The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-05

anu @fA4G- - II. I1uDBCll. 80 Dd5EElh
street. About fifty were present. Dane
ing was INDUCED in by the young peo-
pie, Professor w. c. Hall furnishing the
music. Refreshments We're served.
The remains of Charles Ashton, who
died in this city recently, were taken
TO Middletown for burial in Farm Hill
cemetery.
At the Calvary Industrial home this
evening at 7:3O there will be an enter
tainment consisting of selections on the
monograph given by Lewis Buchanan Of
337 Orange street. All friends are in
vited.
Charles W. Cramer of this city has
been making a visit to his parents in
Portland.
Thomas Sinclair, a foreman Of the
Consolidated road on a portion of the
work which is now going on in Bridge
port, was in town Wednesday night Wis
iting friends.
The first social dance given by the
Calumet club took place at Pythian hall
in Branford Wednesday evening and
was a great success. The attendance,
which was large, included many guests
from this city and Guilford. Among
the out-of-town guests present were
Miss Parmalee of Guilford, Miss Anna
Hull, Mr.. and Mrs. Lundquist of this
city and Leroy Bartholomew.
Miss L. Baetrice Buck of Madison is
spending a few days in this city.
Next Thursday, December II, the
Branford Baptist Sewing circle will
hold it's annual Christmas sale in the
lecture room, afternoon and evening.
Supper will be served from till 8
o'clock. Booths will be arranged about
the room from which will he sold useful
and fancy articles. A feature of the
sale will be an express office, same as
last year.
DR.. A. D. Tyler of Madison, who has
been quite ill for several days, is much
better.
Miss German of Saratoga is the guest
of Miss Laura MILFORD of Indian Neck,
Branford.
F. D. Meigs has gone to Phoenix, r.
l., to attend the funeral of the late
Josephus Lawton, which will take place
in that city. Mr.. Lawton was for near
ly sixty years one of the leading cloth
ing merchants of Rhode Island and
was eighty-three years of age when he
died. Mr. Lawton was Mr.. Meigs' first
and only employer. When lad of six
teen Mr.. Meigs began work for Mr..
Lawton and continued in his employ
for seven years, until 1871 when he
started his own career as a clothing
merchant at Dexter, Me. Mr.. Meigs
is still the proprietor of the Dexter
store. He remained in active man
agement of the down east establish
ment but a few years, however. before
he formed the partnership of Meigs
& Co., which has since been incorporat-
ed. Mr.. Meigs, in common with all
who knew the late Mr.. LaWton had the
greatest respect possible for his for
mer employer, and that Mr.. Lawton re-
garded Mr. Meigs very highly is endors-
ed by the. fact that he kept in close
friendly relations with him during all
the years since their business relations
ceased.
The Sunday school of the Howard
avenue NJ e. church, corner of Howard
avenue and Fourth street, opened last
evening a Christmas sale of fancy and
useful articles, confectionery, ice cream
and home made pies. cakes and bread.
The sale continues this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Hulrburt have
returned to their home in Guilford af-
ter spending a few days with their
daughter, Mrs. Annie Smith of II Nor
ton street.
Miss Bertha Gibson Coe of Madison
had the misfortune to sprain her ankle
on Monday evening of this week Miss
Coe was alighting from a carriage in
which she returned from the dancing
school at Memorial hall and resulted as
above stated. Her many friends will
be glad to learn that the injured part
is progressing as rapidly as is to be
expected.
William Graham Sumner. professor
of social science at Yale, was Wednes-
day honored by an election as vice pres
ident Of the New England Anti-Imper-
ialist league, at the annual meeting of
the organization which was held in
Boston. Ex-Governor George S. Bout
we'll of Massachusetts was elected pres
ident. About $50 Of the leading anti
imperialists of New England were pres
ent, including several forceful oppo-
nents of criminal aggression as Profess
sor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard,
William Lloyd Garrison, Judge A. A.
Putnam, Frank B. Sanborn and Ffske
Warren.