Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-03
LAST OF TIE CAMPAIGN l. Grand Republican Rally ]! MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 5.
 ADDRESSES BY HON. J. |. BARBOUR OF HARTFORD
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Mrs. Foster to Speak-Funeral of the
 Late 1T. Dwight Clarke-EntertaIn- mens TO.NIght-Bufld1ng operations -Personal Noteg-GeneraI Items of Interest.
 It is announced that Mrs. J. Ellen Foster will speak at the Quinnipiac rink Monday evening next. Mrs. Foster is President of the Women's Christian Temperance union of the State of Iowa, and has attained great celebrity for her particularly efficient work in her great field as temperance reformer. Mrs. Foster has made number of excellent speeches this year, and her glowing tributes to the Republican party have been telegraph ed from one end of the country to another. Mrs. Foster is finished speaker and every body will want to hear her. Her non-parti- san attitude has been attacked by Mrs. Will lard and the latter's third party adherents in the W. 0. T. U. to an extent as to seriously endanger the permanency of that great orga- nization.
 The local Baptists are jubilant They have adopted plan for paying off the church debt that has worked admirably. It consist ed in issuing stock certificates at $20 per share to be paid in semi-annual payments of $5 each. Already $2, 040 has been subscrib ed, and the whole church debt will thus be wiped out by July 1, 1890.
 Rev. P. s, Evans, pastor of the Baptist church has decided not to leave his pastorate and has accordingly declined to accept the office of superintendent of the Connecticut Baptist State Missionary association.
 Mrs. William s. Greene and Mrs. s. B. Ives have been in New London this week at- tending the annual State convention of the W.C.T.U.
 F. D. Luddington is to erect frame store on Blatchley avenue.
 W. Fl. H. Hewitt, the real estate man, will soon erect three two-story frame dwellings of two tsnements each at cost of $7, ,0OO. Rev. E. Edwin Hale preached a sermon in North Branford last Sunday. The funeral services over the remains of the late J. Dwight Clark took place yester- day afternoon from the residence of his sis- ter, Mrs Henry R. Barnes, Rev. Burdett Hart, D.D., officiating. The burial will be at the convenience of the family and the interment will be in the family burial plot in the East Haven cemetery As previously an- nounced MT. Clsrke's death occurred in San Francisco October 16. MT. Clarke was a na- tive of Massachusetts and was the son of Rev. Saul Clarke, who was chosen pastor of the Congregational church in East Haven in 1908. He was also 8 grandson of Elijah Bradley, who with his brothers Asa and Abi- iah were made prisoners in the revolutionary war and all except the first perished in the winter of 1779 on board the New York prison ship. Besides Mrs. Barnes the deceased had another sister here, Mrs. C.S. Ives. Miss Myrtle Hall of Northampton, Mass. i, who has been visiting at c. O. Frances on East Pearl street, has gone to North Branford to visit friends.
 Conductor Bacon of the Consolidated road has broken ground for 8 new house on Pine street.
 The temperance meeting at the Quinnipiac rink will be addressed by the Rev. Phebe Hanaford tomorrow afternoon.
 MT. Jesse Doolittle and family have moved from Ferry street to Orchard street.
 The new electric lights at Ferry and Clay streets and Lloyd street and Blatehley avenue are vast improvement to those localities.
 There is good deal of interest in the five mile running race that will take place at the rink next Friday evening. A purse of $40 is to be divided into four prizes ranging from $20 to $3.
 The prize medal contest which is to take place at the rink this evening will no doubt attract large crowd. The admission will be free, but collection to defray expenses will be taken up.
 Mrs. Ella R. Dudley, for the past three years the efficient president of the Y. w. o. T. U., has recesigned that office and has been succeeded by Miss Lily Gladwin.
 Next Monday Mrs. Moore, wife of Post master Moore, will start for Washington to visit her parents. She will be accompanied by her daughter-in- law, Mrs. Frank Moore, who goes for the benefit of her health.