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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1879
Page
3
The Branford post office details seasonal hours from April 1 to October 1 opening at Ta TM and closing at 9 p m and from October 1 to April 1 opening at 7 30 a m and closing at 8 80 p m Mails open Western at 9 30 a m and 6 45 p m Eastern at 9 36 a m and 7 30 p m Mails close
A reading of the county roster shows AssistoRrs R Dibble Harvey Beach Avupriors H B Fowler L J Nichols and a slate of roles including Clerk Collector of Taxes Constables Grand Jurors Justices of the Place Poor Master and Treasurer with multiple names such as J P Douglass W H Wilson and E W Brainard among others listed for administrative duties and road survey work.
Local churches in East Haven list service times for Baptist Congregational Episcopal and Catholic congregations. Baptist and Congregational note morning and evening services with early prayer meetings. St Marys holds 8 and 10 30 am masses, weekday 7 30 am. Christ Church schedules 10 30 am and 6 30 pm with Friday 7 pm.
Samuel Kerr suffers chronic rheumatism after a Pittsburg return. Josiah Monroe buys a northern Har bor street building and gifts it to son Lyman. Rev C W Hill leaves for Maine to visit a ill wife. Judge Beebee of Paris dies leaving nearly 4 million. Branford family claims estate. Captain Stannard kills two pigs weighing 1020 pounds total 510 pounds each. Temperance concert at Congregational church last Sunday directed by Dea William Linsley.
Fisk's jubilee singers plan a grand tour through New England. They can be engaged to sing on shares by addressing their agent in Boston.
The temperance gathering last Thursday in Gaylord’s hall featured singing and readings. Rev. Hill gave a brief speech and Mr. Shepard sought public opinion on organizing a Division of the Sons of Temperance, with favorable remarks from L. Barker and J. W. Duncan. He noted the humorous contrast of sons and daughters in the order. A charter petition to the grand division of Connecticut was circulated before adjournment for one week.
Mr. Blackman of the Yale Theological Seminary preached a sermon last Sunday morning and our pastor Mr. Taylor spoke in the evening. The church society met Monday evening, the sewing society met Tuesday at Hezekiah Palmer’s home. The Meteor Captain Linsley arrived with a coal load for N. C. Frink.
Small farm on the road to Short Beach offered for sale at a low price or will trade for a city house. Terms satisfactory. Apply at the new 1921 GLEANER Office.
Local notices describe St Marys T A B Society meeting on the third Tuesday at Town Hall with lectures by Rev Henry Olmsted before Christmas, Miles Grant's paralysis incident, Widow's Son Lodge officers, Ludington temperance talk, Mr Foote's accident, cheap books at Boston Book Store, a Shore Line train delay petition, and a Banks lecture in North Branford with 10 cent admission.
Mr Geo E Dickerman builds a 16 by 40 joinershop on Wallace Ave. The Methodist fair and festival run evenings December 16 and 17. A Baldwin dwelling burned Thursday night the 4th. The Catholic fair netted about 200 last Wednesday evening. The Hasden case draws crowds at New Haven trial. Company K hosts a Christmas Eve sociable in Armory Hall. A burglary at Hawley Landers on North Farms last Sunday was foiled by the hired man who chased the burglar with a pie peal and found chloroform near Landers nose. burglar escaped scoot free except for the peal.
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