The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-09

Brief Mention.
High water to-day, 1928 p. m.
One hundred acres $4,000 R. E. Baldwin.
p M. Wadhams of Goshen is visiting
In this city.
Mrs. L. G. Lindley Of West Haven is
with her sister in Oxford, who is i'll
with the grip.
insurance Commissioner f. A. Betts
Is IN Chicago on business connected
with his office. He will return to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elihu Carlisle of Goshen
closed their house for the winter and
have come to New Haven for the sea-
son.
Mr. and Mrs. G. V. Woodruff Of Or
ange will move next week into their
new house, which has just been COM
pleted.
J. M. Snow of New Preston has just
returned from this city, where he had
been for the past two weeks to visit his
aged mother.
George E. S. Miller, the grocer, of
Westville, has purchased the John ].
Beecher place in Woodbridge, and will
soon move there with his family
Miss Ella North, who has returned
from an extended visit in New Haven
is at DR.. North's in Goshen, and it is
reported that she is seriously ill.
John Tulley of Stony Creek, who has
been an inmate of the state school for
the past six years and eight months,
was returned to his parents this week.
w. H. Plumb has given up his work
In this city and will devote his time en-
tirely to the development of the bust
ness of the Ansonia Novelty company.
Charles Judson, the funeral of whose
wife took place in this city last week,
will return soon to Connecticut from
Asheville, N. c. His daughter will re-
turn with him,
A committee of three was appointed
to secure an appropriation from the
general assembly for the purpose of
holding a fair in 1900 and to do any
other act necessary in connection there
with,
The Connecticut State Agricultural
society met In Meriden yesterday and
reelected the former officers. No fair
will be held this year, and the next
meeting will be held in Meriden one
year from yesterday.
The Mcintyre masquerade will take
place at Music hall, Court street. Fri
day night. No tickets will be sold at
the door, so all friends and employees
wishing to attend must apply to some
of the clerks before Friday noon.
Inspector Condor of the postoffce de-
partment was in this city yesterday |
concerning the Improvements which are
to be made on the interior of the local |
office Contractor D. F. Kelly, who |
has charge of the work, will probably |
start his men to work next week.
Addison Palmer, ninety-six, Torring-
toms Oldest inhabitant died yesterday |
morning. His second wife was Mrs. +
Polly Ann Wadhams, who survives him,
as do also his daughters, Mrs L. A.
Weldon of Winsted and Mrs. Casimir
II. Bronson of Waterbury.
Lieutenant Alfred Afford, who is re-
ported as being killed Tuesday at Ma
Mia, is son of D. s. Afford of Law
renee, Kan: also grandson Of the late
Alfred Afford of Riverton, Conn, and
cousin of G. HI. Afford of Winsted. He
was about twenty -four years of age, a !
graduate of the Kansas university in !,
its academic and law departments and ,
a partner in the law firm of Afford &
Afford of Lawrence. At the breaking
out of the Spanish war he enlisted in T.
Co T. goth Kansas regiment, and a
few months ago was promoted to first
lieutenant and placed in command of
the Kansas company. Since that time
10 hod haep the acting captain of that ,
company. He was young man of I'm
usual promise, greatly esteemed by all
who knew him and universal favorite
with his comrades.