Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-21
STATE CORRKsPONDENCE.

I
 Milford.
 THE REGENT F1RE-FoUNpERs' DAy-A MEMO
 RIAL ARCH BRIDGE TO BE ERECTED NEAR
 FowLER's MILLs-CoNTRACTED WITH MR. BEATTY.
 March 2O.-Rev. Stuart Means of New Ha- | ven will preach in St. Petsr's church to- ! morrow evening.
 Waiter B. Mallett has been spending his l Mallett, the past week.
 There has been an unusual demand for ! tenement houses this spring.
 Jonathan Peck has been quite i'll the past ! week from an attack of paralysis and is in Q ! critical condition.
 Miss Sarah Buckingham, who has been ! suffering from a fracture of the hip for seve-
 ral weeks, is in fair way to recover and be | about again.
 Charles Monson has rented the Hammond | Beach place on North street and will move | from Lafayette into it at an early date.
 The special services at the Methodist church will be continued this week with l Rev. MT. Neil in charge. There has been much interest and good resulting from the | effort.
 Mr and Mrs. James Smith on Green street ! celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of their marriage on Tuesday evening. Friends l from Hartford and other places were present
 and united in wishing MT. and Mrs. Smith
 many years of joy and usefulness. The fire bell alarmed the quiet of our vil- lage again Saturday night. The fire proved
 to be Theodore BristoIs paint shop near the | livery stables. The fire was discovered by ! Ralph Peck, who was on his way home from l Elliott J. Burns, where there had been a family gathering. Arctic Engine company rendered valuable assistance in preserving | Fred Crouch's saloon, which would other wise have been destroyed. MT. Bristoi's ! loss was estimated at about seven hundred | dollars.
 Deacon James B. Benjamin and Miss An- Y na Nettleton were married at the residence | of Mir. Samuel A. Nettleton on Monday night | by their pastor, Rev. Frank L. Ferguson. | Frank c. Brown, of New Haven, was in | town with friend one day last week renew \ ing old acquaintances.
 The ladies of the First church will give a I supper and entertainment in the church par lors on Thursday evening of next week, to which small admission fee will be asked. l The Young Ladies' Reading club held @ \ very pleasant social at the home of Miss Bertha Clark on Governors avenue on Mon- day evening.
 | ing on Monday night voted to frescoe the church; also to allow memorial tablets to be placed in the church. They also voted on a site for the new parsonage. There was & special town meeting Friday ' last. The founders day committee reported that they had made contract with MT. Beatty of Guilford fer the erection of ! memorial arch bridge near Fowler's mills, | which was accepted. The sesectmen report ed that they had made settlement with the executors of the late tax collector, Lewis B. Beers, for eighteen hundred dollars and they did not charge anything for the collecting, and gave up the books. A committee con sisting of Henry 0. Miles, Dennis Fenn, Rep- resentative W. 0. Durand, Sanford Hawkins and Nathan E. Smith in their investigation had found deficiency of between five and six thousand dollars, not figuring in the in- terest on taxes, that had not been collected promptly. MT. John G. North had claimed that the town ought not to lose the large sum due from that source, as the collector had no right to abate taxes and the ! town for the past few years had received on- ly small amount from interest on the