The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-24

wALLINGFoRD NEVIS.

me IlellDeIS Ol lne 1NtIllplSTS SyClc club were out in full force at the depot yesterday afternoon to see their de- parting members. Ray Claim and Fred Cook, with Morelli Cook, start away on their long Journey to Klonkide, As the 5,26 train came into the station there was a nasty shaking of hands and words of farewell, and as the train moved out the KlondiKers were given hearty round of cheers and waving of hands. The route will be to Mon treal. and then on the Canada Pacific route.
 The invitation masquerade dance given by Messrs. Wenk and Jackson in Odd Fellows hall Tuesday evening was a decided success and proved to be one of the pleasantest affairs of the kind ever given in town. About fifty couples were in the grand march, which comprised many handsome cos- tunes as well as several comical make ups. The only drawback was the fact
  accommodate the dancers.
 The reason that the Couriers were not delivered as usual yesterday was because the bundle did not arrive here until late In the day, as 1t is supposed that the brakeman on the early train neglected to thrown 1t off and 1t was carried by and sent back on train later in the day.
 Rev. Albert L. Whitaker now locat- ed in Clinton. Mo-, had a. narrow escape from death or serious injury by the re- cent explosion of a boiler in a laundry. He was standing not over ten feet from the boiler but strange to say he was not injured.
 The roads about the outside of the center are in a terrible condition owing to the frost coming out of the ground and the heavy rainfall.
 Salter & Martins Uncle Toms Cab in" company will appear in the opera house this evening. A grand street pa- rade about town will be an interesting attraction. The company came in a palace car formerly used by Mrs. Lang try.
 Frank N. Kelly, Wallingfords favor ite tenor, will sing in Christ church, West Haven, tomorrow evening.
 D. c, Maltby is expected home from Florida this week.
 Warden H. B. Hall will attend the banquet of the Connecticut Highway association in Springfield this evening
 Judge Sheldon of New Haven will talk to the democrats in town hall this evening.
 Ed Tolles' seven-year-old boy had half of one of his fingers cut off in a haycutter Tuesday evening.
 Miss Minnie Hastings is home from Northampton, Mass.
 Miss Blanche Jenkins of Old Town, Me, Is the guest of Mrs. J. w. Torrens. | W. H. Newton writes from St. Angus | tine,g Fla, that the weather is fine and I the mercury at 80 degrees in the shade, and roses are in full bloom. | At the masquerade in Odd Fellows hall the make up of Ralph Booth as an | Irish hod carrier was immense, and Ralph was just the one to carry out the character to perfection.
 The Waterburys will play polo here 1 Saturday night.
 ] The Wallingfords will play polo in New Haven Friday evening. | James A. Clarke, a graduate oi | Rochester Theological seminary of last | year, was tonight ordained to the Baptist ministry, and installed as pas. tor of the First Baptist church of this 1 place in the presence of congregation that nearly filled the church. This af, ternoon the council. which was made up of the pastor and one delegate from each of the Baptist churches in thi: section. met to examine the candidate l and the council, found nothing tha | they could take exception to. Rev. F | c. Sage was moderator and Rev. A l K. Foster, clerk. The ordination ser | vices took place tonight and were a! follows: Prayer of invocation, Rev. F | M. Myer, Meriden; sermon, Professor B | 0. True of Rochester seminary; praye of ordination, Rev. R. J. Adams, Bos ton; right hand of fellowship, Rev. F
 w. Paddleford of Haverhill, Mass and a classmate of MT. Clark's; charg
 to the candidate, Rev. William D. Nc Kinney, Ansonia charge to the church l Rev. W. G. Fennell. Meriden; doxol
 ogy; benediction by the newly ordaine' pastor.
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