Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-28
Milford.

| PICNIC TO-DAY AT MERWIN'S PoINT-GERMAr PICNIC AT MEADOWS END-NILFoRD SAW IkGs sBANK-wEDDING REcEPTIoN-THE LATI | MRS. ROGER N. SMITH.
 | MILFORD, July 27.-The Methodist Sunday
 school intend to picnic at Merwin's Point or l Wednesday, July 29, starting from the | church at o'clock. If the day is stormy they will go the next pleasant day.
 There was no preaching service in the First church last Sunday. The pastor, Rev ! N. M. Calhoun, left on Wednesday morning | for his summer vacation.
 | Rev. N. G. Axtell of Plymouth church preached in Stratford Sunday morning in ex- change with Rev. J. s. Ives.
 ! Miss Hattie Gum intends to spend DOT tion of her vacation enjoying the scenery | and breezes at the White Mountains. 1 Dr. c. F. Boutwell, expects to be at the ho- tel next week and prepare to de work for 1 those who desire his services as dentist. The First church Sunday school have de- l cided to go to High Rock to hold their an- ! nual picnic, the date being August 25th. I The Tingue band of Seymour held pie ! nic at Burns Point last Friday. During | the evening a serenade concert was given MT. Copeland.
 George Van Horn post, G. A. R., of this place had no representative in the Califor- I mia excursion party that started last week. The German societies from the surround
  End Sunday that was largely attended, judging by the large number of carryalls and teams that passed through the center during the morning and evening. Wheeler & Wilson's band of Bridgeport furnished the music. The annual meeting of the cerporators of
 the Milford Savings bank was held last Tuesday evening in the town clerks office. The officers elected for the ensuing year were as follows: President, Isaac T. Rogers; vice president, Owen T. Clark; secretary, John w. Fowler; treasurer, Phineas s. Bristol. Directors-Wn. G. Mitchell, James T. Hig- by, P. s. Bristol, John W. Fowler, H. B.
 Beardsley, Theodore Platt, Owen T. Clark, T. c. Botsford, c. F. Bosworth, George M Gum, James T. Burns, James Mccarthy, Charles Lucke, Joseph w. Fowler, Charles J. Morris, David L. Clarke, George H. Fur man, Everett B. Clark, Wm. Brooks, N Truman Smith.
 The wedding reception given by Mir. and Mrs. Alfred Hubbard at her parents resi- dence last Tuesday evening was participated in by the immediate relatives and few inti- mate friends. MT. and Mrs. Hubbard were married in Norwalk July 5, gave their recep- tion here the 20th, and after the reception left on the 10:30 p. m. train for @ short we'd ding tour On their return they intend go- ing to Shelton to live, where their new home already prepared awaits them.
 Almon E. Clark's hired man, who has done his marketing and collected his bills, left his employers horse to find the way home alone one day last week and started himself in another direction with the money he had collected and has not since been heard from.
 Rev. James W. Hubbell of Danbury, Conn.,, is expected to occupy the pulpit of the First church next Sunday.
 The solemn warning which reminds us of the uncertainty of life has come to us again in the death of Mrs. Roger N. Smith, one whose life, though brief, was full. After an illness of about three months the messenger of death called her te her reward Sunday evening, leaving husband and two little girls to mourn her loss. Mrs. Smith was a devoted Christian woman, faithful in all the