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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1879
Page
3
Branford post office hours change with seasons from April to October opening 7 a m and closing 9 p m and from October to April opening 7 30 a m and closing 8 30 p m Mail services list Western and Eastern routes with sending deadlines and closing times and note Sunday opening from 1 to 1 30 p m P H Hall P M
A scanned list enumerates various local offices and the individuals holding them. Names include Assessors, Harvery Beach, Auditors, Justices of the Peace, Poormaster, Registrar of Births and Deaths, and other municipal positions with associated persons such as J. P. Douglass, H. D. Linsley, W. H. Wilson, and E. W. Brainard.
A notice lists church services across East Haven and surrounding areas. Congregational, Episcopal, Catholic, and Protestant churches show morning at 10:45 a.m. and evening services at 7:30 p.m. plus various Sunday schools and prayer meetings. Locations include Branford Point and Stony Creek with multiple denominations represented.
STRANGERS GUIDE lists Marys T A B Society meetings on the third Tuesday of each month at 8 00 p m at Town Hall. Widow's Son Lodge F and A M holds stated communications on the first and third Wednesday each month. Emerald Social Club meets on the first and third Friday at 7 20 p m. Ancient Order Hibernians gathers the third Thursday at 8 p m. James Holley and Francis L Clark are secretaries.
Kingston Ontario resident Levi B. Spencer visited Branford last Thursday. W.8. Galloway opens a temperance dining room on Rogers street. Mrs. P. H. Woods shows health improvement. Mary Norton returns from New Haven visit. Chas. F. Foster and Geo. W. Beach slaughtered 127 hogs this fall. J. R. Holcomb offers California grapes and sweet oranges for Christmas. H. W. Averill shipped 5000 cabbages and 500 bushels of turnips to New York aboard the schooner Jenny Lind. first town freight by water in years.
The notice notes the birthdays of Mesers. Philo Hall and Isaac VanBenthuysen, and Miss Susie Andrews, marking celebratory anniversaries with local observance.
On a Monday the trio held their birthday party at Miss Susie Andrews residence. About sixty friends attended and Charlie Beers played the bow, making the evening enjoyably swift and widely regarded as the grandest of the season.
Prof J D Belknap's concert is postponed indefinitely. The issue recalls a November 12 report from the American Business Journal about two fine pitchers at the American Institute Fair with boat scenes at Faulkner's Island. December 17 arrivals include a pitcher for Henry Z Nichols, with Isaac H Brown of New York as donor.
A gas explosion in the japanning kilns at Branford Lock Works damaged the northwest corner of a shop last Monday evening. Seven boys worked inside with brick and timber flying about. no one was seriously hurt. Foreman Peter Reynolds escaped uninjured. Repair costs estimated under five hundred dollars. The piece also notes the Berrett Dramatic Club's performances at Gaylord's opera house with praise for G H Newell, N E Bryan, J C Sharkey, Mary Simpson, C A Hoadley, Lizzie Rogers, E Brainard and W Lay, and lauds Branford's new opera house.
The Branford Point chapel is near completion with a ready frame pending mild weather. Volunteers dug excavations and hauled stone, while others lent teams, showing strong local support. Isaac A. Brown raised most funds from Grace Church parishioners in New York City and has contributed generously toward finishing the chapel.
The account lists extreme winters and storms from 1697 to 1788, noting the coldest December 1709 in America, the 1717 great snow with doors blocked and snowshoe exits, a 1723 tempest with tidal surges, and the 1740s and 1787 8 winters, including rivers and bays freezing into ice bridges and widespread livestock losses.
A Wallingford update notes a Department order restoring the evening New York and New Haven mail from six o clock express starting Monday the 22d. The town hosts Gavan of Leavy Bros to prepare stage scenery to be delivered by January 10.
Deaths include Mrs Merrick M Russell of Thompson Ave and Charles T Linsley of New Haven both from consumption. Mrs Leander Chidsey dies in Branford with funeral here. Fenner Watrous and Mary Jane Lancey wed in East Haven with Rev John Gray officiating and a family feast.
The notice promotes buying boots shoes rubbers and slippers as holiday gifts at the Boston Branch Store located at 261 Chapel street Regis ter Building and 61 Church street opposite the post office. D M Corthell is named as manager.
A Branford newsman expresses gratitude for eighteen years of readership and pledges to continue serving the community. He reminds those in arrears that newspapers cost money and asks payment before January 1, 1880.
D. M. Corthell, manager, operates at the corner of ter Building and 61 Church Street, opposite the post office.
Send for instructions terms reference to Edson Brothers solicitors of patents in Washington DC who provide the same without charge. Edson Brothers is a well known firm with large experience established in 1866.
The article summarizes variable temperate-zone seasons from early records. It notes mild winters in 1638 4 and 1637 8 with southern winds and scarce frost, followed by severe winters with four feet of snow from mid November to early April and icebound Boston Bay in 1641 2.
In Branford on December 15 a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Elizur C Johnson. On December 19 a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs A J Smith.
Mrs Lean der Chidsey of East Haven is reported in Branford on December 18.
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