The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
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l He new edFAy iflufIiihS iVnS5 ttiP from Ansonia to New Haven is most successful bid for travel The car lands passengers at the New Haven green within ten minutes of seven.
 Several changes are being arranged among the tenants of the stores in the two Elizabeth street Aliing brick blocks south of the Gas company building. Weldman and Valentine vacate July 1, and the former goes to the store where W. F. Hubbell now is, Hubbell leaving to lease the store Weldnan vacates. The five and ten cent store has been sold by Weldon to Waterbury mer- chant Hart
 The ice pack or dam on the Housaton- ic near the Hanchett hill is and will be for some time the point of attraction for the ra-enthusiast and pedestrians. No such upheaval of the frozen river has even been witnessed before this. The ride now through the ice cuts is not safe for horses. as the bottom of the road is treacherous. The. section of ice cut at the Hanchett place was nineteen hundred feet long. while the road dug through the ice jam above that place, or in the vicinity of the "Mapledale Farm was thirty-four hundred feet in length. The height of the ice on either side of the cuts averaged eight to elev- en feet.
 The Young Mems Christian associa- tion orchestra has increased it's volume of sound by consolidating with the Shell ton orchestra. The company will now number twelve instruments.
 Detectives are on the street at their work, whatever it may be, and 1t is pre- stunned it concerns the reported attempts lat switch-spiking in Ansonia. The off, cials of the Consolidated deny the sto- ries of the spiking; still these spotters are being studied, and all their sleuths are being followed. It is puzzling the police to get at the motive of the out rages already committed, and why the fear of more possesses so many here.
 Young Maxwell, for whom purse was raised by the Young Mems Chris tian association to pay his expenses at a sanatarium for consumptives, re- turned home to die Friday morning Maxwell attributed the start of his lung trouble to the inveterate use of tobacco.
 He had. however, dropped the practice sofne time before his death.
 Dr George L. Beardsley was the sev- enteen hundred and seventeenth appii- cant to draw books at the Derby public library on Friday afternoon last. During the past week Secretary Brown, of the Young Mems Christian association, with MT. W. E. Fenno. of New York, has instituted series of shop-meetings through the towns in this vicinity. The purpose has been to ac- quaint all with the physical, mental and spiritual advantages of q Young Mems Christian association resort. A good attendance has repaid these earn est workers for their pains
 Mrs. Kalish, the popular alto soloist of the Second Congregational church, will not sing after April 1. The music com mittee has received three applications for the vacancy, and one of the parties sang at the morning service last Sun- ! day.
 The Haunts of Nature" was exhibited by Dr. Bigelow, one of the editors of the St. Nicholas magazine, at the Derby NJ. F. church Tuesday evening. The lecture was under the auspices of the Epworth League.
 Quite a cigarette mania" has att tackled the juvenile community of Der by lately. The Shelton police propose to institute proceedings against those who sport the weed in that borough and are under the prescribed age The fact that tobacco is so plentiful among the
 young children is proof that some deal CTS are violating the law. An effort is being made to induce some of the
 youngsters to peach" on the tobacco merchants.
 In place of a fire-whistle on the AL Hing factory, the superintendent of fire alarm has decided to use three small chimes. They are tested every noon and are working satisfactorily. The grand list of Huntington shows an increase of one hundred and twenty live thousand dollars. Twelve new dwelling houses and three new mills have been built during the past year. The amount invested in manufacturing property on that side of the Ousatonic river is about six hundred thousand
 dollars.
 No trace is yet discovered of the ex- istence of Christian Christensen, who disappeared Monday afternoon from Ansonia. A search was in process all last week. while his wife fears foul play There are others who are of the opinion he has departed not to return.