The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-16
WALlINGFORD HAPPENINGS
TRAINS And STREET c. RS RUNNING
ON TIME AGAIN.
Wedding of william j. Gazette ana
Miss Gertrude e. Laurenson ON Tues
day Eventng-Death of Mrs. Smith
Ward Effects of the Storm,


Ward Effects of the storm.
The trains yesterday were running al
right, only little behind time, The
FIRST freight trains since Saturday pass
ed through here yesterday, mostly load
ed with coal. The trolley on Center
street was running yesterday, and the
line to Meriden was expected to be in
condition for traffic by this morning.
Rev. e. G. Richardson OBLIGATED at
the wedding of William J. Goyette and
Miss Gertrude e. Laurennson in Pond
Hill Tuesday evening. They will reside
in Bridgeport.
The body of Mrs. Frederick Unmack
who died in New Haven hospital, was
brought here yesterday morning. The
funeral services will be held in the Holy
Trinity church at o'clock Friday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles S. Miller have a
new baby daughter.
G. w. Robinson is one of the appli-
cants for the position of assistant en-
gineer on the force Of the borough S
electric light plant.
The guild will meet at st. Paul's par
1sh house at 8 o'clock this afternoon.
Supper will be served at $50.
Richard Talbot is ill with the grip.
The supply of coal for H. L. Judd &
Co. has arrived and the works will start
up again this morning.
The Cap and Bells will give their en-
tertainment in town hall on Saturday
evening.
Mrs. Smith Ward, aged seventy-six
years, died in "Quinnie'' Monday after
noon. The funeral will be held Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Henry
Stone will conduct the services. The
anterment will be in the Center street
cemetery.
The mercury registered IL degrees be-
low zero yesterday morning at seven
o'clock on the plains.
The Bennington stock company, which
IL filling a weeks engagement at the
opera house, is meeting with deserved
success and is giving the best of salts
Faction. The company comprises sever
pl well known artists who have APP
peared here before, and are general ia
y Worries with the theater- going public.
The attendance has been large and all
have been well pleased with the enter
tainment This evening Michael Strog-
hoff" will be the attraction
The sun was shining brightly Tuesday,
but the town was for time isolated
from the outside world. The first train,
or rather snow plow and two engines,
came from the north just before nine
O'Clock, and an hour later another
came from the south, and still later pas
senger trains with the morning papers
came from both ways.
The snow shovel brigade was out early
In all directions, but it was after
moon before the paths were shoveled 50
as to allow pedestrianism about the bor-
ough without hardship. j. A. Cooks
four horse team was around town early
making the path through the streets,
but up to last evening the road down
Hall avenue west of Washington street
had not been broken through
The railroad trains in the afternoon
were running. but rather behind time.
The electric car line was still blocked
and the prospect was that it would con-
tinue so for some time The snow was
badly drifted and on some streets the
ing most of the walks about the Dor
ough We're shoveled off, and those who
had been bound were about again.
One of our young men from the east
side escorted home one evening recent
ly young lady who lived on the out
skirts Of the borough, and when he was
returning home he froze both his ears.
The masquerade ball of the Eintrach
of In al
Tuesday evening proved to be very
successful affair, and was much enjoyed
by the many who were present.
The show Of the Darlington Stock COM
pany in the opera house for Monday
evening was postponed on account of the
storm, and Tuesday evening the weeks
engagement was opened up auspiciously.
Last evening 1.-THE Vagabond Father"
was the attraction
Not a solitary tramp was lodged here
Monday night They are cunning and
knew that they would have to shovel
snow in the morning, and preferred to
speculate in their own work
Ash Wednesday services were held in
st Paul's church this morning at 1920.
Baggage master James Stewart has
new twelve pound boy at his house,
blizzard.
William Schmarack was out Tuesday
with his Norwegian snow-shoes, which
are over five feet long.
When the first snow plow came
Through here about nine o'clock Tues
day morning it was sight worth see
ing, as the snow was thrown many feet
in the air and presented a spectacle sell
dom seen in these parts.
The Fl. L. Judd company works closed
yesterday as well as Monday.
The milkmen had hard times Tues
day, but managed to get around before
the day was over.
The scarcity of soft coal is the cause
of Fl. L. Judd & Co.'s shut down for
two days. The blizzard and the block
ing of freight traffic is the cause of the
trouble.
Most of the factories were closed
Tuesday as there was not enough en-
ployes that showed up to pay to run the
power.
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