The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-28
MILFORD NOTES.


 Nov. 27,-1'he public schools have been closed for the Thanksgiving va cation and will open on Monday.
 Miss Agnes L. Thomas, of Walllng- ford, has been visiting Miss Ruth Smith on River street, but has re- turned to her home in Wallingford.
 There was quite gathering at the Wheel club on Friday evening, the event being Ladies night. Vocal and instrumental music was rendered and a collation. was served, after which dan- cling was indulged in until late hour.
 Miss Sarah c. Allen will leave on Wednesday for Washington, D. o., where she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Provost for the winter
 Ferdinand Gutensburg died sudden ly at his home on New Haven turnpike Saturday morning at the age of fifty | five. The funeral will be held on Mon- day morning at nine o'clock Rev.
 William Maher will officiate. The bur- ial will be in St. Mary's cemetery. The deceased leaves wife and two sons.
 The state Young Mems Christian as-
 sociation will hold its annual field day in Milford on December 11th. Westermeyer Bros, of New Haven, have leased the farm of Wilbur Roger at the quarry.
 The Milford Street railway company l has commenced painting the trolley poles in the town limits.
 Mrs. Adeline Minor, wife of John Mi- nor, died suddenly at her home on High street Saturday morning, having been i'll only a short time. The funeral services will be held at her late resi-
 dence Monday afternoon at 2:S0. The i deceased was sixty-six years of age. Rev. H. H. Morse will officiate. The
 burial will be in Milford cemetery. Mrs. Glendora Brown and family are spending a few days with friends in 1 Bridgeport.
 The regular meeting of William Tow | Ter Council, o. U. A. M., will be held
 on Monday evening. After the meet ing a social will be given, which
 friends of the members are invited to attend.
 Mrs A ". Merwin, who has conduct ed millinery parlor on Broad street, | has discontinued the same and has
 moved to another part of the town. Mrs. Dennis Smith had the misfor- | tune to burn herself painfully on Sat I urday. She was crossing the kitchen floor and accidentally ripped and fell 1 on to the stove, burning herself quite | badly about the face and arms. I The Standard Oil wagon, while deliv-
 ering oil to the merchants of the town, I got caught in the trolley tracks in the
 hollow beyond Frank Howe's residence
 Saturday and was unable to get out, l and was obliged to wait until trolley 1 car came along. By hitching the
 wagon to the car it was extricated. l A through trolley car from New Ha-
 ven, which leaves at 5:15 p. m, jumped
 the track half mile from Miller's pa- | vilion at Savin Rock Friday evening. i The car was rounding the curve at the l time of the accident, and through the
 presence of mind of the motorman the car was stopped as it was about to plunge down a steep embankment. Only five persons were in the car at
 the time of the accident, all but two
 being Milford people. The passengers were badly frightened, but none were 1 hurt beyond a good shaking up. Traf- | fc was delayed about three hours. | A meeting of the directors of the | Needlework Guild will be held at the | home of Mrs. Fred Cornwall, on La | fayette street, Monday afternoon, No 1 vember 2S, at three o'clock.
 l The corn -husking bee, in which ,ipo+oan yo,lns peonIe of the First | Congregational church will take part l will be held in the chapel of the l church Tuesday evening, November 29 i An admission of fifteen cents will be
 charged. Those who attend will be
 guaranteed a good time.
 Miss Edna Smith, who has been Ill at l her home at the Plains, is gradually | rooouarii1o