The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-22
WALLTNGFORD.

camp of Modern Woodmen of America was organized with a membership o. thirty-eight, The following officer. were elected: Venerable consul-George c. Case.
 Worthy advisor-Walter LeHouiller Clerk-Frank c. Hill. Banker-DaVid Burns Escort-Charles E. Bellows. Watchman-Thomas F. Nagle. Sentry-Ernest c. Smith, Physicians--Dr. w. S. Russell, pr. W P. Wilson.
 Managers-Charles Beaudoin William B. Smith, M. J, Brdgett. Local deputy-George c. Case.
 The officers were installed by State Deputy T. w. Newman of Hartford and District Deputy J. A. Clarke of An sonia.
 Another meeting will be held next Friday evening. The order has been in existence some two years in this state and has membership of upwards of 5000
 Mrs Hiram Botsford died Sunday af- ternoon after a long illness with cancer ous troubles. She leaves a husband and a daughter, Miss Annie Botsford. Funeral at nine o'clock this morning from Holy Trinity church.
 Rev J, Owen Jones left here yester- day morning for Jersey City to attend the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Congregational association of New Jer- sey, to be held to-day and tomorrow.
 The Wallingford birds won in the match with Middletown Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, down near North Haven. Wallingford won five out of six bouts.
 Unclaimed letters remaining in the post office yesterday morning were for G. Guldbrandsen, Edw. Huntley.
 At the auction sale Saturday the Pol ly Wooding estate property, the home stead and ten acres of land on the Par ker farms was sold to George R. Ste Vens.
 Constable Taylor, of Berlin, was down here yesterday and took back with him J. Lapointe, who left dead horse at the side of the highway a week ago yes terday He was driving from here to New Britain when the horse, which be- longed to Thomas Pagnam, died. A milk peddler's team became frightened at the dead animal and some damage was done to the milk wagon as result fo the animals antics.
 According to Lapointe's story he had made arrangements with a party to have the horse removed and supposed it was done.
 F. M. Hubbard is home from Phila- delphia.
 J. Alvin Scott has returned to Eve rett, Mass.
 Sereno Bartholomew who has been quite ill., is reported as improving,
 M. w. Futile has for sale tickets for the Drummer Boy of Shiloh" which will be given by the G. A. R. in Meri- den the last three evenings this week.
 The annual meeting of St. Paul's parish will be held Thursday evening at the parish house.
 The postponed meeting of the Wall lingford Athletic club will be held in Temperance hall this evening at 7:30 o'clock.
 The annual meeting of St. Paul's Sun day school will be held Wednesday evening at the parish house.
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 Mrs. Mary Augusta Scott regrets that her strength and health prevent her ex- pressing her gratitude personally for the many acts of sympathy and affec- tion, both before and since the funeral of her late husband, Rev. James L. Scott, of Wallingford, Conn.,, and takes this means of assuring her friends that those acts will always be held in ten derest remembrance.
 "A Tour Around the World" which was planned to be given for the benefit of the public library, has been post poned for the present, the committee so deciding at meeting held Saturday af- ternoon.
 Superintendent Pierce and wife were in New York last evening and attended the reception given at Columbia univer- sity to Lord and Lady Kelvin
 The twentieth anniversary exercises and banquet of the Y, M. T, A. B. and L. society, in it's rooms on Center street, evening, May i, promises to be a very pleasant affair. Invitations to the same are being sent out
 "A Brace of Cartridges" that was billed for the opera house this evening, has been cancelled, as the company closed it's season in New Haven Satur- day evening.