Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-07-29
CONNECTICUT NEWS.

Foresters Celebrate-Fifty.nin Years
an OmeiaI of the United States Sem
ate Chamber-A New Law to be
Asked for Quassapaug Lake-A
Coming Clam Bake - Personal
Notes.
Ansonia Foresters have completed the list Of
attractions far their field day and have arranged
them SO that they will be very interesting. The
great event, and drawing card will be the bal
loon ascension by Daring Donald, who will en-
deavor to reach point higher than ever before,
5000 feet being the height he desires to drop
from.
Then there will be the ball game, handsome
banner being the prize, but theclub to hold must
win three out of five games There will be many
other athletic contests.
The case of Mary A. Cook Of Norwalk against
the Consolidated to recover damages for injuries
she received by being thrown from train in
Bridgeport about year ago, has been settled by
the company paying the plaintiff S4,5oo.
Frank Brockway OF Had.yme, %a9 Vas +hs
dana at the Connecticut river, was forty-five
RS o has aRd w mad Seg yesterday Hail.
CAPTAIN Isaac Basset and daughter of Wash
ington are spending the summer WITH Mr; ana
ton harbor The venerable captain is one of the
doorkeepers Of the United States senate, and has
s body At the age Of twelve years he page
obtaining that position at the instance of Daniel
Since that te ne od das In
member of which he knows well.
Mr.. John Dunn, assistant engineer OF the
steamer Connecticut is seriously sick at his resi-
MIS-. Hannah Goodwin of Norwich, widow of
the late Richard Goodwin, died Sunday evening,
aged seventy. She was excellent Christian
Dr. G. A. Lindsey, secretary of the state
legislature present petition relating to the case
with which persons with but little medical edu-
Lindsey SAYS that this temptation has been
made stronger by the facilities available in vari-
GUS ways by which persons with but very slen-
ma falsely certifying to their scientific require
ments and skill, and with the diploma the title
of NJ D. Only eight states of which G3nne ft
practice Of medicine He believes that Connec-
ticut should have proper restriction law on this
The estate left by the late William F, Swords
of Bridgeport is estimated at half million dol
and two daughters-Mrs. John W. Bowen and
Mrs Mary B. Alvord. At the funeral services
Congregational church officiated The honorary
panbearers were Messrs E. G. Burnham, W. E.
Marsh, H. B. Middlebrook, E. W. Atwood, CARR
son Haynes and Francis Ives. The floral offer
| ings were very handsome. -,
Mr. and Mrs. John Hooker of Hartford will
celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary
| the state as prominent and able lawyer, and
| his wife, Isabella Beecher Hooker, is equally
well known as woman suffragist and social re-
former.
Quassapaug lake, Middlebury, is embosomed
in the hills being between 500 and 900 feet above
| above Center square in Waterbury. 1t has no
surface inlet, but it discharges good stream
at the Seth sR It is sag by
| about trying to secure this limpid sheet OF
water for an additional city supply. It is as
water
| The Waterbury Republicans woodbury. CORES
Fl. Grannis, who has supplied this community fy
with sea food and vegetables for many years, died
recently at his h9me in Ea III Hay r Tne sans
| Carpenter of New Haven, is visiting A. N. Jud
| Yesterdays Hartford Courant says: 'The
Foot Guard boys are working hard to secure the
best attractions for their casino concerts, and
| the large audiences seem to show that they are
| succeeding. The concert this week will be or
Thursday evening, and the program will include
numbers by Miss Susie Drew, the elocutionist @
soprano; George B. Wright, the basso of thu
Center church choir,and last but not least, Colt
The members of the Henry G. Robinson Trool
of Hartford and their friends will have an old
fashioned Rhode Island clam-bake Tuesday, Au
gust 4, at the Ninigret house, Crescent Beach.
Secretary Hine Of the state board of education
| who examined the candidates for the principal
ported to Chairman E. B. Bailey the name Of NJ
W. V. Mcclure of Mystic, in this state, as the
| successful candidate.
| perior court, left for Europe yesterday.
Some vandal broke about twenty-five panes o.
| stained glass in window of the Middleton
| Methodist church Saturday night.
| A. Brazos g. Son of Middletown have this weel
begun on their contract to build new sewer il
Ansonia.
The Collinsville Savings bank had $450,eOO OF
| deposit June 1, 1891.
| Professor W. o. Turner of Willimantic goes to
| day to Bar Harbor, Me-, for few days and from
| there to Northport Me-, where he is to conduc
the singing at the camp meeting which begins
| August 10.
| At the special town meeting held in Guilford il
was voted, 1865 to Is, to close the drawbridge ove
| West river and accept the offer of $4,000 made
| by the Consolidated road.
| DANBURY, July 2s.-Willis Reed, aged seventy
three a contractor, fell headlong from a Ladder
| into huge tank which he was constructing nea
the Macarthur paper mills in Beaver brook, th
| morning. His skull was fractured and he diet
| in a few hours He was quite wealthy, ant
leaves a wife and several grown up sons ant
daughters.