The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-08
VARIOUS ITEMS.


 valley branch of the Grant family as- sociation will be held at Lake Com bounce Tuesday. A basket lunch will be served about 12:30
 Farmers report that the apple crop this year is larger than it has been be- fore in many years. They have com menced their annual cider making and the mills are getting busy.
 John Morrisey, sixty-five years of age, fell from pear tree on the premises of John D. Coulter, 463 Pacific street, ,Stam- ford, Saturday, and was badly hurt. Morrisey was hired by MT. Coulter to pick the trees crop of pears.
 Judge Livingston w Cleaveland says he will continue in the gubernatorial race in spite of the fact that he will not be supported by the delegation from his own city.
 Rev. Fred B. Brown will cease to be pastor of the Bethel gospel church, An sonia, some time during the month of October. He proposes, with his family, to return to China, and take up mission ary work again, where he left off when he returned to the United States. He feels as though his work is there instead of here. He will probably stop at his old home in Kansas on his way.
 Waterbury will be well represented at the big firemen's parade to be held in ThOmaston Thursday next. The Rose Hill hose company will send thirty-five members, who will be accompanied by drum corps. Both the American band
 
 by different out-of-town fire companies to participate in the parade.
 The tall brick chimney which is being erected in the yards of the Farrel Foun- dry and Machine company, Ansonia, will be 150 feet high, which is fifteen feet less than that in the yards of the brass mill, and fifty-two feet six inches less than the tall chimney in the yard of the Coe Brass company in that city.
 Mayor Charles F. Thayer of Norwich, candidate for the democratic nonina- tion for governor, has sent reply to the Economic league to their questions as to the policy to be pursued by him if elected.
 At an early hour yesterday morning | fire broke out in the pattern shop of the iLOlo CpIt1pdAy damage to the amount Of nearly $75,000. Business is suspended.
 Members of the New Britain Young Mems Temperance society are making an active canvass for recruits, with view to putting in enough applications to increase the membership to 800. | Peach prices in Southington this year are the lowest they have been in sev- eral years and from indications at | present, locally at least, the growers will end the season with harvest less profitable than that of last year. South | ington has become quite peace grow | ing region and in prolific years about 10o0 000 baskets are harvested. | Mir. and Mrs. Elijah Eaton of Plain vile celebrated the sixty-seventh anni- versary of their marriage Saturday. Last year it was asserted on good au- thority that as far as known there was no one in the state that had been mar ried so many years as this couple. | Aeronaut Dan A. Barnell will give balloon ascensions and parachute drops at Orange next week Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday.
 1 Elvin L. Small of Berlin doing busi- | ness under the name of the New Brit ain Steam Heating company. in New | Britain, has filed voluntary peti- tion in bankruptcy. His liabilities amount to s3,970,O4, of which s3,5oS,04 is unsecured. His. assets amount to $1,- s6434, of which s1,200 Is in stock in trade; $40O in personal property, and S204 34 in debts due on open accounts. Dr. S. NJ Hammond of this city, who has been spoken of as coach for the HiIlhouse- -Boardman school football eleven, is brother of Rev. F. H. L.. Hammond, pastor of the M. F. church in Wallingford. Dr. Hammond was one of Yales star half backs in 9a. He was coach for the Wesleyan university team for two seasons, besides other college eievens.
 Eugene Jepson, the well known actor, who was once a Meriden newspaper man, is engaged to be married. His fiancee is Miss Adelaide Bishop Edel- sten, and the wedding is to occur in Co., tober About year ago William Edel- sten, lawyer, moved his family from Elizabeth, N. J.. to West 1Slst street, New York, next door to where Mir. Jep- son lived with his mother and brother. The families became acquainted and an attachment sprang up between MT. Jep- son and Miss Edelsten.