Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-07
STATE CORRESPONDENTS.
CheSbir0.


 Sept. 6.-The public schools commenced Tuesday with the following teachers: First district, Miss Hattie Lawton; Second dis trict, Miss Mary E. GriswoId of South Meriden; Third district, Miss Nellie B. Simons of Meriden; Fourth district, Mics Carrie l.. Stone; Fifth district, Miss Edna J. Todd; Sixth district, Mics Ida s. Frost; Seventh district, Miss Agnes D. Falvey of South Meriden; Eighth district, Mise Lottie Hotchkiss; Ninth district, Miss Grace H. Moss; Tenth district, Miss Alice F. Tucker; Eleventh district, Miss Mabel E. Hotch- kiss; Twelfth district, Miss Susie Trythall. All but three of the young lady teachers are residents of Cheshire. MT. James E. McCabe has taken 8 position as teacher In Wallingford. Miss Alice Trythall started last Saturday for New Jersey to take charge of her school there the present week.
 Miss Florence Trythall has taken the po- sition of teacher in one of the public schools in Prospect. Miss Harriet Calhoun will not open her school this term. Some of her former pu- pils will go to Huntsville. What Cheshire should have is 8 graded school, so that scholars would not go out of town.
 WEDDING IN oLDEN TIMES IN CHESHIRE. At the time the town poor were kept at the house of Captain John Beach woman on the town had an offer of marriage from man in North Haven. The woman con- scented, and of course the selectmen (who had finger in the pie) were glad to get rid of the burden. The couple were mar ried at the house of Mir. Beach, and az was the custom in those daye, the bride was a1Io oe oo1oof{y,cx tho hup to be sung after the ceremony was per formed. In this case the following hymn was selected:
 When God revealed His gracious name, And changed my mournful state, The grace appeared so great. The world believed the glorious change, And did Thy hand confess, My tongue broke out in unknown strains, And sung surprising grace. Great Is the york;" my neighbors cried,
 And And owned the power divine; . Great is the work, my heart replied, And be the glory thine Let those that low in sadness wait Till the fair harvest comes. They shall confess these sheaves are great, And shout the blessings home. VENERABLE AND NOTED APPLE TREE. In the yard in front of the house of Mrs. Delos Hotehkiss is the remains of vener- able and famous apple tree, said to be the last of an orchard set out by Colonel Sam ue1 Roys, one of the first settlers in this locality (Moss Farms). This tree is sup posed to be about 159 years old. The body of the tree Is about four feet in diameter | and fourteen feet in circumference up to 8 point where the limbs branch off in diff ! terent directions, there being eight large | branches. It's height was sixty feet, and the widest spread of its branches ninety feet. The largest yield of apples any one year was 110 bushels. GENERAL NEWS. Mrs. James White, who recently met
 with painful accident by being thrown
 from wagon, breaking her collar bone, is
 doing well under the care of Dr. k. T. l Cornwall.
 Amasa L. Doolittle started Monday for
 Mount Hermon, Mass, to resume his stud
 les in D. L Moody's school. 1 The scholars of St. Peter's church will
 have picnic at Compounce Lake Satur- day, September 9, if pleasant; if stormy, September 16.
 l Among the names that have lately regis
 tered at the Connecticut building at the
 worlds fair from Cheshire are Ernest H. ! Oo1u uWAA3 "A1toI OCOtt duu WlI0 6uU MES
 Mabel K. Hotchkiss. 1 Mrs. Hart and children of Ohio are vis-
 iting at John L. Foote's. l A goodly number of the grange with | well filled baskets and smiling faces wsat 1 to White Oak, between Plainville and New Britain, and had grand, good social time last week Wednesday. The many friends hero of MT. and Mrs, J. O. Stratton of Hartford will be glad to hear that they have had a present of beautiful young baby boy, come to make a home with them.
 Rev. Albert Bailey preached Sunday morning in the Congregational church, Rev. MT. Hoyt being absent on account of sickness in his family.
 The communion service in the Congre- gational church will be observed next Sun day morning, after short sermon by the pastor.
 The W. 0. T. U. will hold meeting Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the chapel of the Congregational church.
 MT. Moore of New Haven, who some months since bought Miss Sarah Bristol's place, after making extensive improve msnts in the house, moved his family into the same last week.