Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-08
STATE CORRESPONDENTS
Milford,

| Milford.
| PARAkYzED WHILE DRIVING HoME-AFFAIRs
AT THE CHURCHES.
Miss Jennie Nettleton is spending her va
cation at her home.
The Chautauqua circle will meet with Mr.
| E. L. Cornwall on Green street Thursday
evening.
| intends to give course of sermons on Sun
day evenings which will be character sketch
| % from the New Testament.
| Mrs Joel Hine was found in an insensib1e
condition in her wagon on New Haven ave-
nue. last Thursday evening. She was alone
| driving home after visit with some friends.
| She was discovered in this condition by some
| one who was passing, the horse. having
| stopped. Assistance was cal led and she was
| taken home in a hack. DR.. Heady was
called and pronounced it stroke of paraly-
| sis.
Mrs Truman Smith is lying very i'll with
l an attack Of spinal meningitis
At the semi annual shoot of the Wahginni-
/ cut hunting club last Friday, George E.
Platt won the gold badge, having made a
score of "A out of %.
| Henry S. Highly and family, of New Ha-
/ ven, spent portion of last week at his form
/ er home in this place.
| Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Simonds have
1 moved from Fairfield to Mrs. Simmons form
or home here.
AT the First church last Sunday the floral
| decorations were suggestive in their freshness
and beauty of the day and event which was
commemorated, "The resurrection of Christ. :"
Rev. N M. Calhoun preached an excellent
sermon from the text found in John II ,-26,
81. The praise and responsive service of the
evening was very interesting and largely at
tended.
An entertainment is to be given by local
talent for the benefit of st. Peters church on
the 23d of April. Talent from adjoining
places has been secured to make this a sue
cess and no doubt the programme will be
well carried out.
Professor Sherlock was in town on Mon
day.
The services in ST. Peters church last Sun
day were appropriate and in harmony with
the day. At the: early service a large
number gathered to pay their morning devo-
tons and join in the service of prayer and
song. The preaching service at 1890 and
the Sunday school service in the afternoon,
as we'll as the praise service in the evening,
were characterized by spirit of rejoicing in
a Saviour risen" The floral decorations
were tasteful, though not as profuse in
some former years. April z.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE LONG BEEN UNITED IN
MATRIMoNY.
One day last week Almon E. Chandler
fell from his wood wagon seat and severely
injured his spine. 1t is feared his limbs viii
be paralyzed.
Bertie S. Clark has sore eyes and has been
kept in dark room three weeks
Rev. Mr.. Dudley, of Wallingford, preached
at the Advent chapel on Sunday. The room
was trimmed with flowers and evergreens.
Fast day services were held in the Congre-
gational church lecture rooms
Rev. Mr.. Phipps conducted an Easter con-
cert Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Laura Hotchkiss are visiting
in town.
Mr.. F. A. Sanford, who has spent the
winter in Westfeld, Mass, where his whip
business is located, is in town making pre-
parations to return home the latter part of
the present month.
There are nineteen couples in town who
have lived together more than twenty-five
years. Of them four couples have been mar
ried more than fifty years, viz. Mr.. and Mrs.
Elzar Kimball, Mr.. and Mrs. David Will
liams, Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Talmage and
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Morse. The latter have
always lived on the same ground where they
began housekeeping.
Mr.. Stephen has bought the old store,
said to be the oldest house in town, being
about one hundred and seventy five years old.
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