The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-12
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| Barkhampsted people yesterday eel
ebrated the anniversary Of the incorpo
ration of the town, September 10, III!
by holding a picnic on the green neal
the old town hall, as has been the Gus
tom annually since the centennial II
1879. Many old residents were back
About 200 sat down to dinner.
After having been missing from his
home in Bridgeport for the past three
days the body of Christian Dappe was
| discovered lying in the creek which
surrounds the south side of Mountain
Grove cemetery yesterday afternoon
The authorities were notified, and the
body was removed to the morgue. He
was thirty-five years of age, and was
employed by the American Graphophone
company
George M. Bowers, United States
commissioner of fish and fisheries of
Washington, at the solicitation of Con-
gresham T.. j. Hill of this district, has
forwarded 500 rge-mouthed black bass
to Connecticut, 200 for Lake Weramaug,
400 for Twin Lakes and 200 for High
| land lake, which was received Monday
by Postmaster C. X. Hunt and placed
| in those waters.
| The Schoverling- Kinney company Of
| New Milford have sold to Brown
Brothers company of Detroit, Mich,
cigar manufacturers, 1,5T6 cases of 1899
Connecticut Havana seed for about
$500, 900.
The fair Of the Union Agricultural So
ciety, much better known as the Hunt
ington fair, is to be held on the 18th and
10th of this month
The long continued drought has
brought the town of Mystic face to face
with very serious situation. wa
ter famine is imminent, If it may not be
said to have already come. The reser-
yoir is empty and the pond has but 1T
tie water left. The supply for watering
troughs, garden hose and boats has been
cut off, and if no rain comes tonight
it is expected that all the manufactures
will be shut off Tomorrow This will
stop the electric light works and the
mills. The reservoir on the hill will be
kept full, and when the pond Is pumped
dry, water will be shut off from all
houses and the reservoir supply kept for
fire extinguishing purposes. Mystic
would have had enough water but for
the fact that the reservoir was emptied
last spring in CIDER to clean it out, and
it never filed afterwards.
Miss Clara B. Cornell, Miss Edith
HAYDEN, Miss Bessie Blood. Miss Nellie
Carey. Miss Margaret Flynn and Miss
Eta Ginand, all graduates Of the 1900
class of the Bridgeport training school
were appointed regular teachers by the
Bridgeport board of education Monday
evening.
The remains of Miss Desire Nettleton,
who died in Hartford Sunday, aged sew
enty-nine, were brought to Norfolk
Monday evening and We're buried in the
Center cemetery there yesterday after
noon. Rev. w F. Stearns conducted
briet services both at the chapel and at
the grave. Miss Nettleton had been an
inmate Of the Hartford asylum about
twenty years. In the seventies Miss
Netteton and her sister, deceased, kept
private school In Norfolk In the house
now occupied by Postmaster Curtiss
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Mills of Tor
rington has issued invitations for the
marriage Of their daughter, Miss Sadie
Lavina. to Clarence Elwood Billion, of
Bridgeport, which Will take place at the
Center Congrega tional church in that
town on Thursday. September 90. at
O'clock