The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-18
EA1R HAYEN.

| Tho Death of Willis BunnelI-Rev. MT. l Mitchell-HOme Council Brownies and
 Fairies-.East Rock.
 Home council No. 5, Brotherhood of 1 Relief, has elected these officers: Pres
 ident, James D. Vanderbilt; vice presi-
 dent, c, T. Rhodes; secretary and treas
 urer William s. Rowe; sick visiting
 committee, John w. Dixon, Charles
 Hotchltiss and John Way. The council
 has about $7O in it's treasury. It pays sick benefits of $1O per week and a death
 benefit of $54 on an assessment of $1 for
 each member.
 The Sunday school room of the Grand avenue Congregational church was
 crowded last evening on the occasion
 of the presentation of "The Brownies
 and Fairies" which was given twice
 during Christmas week and with so
 much favor that the committee, consist
 Ing or Mrs. F. D. Fowler, Mrs. Wallace
 Hurlbut and Miss Hattie Denisor, were
 requested to have it repeated. The pro-
 gram was revised, the Christmas feat
 ures omitted and several other excel
 lent numbers added. Among the new
 features were the Brownie school, with Frank Lowe as teacher, the drill, "the awkward squad" and all, etc. Among
 those taking part were Rita Smith, Fred and Arthur Bradley, Walter and Fred Smith, Clifford Walker, Junie Brown, Kenneth Fowler, Charles Bald win, Ethel Prince, Edna Simms, Gene
 A Han Y1a To e4 a1 very prettily arranged and the enter tainment as whole was a very great success.
 Rev. J. Lee Mitchell, pastor of the Grand avenue Congregational church, at the banquet of the Connecticut Com mercial Travellers association held at the New Haven house last evening i made an excellent speech in response to the toast ''The Relation of the Com- 1 mercial Travellers to the Church."
 The walks yesterday morning and | nearly all the forenoon were in a terri | ply icy and dangerous condition, save | the few exceptions where sand and ash | es were used to good advantage.
 A son has been born to MT, and Mrs. | Frank Gilhuly of 192 James street and i Commissioner Gilhuly becomes a grand l father, in which relation he is very | proud
 Willis Bunnell died at Grace hospital | Wednesday at the age of seventy-six l years. He had been ailing with kidney | troubles for two years, and was under | treatment at the hospital for some six months but of late was back at his | home on Exchange street. Mir, Bunnell | was able to be out and around until | about week ago, when he was com pelled to go back to the hospital. He | is the last of family of thirteen chill dren. His brother Stephen was the first person buried in the Fair Haven Union1 MT Bunnell's wife died .sev- eral years ago, since which time he had made his home with his daughter Mrs. Esther M. Russell, at S3 Exchange street. He leaves another daughter Mrs. Frederick Allen, also of Fair Ia- ven, and a son, William Bunnell. Mir Bunnell was born and always resided in Fair Haven. He was a genial man and there was no resident better known, He was noted for being rapid walker and several years ago he walked in Cen tral hall 100 miles against time and won He was noted for his ability to tell the idteS ul coiusl WltHout loohiiS aI eiieii' The funeral will be held at his late home this afternoon at 2;SO o'clock
 The annual installation of the officers of East Rock lodge was conducted last evening in Osborn hall, It was u pub lie installation and the hall was crowd ad. From to S:30 there was a concert by an orchestra of eleven pieces and this was followed by the installation, which proved very interesting, and es- Decially to those who saw the work for the first stime. Afterward there were speeches by visiting members of the order Mrs. Walter R. Downes sang a soprano solo and was enthusiastically and James r. Parsons recited n an excellent manner. It was one of he best installation ceremonies East a ~ .,.-nt.ni --