The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-22
CA ESHTRE.

Feb. 21.-Mr. M. c. Doolittle. the mer- chant tailor, whose business is now in New Haven. moved his family there last week and has rented his pleasant residence here to MT. Roe of New Jer- sey who is expected to move here soon. MT. Roe is engaged In the book-blnding business in New York.
 Levi Monson has been one of the vic- tims of the grip for some days.
 Mrs. George F. Pardee has been quite sick with the prevailing epidemic.
 Harry Collins has been quite sick with pneumonia.
 Henry Curnow has been very sick with nervous prostration.
 Charles Ward has been one of the vic tims of the grip, and quite a number of others are laid up in their homes by sickness.
 Charles Russell of Mixville, has sold his place to a Waterbury party.
 MT. L. P. Williams has been spending few days with friend in Springfield, Mass.
 MT and Mrs. Alomon Ives have both been quite sick
 Miss Hattie Lawton, teacher in the Center school, and her scholars took a sleighride to Merlden last Thursday af- ternoon and had d very enjoyable time It is expected that the state board of agriculture will hold a meeting in the grange ham some time early in March.
 number of our farmers attended the Connecticut Dairymen's association held in New Haven Wednesday. 1t was one of special interest to all milk consumers and milk men. Jacob D. Waiter, one of our representatives, has been appointed one of the county com missioners for New Haven county.
 Gospel meetings have been held in the Congregational church Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and Wednesday afternoon, led by Rev. H. w. Pope, of New Haven.
 On Friday evening there will be held in the M. E. church union service
 Considerable interest has been mani fested by the young people at the meet ings lately and a number of conver- sions, and we trust many more will be led to seek and embrace a higher and holy life. Mrs. Ellen o. Towsley has been ap- pointed guardian of Miss De Etta Ives. who is one of the legatees In the will of | the late Samuel Simpson of Walling- ford.
 Miss Mary Benham, of Meriden, has | been calling on friends here.
 Something worth knowing-that Is | how to make three-quarters go for four. In a certain home one morning at | breakfast the lady said to Bridget: | Your coffee Is very good. What kind | is 1t? Its no koind at all,, mum; 1t is a mixture"
 How do you mix 1t?
 "I make 1t one-quarter Mocha, one- quarter Java and one-quarter Rio," re- piled Bridget.
 "But that is only three-quarters. What do you put iii for the fourth quarter?"
 q put in no fourth-quarter at all, | mum. That's where so many spiles their coffee, num- by putting in the fourth quarter
 MT. John Collins, former resident of died in Ansonia Tuesday, this week.
 ONE OF CHESHIRE'S DUTIFUL
 SONS.
 Ernest B. Moss, a son of Julius Moss, of Moss Farms, Is a graduate of the academy of Cheshire and diligent student. After graduating he took special course of engineering and served first under w. s. Clark, when the Meriden, Waterbury and Cromwell railroad was building. After that he was employed by the Pennsyl- vania railroad company. His work was mostly in Cambria county, where he had charge of sixteen engineers and After two years he re- turned to Cheshire. About this time the Meriden electric railway was about to be constructed and MT. Moss was given full charge of the work The sli- perintendent said that MT. Moss gave he company full satisfaction in every MT. Moss has been em- oloyed by the Hartford street railway since leaving Meriden and now he has just been elected by the common council to be the city engineer ,f the city of Meriden,