Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-18
WALLINGFORD.

Twenty Below Zero Yesterday Morn. ing-At No Place Around There Less Than Ten-A Wild Fox's BOldness- Notes of the eTown-PersOnalN News. Yesterday morning was by far the coldest of the season. At 4 o'clock at J. D.
 Williams place, on the Street Jones farm, it was 20 below zero. At George An thony's on Colony street at o'clock 1t was IS below. At R. c. Morse's and J. W. Lanes on Cherry street at o'clock it was 16 below. At Turner's market and on the corner of Hall avenue and Washington street 1t was 15 below zero at 6 o'clock. On the hill the mercury did not range ss low as on ths plains.
 Sunday afternoon Julius O. Hall was sitting in his front room at his homo on North Main street and was surprised to see fox in hestreet in front of the house. Two dogs discovered the animal about the same time and put chase. Reynard headed his course for the big schoolhouse and made three circuits around the build ing hotly pursued by the dogs. The feet footed fox seemed to be well aware that the dogs in pursuit were not prOIoeslOHhlH, ouo cSluCou uO kI6at haste in getting out of the vicinity but kept the dogs we'll In the rear. Other dogs soon joined the chase and the fox started squeezed through a small hole in the fence and left the canines barking at the hole as it was too small to allow them to pass. The fox took turn up the street and across and disappeared bey ond the hill The extreme cold weather has made 1t hard for the wild game to find food and
 Hands Across the S.a" is booked for the opera houss this evening The company is first-class one and there should be full house. Manager Wilkinson tries to make 1t point to bring only f1rst-class shows here, and he should be upheld in his endeavors by the citizens, and the enter Itainments ought to bs well patronlzed.
 F. Paden was doiog the metropolis yester- day. .,, open up in town hall this evening"
 Miss Edith Cook of Cherry street is confined to
 Some of the many caricatures to be ssen on the windows scratched in the frost are quite gro- tesque and show rare artistic talent that might be devoted to more useful purposes with proper cultivation.
 The executive committee of the Congregational
 The marriage Of Robert M. Mansfield and Miss Carrie L.. Barber is announced to occur in the O'Clock D. m. After March they vii be lat home" in Nit. Vernon, N. Y.
 Mrs. E M; Smith has returned from visit to
 M J. Kelly and Miss Annie Hannigan will be united in wediock to-day. with 0s simpsou' aaI hSI Mer see0 Co., after msny years of faithful service silver plater and will associate himself with Patrick Concannon in business on Artisan street in New Haven.
 There were many frozen water pipes about the borough yesterday morning.
 Officer Heineman is getting to bs q great weather prophet and knows when cold night comes.
 Henry E. Culver is back again in his old posi- tion at Simpson, Hall, Miiler Go s factory.
 The funeral services over Stephen Hall will be held in ths Church of the Holy Trinity at o'clock this morning. The body will bs taken to | New Haven on the 1I:24 train for burial.
 Mrs. L M Hubbard will have a reception at | her home on Main street Thursday evening.
 Q. H. Dickinson has donated an elegant banjo for one of the prizes at the coming Odd Fellows fair. The same will be voted to the most popular young lady in the borough.
 Joseph Crea ne took in the Foresters ball in New Haven Monday evening.
 Even the "oldest resident" admits that the weather of the past few days Is up to the old | tine record.
 THE BOARD OF BURGBssEs
 Failed to get quorum, as Burzesses Porter and Thompson were the only me m' CTS to show up, beside Warden Newton and Clerk Hale. Chief Engineer Smith was present and the question as to whose duty, the superintendent of the water works or the chief engine CT, 1t was to attend to the matter of frozen hydrants wsg dis. ! ,ussed and 1t was decided that 1t wes | the outy Of the superintendent to attend to tho ! matter, and Clerk Hale was instructed to 20 in. | form that official at once that he would be re. lutred to see that the hydrants were in working order.
 A buffalo robe was stolen early last evening rom the shed at Msltby, Steven Curtis com. | oany, near the lake, by two men who were after. l TAros apprehended in Meriden and the property l