The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-27
WALLINGFORD.

 urer shows that the total receipts for the year amounted to $1,5S3.S5, and the cash expended 51,52472, which shows a net gain for the year of $5S.13 which together with the surplus from last year of S2O5,75 makes a total of$26S 93 cash on hand. The fact that the so- ciety has to a. certain extent been by the hard times and limited privileges and other causes, the showing made is a good one and speaks we'll for the management. As all the premiums advertised, which were quite liberal, were promptly paid and the admission to the races was placed at twenty-five cents, it is quite creditable to find the society has come aut ahead, even if only small amount, when in other towns the bal ance as a general thing has been the other way.
 E. T. Dennison's family started yes terday for Pittsb'lrg, Penn, where they will reside. Mir Dennison will join his family as soon as he cam close up his business affairs.
 Miss Georgianna Hubbard is home from Philadelphia where she has been visiting Miss Mae Barnes.
 Cleve Thompson is back again in his old position at Maltby, Stevens & Cur tis Co.'S office.
 Company K has received a chal- lenge from Company A of Waterbury to game of basket ball. The chal- lenge has been accepted and the game will come off in Waterbury the latter part of December.
 The condition of Bernard Curran of Center street is extremely critical
 Tenth annual concert and sociable Of Court Windermere, A. o. F., in the armory this evening.
 Edward Nugent was arrested late
 Monday night by Officer Reilly and locked up. Yesterday morning he was brought before Judge Hubbard, chang ed with drunkenness and using abu- sive language to his sister, Mrs. George Donovan. He was given thirty days in jail on each charge, $9.17 costs, and is now at WhaIley avenue for the twenty-fifth time within a space of less than twenty yearE.
 Charles Knowlton who was, after his afempt at suicide Monday evening, locked up by Officer Mooney, was re- leased yesterday morning He claims he does not know how or why he acted as he i'd.
 The rededication of the Baptist church will take place Thursday, De- cember F.
 Real estate transfers recorded yes terday: The Samuel Simpson estate to Mrs. Mary E. Quested, one lot, 50x175 feet, on Whittlesey avenue.
 W. H. Newton and family and c. H. Dickinson will spend Thanksgiving at their former home in Vermont
 Louis HaIlbauer is home from the west.
 The Wallingford football team will play the Silver Citys of Meriden on Hanover park Thanksgiving day. Game called at 3 o'clock. The last game between the two teams resulted in tie, neither side scoring.
 The adjourned annual borough meet ing was called ito order by Warden Morris shortly after o'clock last evening, at which time there was hard ly fifty persons in the hall, although several came in later. Before the busi- ness of the meeting was taken up War den Morris made a few remarks in which he stated that he desired that the meeting should be orderly, as well as all future meetings, and that all should have fair chance to express ! their ideas, fbut he desired that all | personalities should be dispensed with entirely and the business transacted | in gentlemanly manner. Clerk Hale requested that if any errors, clerical or others, in the printed annual reports was found he wished l that the same would be spoken of and he would explain the same w. M. Casey recommended that the | reports be submitted to the investigat- ing committee, the same as the town reports. A discussion followed which 1 resulted in a vote to lay the reports on the table.
 The following motion was offered and adopted:
 1 That, It is the sense of this meeting 1 that the court of burgesses should i'm l mediately take such action as in their 1 judgment is necessary for a full and complete investigation of all borough | accounts during the past ten years and 1 see that all such accounts are made | correct if found incorrect. | The report of the water commits sioners was discussed and sundry ques- l tions were asked which were answered l by Superintendent Hall in a satisfac. l tory manner. The matter of the litiga. | tion of the borough, through the water commissioners, in the Bronson & Pat
 ten cases, now pending before the
 courts, was discussed. The discussion brought out the fact that the Bronson
 case had been settled some tome age
 satisfactorily, which was news to some
 of the legal lights, who were discussing
 the question and apparently were well
 acquainted with the details, or at least 1 supposed they were. The following
 resolution was offered:
 1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the
 freemen of the borough of Wallingford
 in annual borough meeting assembled | that the court of burgesses should de. fer action under the power granted 1 to them by section 50 of the borough chaEtec xeIaiing to their a.uthnTiIY Hc