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Newspaper

Branford Gleaner

Location

Branford, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Oct 15, 1879

Page

3

Trains Schedule Note by W H Stevenson

Trains Eastwarp times listed as 8:31 and 1:04 a.m. and 6 and 8:44 p.m. Trains WesTward at 6:34 and 8:49 p.m. and 1:15, 4:82, and 7:08 p.m. W H Stevenson, at.

W. H. Stevenson

Seasonal Hours For Yearly Open and Close Times

From April 1 to October 1 hours are 7 a m to 9 p m. From October 1 to April 1 hours are 7 30 a m to 8 30 p m.

Local Officials and Clerks Names List

Asses­sors R Dibble H Towner. Clerks H H Stedman. Collector J P Douglass. Constables H D Linsley Wm Page. Grand Jury A Beers W Farrell R Hall. Justices W A Wright E H Rogers J J Bartholomew. Town Officers Reg of Marriages Deaths K W Brainard. Registrars of Voters J McDermot M Kinney W Page W T Howd. Treasurers H H Stedman. Selectmen C G Kimberly G H Page L McGrail.

R. Dibble H. Towner H. B. Fowler G. T. Kenyon B. Chidsey E. Crouch J. McDermot H. H. Stedman J. P. Douglass H. D. Linsley Wm. Page A. Beers W. Farrell R. Hall W. A

Church Services Schedule for East Haven and Nearby Areas

A listing of Sunday and weekday worship times for multiple denominations in East Haven and surrounding towns. Includes BarrisT Church Trinity Episcopal First Congregational St Marys Stony Creek Church of Christ Christ Church and Trinity Episcopal with service times from 8:00 to 10:45 a.m. and afternoon and evening gatherings.

Barrist Church C. C. Smith Congregational Church C. W. Hill Trinity ‘ Episcopal St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church Father E. Martin Old Stone Joseph Tomlinson Christ Church Protestant Episcopal John Grey

Community Society Meeting Notes and Fraternal Gatherings

STRANGER S GUIDE lists regular meetings for St. Marys T A B Society on the third Tuesday at 8:00 p m at Town Hall with Wm H McNeary as secretary Branford Temperance Corps at Town Hall each Wednesday evening Widow's Son Lodge F A M holds stated communications on the first and third Wednesdays J Nettleton as W M Emerald Social Club meets first and third Fridays at 7 20 p m James Reynolds secretary Ancient Order Hibernians meets third Thursday at 8 p m with James Holley named as contact.

St. Mary’s T. A. B. Society Town Hall Wm. H. McNeary Sec’y Branford Temperance Corps Lodge A.M J. Nettleton W. M Emerald Social Club James Reynolds Ancient Order Hibernians James Holley

Branford Town Notes and Local Happenings

Town gossip recounts property purchases by Mr El F Rogers and road plans through Branford. John Foote wins premium for a pound-sweet apple with a 14 inch circumference and 21 oz weight. Snakes are noted after Henry Hoadley kills water snakes. residents urged to return borrowed oyster cans. Crockery from Calkins & Tomlinson. Adjourned town meeting set for Monday Oct 27 at 7 pm in Town Hall. Continued items include apple blossoms from Ecford Davis, Golden Russet yield, and new stock at C F Bradley shop.

Apple display impresses Mr Hopson orchard exhibit

Mr Dwight Goddard showed a large russet apple and a small second crop fruit along with a fragrant apple blossom bouquet from Mr P Hopson’s orchard. The item notes the impressive look a bachelor adds while furnishing a house in anticipation of groceries.

Dwight Goddard

Town Meeting Proceedings and Budget Actions 1879

Town meeting records show votes on school improvements including room upgrades and a five member committee to study needs, a move to relocate the school house to Rock-pasture, and funds for roads, bridges, tax assessments, and salaries. The Guild at Christ Church hosted a successful October festival to raise furnace funds, with plans to elevate the church and install heating.

Board of Education Short Beach Branford Point Pent Baldwin Shepard S E Linsley Christ Church

Town Meeting Sets Main Street Walk for Mainst to Hull

A town meeting on Monday October 18 approved laying a concrete walk on Mainst from John Munson's to the Hull property. The meeting opened at 9 45 a m with E Linsley as moderator and heard a thorough report of the selectmen by C Q Kimberly which was accepted. The vote authorized printing 200 copies of the report as a pamphlet.

John Munson Hull Lawrence McGrail Kimberly R. Dibble First Selectman Mr. Kimberly Wright Mr. Wright G Page Philo Hall H B Fowler Wm. H. Wilson W H Wilson E W Brainard John Harlow Brainsrd

Fresh confectionery and papers on hand in shop

A local shop advertises a fresh supply of choice confectionery along with New York and New Haven daily papers pictorials magazines and stationary among other goods available to customers.

New York New Haven

East Haven cadet Bridley shines from Yale school ties

Lemour P Bridley of East Haven, representing Connecticut's second district at West Point, ranks high in his freshman class in English and Math. He credits public and Hillhouse High School education, with Yale Suffield Scientific School ties and a Westville family background. Additionally, Christ Church hosts Harvest Home services with a new chancel rail donated by Isaac H Brown Bay of New York, presented at the afternoon service.

Lemour P Bridley Connecticut U. S. Military Academy West Point Gibson Regular Army Bradley Hillhouse High School New Haven Yale Suffield Scientific School C. Wradley Westville Orrin Hoadley Damascus Branford Christchurch

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