Local Timetable Train Times East and West
Eastward trains depart at 8:31 and 1:04 a.m. as well as 6 and 8:44 p.m. Westward trains depart at 6:34 and 8:49 a.m. and 1:15, 4:82, and 7:03 p.m.
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1879
Page
3
Eastward trains depart at 8:31 and 1:04 a.m. as well as 6 and 8:44 p.m. Westward trains depart at 6:34 and 8:49 a.m. and 1:15, 4:82, and 7:03 p.m.
The notice details seasonal hours from April 1 to October 1 opening at 7 am and closing at 9 pm, and from October 1 to April 1 opening at 7 30 am and closing at 8 80 pm. Sunday hours show 1 pm to 1 30 pm with mails open. Western and Eastern times list 9 30 am and 6 45 pm, and 9 36 am and 7 30 pm respectively.
Wap tist curacy Rev C C Smith services at 10 45 a m 1 30 p m and prayer meeting at 7 p m Congregational Church Rev C W Hill services at 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m Trinity Episcopal Church Rev Henry Olmsted D D services 10 45 a m Branford Point 5 p m and 7 30 p m St Mary s Roman Catholic Church Rev Father E Martin masses Sunday 8 30 and 10 30 a m weekdays 7 30 a m East Haven First Congregational old Stone Rev Joseph Tomlinson morning service 10 30 am Sunday school noon afternoon 1 30 pm Christ Church Protestant Episcopal Rev John Grey Rector morning service 10 80 am Sunday school noon evening 6 30 pm Friday 7 pm Stony Creek Church of Christ Rev F Ed Taylor services 10 45 am and 7 3 p m
STRANGERS GUIDE St Marys T A B Society meets on the third Tuesday each month at 8 p m at Town Hall. Wm H McNeary Lee s Branford Temperance Corps meets at Town Hall every Wednesday evening. W L L Moore secretary. Widow s Son Lodge F and A M stated communication the first and third Wednesday each month. J Nettleton W M Emerald Social Club meets the first and third Friday each month at 7 20 p m James Reynolds secretary.
P Hopson built a new house this week. Henry Johnson sells clams at $1.25 a bushel. Miss Lillie Scott visits relatives the Miss Montgomery. Sea World issue resumed weekly. Mary Grace died aged 80. funeral Monday. Mrs J Tilley visits, returns to Cutchogue. Misses Susie and Louise Hutchinson visit Norwalk. Ellen Humes of Hartford visiting Mrs H Wilford. Rev A M Hopper to preach Aug 4 at Baptist church. Rockland Park chapel services Sundays. E Tillinghast and daughter Clara visiting. Michael Kauns died at Mr Harding’s residence. buried in Hartford. James Lay’s horses upset a wagon on Montonese St. Moral: don’t race after dark. D M Smith vs Michael Dougherty case. decision next Monday. Lock shop annual picnic at Point House grove. Willie Butler wins swimming, plus legged race. Storms caused extensive damage. trees and roofs blown. Sea World issues, etc. Snowdon boy missing then found. traveled to New York. Tax collector introduces new payment envelopes. high fees and 12 percent levied by law. George Glover’s Branford factory struck by lightning. fire avoided. July 4th celebration drew 300+. donations collected. Lightning risk jokes about protection devices. Drummers mistaken for burglars by Branford detectives. later released. Library of Universal Knowledge advertised for subscription. books from Chamber’s Encyclopedia offered. Publishers AMERICAN Book Exchange, New York, promoting various reference works.
Ed Talmadge serves as janitor at the High School house starting September 1. B A Treat buys a building lot near west of C J Pomeroy’s on Acad ems street. Solon Perkins to open a fish market in the Blunt building on Main St. Company K to attend annual encampment in Niantic Conn. George Wash Broadwell makes his own suit in the fashion of hired hands. Send six cents to Bran ford Gleaner for Tue Sia Worp. Passenger depot improvements noted with better access for irregular riders. Real estate transfers include Ida Pollard to J W Lane, house and lot on the plains. 8 Simpson to Win J Barber on Spapses avenue. Catherine Donue to P Gannon on Colony St.
The Congregational Sunday school held its annual picnic at Mansfield's Point on Thursday with about 800 attendees, many staying after the meal despite a late afternoon shower. A gold watch was presented to F B Street, the superintendent, who expressed gratitude and was praised for guiding the school's growth. James Connerton, longtime resident of the nearby factory village, died recently and was buried in New Haven.
East Haven mourns as Hudson B. Forbes reports the death of his youngest child a four month old boy who died on Monday last at home in East Haven.
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