyhood days.
 Charles Reynolds, jr., managing editor of the Baltimore Herald, was visiting friends in this city yesterday.
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