Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-03
STATE CORREsPONDENCE.

Woodbridge.
 Dec. 2-Monday evening, December z, A M. Kendrick, the state organizer. of West Havep will address the people of this town on the Aims and Principles of the Prohibition Party" The discourse will be given in the lecture room of the Congregational church, commencing at 7:30 o'clock. All are invited to attend this meeting, which is free. An opportunity will be given for debate.
 c. T. Walker, with his family, spent Thanks giving at George 2: Peck's, Westville.
 plished eioeutionist wifi give recital Consisting of humorous, dramatic and pathetic selections, ing, December 8, beginning at 7:3O o'clock. The admission is twenty five cents for adults and if teen cents for children.
 Thanksgiving day dawned with signs of an ap- preaching storm, and the words
 'The day is cold, and dark, and draary;
 It rains, and the wind is never weary"
 Seemed in @ measure appropriate; but if there chilly, there were many thankful hearts, and other hearts were made thankful, too, before neighbor in deeds Of love to the needy.
 Among those made happy on this day were united in wedlock at 10 o'clock Thursday morn ing at the brides home by Rev. s. P. Marvin At Il o'clock at Hymen's altar at the parsonage by Rev. S. P Marvin, Charles J. Peck and Julia E.
 Peck were united in marriage.
 The regular Thanksgiving services were held at the Congregational church and were perhaps better attended than in former years. In the audience was Charles N. Beecher, who said after and and that M he @ attended ch9rch as he he had % been taught when a boy. Mir. Marvin delivered one of Of his thanksgiving dlseourses, which, as usual ai ened to with interest and profit. In his remarks he compared the day as it is kept now with the
 Thanksgiving day is kepta national thanksgiv- ing, and although not in as religious a sense as years ago; but by the broadening of the
 sinceres By the day being recognized not simply in Massachusetts and Connec- tieut, but by the whole union, do we not acknowi. pa a yyith a mn tI1da He then commented on the religious progress of
 the age, the condition of society and the forms of labor, and showed that there was cause for thankfullness in all this That we ought to ap- preciate the peace which had existed all through thing of which we nation could feel proud. What would have been the result if the same event had occurred in some foreign country? The cause of the quiet way in which we had met the question was from our wisdom and respect of law and order of both political parties.' In closing his remarks he brought out the truth that the Christian religion was the basis of our advancement-socialy, politically and morally. pleasure of going to their homes in the first snow storm of the season, and the rest of the day was spent in partakng of the renowned turkey and the other luxuries for which the day is famous. Samuel D. Garfield has gone south for the winter
 The annual meeting of the First Ecclesiastical gationaI church Tuesday afternoon, December l. Silas J. Peck admitted member of the society. The officers elected for the year en- Society's scommittee-Charles T. Walker, FL mer E: Thomas and William H. Warner. Clerk-E w. Beecher.
 Treasurer-A l.. Sperry.
 Bank fund committee-R. c. Newton, chair man; Marcus M. Baldwin and Stephen M Peck. Bank fund treasurer-R. c. Newton. The variou. reports were read and accepted. The committee's report shows that the so- ciety is few dollars in debt, The meeting was adjourned to January 15, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. At the next meeting the officers not
 appointed at this will be elected and the sale of slips will take place on that day.