The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-26
VARIOUS ITEMS.

Warren W. Hilditch of Yale university
and graduate of the Enfield high school,
has taken the initiative in the matter of
organizing an association of the alumni of
the Enfield high school. He has announced
q meeting for next Monday evening in the
high school building of all graduates of the
school from the year 1891 to the present.
Mr.. Hilditch is enthusiastic over the forma-
tion Of the association and is in hopes that
all graduates who can will be present, and
thus show their loyalty to their alma mater.
j. T. Severance, of Shelburne Falls, Mass,
has received two cars of coal from New
Haven, one hard and the other soft. The
farmers are rushing wood into the village
at a rate that will preclude u fuel famine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Spencer, Of Had
DAM, were yesterday in, New Haven to
spend Christmas with their children.
Mrs. Wells, Of New Haven, is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Nehemiah Burr, in Durham.
Miss Nellie Bonney, of New Haven, is
in Durham to spend the holidays with her
sister.
Wednesday morning there was at the
Naugatuck dock at South End, Bridgeport
over 1850 tons of coal in barges moored
there. The coal is mostly consigned to deal
ers and manufacturers along the Naugatuck
division, and will all be unloaded at the
i dock and placed in cars and sent to its des-
tfnation. The amount is the largest which
has ever accumulated at the dock for I'M
loading and taxes the capacity of the force
to its utmost. Arrangements are now under
way for the installation of lights, so that
day and night shift of shovelers and en-
gineers for the hosting apparatus can work.
About 90 members Of George Van Horn
post, G. A. R., Milford, attended the funeral
of the late FL. E. Bachelor ON Wednesday.
4 The number Of friends and relatives who
attended the service was large. The SER
vices were impressive, and large number
of floral tokens attested the high regard in
which the deceased was held.
Mrs. ]. FL. Brown has closed the Brown
residence on North avenue, Milford, and,
with her son, Edward. will spend the re-
nainder. of the winter in New York city.
Twenty-six more cars Of hard coal arrived
in Springfield, Mass, Wednesday, II over
the Consolidated road and nine over the
Boston and Albany. A good quantity of
soft coal also came in. 1t is expected that
! hard coal will arrive in about the same
amounts for some time to come.
Miss Nettie l. Hill. of New Haven, is
4 spending Christmas with her sister. Mrs.
II T.. Ross, in Springfield.
Miss Cecilia Shea, who is studying at the
New Haven normal school, is visiting her
parents at Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Rev. N. NJ. Calhoun, of Winsted, delivered
an address at the meeting of the Congrega-
tional club at Hampton, n. H., Thursday,
the 18th, on the occasion of the Forefather $
Yankee Farmer The Congregational
church at Hampton was founded in 1858.
Mr.3and Mrs. Il. W. Wadham and daughter
Mildred, of West Haven. We're guests of
Captain and Mrs. E. T.. Pettigrew In Groton
on Christmas.
Norman Ryan. of the Hopkins grammar
school in New Haven, spent Christmas at
his home In New London.
Mrs. ,Lemuel Beebe. of New Haven, is
visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles f. Beebe
in Mantle.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bouton and Miss
Maude .Bouton, of New Haven, are the
guests of Rev. and Mrs. c. f. Luther in
Mystic.
BY the retirement from business Of Mr..
Homer 81. Peck who for the last 10 years
has conducted a grocery store at 161 Woes
ter street., that neighborhoOd loses one of
Its Oldest residents and business men. Mr..
Peck's retirement will take effect Jan.
and the business will pass into other hands.
When Mr.. Peck first started in business on
Wooster street that neighborhOod was one
of the finest in the city and some Of the
best known of the citizens at that time were
living there. Besides, Mr.. Peck who lived
at the corner of Hamilton and Wooster
streets until three years ago, when he moved
there was Commodore Richard Peck, we'll
known as the steamboat man, Hiram Camp,
president of the New Haven Clock Co.
Mayor Henry G. Lewis, Mr.. Halstead of the
lumber firm of Halstead & Harmount, aud
John H. Coley, former well known dry
goods man. Several of these men died while
residents of Wooster street and Mr.. Peck
was the last of them to move away to
another Fart of the city.
"A. Johnson, night Waterman at ~ n
Hills Brass company. in East Hampton,
built a hut out in the woods back OF the
factory last fall which he uses daytimes to
sleep in, so as to be away from all noise
and confusion. Shortly after taking I'D his
abode in the woods he made the acaliaint-
ance of pair of red squirrels Every morn.
ing they are waiting for him upon his return
from the factory and johnson makes it Il
point to always feed them. They have
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