Seasonal Hours Notice for Public Service Office
The schedule states from April 1 to October 1 hours are 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. From October 1 to April 1 hours are 7:30 a.m. to 8:80 p.m. Sundays open 1:00 p.m. to 1:90 p.m. Mails Open.
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1879
Page
3
The schedule states from April 1 to October 1 hours are 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. From October 1 to April 1 hours are 7:30 a.m. to 8:80 p.m. Sundays open 1:00 p.m. to 1:90 p.m. Mails Open.
Congregational and Episcopal churches report service times led by Rev. C W Ai Rev Henry Olmsted and Rev Father E Martin with morning and evening services on Sunday plus weekday masses at St Marks Rowens Catholic Church. Christ Church in Rast Haven offers 10 30 am service and 6 30 pm evening service with a noon Sunday school. Stone Creek area noted without further details.
The Stranger's Guide lists society meetings held at Town Hall. Qt. Mary's Ty & B. Society meets the third Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. Wm. H. McNeary is secretary. Branford Temperance Corps and Widow's Son Lodge hold regular sessions. Emerald Social Club meets Fridays at 7:20 p.m. Ancient Order Hibernians meet the third Thursday at 8 p.m. Secretaries named.
Branford stages issue a timetable beginning June 15 1879 for Double Reach and Short Beach routes. The Branford Center stages run nightly schedule starting at 6 15 pM with departures to Branford Center and adjacent stops.
Mr J P Hopson and family visited Branford over Sunday while the GLeawee and Ska WORLD sale items sat at C I Meigs. Isaac Palmer killed a fifteen pound woodchuck. Mill Plain folks picnicked at Indian Neck. Golden Gate with Captain Baldwin took a party to Guilford. Hopson rebuilding a portico in Cheshire. W T Robinson offers a large stock at low prices. Branford veterans plan Hartford removal of battle flags. Harrigan returns home improved. A Branford veterans meeting tonight to arrange travel to Hartford. A horse trot occurred between Creem and Rice from Planteville bridge to the post office. Mission Workers to hold peach and ice cream festival next week at Baptist church. Totoket event featured a fete with music by Gladderer’s band.
A Branford item recaps a birthday party for Brney Brown Bartle attended by about twenty five youths including Mr BX and Miss Carrie Aver Ml. It also notes upcoming Landerer Reed Band concert on the Green, a death from wagon accident, church events, a past charity supper, and ongoing town improvements plus editorial plans for the Gleaner.
Rev. A. O. Finch of Guilford was found dead off Sachem's Head on Wednesday morning. The cause is unknown though it is believed he suffered a fit and fell on rocks. An inquest jury has not returned a verdict yet. He was young and well liked and was to be ordained next Sunday, a loss that cast gloom over the community.
An old advertisement proclaims Hall's Positive Cure cures corns warts bunions and inflamed joints. It also promotes Hall's Generative Pills for nervous debility and seminal weakness, Hall's Toothache Drops for instant pain relief, and notes availability through medicine dealers.
Reports say several fishing steamers part of Long Island Sound menhaden fleet stay a mile or two offshore from Savin Rock beach. The catch is large and bluefish shoals frequent the shore, with fish later processed into oil amid a mixed haul of larger unpalatable fish.
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