Local timetable trains listed for key daily runs
Local timetable shows Eastward trains at 8:81 and 11:04 a m and at 6 and 8:44 p m. The schedule indicates morning and evening departures as the daily servicios.
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1879
Page
4
Local timetable shows Eastward trains at 8:81 and 11:04 a m and at 6 and 8:44 p m. The schedule indicates morning and evening departures as the daily servicios.
Open from April 1 to October 1 daily 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. From October 1 to April 1 hours shift to 7:30 a.m. to 8:80 p.m. Sundays open 1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Note Sunday hours between 1 and 1:30 p.m.
Baptist Cauncu Rev C C Smith conducts services at 10 45 a m 1 30 p m and prayer meeting at 7 p m Congregational Church Rev C W Hill holds services 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m Trinity Episcopal Church Rev Henry Olmsted D D 10 45 a m Branford Point 5 p m and 7 30 p m St Marys Roman Catholic Church Rev Father E Martin Sunday 8 and 10 30 a m weekday 7 30 a m First Cong Old Stone Rev Joseph Tomlinson 10 30 a m noon 1 30 p m and meetings 7 p m Christ Church Protestant Episcopal Rev John Grey 10 30 a m 12 noon 6 30 p m and 7 p m Friday
Stranger's Guide lists St Marys T A B Society meets third Tuesday monthly at 8 00 p m in Town Hall with Wm H McNeary as secretary Branford Temperance Corps meets at Town Hall every Wednesday evening W L Moore secretary Widow's Son Lodge F A M holds stated communications first and third Wednesday monthly J Nettleton W M Emerald Social Club meets first and third Friday at 7 20 p m James Reynolds secretary Ancient Order Hibernians meets third Thursday at 8 p m James Holley secretary
Schedule fragment lists times for Branford events at Double Beach and Short Beach with morning and afternoon slots. The fragment includes several unreadable tokens and irregular spacing but communicates a day’s timetable with multiple start times and periods.
Miss Mary Simpson visits Norwalk and Mamie Averill returns from Meriden while a Branford dance occurred at Branford Point hotel. The Jenny Lind sailed to New York under Capt John Spencer. The High school west barn is being removed and local shops advertise sales. Community notes cover taxes, roads, and club events with multiple named locals and venues.
Last Thursday Laura Hammer cut her hand opening a window pane. Dr Zink treated her pain eased. Trinity Trinity Trinity church East Haven and Christ Church East Haven held a union picnic at Morgan Point last Wednesday with about two to three hundred attendees enjoying music speeches sailing and food. Charles Pardee of New Haven drowned at Short Beach Wednesday morning while fishing with his father after a plank tipped and cramps likely caused his death. Buckley family carriage accident on Main Russell Elm Kirkham streets left several children injured and the buggy damaged. Hall's remedies advertise cures for corns joints and debility. A sharpies race is planned in the Quinnipiac river next Thursday with George M Graves entering a boat after a recent win at Stony Creek. Baptist Congregational and Stony Creek Sunday schools plan a Mansfield Grove picnic Wednesday leaving churches at 9 am by teams. A steam yacht will run to the grove with a fare of 15 cents adults 10 cents children under 12.
A Naugatuck correspondent recounts a migrant family’s mishaps with kerosene and coal in Connecticut. Their kerosene mishap caused a blast that sent tea-kettle and chairs through windows, teaching the dangers of domestic fuel. They later overheat coal, warp a stove and risk damage.
Eyewitnesses described as cowards those who witnessed the drowning of eighteen year old Charles Pardee at the East Haven river dyke on Thursday. Pardee swam out strong but sank after two or three yards, surfacing briefly with only his hair showing. Only one on the bridge could swim and he dove in but couldn't locate the swimmer as the water ran twenty seven feet deep. A land party launched a boat but it arrived too late to aid.
Capt Joel Stone slowly improves after a severe illness Walter Thrall has recovered and is out Mr Barker runs a full house at his Sachem's Head hotel The canning factory will start in about two weeks Over six acres of ground in the locality planted with tomatoes The 1st battery section at Guilford and 2d at Clinton ordered to encampment by August 25.
Geo W Wright of the Grove House was found guilty by Justice D W Tuttle for selling liquor on Sunday. He was fined £40 plus costs and appealed. The same report details the death of Charles W Pardee who drowned after slipping from a bridge plank while fishing near New Haven. an inquest ruled accidental drowning. An Episcopal society picnic at South End for East Haven and Branford drew about 200 attendees with speeches and plans for church improvements.
Connecticut entries include three patents for machinery dressing stone and wood by Warren H. Taylor Stamford assignor to Yale Lock Mfg Co padlocks James F Whitney Hartford die stick and tap wrench Edson L Bryant Ansonia suspension lamps and tubing scraping machines Andrew B Hendryx Ansonia bird cages Thomas Lyon Hartford Russell Erwin Mfg Co reversible hatches Emanuel B Rose Bridgeport shutter bowers hydraulic fire escapes plus reissues automatic fire extinguishers and designs for forges and utensils The piece notes the editor’s joy over a windfall to a reader’s family and a newborn in Worth with a large sum mentioned
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