The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-10
Brief Mention. High water to-day at 7:33 a. m. Farm wanted-R. B. Baldwin.


 Farm wanted-R. E. Baldwin.
 There will be sale and supper con- ducted by the ladies of the Church of the Ascension in the parish house on next Tuesday night.
 The Manola Mandolin club of this city assisted by Franz Miller, come- dian, gave splendid entertainment in private hospital in Hartford last night.
 They are beautiful-those fur scarfs and fur collarettes at the Burgess Fur & Hat Co.'S; also those Alaska and electric seal sacques which this firm makes to your order without any extra charge.
 The Yale university basket ball team will play in Waterbury against the Y. M c. A. team of that city tonight. The Yale lineup will be: Beard, (captan) center; Lockwood and Merriam, guards; Todd and Clark, forwards.
 Yesterdays Bridgeport Standard says of a much esteemed New Haven citi- zen: Frederick Botsford, esq, the popular grand scretary of the odd Eel lows of Connecticut, and now on his thirtieth year in that capacity, was in town yesterday, looking hale and hear ty and as we'll as he has any time in twenty years past. MT. Botsford is ap- preaching eighty, but few would sup pose him anywhere near that age, from his active walk and erect figure.'
 The Christmas season is frequently taken advantage of as a season for making presents of a permanent and enduring character. As time goes on and people pass away such gifts become perpetual keepsakes and heirlooms for future generations. Watches, precious stones and silver ware make substantial gifts and there is no house in the coun- try more familiar and expert in the bus mess than the George H. Ford con- pany, and that has furnished reliable articles at proper prices for period continuously of nearly seventy years as has this noted and historic establish ment.
 A leading New Haven firm received this week letter which recalls with old friends who are still with us many pleasant associations of the writer, ex- Postmaster Samuel Daskam of South Norwalk, former New Havener. MT Daskam was an associate, in years of auld lang syne, of one of New Haven's former mayors, the late Henry G. Lewis, and of the late Thomas Chatterton, for many years a merchant here and later 8 wholesale merchant in New York, and who is well remembered by our vener- able and esteemed townsman, Commo- dore Richard Peck MT. Daskam is one of the old Lancasterian school boys and has a warm corner in his heart for his old New Haven associations of many years ago. His letter is as clearly and firmly penned as if the frosts of many winters had had as yet no effect upon him further than to render him if any thing kindlier and more genial than ever.
 The death of Benajah H. Douglass
 
 fireman that MT. Doglass was a veteran fireman and a member for over half century of the Veteran Firemen's asso- ciation. Mir Douglass ran with old Hook and Ladder No. over fifty years ago at the time that the late Philip s. Cabin was mayor of New Haven. Old No. 1's house stood where the old Union house stands now. MT. Douglass death suggests to MT. Corhusier, presi- dent of the Veteran Firemen's associa- ton, that fourteen members of that or ganization have died during 1898, viz: George Baldwin, aged eighty-four; D. J. Beecher, aged eighty; Andrew Wohi- rabe. aged sixty-six; John H. Munson, sixty-eight: Ira Curtiss, slXty-eight; Frederick L. Russell, fifty-one; A. H. Hurlburt, sixty-six: George H. Row land. sixty: Thomas Chatterton, sixty; Frederick Botswick, eighty; Joseph R. Warren, sixty-two; Samuel Wolcott sixty-one; Adam Miller, sixty-nine, and B. H. Douglass, eighty-two.