The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-05-22
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in the armory this evening promises to
be quite an extensive affair. Judge l..
M. Hubbard will be master of ceremo-
MES and toast-maker and will, with
other prominent citizens, make an ad-
dress and give the visitors a cordial
greeting. The various rooms Of the fire
companies will be supplied with refresh
ments for the guests all the time, night
or day, during the stay of the delegates
in town. The Wallace Hose company
has arranged quite an entertainment,
consisting of music, both instrumental
and vocal together with Rotations,
etc, to take place at its house on Cherry
street after the banquet and other cere-
monies are over.
The work of decorating the public
buildings and places of business about
the borough was in progress yesterday
but was considerably retarded owing to
| the showers.
! A short parade will be given this
evening, starting from the Wallace hose
! house at o'clock. The line of march
| will be from the hose house to Colony
street Colony to Christian; contermarch
to Center, to Fair to Main, up Main to
| Curtis avenue; countermarch down
J Main to Prince, back, to the armory,
where the banquet will be served,
Yesterdays recorded real estate
| transfer was. Frances S. Plum and Will
| liam Plum to William and George Grieb,
| twenty-one acres of land, with build
ings on North Farms The property
was formerly known as the Gould An
| drews farm.
| Thunder showers and plain everyday
| showers Were numerous yesterday and
| yet the weather was quite chilly.
Quite a. number of the merchants and
| property owners on Center street have
used among their decorations some of
:, the cheaper lines of goods that are best
adapted for indoor ornamentation, and
| when yesterday showers struck here
there was pretty mess-colors run to-
| gether and then run out entirely ALI
| over the awnings, sidewalks and sides
| of buildings and the into the cutters,
| which We're red as the DRAWINGS from a
| slaughterhouse.
| The following general orders have
been issued:
Headquarters A. H Dutton Post No. Sc,
Wallngford, Conn, May IS, 1900.
General Order No. /:
l. ne lHPHlDeTS OIL lHlS post are HeIPDy
ordered and most earnestly requested to
assemble at their post rooms at o'clock
a. m, sharp, May 80, 1900, for the pur
pose of decorating the graves Of our
dead comrades.
Memorial services will be held at the
Congregational church on Sunday even
ing, May 81 preceding Decoration day,
at 7 o'clock.
All members of the post are directed
to assemble at the post rooms at $50
o'clock sharp, and march to the church
in uniform, with white gloves, If posi-
BILE.
Members of other posts and all
Union soldiers and sailors Of the civil
and Spanish wars residing within the
jurisdiction of the post are cordially in
vited to join with us on Decoration day
and meet with and accompany us to
church Sunday evening May 81
j. S. PARKER, Adjutant.
Per order, p M. TW1TCHELL,
Commander.
One of the handsomest decorated
houses in town is that of Judge Hub
bard on South Main street The town
hall building is decorated with flags
and bunting from the towerNt to the side
walk
The decorations on the Central hotel
on Hall avenue are the most elaborate
of any in the borough.
The many visiting firemen from all
parts of the state will be given a royal
reception during their stay here, and
they will be assured that they are well
come.
Rev. Henry Stone will leave Thurs
day for Craigclair, N. Y, to attend the
Catskill conference,
Rev. A. w. Merritt of New Haven
Sunday morning
Rev. j. j. Blair will leave here for
Ostervlle, Mass, next Tuesday
Miss Edith Turner has been appointed
assistant librarian of the Walingford |
public library.
The fire department has voted to turn
out Memorial day.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Breeze will sail |
from New York Tomorrow for England |
John Lee and Miss Margaret Marie |
Verlin will be married in the Holy Trim
ity church at 1880 o'clock Wednesday |
morning.
A ten-months-old child of Theodore |
Duplesse will be brought here from |
Hartford on the 1925 train this morn
ing for burial in the an Memoram"
cemetery.
Minor Dayton was before Judge Judd |
yesterday afternoon, charged with in
toxication, He was given thirty days
in Jail, with costs of $1395.
The delegates to the flremen's conven-
ton began to arrive here yesterday af-
ternoon and a rush is expected this
About four hundred are look
ed for.
Good weather is all that is needed to |
make the firemen's convention a big !
lccess E,1,er1,thira Or ealsn l,oo, |