The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-10
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The earting of the different parts of the soldiers monument as well as the cannon
 up to North Main street from the cars is completed. The setting of the base on the
 Foundation Is finished, and the derricks arrived for placing the other parts of the
 monument in place. The putting in place
 of the other parts of the monument will be
 completed in day or two. The different
 poftlons or the monument will be hermeu- caily sealed with lead. The contract for the monument called for a nine-t0n base
 and the firm, Phillips < Son. have made it
 six Inches higher and weighing ten tons.
 The coping for the ground surrounding the monument will be placed in position next week. The exact distance the cannon will be placed south Of the monument has not
 been definitely determined yet. The dis
 tanee will be made subordinate to the mon
 ument. It will probably he some sixty or
 slXty-tive feet south of the monument. Yesterdays recorded real estate transfer was 4. l.. Hall to Frank ". Brown, of Ok
 bridge, Mass. and NiS C. Dfmsen and Martha DimseR, of West Haven, 76 acres
 John A!!an farm.
 Chief Engineer DOwney made a trial Of ! the new fire alarm system last evening at eight o'clock and pulled the hook at box 16. trial was not q success. as the alarm was decidedly mixed and did not come up to
 expectations.
 Some of the newly elected offers were passing out cigars up in Town hall last evening"
 The new board Of selcctmen have had a meeting and organized. Quite a number of the recently elected officers on the town ticket have already qualified. Among the number gre William
 Hodgkinson. collector of taxes: assessors r. D; Leonard G. H. Yale and J. H. Fran cls; C. G Thomson, aurit0r: Roger s. Aus tin, P. J. Hogan, Walter $. Gates, C. R.. Lamb, constables; Henry R. Hall and Zera r. Beach, as board of relief. At the finish of yesterdays work on North Main street 1,500 feet of the road had been graded and about 600 feet of car tracks 1 laid.
 Danbnry fair yesterday. It Is stated that Mrs. Mur2hy's ducks threaten 10 bring suit against the borough
 for destroying the duck pond op Hall avenue.
 Mrs. J. L. Pomeroy is Ill at her nome In Springfield Mass.
 William NJ. Ramsdell, publisher of the Buffalo Express, and wife are the guests of MT. and Mrs. H. Nj. Stevens, of Curtis Elijah M. Beaumont, of Toledo, Ohio, is the guest of relatives on North Main street.
 Miss Bertha Wildman has. returned to
 Madison, N. J. ~
 The assessors have organized with George 1 H. Yale, chairman. and J. H. Francis, secretary.
 Quite a number will be out on Colony street this morning about 10 o'clock to see l the automobile parade en route from New i York to Boston
 The soldiers monument dedication dec
 orating committee has selected Herbert c. | Mix as secretary. l Mir. and Mrs. D. D. Dickinson, of New. | fame, Vt., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. 1 w. H. Newton, of Main street. 1 Horace Botsford has returned from a trip 1 to Gettysburg and Washington. 1 Attorney c. A. Harrison is expected to
 arrive home from England on Saturday. James A. Cannon and wife are home from | their wedding trip.
 ''The Village Parson'' is booked for the
 opera house next Thursday evening, 0cto l Der 16.
 l A large number of those who are subject 1 to military or poll tax fail to pay the | same and many seem to think they will ] not have to do so. The law is very plain
 on this point and requires that all shal l pay who are liable. :.