The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24

His dog will not be c0mforted. lying for hours whimpering and whining for his masters return and refusing all food.
 A comedy drama. "Arrah-na-Pogue," was cleyerly given in the Ansonia ope- ra House last Thursday evening by a company of local actors. Talent fur nished by the members of the Church of the Assumption. The hall was crowded and the acting as well as staging of the play was excellent.
 Coles, who runs the trolley express, states that he has twenty year agree ment with the Fair Haven & Westville Trolley company, so that rumors which concerned the probable withdrawal of the business from the line are without foundation.
 The decision by Judge Shumway os the squatter sovereigns' rights at Cedar Beach, Milford Point. interests many Derby people who have built cottages on the sand in that section While some of these structures are not ornamental. they are well patronized, aid the ques- tion of ownership of the land by the Laurel Beach company was surprise
 
 more have camped on the spot.
 The flowing of sap from maple trees is said to be a sure hamburger of spring. In a yard on Church street. Ansonia, a tree Is being tapped daily, pitcher of the juice being secured in twenty-four hours The flow is greater at night.
 The police of Derby have started a crusade against all niekle-in-the-slot machines. Three were found in some saloons last week and were destroyed Thursday. Ten dollars were removed from the basins.
 The ice freshet this year appears to have done more damage than the usual destruction of fences and buildings on the river banks. The discovery has been made that the channel in the river below the wharfs in Derby and shelton has been shifted. and sand bars which were supposed to be fixtures have gone or been moved into deeper water, thus closing up the route tughoats have fol- lowed for years. If such proves to be the situation these bars will become se- rious Instructions, any boat taking a chance of running aground at low wa- ter. Pilots will be on their guard more than ever, and a survey of the deep places will be required.
 An inordinary case was recently brought before the Derby city court. Two girls engaged in scrap of hair pulling in one of the rooms of leading factory. and the -tussle cost one of the combatants fifteen dollars.
 Mrs. c. H. Nettleton and her daugh- ter. Miss Helen Nettieton, have just re- turned from four weeks trip to South ern California.
 The Ansonia fire committee is very wisely preparing pamphlet locating the situation of every hydrant in the city. Every fireman will be given a chart that will enable him at once after an alarm to know just where to lay a line of hose. The study of these maps will be a. part of the duty of every fire- man.
 The Ansonia public school teachers have petitioned the Board of Education to extend the winter term one week, so as to have the schools close on the last day of March and not on the 18th. This means 8 delay, of course, Of one week lof the Easter recess Some of the teachers prefer not to be absent from town during holy week.
 The Derby District Nurse association has struck popular chord in this com- Imunity, for they are receiving words of encouragement. and what is particular ly neeessary--m The subscrip- tions already exceed six hundred. The emergency room is in readiness, a tele- phone is located there. and two hospital cots have been added to the surgical supplies. Up to date Miss Hall has re- sponded to sixty calls, the longest case needing her nine days the shortest one ten minutes. The ma jority of the pa Itients have been city charges. too poor to pay even five cents an hour. new poultry farm on a large scale has just been started in Orange by A. lB B. Barnes, of Shelton. Barnes sold his Highland poultry farm in shelton to Gustave Rosina. and has decided to con- tinue his enterprise in Orange. The election of officers both of the Woman's club and the D. A. R. chapter is one of the near events for these ten associations. Both of these societies are in very fiourishing condition, and lit is an honor greatly appreciated to be an officer of either club