The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-15
WORTH HAYEN.

l
 March 14,-The funeral of Mir Lev
 Bigelow was attended on Wednesday
 afternoon. The services were In St.
 Johns church, and Rev MT. Lusk off, ciated.
 Miss Emma Dickerman, younger daughter of the late Elihu Dickerman, died on Wednesday afternoon.
 MT. Thomas, who has occupied the house of the late MT. George Lewis, will leave there this spring, and MT, Paterson, who is now on the Galpin place, will move there as the owner is to come to that place.
 The regular meeting of the Woman s Christian Temperance union, was held in the center chapel on Wednesday af- ternoon The first of the series of en- tertainments to be held by this society was the Penny Social" given in the chapel on Monday evening. The exer- cises were well attended and proved of much interest. The second in the course will be an address by Miss Eliza beth U. Yates of Maine. Subject, "The Conflict of the Modern Hercules" Miss Yates has the reputation of being an easy, rapid, pleasant speaker, who brings out many new ideas and supports them with strong arguments. It is ex- pected to have several good musical selections.
 The annual meeting of the First Be- clesiastical society of North Haven is warned for March 25 at 1 p. m. Pew renting to begin at p. m. the same day.
 Mrs 10. L. Linsley gave a party last Monday afternoon, March Il, in honor of the seventy third birthday of her moth CT, Mrs. Grace Fitch. Among the guests were MT. and Mrs. Lemuel Hoadley and daughter from New Haven. Mrs. Fitch received a handsome chair as a memento of the occasion.
 The return visit of North Haven grange to Wallingford grange has been. postponed to April IS on account of the Lenten season.
 At the grange on Tuesday evening Mrs J. F. Barnard showed mountain daisies in bloom, lovely white and pink flowers, blossomed in cold frame.
 H. O. Divine will leave soon for Cats kill, N. J., where he will accept a posi- tion with the CatskiH Illuminating and Power company He has resigned the situation with I. l.. Stiles & Son Brick company, where he had been employed as engineer for the last ten years.
 That spring is really coming was made evident by a child at the center one day last week, when she called A before the snow came last fall are com ing out of the groundl found three of them peeping out; come, see" Sure enough, right up through solid frost could be seen the little green points pushing out, as if in a hurry to put on their beauty for the admiration of the child who had helped to put them in the ground last fall. Let us hope the Tides of March will deal gently with the tender shootlets
 One hundred and ninety-three were present at the Congregational Sunday school on Sunday.
 Promptly on time last Sunday evening the shadow of the earth began to in tervene between. us and the moon. The sky was cloudless and a good view could pc AdH py everyone WHO WlSneu 10 uO so. The great phenomenon began and ended without noise or bustie, watched by thousands of people in wonder and quietness, a great contrast between the early centuries and the blaze of the century. Then common fire crackers, horns, gongs, in fact every in- strumet from which noise could be evoked, was used to friehten away the great demon, which was supposed to be eating the eclipsed planet and fear pervaded every heart as if it were precursor of i'll untold to the earth | and people.