The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04
WALLINGFORD HAPPENINGS
4DJOURNED MEETING OF THE B UR-
 GESSES SATURDAY EVENING.

Officers and Committees Appointed l Dmtton Post c, A. R. Elected Officers Fire In Parker Farms District-- Every member of the board of bur
 gesses was present at the adjourned
 meeting held Saturday evening. The
 first business was the reading of the minutes of the last meeting. Burgess | Hassett raised a question regarding l the proceedings of the last meeting and
 rather questioned the legality of the action of the last meeting in the ap
 pointment of officers, etc., and the dis
 cussion continued for some time. Bur
 gess Hassett favored vote of recon
 sideraton and starting on a sound basis. Upon a motion of Burgess Bar
 Der, the vote taken at the last meeting relating to appointive officers holding over until charges were referred was rescinded.
 The bond of L. M. Hubbard of $1 900
 as borough attorney with Amer Martin
 as surety was offered and accepted.
 The bond of N F. Ingraham of $1,0OO
 as bailiff with C. A. Harrison as sure
 ty was offered and accepted.
 The question as to the necessity of
 reappointing the officers that were ap-
 pointed at the last meeting was brought
 up and discussed and it was finally
 decided to send for the borough attor-
 ney so as to get the legal points and work accordingly. Judge Hubbard came in and among other opinions >ex- pressed stated that he considered the discussed motion of Burgess Hassett, regarding the appointive officers hold ing over, etc., was not proper one and should not have been considered as it was decidedly against the requirements of the borough charter which provides otherwise.
 Michael Kelly, J. w. Douglass. l.. A. Northrop, John James, James Stewart, and John Murphy were appointed as special officers
 The officers of the fire department ap- pointed were John Downey, chief en- gineer; Charles Cannon first assistant; John B. Gavin, second assistant The committees appointed were: Health G. H. Craig, George Jones, Thomas Peg nam; sidewalks, H. B. Hall Samuel Hodgkinson and William Hassett; fire department, Burgessea Hodgkinson, Craig ard Hassett; sewer committee, Fl. B. Hall, Burgesses Barbour and Jones and Warden Hall; police, Bur gesses Hodgkinson and Barber and Warden Hall; roads. Warden Hall Burgesseo Hodgkinson and Barber; electric lights Warden Hall Burgesses Hodgkinson and Jones.
 The seniority of burgesses was ar ranged as follows: Samuel Hodgkinson, D. L. Barber c. Fl. Craig, William Hassett, George Jones, Thomas Pag- nam. Adjourned at 11:10
 The elected officers of the A. H. Out ton post, G. A. R., are Perry M Twitch- ell, commander; William Freeman, sem for vice commander; Byron Hill junior vice commanders; Merwin w. Futile, quartelmaster: Oscar B. Lane, surgeon; Lorenzo D. Wilcox, chaplain; Elkanah K. Morse, officer of the day; William Rawson, officer of the guard; O. B. Lane, delegate to state encampment; William Freeman, alternate.
 A house owned by Israel Burr and in the Parker Farms district on the west side of town was burned to the ground early Saturday morning. The building was insured for $500 in the Holland Mutual in J, 4. Martins agency.
 A lady and gentleman on tandem went over the bank on Tolle's hill where the grading is being done, Fri day night, and fell a distance of thir- | teen feet striking in the soft sand and | escaped injury.
 Denman Thompson's popular play Sunshine in Paradise Alley is book ed for the opera house on Thursday evening" December A.
 Contractor Kearney has stopped put | Ing stone on the state road on North | Colony street, but is continuing work | 0n the grading and dressing the sides | )f the road. All but 450 feet is now with stones and the rest will | be laid in the spring and the entire distance finished up.
 The North Haven road builders are 1ustling along the grading and filling on the hill just south of the Walling- ord line and when completed the grade will be about three feet to one hundred. About nine feet has been taken out near the top of the hill, and about six 'eet filled in near the bottom.
 Colonel Barber of New Jersey, who vas one of the bearers at Vice President funeral, is the largest owner If the Wallingford Gaslight company plant.
 Saturdays real estate transfers were: I. F. Hall to William Hassett. house md lot, 50x135 feet on Meadow street: I. F. Hall to R. E. Badger, four houses md lots on Church and Orchard streets.
 Captain Dennis O'Brien of Co., l. 1ibernian Rifles, has been elected jun or major of the regiment.
 c. E. Fairbanks expects to take a ca voyage to Norfolk, Richmond and ther points of interest this week. start ng Wednesday.
 Miss Mabel c. Hall is expected home tomorrow from a five weeks visit in D. c.
 The schools reopen this morning.
 The selectmen will hold their regular monthly meeting to-day.
 To-day is quarterly pension day.
 Miss Elsie Newton returns to-day to Ter studies at Pelham Manor
 Compass lodge, No g, F. and A. M. will lect officers this evening.