Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-21
STATE ooRREspoNDENoE.
MHf0rd.

Milford.
 Feb. 20.-The G. A. R. post will give bean bake next Tuesday evening.
 s. R. Ford has been engaged es organist of the Center church of New Haven for another year.
 Theodore Platt has opened his new grocery store in the Masonic building, and has hne display of goods.
 Plans are being made for opening young mems reading room in the near future The pastors of the different churches are interest," ing themselves in this good work, and 1t IS hoped that hearty encouragement from the citizens of the place will be given It and the work be successfully carried on.
 The Parish Aid society of St. Peter's church will give a 15 cent sociable tn Masonic hall next Wednesday evening, February 27. Miss Jean Morton of Nebraska has been the guest of Rev. and Mrs. F. L. Ferguson the past week.
 The Milford band will give concert and social at the Town hall on Wednesday even- ing, Feb. 27th. The purpose for which they give this entertainment is to secure funds to purchase new instruments which they great ly need.
 The special services this week will be held | in Plymouth church every evening excepting Friday and Saturday evenings. On Friday | evening the meeting will be held in the First | church chapel An afternoon service was held on Wednesday afternoon at the First N | continued this week at the Methodist church. The burial of Mrs. Luther Northrop, the l oldest lady of Woodmont, who lived to be | 91 years of age, was held last week. Rev. MT. ! Willard of Westville, her former pastor, con- | ducted the services. 1nterment was made in Evergreen cemetery, New Haven. Our enterprising farmers have been filling \ their ice houses the past week. Among \ those who have secured good quantity for | their own use are A. c. Platt and J. W. Net ! tleton of Wheeler's farms, Albertus \. Clark, George F. Platt and Dennis Fenn. Each succeeding year brings to the credit ! of the Arctic Engine company into greater | success in the manner and style of conduct | ing their annual ball. This year it was held under the most favorable circumstances. The weather and travelling was fine, and the at | tendance was large. The arrangements were so carefully made that no unpleasant feature | marred the enjoyment of the happy throng r that filled the hall. There were present from | the neighboring towns members of R. M. ! Bassett, Hotchkiss hose and Storm Hose | company of Birmingham, the Echo of Shell ! ton, Hope Hose company No. of Norwalk, \ Mutual Hook and Ladder company of West Stratford, Eaton Cole and Burnam company | of Bridgeport, and members of the Veteran ! Firemen's association of New Haven as well \ as other individuals from other places. Dur- \ ing the intermission collation. was served, \ the tables having been arranged by Mrs. 0. O. Isbell, who displayed excellent taste and ' received we'll deserved compliments for her work. The music for the occasion was fur nished by Lininger's full orchestra with Cary \ for pronpter. MT. Edward Richel and daughter, Miss Minnie Richel, led the grand \ march, which opened the programme of dancing for the evening.
 The lecture by Eli Perkins in the Town hall last Saturday evening was most excel
 lent one for the truths which he presented and also for the rich entertainment it af-
 forded those who were present. This course of entertainments has been without excep-
 tion of the highest order and the credit of
 them belongs to the pastor of the church
 who has arranged it.
 A special town meeting was held in the
 Town hall last Friday. The founders of the \ town, who came here nearly two hundred
 and fifty years ago, are to have memorial, ! as it was voted to erect memorial arch
 bridge over the Wofouage river, near
 of Henry O. Miles, Dennis Fenn,
 William Cecil Durand, Sanford Hawkins and
 Nathan E. Smith have been over the tax
 books of the late collector, the late Lewis B. ! tween five and six thousand dollars. The
 town of Milford has been very badly manag-
 ed for quite term of years, and they this \ year have even borrowed money to pay
 the interest on the bonds of the
 town. MT. John G. North did very ! valuable service for the town in the clear and
 fearless way he handled the subject. What
 is needed are men who will faithfully and fearlessly do their duty, and when the day comes that public offices will manage it's af-
 fairs on sound business principles turn will
 be made in the towns affairs in the right di- | rection, and not until then.
 Gu1lford.
 February 20.-The Guilford Ice company
 finished filling their ice house last Saturday | forenoon, so that the threatened ice famine | is averted.
 For some unexplained reason VIC have had ! or seen very few winter birds this winter; even the sparrows have been few in number. ! Last winter (1SS7-S robins and blue birds \ were often seen and heard, and such has
 been the fact with reference to several pre- | vious winters during the last decade, but we ! have not heard or seen one during the last | two months of unusually mild weather.
 A meeting of those in this vicinity inter- ested in establishing @ creamery was held last Saturday evening, but the organization was not completed.
 Mir. George Rolf, of the firm of Rolf & l Redfeld, has gone to Iowa on his annual trip I to purchase horses and will undoubtedly re- | turn in about three weeks with @ car load of | them.
 Samuel Hunt undertook to pass last Sab beth on drunk and in wife beating and re- sisting an officer for which Captain Charles ' dIlsWOlQ gave HUI tSIn III 1dl1 AQCl 6 me | that will keep him sober for some time to ! come, fate that some others ought to meet. The Y's give an entertainments in Music hall next Friday evening for the benefit of the library. Miss Carey of Branford is en- | gagged as pianist for that occasion. | Golden Eagle Knights. \ Crusaders Castle No. 3, Knights of the ! Golden Eagle, will hold musical and literary entertainment at the lodge rooms in the old
 Union armory tomorrow evening, to which ! all are welcome. The committee in charge
 of the affair is L. F. Trowbridge. chairman; John W. Hum, H. NJ. Johnson, D. 0. | Winans, George A. Conner and V. M. | Beecher.