The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-04
EVENTS IN WALLINGF0RD
MATTERS or INHERENT IN THIS
 GROWING TOWN.

 Relief Corps-Comany KS Team-Basket Ball -Personals-"cap" Weav- CTS Case.
 A meeting of the board of relief Will be held in the north ante-room In the town hall on Wednesday, January 4, to hear complaints regarding assessments | and to transact any other business proper to come before the board. The water commissioners have leas- ed seyenty-five acres of land of J. w. Welsh for five years at rental or Soo a year which will be used for a water shed to help out the supply through the canals to Paugh Pond The Womans Relief corps has re- ceived an invitation to attend the ln- stalation of officers of Merriam corps of Meriden Wednesday evening and 1t will leave here on the $40 train.
 The amount of rainfall during De- cember was 241 inches, and the total for the year was 4o,2e.
 Company K defeated Company p in New Britain at basket ball by a score of 15 to 0.
 The Biggins- Rodgers company closed Saturday for inventory.
 Mrs. E. R. Stevens of Melrose, Mass, is the guest of Mrs. Thomas smith or Cherry street. w Vale Bradley, at the town farm, is i'll with the dropsy.
 Company Ks team will play the De- lenders the second team of the l. M. c. A. of New Britain, in the armory next Saturday evening.
 John T. McDonough and Miss Mary McCuire will be married some time thls week.
 \ Patrick Taylor, aged fifty-one years, died Saturday at the town farm, arter only a, few hours illness, with pneu- monia.
 The wallingfords and the Meriden I. M. c. A. teams will play basket ball Ill Ieighton's hall this evening. The game nromises to be an interesting one ana is the first played in the new nall Ill Leighton's block.
 The schools will reopen this morning after a ten days vacation. Robert Hay, jr., of the Walllngfofa hotel. is confined to his bed by illness,
 Miss Ieannette Lowrie has so far re- covered from her illness that she eX- ,,acts tn reioin the Thomas Q. Sea- hrool,e company in Providence this al fernoon and resume her position as leading lady in the company. IL Is honed that the company will come here aeain. when it will be sure of pelng greeted by large audience. Frederick, the three-months-olo ciiilu if MT. and Mrs Frederick Schmlut or North Elm street, died Saturday or spl- ! nal trouble.
 Gorton's minstrels were greeted py not a large but appreciative audience at the opera house Saturday eVenlng' and they gave a very pleasing pro gram. ,.5
 aCap" Weaver is still at the Meriden hospital The bullet i'll ms neck has not as yet been extracted. Harry Haywood is home rom Vlsi' to Providence.
 Miss Georgie Lane has gone to Bridgeport for 8 weeks vlslt Wlth her aunt.
 Herman Greuner and family are Vls- itine. friends in Jersey City
 Mr and Mrs. G. D. Bullock of Mel- rose, Mass, We're II lo"iA e0oI WY -~-'. at present are visiting friends III Fail Haven.
 Edward sheehey of Northampton Mass. is the guest of his brother, VII liam Sheehey.
 Manager Mason Mitchell or the Thomas Q. seabroolce company arrlV d here Saturday evening and Will ac' noronany Miss Lowrie to Providence to day ,r..,, :,
 lincoln J. Carter's "Fast Mail, 1F booked for the opera house WednesdaS evening, January 5. a,
 The holder of ticket No. 545, whici won the s5 door prize at the G. A. entertainment Wednesday evening, ha' not as yet been located or called U claim the prize.
 Fred Bullis of Main street has tW' children down with the measles.
 The sleighing is played out, ana III sleighs are fast disappearing
 ~rhe Limited MaiP' is booked for tn onera house, Wednesday evening, Jan uary G.
 Frank Wood, the advance agent o +he Duncan Clark comedy company who was sent to Jail from here the oth CT day. had a happy New Year. Ii was liberated from confinement, as m manager sent down $20 to Constaoi Jngraham to settle up his fine.