Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-19
WALLINGFORD.

Death OF Mrs. Henry B. Holl-maD of
the Borough-The Odd Fellows,
Home Stte-Bicycling-Slig Fire.
General Notes.
Mrs. Henry B. Hall of South Main street
died on Sunday after long illness, aged
ffty-seven years. The deceased has for
many years been suffering from humorous
affection which finally developed into blood
poisoning, causing her death. The funeral
will be from the house at O'Clock this af-
ternoon. Rev. Oh. Dickinson will oficiate.
The burial will be in the Center street
cemetery.
B. F. Woods, representing the Sanborn
Perris Map company, was in town yester-
day taking drawings for an insurance map
of the borough. While riding on Park
street, near the Catholic cemetery, with
Insurance Agent b. L. Davis, he narrowly
escaped being struck by an express train
| ing to the dense growth of shrubbery along
the cemetery fence the train was not seen
| until the horse was almost on the track
| Grand Warden DeLiew of Hart and
| A. E. Cortis, a prominent Meriden Odd
Fellow, with M. K. Thomas and G. H.
Barnes went over to inspect the Communi-
| ty property yesterday afternoon as a site
for the Odd Fellows home. The property
is considered more desirable than the pro-
posed site in Groton, and the price is $15,-
600, only $1,000 more than the Groton
| property.
Charles Baldwin and George A. Lane,
| who started from here for Boston early
Sunday morning, reached Ware, Mass, 8
little over half tho distance to Boston,
about o'clock Sunday afternoon and re-.
port the roads above Springfield in a very
poor condition for bicycling. The inten.
ton OF the two riders was to start early
Monday morning and reach Boston late in
the afternoon.
A fire was discovered yesterday after.
noon in the corner of the grand stand on
the Athletic association grounds, where ii
is supposed some boys had been playing
with fire. c. o. Norton's boy notified
President J. P. Stevenson of the fact, but
before he reached the scene some of the
residents in the vicinity had put out the
flames with pals of water and sand. The
damage was only slight owing to the prompt
action of neighbors.
F. L. Leighton and wife and child OF
New Haven were out riding on the west
side Sunday and when near the stone
c1usher the horse SHE'D at log beside the
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embankment, throwing the occupants vic.
lently on the ground ,bruising but not seri-
ously injuring any of the trio. The escape
was narrow one, as the embsnkment is
quite steep.
Mr.. and Mrs. N E. Sheldon of New York
are spending the summer at the Walling-
ford hotel.
The dimensions of the new factory al
81. L. Judd company's, on which work has
just begun, will be 40x170 feet.
Fred Gardner is not only fine baseball
player, but is also an expert at handball
His latest feat was backward Jump and
quick return of the ball and the utter dem.
clifton of lStanley's new "dicer" that
happened to lie on the ground where Ted'e
feet struck coming down.
There was large attendance at the fu.
neral of Lawrence Hoey Sunday afternoon
The bearers were John Luby Of Meriden,
James Curran, P. J. Linnehan, Edward
Callahan, Andrew Ryan and Michael
Luby. The flower bearers were E. J. Cal
lahan and P. II. Curran.
Walter, one of George Peok's four.
months-old twins, died yesterday morning