Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-27
State News.

The following named gentlemen have been | added to Middletown's centennial invitation | and reception committee: Ex-Mayors Ben l iamin and Joseph W Douglas, Samuel l.. | Warner William T. Elmer, Bartlett Bent, ! Charles c. Hubbard and Edward Payne The ! sum of $7 50 has been raised, and the con- \ mittee decided on Tuesday evening to ask the ! public for $250 mere. Another meeting of ! the committee will be held next Monday | evening.
 Tho second payment has been made for | each horse entered for the $10, 900 2:20 race at Charter Oak Park iu August, which is an indication that there will be 8 large field of ! starters as there have been no withdrawals. [ With the third payment of $250, on the 12th ! of August, the horses will be named for the ! several entries.
 Matthew Reardon, a niue-year- Willi- l mantle boy, fell of high wall at the edge
 of pond and disappeared under the water. There were several people close by. but none of them could swim. Finally help arrived from a distance and when some one dived in he found the boy standing up on the bottom of the pond, but unconscious. He was got out and after long course of treatment was restored.
 Mr and Mrs. Lucien H Chidsey, of Avon, celebrated their silver wedding last week. Mrs Chidsey is daughter of Mir. Elsm Case, of Simsbufy.
 Mr. James A. Munigle of Sinlsbury, left Monday evening for Burlingame, Kansas with the intention of making that State his home.
 The Rev. D. Stuart Dodge and his mother, Mrs. William E.. Dodge, are at their summer home in Wheatague, Simsbury.
 Matte ReardOn, of Willimantic, while fishing near the residence of Curtis Jilson, fell into the river, but was rescued in aa un conscious condition, and fully restored to life.
 One of the events of the week in Willi- mantle was the marriage of Miss Helen Mol ton, of that place, to Frank Le Pard, of Hartford. The ceremony was solemnized by the Rev. s lt Free, at the residence of the brides father The newly married couple left on the evening train for the West.
 The women soldiers of the Salvation Army in some towns have "dead to the world" wo- ven in the fronts of their jerseys.
 Police Commissioner Plimpton, of Hart ford, has been ornamenting his grounds in very elaborate vay with trees and plants. He hired Edward Bali to help at the work, and when it was done discharged him. The next night Balf got drunk, went back to the place and pulled to pieces everything he could get hold of, destroy ing over $200 worth of shrub bery. A lot of cherred shaVings were also found in @ drawer in the house, and Bslf is accused of trying to burn the place.
 DR. AND MRS THoMsoN's GOLDEN WEDDING.
 The Hartford Courapt says: Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Thomson celebrated their fftieth wedding anniversary Wednesday, at the resi- dence of their son-in-law, Major J. O. Kin ney, on Winthrop street. They were visited by relatives and friends from New Haven, New York and elsewhere, and received many pleasant souvenirs of the day, floral and gold en. Dr. Thomson is one of the oldest living graduates of the Yale Medical college, and the only survivor of the class of 1922. Mrs. Thonl- son is daughter of the late Colonel Belcher, of New Lendon, and sister of the Hon. Nathan Belcher, ex-member of Congress from the Third district. The doctor was in active practice in New Haven until over eighty years of age, when failing eyesight compelled him to retire.
 Cherry park, at Collinsville, will be the scene of an old-fsehioned Fourth of July eel ebration, including balloon ascension by Professor s. M. Brooks, 8 free-for-all horse race for purse of $50, slow race, with $5 to the horse making the slowest time without 1 stop, base ball game and bicycle race. VETERAN MAsoNs' THIRD ANNUAL. Among the oldest Masons at the annual of the Veteran Masons in Norwich on Wednes~ day were: Hiram Middlebrook of Oolumbis, Ga, aged s4; George A Sydleman of Mystic, 90; George Kenney of Norwich, 91; l. P Lee of New Britain S4; Nathaniel c Smith of East Hampton, g; Richard M South worth of New Britain, 82; Appleton Dor rance Of AndoVer, Sl.
 After an address of welcome by Rev c W Beylston, of Greeneville, a response by Pres- ident W w Lee of Meriden, and the reading of the usual reports, it was voted to hold 8 special session at ColIinsville, for the pur- pose of admitting the Rev Brother Wait Gar rett, who is 95 years of age, to the associa- ton Officers were elected as follows: For president, William Wallace Lee of Meriden; first vice president. Lorenzo Lee of New Britain; second vice president, Sturges M Judd of Waterbury; third vice presi- dent, Lorenzo D Armstrong of Norwich; fourth vice president, Jonathan Kilbourne of Middletown; fifth vice president Amos Beecher. of Winsted sixth vice president, George B. Glendenning, of Stamford; sev- enth vice president, John G. KeigWin, of