Branford News and Gossip Highlights
Rev C. C. Smith exchanged pulpits with Rev Ball of Fair Haven last Sunday. Fred W Sweetman improved E J Buel’s Short Beach house with two coats of Atlantic lead. Miss Mincie Buel picked a ripe strawberry Friday. Steamer Golden Gale arrived in Brav ford. Captain Baldwin busy towing this summer. Charles Bradley harvested fifty pounds of honey from a Cherry Hill hive. Republicans of Branford to meet Oct 28 to nominate a candidate for representative. Willis Bradley’s birthday party drew about fifty guests with lively dancing. Mr Charles G Kimberly moved to New Haven to run a crockery business and held town offices in Branford. G W Calkina to start Branford–New Haven accommodation line Oct 24. Village Improvement Society voted lamp posts and crossings. treasury at $72.93. Committee to assist repair along the post office to depot route. New Store New Goods and a New Proprietor. L Carter and C A Bradley open hat store at 190 Chapel St New Haven. Hats direct from factory. fur repair offered.
Belknap Leads Vocal School Note in Syracuse Visit
Rev. J. D. Belknap directs a weekly singing school with a Sabbath service at the Baptist church. A Friday evening recital featured Tryon and his Syracuse band, praised performances by Miss Conway Ransom Booth and the Brown child, and acknowledgments for Syracuse Glee Club and generous guests. The second term closed with high regard for Belknap’s disciplinarian leadership.
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J. D. Belknap
Vaian
Espelies
Flo H
Belknap
Baptist Church
Tryon
Syracuse
Mr. Belknap
Glee Club
Conway
Ransom
Booth
H. Brown
Mooney
Town Meeting Adopts Salaries and Road Plans
Adjourned town meeting at Town Hall with 8S. E. Linsley as moderator set salaries for town officers including first selectman and town agent at 100 dollars and others per day. The selectmen road widening plan for Mullen's Neck was accepted and a road lay out near Edward Wilford’s house was proposed for future report.
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E. Linsley
Mullen’s Neck Road
Suffield Postmaster Appointment and Local Notes
Charles Nichols is named postmaster of Suffield, succeeding his sister who previously held the post. In South Manchester lighting plans, Adiaon is arranging Cheney works electrification. Woodstock is praised as a temperance town with no license votes. Mrs. Chie Tuttle, 93, is ill after a fall. recovery doubtful. Easton brothers harvest 700 bushels cranberries at $3 per bushel. A couple marries and walks six miles home. A North Manchester teacher strikes. father fined $16. A Royal Arch Masons chapter opens in Putnam with officers from Connecticut Grand Chapter in attendance.
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Royal Arch Masons
Putnam
Grand Chapter
Connecticut
Dwight Waugh
Stamford
Chester P. Tilden
Willimantic
F. W. Spalding
Plainfield
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Borough officers elected at annual meeting and drainage plan discussed
At Saturday's borough meeting officers were elected including Warden B A Treat and Clerk G D Munson. A new drain from William Wallace property across Academy Street toward Belmont would relieve flooded cellars and sewerage east of Main Street, directing water to a brook via a tight channel.
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B. A. Treat
G. D. Munson
B. T. Jones
J.N. Pierpont
R. H. Cowles
H. B. Todd
G. K. Carrington
J. C. Mansfield
Samuel Peck
Austin
Wm. Morgan
E. F. Steel
William Wallace
Academy Street
Belmont
Main Street
Film Street
Meriden
Connecticut Patents Issued Week Ending October 14 1879
List of patents issued by the United States Patent Office for Connecticut. Luke Chapman Collinsville rotary pumps. Louis Hornberger West Meriden assignor to E Miller Co extension lamps. John H Cranston Norwich inking apparatus for printing machines. Anthony Fitzgerald Stamford assignor to Hugh W Collender New York billiard cue coloring apparatus. Frank W Mix Terryville padlocks.
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United States Patent Office
Connecticut
John K. Earle
New Haven
Conn
Luke Chapman
Collinsville
Louis Hornberger
West Meriden
E. Miller & Co
John H. Cranston
Norwich
Anthony Fitzgerald
Stamford
Hugh W.collender
New York
Frank W. Mix
Terryville
Litchfield Congregationalists Clear $5235 Debt in Year
In Litchfield the Congregationalists report debt paid off in one year totaling $5235. In Norwalk at the town election Eli B Bennett is elected treasurer for a second consecutive year. The old Riverton Methodist church has been sold and dismantled for reuse of its framing.
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Litchfield Congregationalists
Norwalk
Eli B. Bennett
Afy
Riverton
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