The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-10
NORTH HAYEN.

| Dec, 9.-Eleetion time this week.
 Officers Of the Congregational Sunday
 school were elected last Sunday. On Tuesday evening the grange elected officers for next year. Thursday New
 Haven County Pomona grange annual
 was held in Memorial hall. Officers
 were elected. On the same day the
 seventy-second annual meeting of the
 Ladies' Benevolent society was held in
 Center chapel and officers elected:
 President. Mrs. Aaron Bassett; vice
 president Mrs. Henry Thorpe: secre-
 tary and treasuren Miss Mary Eliot:
 directors first. Mrs. F. c. Bradley: sec ond. Mrs William G. Lathrop: third,
 Mrs. s. B. Thorpe. The ladies took tea in the chapel.
 Next Monday evening. December 10,
 is the time for the lecture by Mrs. E. J. M. Newcomb of the Woman's Auxil- iary. Keeley league, In Memorial hall. Lecture commences at o'clock. Ad- | mission free and all welcome. The O.
 U. A. M. meets the same evening.
 Stone road making is being done on State street when the weather will per- | init. Smiths brook will be reached in few days. A new stone. dry bridge has been put in near Mir. Barrett's and a tile drain near Mir Horace Riggs. Push on the good work.
 Question for the boy who deliber- ately threw a snowfall through the window Of house on Railroad avenue on the evening of November 19. Which Is best for you, to make manly apology or to have a constable lay his hand on your shoulder some day and say: You are wanted Just think 1t over, will you?"
 The elasticity of one of our old in- habitants was put to severe test last Monday morning. Colonel H. M. Blakeslee, over seventy years old, took a pail of water and started out of the kitchen door to go to the barn. He went down the steps safely, but when his feet struck the ice-covered, sloping brick walk they shot ahead of him and brought him down on his back in second of time. Quite a lump on the
 
 at the supreme point of contact. Aside from the jar no great damage was done. q saved the most of the water in the pail" remarked the colonel, with much spirit.
 In view of the cold, cutting winds l that drive across the cemetery, at the center, why not drop the custom of re- moving hats at burials during the winter and spring months? The foun- dation of many a death cold has been laid by the practice in years gone by. MT. Allen Futile, eighty-six years and nine months old, died on Wednes- day, December 5. Funeral services were held at his late home on Satur- day afternoon. MT. Futile was prom inent man in the town at one time. The writer well remembers MT. Futile as school teacher and instructor in Colburn's Mental Arithmetic. Heleaves three children, Amos A. Futile, Mrs. Zerah Blakeslee and Henry F. Futile, who lives at the old home. Two chil- dren, Dwight and Fannie, passed on some years since.
 | The ladies and young people of St. Johns parish are busy preparing for l the Christmas sale on Friday evening, the 14th. The younger ones are talk ing of exhibiting scenes from Mother Goose in costume. If they select some characters as interesting as were shown last year they will be sure to interest all who care to go Then many useful things can be found among the articles for sale, as we'll as ornamental arti- cles for making friends happy during the holidays. A good supper can be had in the grange room. All are in- vited: