The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-07
WALL1ScFoRD.

since o'clock yesterday morning. The weather last evening was disagreeable. but not as cold as it seemed. and the outlook was that rain would fall inside of twenty-four hours. One thermome- ter registered 26 below at o'clock yes terday morning. and at the same hour last evening was 15 above
 The attendance at the schools has been rather small for the past few days on account of the cold weather.
 Attorney James J. Nolan and Miss Alice V. Curran will be married in the Holy Trinity church this morning. Only the family will be present.
 Dennis F. Mcclure and Miss Dora Corrigan will be married at 7:SO this morning in the Holy Trinity church.
 A distillery of prune and raisin bran dy is to start up at once on the Malley farm on South Elm street Morris Vo- gel, of New York, is the proprietor. Yesterday Captain George R. Case, chief deputy collector for this district, and Thomas r. Daly visited the pro- posed plant and issued the necessary orders to make the distilling plant safe under government oversight and pro
 
 tection.
 St. Paul's guild will meet at the par ish house this afternoon Supper will be served at 6:3O.
 The ice company is cutting sixteen- inch ice on Simpsons pond.
 The bartenders will give dance in the armory Friday evening.
 Everybody seems pleased that the backbone of the cold wave is broken at last.
 Captain George Abbott, First Lieu tenant John J. Norton and Second Lieu tenant William J. Dray are the new of- ficers of Company K.
 Tuesday night and Wednesday morn ing the mercury went lower than at any time for many years and ranged from 20 to 2S in the coldest places-that is, where the thermometer is placed out of doors instead of in some warm cor ner
 Mrs. Charles Mitchell, of New Bed- ford, Mass, is the guest of her parents, z MT. and Mrs. Willis B. Turner
 G. Frederick Hull will have charge of the burnishing department at the Wal lingford Incorporated company after this week.
 MT. and Mrs. F. B. Treat have return ed to Lawrenceville, N. J.
 Charles Barker, of Providence, was in the borough yesterday.
 The trains were making better time yesterday afternoon and evening, all though some were quite late. The 5:19 train from Hartford was on time and surprised about everybody. The mails from New York and outside states have ;. been very late all the week. A letter from Chase City, Va, mailed New Years arrived here on January 5, and at other times would have got here in twenty-four hours.
 Monday night and Tuesday morning were the coldest on record for this vii .cinity. Even the old residents have D nothing to offer to come up with the figures. Monday night at S:30 it was seventeen below zero about the corner of Center and Colony streets. At 37.S0 TuesdaEx nosrnfng inSfront of Fuckers ss:zr~zore, corner of Colony and Center ssfeets, it was twenty-five below. Sew eral other thermometers in that vicinity registered about the same. Charles Tcothe, of Constitution street, left his home about seven o'clock and stated that thethernometer registered thirty below zero. He froze the end of his nose and one ear on his way to the de- pot. At the home of D. w. Ives, i'll East Wallingford, at 10:2O Monday night, it was .twenty-four below. At L. B. Scranton's, on East Center street, at seven o'clock yesterday morning, it was twenty-eight below. Tuesday evening at S:30 it was fifteen below on Colony street, the same as Monday evening, and no signs of a let up.
 The officers of Compass Lodge, F. and IA. M,.w were installed Monday evening by Past Master William B. Hall, Will s liam N. Mix being the marshal. In con nection with the installation there wa also a presentation made to one of the officers by Past Master Hall Directly after Richard Talbot was installed as treasurer. Past Master Hall presented Mra. Talbot in behalf of the members of the Compass lodge with Masonic thir- ty-second degree watch charm as an ex- precision of their appreciation of his services as treasurer of Compass lodge, and of the esteem in which he is held by it's members.
 Appropriate remarks were made by MT. Hall in connection with the presen- 4 tation Treasurer Talbot, in accepting the gift, feelingly responded. The pre- sentation was a complete surprise to MT Talbot MT Talbot has filed the office of treasurer of the above lodge for the past twenty-five years and began his twenty sixth consecutive term last evening" having first been elected in 1878. MT. Talbot was made Mason in Compass lodge in 1862.
 An interesting feature in connection with the presentation was the fact that Past Master Hall, who made the pre- sentation in behalf of the lodge, was made a Mason in Compass lodge the same year that Mr. Talbot was first elected as treasurer.
 The charm is of solid gold, the front of which is similar in design of Knight Templar charm, having upon it nine diamonds and eleven rubies. On the re- verse side are the double eagles which can be raised underneath which is the Keystone enameled in colors. It is beautiful piece of workmanship.
 The delegates from Compass lodge to the grand lodge, which meets in Hart ford January 20 and 21, are w. M, Will liam Bertini, S. w, Henry A. Norton,