The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-23
W4LLTNG FORD NEVIS,

The work on the filling and grading of South Colony street near the bridge is fast drawing to finish and yester- day the eastern approach was filled in, so that team could pass from the east side, and Warden H. B. Hall had the honor to be the first one to ride across the bridge in wagon. The work will be completed before January 1, 1898, as far as the railroad contract calls for, and in the spring as soon as the weather will permit the borough will complete the work.
 The case of Mrs. Kate c. Wrinn for keeping a. communication between her saloon and living apartments on North Colony street was settled last evening by the payment of $10 and costs.
 The sidewalk on town hill and Cen ter street last evening was in a terrible slippery condition and there were many falls Many of the pedestrians took the road for safe.
 Charles Boinay, the recently convicted murderer, passed through here on the S:26 train yesterday morning en route to the states prison in Wethersield, where he will be hanged on April IA Attorney Paul Cloyd of New York is the guest of J. R. Campbell. Dick Sullivan was discharged upon the payment of s5 and costs. Attorney Von Minden and family have gone to Greenwich, Mass, to spend Christmas.
 l The inside of the depot is to receive | | brightening up and the workmen are getting the dingy ceiling in condition | for kalsomining.
 1 The lake is frozen over, but not strong enough to hold up. A heavy north wind would soon clear away the ice. Mrs. F. c. Allen and daughter, Miss | Lillian, will start on Thursday, Decem- Der 30, for Florida. MT. Allen will fol- low later.
 Captain Luzerne Ludngton of the 1 Governors Horse Guard was the guest l last evening of Major w. Burr Hall. | Rev. Robert Craig and a young lady from Flushing, l.. l., will be married in l Brooklyn the latter part of next week. l Prosecuting Agent Dwight Futile of Fair Haven was visitor in the bor- ough yesterday afternoon.
 Harry Chapman, with ticket No. 24, won the incubator rallied by Will Row | den last evening.
 Mrs. Henry c. Morse, formerly a resi- dent of this place, died Tuesday at her home at Highland farm, between Ham, den and Westville. The funeral will be 1 held this afternoon at ? o'clock. George M. Carr and Miss Sarah Addy will be married at 5 o'clock this after noon.
 The schools will close to-day until Monday January 3, 1898
 There will be a boxing exhibition at | Norton's billiard rooms this evening, in which a number of experts from the borough and out of town will take part | One of the dark features of the pro- gramme will be a three-round contest between Jim Bettis and Wash. Broad well.
 The Eintracht club will have it's Christmas tree and entertainment on | Christmas afternoon and evening for the members and families only. ! R. M. Johnson, who came here about two months ago from Wisconsin, was taken to the Meriden hospital yester-
 day.
 The Simpson, Hall, Miller & Go. has ] completed an elegant prize cup for the 1 State Bowling league tournament, which l will be placed on exhibition in New l Haven, Hartford and Meriden. More transfers have been made ot
 land along Muddy river to Charles An
 derson, which will be transferred later
 to the New Haven Water company. The
 land transferred was: Percy H. Tyler to Charles J. Anderson of New Haven
 thirty-tWo acres of land and buildings
 in East Wallingford; Henry W. Tyler
 to Charles J. Anderson, nineteen anG
 One-half acres in East Wallingford
 John H. Tyler to Charles J. Anderson
 forty acres with buildings, in East Wal
 lingfOrd.