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Norwalk weekly gazette, Wednesday, May 28, 1890 · page 1

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L OOAL I TElllS.

Rev. Father Slocum is taking a brief
vacation.

John June’s infant daughter Julia died
on Friday.

The Norwalk Tennis club ground is a
delightful spot.

New Canaan boasts slxty bicyclists-
She’s justified in boasting.

 

Westport has an attractive programme
mapped. out for Memorial Day.
was

The Boston store’s city branch

opened on Saturday evening.

Manager Hoyt is doing well in construct-
ing fire escapes for Music Hall.

Get- .out your flags and display them
conspicuously on Memorial Day.

The Bridgeport police force’s summer
helmets are being made in South Norwalk.

The Bridgeport Sun is the spunkiest
paper in the county and doesn’t wear
gloves.

The Norwalk Gas company are making
repairs to the Besscy place on Harbor
avenue.

The second evening’s session of the A.
M. E. fair will take place tat-night in the
church.

The Bethel Knights 'of Honor minstrels
took New Milford by storm Wednesday
evening.

George A. Kinner, one of Danbnry’s
prominent business men, was in town on
Thursday.

The Sinionds foundry at Long Island
City is now running after many unavoid-
able delays.

Wm. A. Adams has petitioned for a li-
cense fora new saloon near the electric
light house.»

“Paul” Nash has left the staff of the
Bridgeport Standard and is now connect-
ed with the Post.

The City of Albany made her first trip
of the season Monday morning with a
good showing of traffic.

The defaulters seem to be arranging
their affairs so as to take advantage of the
European excursion rates.

 

 

 

 

E dwin Carter who fell from a building
and broke his leg in South Norwalk on
Monday is reperted improving.

Prepare to face the census enumerator
on Monday next, for on that day he willbe
turned loose with his catechism. '

The time table of the Consolidated road,
in another column, is changed this week,
to conform to the summer arrangement.

The Norwalk Horse Railway company
have issued their summer time table, in
which a number of changes are noted.

The Pioneer hook and ladder boys will
give the Bridgeport Scamstress engine
boys a jolly time when they come over.

The work of re-eonstructing the wooden
shed near the Opera House, in which the
recent fire originated, is being vigorously
pushed.

And now the man who advertises on
the American flag will walk into the
United States court and place his money
on the spot.

Johnny Donnelly went to Providence,
R. I. last week, for a day’s visit with his
old employer, John Bray, formerly of the
Oleander Garden.

Reporter Jennings is making a good
showing in the new Norwalk columns of
the Bridgeport Post, and the new feature
looks as if it might pay.

The steamer Medea will make regular
rips between South Norwalk ‘and Roton
Point, on Memorial Day, connecting with
alltrains at Wilson Point.

Capt. George H. Frew, of the Steamer
City of Albany, has leased Mr. B. S.
Blascer’s house on West Main street, and
will soon be nicely settled.

R. M. Rose is traveling through the
South. He will observe Memorial Day at
Gettysbury and will keep an eye out for a
younger veteran than himself.

 

 

 

-The Deestiick School entertainment

given in the Opera House Wednesday eve-
ning, was a unique and enjoyable session
of the school of our granddaddies.

A Useful Presenti 11 every package Savena,
he beat Washing Powder. Sold by grocers.

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Those fintercstcd in the proposed im-
provements on Main and Wall streets
should attend‘ the special meeting of the
court of burgesscs this eveving.

There was a prize fight near New Haven
Sunday morning, in which Ed. McDonald,
of Waterbury, was defeated by Dan
Walker, of Bridgeport, in eight rounds.

 

An exciting runaway, in which two
ladies were thrown from a wagon but not
seriously injured, resulted from a loco-
motive whistle at South Norwalk on
Saturday afternoon.

James Burke, of Brooklyn, a frequent
visitor at George Lowe’s and well known
in Norwalk, (lied on Friday last at the age
of 49 years, and was buried in Calvary
cemetery on Monday.

The Memorial Day concert to be given
by the choir of St. Matthew’s church,
Wilton, on Friday, will be a most enjoy-
able one, judging by the programme ar-
ranged for the occasion.

Ex—Warden Coolidge will occupy F. W.
Woodward‘s delightful residence on North
avenue during the latter’s sojourn in
Europe, whither he went, with his wife
and Mrs. Dr, Baxter, on Saturday.

Kempinski, the Bridgeport Russian,
who has just been liberated from a Rus-
sian prison after thirteen months confine-y
ment. has returned t this country and
will be in Bridgeport in a few days.

John H. Light, Esq, of South Norwalk
is to be the orator of the (lay in New
Canaan, at the Memorial Day Observances.
He may may be expected to cast Light, in
all the requisite hues, upon the subjects
that interest the veterans.

George Francis Train has just_bcaten
all records by going around the world in
67 days. Train enjoys the distinction of
being a crank; but he’s shown himself
capable of going around faster than any
other crank ever turned.

The Hyatt and Holmes 'I‘allapoosa expcé
dition set that quiet little southern hamlet
into a fever of excitement, with their ver-
dict of the town’s advantages and possi-
bilities. It will undoubtedly have 'in the
near future :1 Norwalk colony.

Mr. and Mrs. William Benedict, of East
Norwalk, who were married: only six
months ago, came to terms of disagree-
ment in Judge Selleck’s court on Thursday.
They will live apart and the young man
will pay $4 a week toward his bride’s sup-
port.

Charles E. Clarke, actor, and son of
George Clarke, also an actor, is now a
divorced man, his wife, a daughter of the
late Wm. Randle Smith, having secured a
divorce from him. Quietly wedded, and
quietly separated. More the wiser, none
the happier.

George Eckart, a well known and
wealthy brewer, of Bridgeport, died on
Sunday at the age of 45. About five years
ago he had an abscess on the brain, for
which he suffered an operation. About a
year ago he was taken blind and had one
side paralyzed.

 

The wife of Lieut-Col. James C. Crowe,
and mother of city editor Crowe, of the
Sentinel, celebrated her fiftieth birthday,
at her home on West avenue, Wednesday
evening. She received a sparkling re-
minder of the occasion in the way of a
diamond breastpin. '

One good turn deserves another, and
we reciprocate by giving a specimen of
the lucid, comprehensive, and yet not
monotonously verbose style of the Berk-
shire News in reporting a trial at law :

George Linden, tramp, Bridgewater,
Tuesday, one year.

While working on a building in South
Norwalk, Wednesday, Edward Carter,
who lives on North avenue, fell from a
scaffold a distance of twenty feet, break-
ing his leg and sustaining other slight in-
juries. He is a tinner in the employ of
E. K. Lockwood & Co.

The borough has been sued by the Nor-
walk Gas Light Co. to recover $2,000 dam—
ages caused to gas pipes at the time the
sewers were being put in. C. T. Leonard
A: Son also sue for $1,200 for damage to
their dock property caused by the con-
struction of a sewer outlet.

Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland and Empress of India,
was seventy-one years old Saturday the
24th, and on the 20th of next month she
will have been upon the throne fifty-three
years. Albert Edward, the Prince of
Wales, is in his fiftieth year.

The Christian Enquirer makes a just
and strong protest against the admission
of incompetent and .poorly fitted men to
the medical profession with papers certi-
fying to their qualifications for this work,
and thus encourage trifling with the health
and lives of useful men and women.”

Says the Canaan News: “George T.
Cousins, of Norwalk, is stopping at the
Warner House. He was here last year
and stayed about. two weeks and found
that Canaan air was very beneficial to his
health, accordingly he expects to stay
about a month in this healthy locality”,

‘ was warmly welcomed.

An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests.

NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28,1890.

It is desirable that those who intend to
contribute flowers for the decoration o
the soldiers’ graves on Memorial Day,
should have them at the Athenaeum as
early as possible on that morning. They
will be received by a committee of the
Women’s Relief Corps.

At the big live pigeon match between
four of Danbury’s crack shots anda like
number form New Haven, at Danbury,
Friday, at two hundred live birds. the
New Haven men were successful by a
score of 88 dead birds and 12 missed, to
86 dead and 14 missed.

Mrs. Mary A. Bartlett, widow of the
late H. H. Bartlett, formerly proprietor of
the City Hotel, South Norwalk, died in
WrstWinsted, of consumption on Mon-
day of last week, at the age of 74 years.
It will be remembered that Mr. Bartlett
died in the same town only a few months
ago.

The barber shops of the borough were
all open last Sunday, the decision of
Judge Austin in the Franke case probably
inspiring them with the conviction that,
as Sunday shaving is a public necessity,
they must not be found skirking when it
comes to performing their duties as public
servants.

It may be well to jog the memory of the
dog owner again as to the advisability of
getting that dog registered before the'lst
of next month, and thus saving the $7.
fine. The selectmen mean business, being
put to the necessity of rigidly collecting
the dog tax, by a pointed hint from the
state authorities.

August Hart, claiming to hail from
Stamford, was arrested Wednesday. In
the complaint he was charged with being
intoxicated and the theft of a co.t from
Fred Anderson. He was fined $1.00 and
costs for being drunk, and the other
charge was dismissed, as was also the
prisoner, to Bridgeport.

 

Samuel T. Dutton, for eight years super-
intendent of the New Haven public
schools system, previous to which lie was
principal of the Union school at South
Norwalk, resigned his position to accept
a similar position at Brookline, Mass.

accomplished educators in the country.

The Scheele trial was in progress before
the superior court all last week. The
evidence was substantially the same as
introduced at the previous trial. Several
physicians testified on Friday as to
Scheele’s mental condition, all agreeing
on the essential point of his mental re-
sponsibility. The arguments began yes-
terday.

Editor Ellendorf quotes Judge Austin’s
finding in the Gus Franke Sunday shaving
case, and comments thusly: “To squeeze
a large and growing community in the
year of Grace 1890 into the swaddling
clothes of a little backwoods settlement of
nearly 200 years ago is not so easy a task
after all as Councilman Jennings imagined
it would be.”

The burial of the late Stephen A. Hub-
bard, editor of the Hartford Com-(mt, took
place in the family lot at Sunderland,
Mass, last week. Among those present
at the service were his widow and daugh-
ter, Postmaster Kinney of Hartford, Su-
perintendent Davidson of the Consolidated
road and Rev. Dr. Twiehell, who repeated
some appropriate lines of poetry.

Honors cluster think and fast upon the
Crowes. Ed. Crowe, the modest young
city editor of the Sentinel liaszbeeu offered
the position of paymaster with the rank
of first lieutenant on the staff of Col.
Skinner, of the 4th regiment. Take it,
Ed, and keep as much of the regimental
dignity in the town as possible, if it all
has to go into one family.

Rev. Colonel Edward Anderson, now
of Danielsonville, Conn., who was present
at the installation of the Rev. Dr. T. K.
Noble, as his successor in the Congrega-
tional pulpit, Tuesday evening, spent a
goodly portion of the next day calling on
old friends and parishioners by whom he
The ruthless
sacrifice of his chin whiskers makes the
genial Colonel look ten years younger.

The Danbury. News says : The best time
that has been made to Norwalk on bicy-
cles previous to this year as far as known
is two. hours and fifteen minutes. The
record of- fifty-two minutes has been made
to Ridgéfield. This year riders of Eagle
bicycles have made Norwalk in two hours
and the run from Prospect street Ridge-
field to City Hall, Danbury in forty-five
minutes. ‘ '

Concerning the sensational items recent-
ly going the rounds of the state press
describing a shooting meteor that visited
Westport, the Westporter says:

“The item has been going the rounds
of the papers for the past week, and for
the benefit of those who never saw a me-
teor we would say that the mate to it can
be bought at Petrie’s saloon for fifty cents
in the shape of a paper balloon. The myri-
ads of blazing stars were caused by the
bursting'of a huge firecracker also bought
at Petrie’s. The night was extremely
foggy and the “half bushel” balloon did
not rise as high as was expected and we
doubt its being seen in Norwalk.” ' '~

 

Mr. Dntton is one of the ablest and most <

Mrs. Susan Chichester. widow of Alfred
Chicliester, died on Monday night, at an
advanced age, at her home in the house of
Mr.,George Parrott on Wilton avenue.
She “was a daughter of the late Rev. Mr.
Waterman of Bridgeport'and mother of
the late Alfred W. and E. V. A. Chiclics-
ter of Norwalk. She formerly resided in
South Norwalk, her house occupying the
ground where Lauder-’s and Taylor’s blocks
nowstand.

Thomas Havey, who only a few weeks
ago'vmovcd to Jewett City, died at that
place on Sunday last. He had for some
tame ~heen feeble with consumption and
had of late been engaged in the tea trade
in Bridgeport. He was a brotlier-in-law
of John J. Hanlon of Norwalk. His body
will be brought here for interment this
afternoon. Deceased leaves“ a wife and
one Ehild.

When “Bart,” who trims up the electric
light burners every day, came to the large
lamp suspended at thejntorscction of W all
,andjWater streets, last Sunday, he found
that in the tin cap just above the burner,
a sparrow had built a nest, laid its eggs
and hatched out five young sparrows in it.
The little birds were quite lively, but too
young to fly, and the nest was removed
and‘deposited in the street.

Tile Consumers’ Ice company, recently
orngized by the merchants of New Ha-
vénfij’vent out of existence Thursday. The
New Haven Ice company made overtures
to four of. the largest consumers of the
old company to deliver ice at the same
rates as the new company proposed to do.
All the ice:companies have broken their
schedules, and ice can now be bought of
them for 60 cents per hundred.

 

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Messrs. Lockwood d: Lockwood, the
popular Main street marketmen have iii-
troduced into their market the Seymour &
Whitlock fan, a most effective and ingeni-
ous cantrivance for keeping the room at
any temperature desired. It can be ad-
justed to run at any desired rate of speed:
and will keep meat as cool on the table in
the open room as if it were in the refrigera-
tor, and as for flies—there can be no flies
in any room where these fans are getting
in their windy work.
4.7 . *‘ ...

 

—Oarriages, carts and wagons of all de-
scriptions and at reduced prices at W. E.
Dann’s, 50 Wall street. tf17

A large congregation, including mem-
bers of Buckingham Post in a body,attend-
ed the Congregational church on Sunday
evening, where memorial services were
held. The edifice was appropriately draped
with flags. Rev. Dr. Noble preached a
magnificent discourse on “The Immortal-
ity of Great and Good Deeds.” Approp-
riate remarks were also made by Rev-
Messrs. Torrey and Van Alstyne, and the
excellent choir sang national airs. At the
close the congregation contributed liberal
ly toward the Memorial Day fund.

The formal opening of the Dorlou
House at Dorlou Point, for the season of
1890 took place on Saturday last, when an
old-fashioned Rhode Island Clambake was
served. .Large numbers from Norwalk
and vicinity were present, and a steamer
load of New York citizens came up. All
were most hospitably and enjoyably
entertained by Mine host Power and his
corps of assistants, and all left with the
verdict that under its present management
the prosperity of the Dorlou House is
assured.

The Bridgeport Post’s South Norwalk
edition of Saturday had this: “A party
of twenty ladies and gentlemen from
Westport attended a performance at
Bridgeport last evening and returned on
the express, expecting that it would stop
at Saugatuck. They were carried through
to South Norwalk. Many of them stop-
ped overnight at the Mahackemo Hotel,
the balance of the party returned by
carriage to Westport. Editor Jones and
wife, of the Westporter, were with the
party.”

George Brown, more. familiarly known
by the poetic sobriqnet of “Mud Hen
Brown,” departed from the paths of
rcctitude and sobriety on Monday night
to the extent of‘ going home drunk to his
humble domicile on Knight street, and
using his wife and several of his children
as foot balls, knocking them and the rest
of the furniture around the house as if
they were of no value. Chief Buttery was
summoned, who set a snare for the Mud
Hen and gathered him into the meshes of
the law. Yesterday morning Judge Ans-
tin sentenced him to sixty days in jail,
with costs.

Our friend E. 0. Stuart, seems to have
the joke on our contemporary, the Record,
inasmuch as the letter referred to, from
King Kalakaua of the Hawaiian Islands,
was received by him about a. dozen years
ago,zwhen he, in connection with other
youngsters of the period, was afflicted
With the stamp and autograph fever. Mr.
Stuart has also received letters and post-
age stamps from the Viceroy of‘India, the.
Governors of Western Australia and the
Bahama Islands, the U. S. Ministers to
Spain, Austria and Turkey, the U. S. Con-
suls General at Cairo and Shanghai, and

 

other officials.

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John Mnllin and John Mceks, Danbury
house-painters, quarreled while painting a
house at Ridgefield Thursday, and Mullin
stabbed Mceks just above the heart. A
dangerous wound was inflicted, and Mullin
has been arrested.

Louise A. Bethune, with an excellent
company, occupies the boards at the Opera
House all this week, at popular prices,
under the management of J. A. Preston.
The Opening night saw'a large crowd in
the house to witness the production of
“Hearts of Gold,”:which was admirably
presented. The company should play to
good houses during the week, notwith—
standing the lateness of the season.

No one who ever witnessed, or was the
victim of one of “Charlie” Ward’s practi-
cal jokes, can doubt that he is possessed
of rare inventive genius. “Charlie” is the
well known traveling member of the firm
of Bennett, Sloan & Co., and his versatil-
ity and boldness as a joker are proverbial.
His ingenuity has just found a legitimate
field in an invention which promises large
financial returns, as it “fills a. long-felt
want.” It is the “Ward’s patent portable
awning,” a most effective, simple and
desirable arrangement, self adjusting and
requiring no bolts, screws or nails, and
no measurements required in ordering.
It is shipped to any part of the world by
the Ward Awning Co., of New Haven, at
$4.50, and there is a great demand for it.

We have received ,a copy of Sister

Parsons’ Winsted Mayflower, dated
“Spring and Summer, 1890.” It is as

original and interesting as ever, but, it
strikes us, contains somewhat less reading
matter than usual. The explanation,
however, may be found in a card over
Sister Parsons’ own signature, as follows :

I am a very busy woman, wash, bake,
iron, for five in the family; yet my dear
friends, you know that past history shows
the busy people are the world helpers.
So here’s my heart and hand to help you
in the way of a word of good cheer.

And your words of good cheer are duly
appreciated, Sister Parsons. Why don’t
you shift some of the washing and baking
onto the shoulders of some of the five
others of the family, and give us more
words of good cheer?

Robert Hogan of Danbury, niadc a des-
perate attempt to commit suicide Tuesday
evening. He went to his home, No. 429
North Main street, shortly after 8 o’clock
and after engaging in conversation with
his wife and children a few moments
kissed them and said that he was going
away. At the same time he bade them
good-bye. Passing out of the house into
the yard he cried out to a number of
people, wliogwerc sitting on the doorstep,
that he was about to commit suicide
Then taking a bottle of laudanum from
his pocket he drank the contents before
several people, who had seen his act,
could prevent him. Hogan then started
onarun for High bridge and was pre-
vented from jumping into the river below
by four men. He was carried home and
doctors summoned. It was expected that
Hogan would recover. No reason was
assigned for thefattempt at suicide except
temporary insanity.

A fleet of three cat boats, the Bertha,
Gypsy, and another boat, name unknown,
sailed dowu the harbor on Sunday morn-
ing bearing an expedition of pleasure
seekers to Stamford. The outing was
reported an enjoyable success. However
smooth sailing was interfered with by the
heavy seas on the return trip late in the
afternoon, making the sail not only excit-
ing but imparting to it an element of
discomfort to those unused to sailing, be-
sides making it not a little risky. The
only disastrous result of the heavy sea,
thus far reported, was the utter demorali-
zation of Captain George Taft, of the
Gypsy, who was seized with an over-
whelming attack of seasickness which
compelled him to relinquish the tiller to
his first mate, Fitch,the veteran tar, while
he i'eposcd in the bottom of the boat, and
devoted his time during the rest of the
voyage, to throwing up disagreeable and
objectionable remarks and other things.
Capt. Meseberg, of the Bertha, says Taft
can’t eat a square meal yet. '

This isn’t much of a fish story—for
Bridgeport: Last'fall the gate of the dam
at Moody’s mill, in North Bridgeport,gave
way, and a large hole was washed out by
the rushing waters. After the gate had
been repaired the hole remained, and last
week while boys were swimming init they
discovered it to be stocked with fish of
monstrous size. One of the urchins found
an old piece of seine and captured a fish
which proved to bee seven-pound shad.
The boys kept the secret as long as possi—
ble and caught a dozen' or more fish apiece
which they sold at good prices. People
wondered where they obtained their shad,
and a watch was set on them. The boys
would strip, plunge into the hole, and
with'a piece of net scoop out the fish.
Now the place is surrounded daily by a
crowd of men and boys, all with nets, and
waiting, their turn to fish. The shad keep
coming up the stream to spawn, and are
unable to get beyond the hole. The

Stream is quite small and shad were never
known to enter it before.

TWO DOLLARS A YEAR .

NUMBER 22.. .

Reporter John Orr, of the Bridgeport
Farmer, immortalized himself the other
day by hailing a passmg hack driver who
was engaged to drive to a funeral, and
ordering him to drive to a certain house of
mourning where he, (John,) was to act as
pall bearer, the joke of the grim afi'air
being in the fact that the hack was ordered
for another funeral which chanced to be
held in the same vicinity at the same hour,
the mistake not being discovered until the
respective undertakers came to settle with
their respective liverymen. However, as
John found the funeral he was looking
for, he didn’t care whether it was one 011'
the other undertaker who settled the bill.

Another “didn’t know it was loaded”
feel has showed up in Norwalk.‘ Yester~
day noon two young boys, Phil Lanigan
and Joe Gormley, son of Ed. Gormley,
were in Madden’s grocery store on the
corner of Belden and Franklin avenues
when Lanigan spied a rifle, which, of
course, he must surmise was not loaded.
He promptly picked up the gun,cocked it,
pointed it at young Gormley, and—sent a
bullet crashing into his teeth, but at such
an angle that the only damage was the
knocking out of a few teeth and the 1m-
bedding of the bullet in the front of the
lower jaw, whence it was shortly after
dug out by Dr. Baldwin. It was a mirac—
nlous escape for the Gormley boy, and‘his
fright was '0 more intense than that of
the littlcf l of a poor marksman who
didn’t kno it was loaded.

The committee appointed by Bucking.
ham Post to make arrangments for the
proper observance of Memorial day have
completed their work as far as arranging
the programme is come 'ned. As has
always been the customfion Friday next
there will be a parade. The procession
will form on Wall street, in front of the
Athenzeum, under the direction ofMai'shal
George W. Raymond, in the following
order: . .

Heine’s Full Brass Band.
Colonel Roberts’ Military Cadets.
' Buckingham Post, G. A. It.
0. S. Ferry Camp, Sons of Veterans. \
‘ Flower Wagons. ~ I
Cadet Corps, Over River School
_ Public Schools.
Carriages containing Clergy, Speakers and
» Glee Club.
School Girls in Cari-rails.
Citizens in Carriages.

The processi‘i will move promptly at
2p. in. through Main street and Union
avenue to Union Cemetery, where, from a
'platform erected in front of the cemetery.
the following exercises will take place:

Music by the band.

G. A. R. Memorial Services.

.133; by (lilies Club.

ress 35* Rev. Charles E. To To a

iqlndg by Glee Chile£7 1 3'

ress Jy Rev. .C. P‘oha' - .

Song by Glee Club. ‘1 Ids”!

Benediction.

During the playing by the band of the
“Dead March in Saul,” the graves in the
cemetery Will be decorated. Those in St.
Mary’s and Riverside cemeteries 'will be
decorated during the services by details
in carriages. After the graves in Union ’
cemetery have been decorated, the line
will re-form and march 'to 4St. Paul’s
churchyard to decorate the graves there,
thence to Colonel Roberts’ Military Insti-
tute, on East avenue, leaving'his escort,
and countermarch to the 'Athenazum,
where the parade will be dismissed.

Thursday was a most beautiful day,
just such a day as one would wish for as
pretty a wedding as was that which took.
place at St. Paul’s church, in the afterndon.
The scene inside the church was entranc-
ing and a large‘ number of ladies arrayed
in pretty-spring attire, were present to.
enjoy it. It was one of those unostenta—
tious weddings that one always delights
in witnessing and the memories of which
are ever fruitful of pleasure. At 2 o‘clock,
James H. Bailey, with his best man Frank
H. Bailey, stood in waiting at the chancel
as Miss Clara F. Selleck leaning'on the
arm of her father, Mr. James K. Selleck,
walked up the aisle, the organ at the deft
touch of Miss Jennie K. Nash, peeling
forth the pleasing notes of the wedding
march. Rev. Chas. M. Selleck. rector of,
the church having read the bans of
marriage stood in waiting and as the
parties met, recited the bgautiful Episco—
pal marriage service and, Mr. Bailey and
Miss Selleck were impressively, and under
the most happy surroundings, pronounced
man and wife. The bride looked beauti-
ful in a traveling dress of light gray cash-
mere, and silk with steel trimmirgs, and .
in her hand a bouquet of pink roses. The
sister of the bride Miss Florence Selleck,
attired in a dress of green cashmere, and
carrying a bouquet of Marguerites, acted,"
as maid of honor. The little Misses Kittie -
Selleck, Florence Brewer, and Master;
Charles Brower acting as the brides alt-f!
tendants. The ushers were J. Howard-1,41 -
Selleck, J. Arthur Pinned, W. S. Moodey,
Jr., and LeGrand Raymond. ’_A brief rel
ception was held at the home of the bride,
on East avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey
will be absent on their wedding tour about ’
oneweek, and on theii'freturn will reside. ‘
at the home of the groom on East avenue.

There were over fifty guests present from
Out of town. A magnificent add large
number of presents bore testimony “of. the. —
high appreciation in which tlie-couplc'ete

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