The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-06
WALLiNGFORD.

Jonn ElnOer, all inmate, uleQ aL the Masonic home at about F o'clock yes terday of consumption, aged seventy one years. Funeral services will be held at the home at o'clock this morn ing, Rev. J. E. Wildman officiating. The body will be taken on the s:57 train to Rockville for burial. He was a mem Der of Fayette lodge of Rockville and had been at the home for two years.
 Margaret E., the two year and nine months old daughter of MT. and Mrs. Harry Haywod of South Main street,
 died at Il o'clock Sunday night after a short illness with scarlet fever and
 pneumonia. The burial was yesterday
 afternoon in the In Memoriam" ceme- tary.
 The body of Miss Louise Pfanne-
 buckin, who died yesterday morning at the New Haven hospital, was brought here yesterday afternoon for interment. The old fashioned winter is here with
 both feet and even the old residents
 have no recollections of anything worse in the weather line. Sunday evening was the coldest on record. The mer-
 cury at D. J. Fuckers drug store on at 10 o'clock 1t was IS below. Yester- day morning at 6:30 it was below and
 an hour later was below and stayed below zero all day.
 The prospects last evening looked as though the mercury would drop lower before morning than on Sunday night. At o'clock the mercury was 10 below
 zero in front Of Dickerman's store up- town and 12 below at Fuckers drug
 store on Colony street. At S:30 1t was
 1T below on Colony street. Most of the trains were late yesterday
 owing to the heavy snow. The trolley cars had hard lines Sun day and were blocked on Main street
 all day and only got the North Main street line in running order early Sum- day evening. Yesterday South Main street was opened up.
 Skating cards were displayed on the trolley cars in Richmond, va., all of last week.
 I Unclaimed letters in the postoffice
 yesterday morning were: Mrs. Ed
 ward Mcintyre, R. G. Gilfullan. The schools in the Central district opened yesterday morning, but owing to the severe weather and snow there
 was a small attendance. The plumbers were quite busy yes- terday owing to the frozen water pipes.
 Miss Ethel Bartholomew returns to Smith college Thursday MT. and Mrs. H. H. Hawkins return ed to Montclair, N. J., yesterday. Frary Hale, Jr., returns to Amherst college to-day.
 l Clarence Hale returns to Phillips -Ex- eter academy tomorrow. 1 James F. Hines eturned yesterday to
 Trenton, N. J.
 Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Fiske have
 returned to Hyde Park, Mass. l There is about a foot of snow on the
 ground and the prospect for sleighing is good. On the outskirts of town many | of the roads are still blocked. The town teams are at work every day
 breaking through the roads outside and
 expect to have all open in few days. l H. B. Sherman of Washington street
 was out with his horse and snow blow
 Sunday morning and worked the side
 walks on Hall avenue and Washington street in manner that was pleasing to all in that vicinity. He deserves much | credit for the action, as it was volun- tary and no pay was forthcoming. Charles s. Allen and daughter Mabel
 and Elmer Allen sailed Saturday from
 New York on the steamer Princess Am
 ne for Norfolk and Richmond.