Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-01
State Uorresponoence.
North Haven

Last Friday was red letter day at the ClintonvilIe district school. where quite number of the friends of the pupils gathered with them to enjoy the exercises incident to the Christmas tree. There were recitatlons and readings, dialogues and music by the members of the school. All did well, and re- fiected credit on their teacher as well as them. selves. Brief addresses were made by MT. Vibbert and Mir. Shelley of Clintonville and Miss Jennie Hall of Wallingford, former teacher of the school. Then came the pick ing of the fruit from the tree. The boys were given games. boxes of note paper, etc. Upon the girls side were nice work boxes, books and many useful articles. For the smaller ones there were dolls; one little g1rl received her first bought doll, and was so pleased and happy it was good to see her: There were an orange and fancy bag Of candy for each scholar. The teacher was not forgotten, but from the school received handsome silver plated pickle castor, besides several pretty presents, both useful and or
 namental. from different pupils. Everything passed of well, and all seemed satisfied.
 There was a large gathering at Stiles Hall on Friday evening to attend the Christmas | festival of St. John's church. The exercises were short, consisting of prayer and the sing l ing of carols by the Sunday school, Mr. A. | B. Clinton, organist of the Congregational church, accompanying on the piano. Quite an amount had been donated so that each
 class received handsome presents from the ! tree which in itself was pretty to look at, It | being lighted with colored WAX tapers and 1 festooned with pop corn. Every scholar re- ceived lace stocking filled with confection- cry. All agree in pronoune1ng It a gooo time.
 Mrs Samuel Richardson drove to the ] school house on Friday morning and left her l children, and as she was turning around to go home the sleigh turned over, spilling he1
 out; the horse ran quite 8 distance, scatter, = ! ;,,n cho ouula ruhi | ously, but was stopped before reaching home 1 No serious damage was done. Miss Jennie
 Hall of Wallingford has been spending some
 days in town with Mrs. F. B. Orcutt.
 Mrs s. F. Linsley is in New Britain spend
 ing the holidays with her mother and sister l At the Congregational church yesterday NIT. Reynolds preached 8 sermon Rppropri } ate to the season, giving an account of th' observance of Christmas by the diferen nations in former times and showing nov
 there had been an improvement in the re
 lieious observance of the festival. He re
 marked that many in the congregation would remember when Christmas was not noticed at all in the family, but now it was almos
 universally celebrated by all denomination in this and other countries. The music b, the choir was selected to correspond wltl , the discourse The hymns, s'When Chris
 was Born in Bethlehem" and 'Behold Bring Good Tidings," were rendered. The Sunday school of Mrs. Luthera Day 8 ton held reunion at her residence on Frida. afternoon.
 Sixty-fve years ago to-day Mrs. Chlo Thorpe was married and went to eth 3 bridge' to live. At this time there are onl t five persons living in the neighborhood wh were there at that time; those are Mrs. War Peck, Mrs. Juliana Crockett, Miss Harr1e Pierpoint, Mrs. Jude Smith and Mrs r. Stephen Gilbert. They are all invited to talk
 tea with Mrs. Thorpe this afternoon.
 The many friends of MT. H. P. Shares ar
 happy to learn that he has been chosen su q perintendant of the Humphrey street Sunds
 school and wish him success in his labors , l Tbe church Is also to be congratulated ol gaining so efficient an officer. Dec. 31.