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WEEKLY -' NORWALK GAZETTE.
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NEWS or. TI} were.
[Selected from Tn: DAILYGAZETTEJ'
MONDAY.
Mr. and Mrs. Eversley Childs, of
Brooklyn, spent Sunday in town.
Norwalk parties have leased the Cap-
tain Frederick Jarvis place in West-
port.
Miss Ella. C. Daniels, of Brooklyn,
is the guest of relatives on Union
Park.
Mrs. Ben Mallory, of Norwich, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. George Par-
trick. ‘ ‘
The little Williams children, who
have been so very'ill, were able to ride
out on Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Graham will occupy his
pulpit in St. Paul’s Church for the first
time on Sunday next. '
Mr. C. R. Knight, of Philadelphia,
Pa., was in town over Sunday, the
guest of his mother at the Norwolk ho-
tel.
Car No. 11 has been added to the
“ghost train” of the street railway and
is quite attractive in its new coat of
paint.
108 car loads of freight were shipped
from Wilson Point by the New Eng-
land Terminal Company one night last
week.
Mrs. J. G. Gregory and her sister
Miss Pinneo, spent Sunday in New
York, the guests of Madame Constance
Howard.
The Grand Army boys are making
arrangements for a suitable observance
of Memorial day, as may be seen by a
notice elsewhere.
Mr. Arthur Paddock, of East Nor-
walk, and late of the First Baptist
church choir, is to be permanent or-
ganist of Grace church.
Rev. F. E. Hopkins preached his
farewell sermon at the Congregational
church, New Canaan, last evening. A
number of N orwalk people were pres-
ent.
Lockwood K. Ferris, Esq., of North
Wilton says he has paid for the GA-
ZETTE every year consecutively since
the year 1836, or for a continuous peri-
0d of fifty-five years.
The steamer “Express” has been sent
to Wilmington, Del., to be repaired
and the New England Terminal Com-
pany is now bringing its freight to
Wilson Point on five floats.
Mr. Vincent M. Honnecker, of the
Norwalk wheel club, beat the record on
a run to Bridgeport, yesterday. He
made the distance in an hour and ten
minutes, and wears the belt so far as
heard from.
The adjourned hearing on the layout
of the Bridgeport & Eastern Railroad
will be held to-morrow. It is to be
hoped that a fair and honest hearing
will be granted this application unin-
fluencel by Connecticut’s monster
monopoly, the Consolidated.
Mail Carrier Bennett, getting tired
of being mistaken for one of the water-
works Italians, came out this morning
with his old letter carrier uniform on,
all oblivious of the fact that he was
subjecting himself to a heavy fine and
imprisonment by reason of his breaking
Uncle Samuel’s laws in such case made
and provided.
The twelve indicted directors of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad have won the first struggle in
court in the matter of the Fourth ave-
nue tunnel disaster. Judge Patterson
in the Supreme Court Saturday hand-
ed down a 'decismn changing the venue
in the case from the Court of General
Sessions to Oyer and Terminer.
Last Friday morning at 4 o’clock,
Master Miles O’Reilly and two other
lads, stole away from the County Home.
The next day Officer Morehouse cap-
tured O’Reilly’s companions and re-
turned them to the place whence they
had escaped. This morning the same
oiiicer found O’Reilly in South Wilton,
and took him back to the Home this af-
ternoon. .
Going about for a general borough
inspection on Saturday, the burgesses
found that the east side of Stewart
avenue had been staked out for the
water main. In order to provide for
future contingencies, such as sewerage,
etc. , through that avenue, (using of
necessity the east side,) it will become
necessary for the water main to be laid
on the west side, and a partial re-survey
will be made for that purpose.
On Saturday several of theburgesses
looked into the cement pipe subject, as
brought up by Mr. Charles T. Leonard
and their conclusions will be embodied-
in a report to the board at its regular
meeting next .Monday evening. Ow.
ing to the high tide it was found im-
practicable to examine the sev'ver out-
let. Some day this week, when the
tide is out, Berough Engineer Wood,
with Burgess Buxton and his associates
on the sewer committee, will take a
boat and make the examination asked
for by Mr. Leonard. . '
Catarrhal deafness is relieved b usin
Johnson‘s nodyne Limment as irecte .
Try it.
i 'V ‘ ' TUESDAY."-
V' Ward and. Alyse, children of Dr.
Gregory, are ill with themeasles‘.
F. J. Mallory and wife and Mrs. De-
los' Culver are in town. ' '
Mrs. Mary Hassett, widow of Thos.
Hassett, died yesterday at Five Mile
River.
A meeting of the Commissioners on
the. estate of George Dann, was held in
New Canaan, yesterday.
Mr. Evert Quintard is seriously ill,
and, owing to his advanced age, his
recovery is scarcely looked for.
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins enter-
tained last night, Bishop Williams, Mr.‘
Watkins’ father, and Mrs. Dr. Page,
Mrs Watkins’ foster mother.
Mr. Harry Benedict, who has been
seriously ill for some time, is reported
convalescing slowly, and is likely to
be out soon should there be no relapse.
Dr. Gregory has commenced the ren—
ovation of his new purchase, the Our-
tis place on W'est avenue. The old
front porch was the first thing to be
razed.
Stoning of trains on the Danbury and
Norwalk division, near Wilton, have
been frequent lately, and the authori-
ties have been asked to try to detect
the culprit.
This morning Engineer Wood and
his assistants went to Elmcrest and de-
voted considerable of the day to laying
out building lots which will soon be
thrown upon the market.
Finney & Benedict’s new delivery
wagon,the latest addition to the rolling
stock of Norwalk business men, was
out to-day for the first time, and was
greatly admired.
Miss Helen Smith effected a lease yes-
terday of the Andrew Selleck place on
Mott avenue, and will at Once move
out of the Carter house so that Supt-
Hanford can move in.
All but eighteen of the fifty new
~ Bradley cars ordered for the Consoli-
dated road have arrived, and when all
are delivered the company will have
600 passenger cars. Only 150 are, how-
ever, ordinarily in use at one time.
The freight and passenger business
of the Housatonic railroad has shown
such a steady and material growth of
late that a number of new cars and lo-
comotives will be required to meet the
company’s necessities. These have been
ordered and will be delivered within a
few weeks.
A large number of Norwalk’s first
citizens, without regard to denomina-
tional differences, were present at the
Grace church dedication last evening.
Among those earliest to arrive were
Mrs. Charles F. Osborne and Miss Julia
Lockwood. Rev. Dr. Noble was also
an interested auditor.
Miss Maud Workman of Belden
avenue, graduated last week at Mt.
Sinai Hospital, New York, as a trained
nurse, with the highest honors. She
was immediately put in charge of the
principal ward of the hospital, contain-
ing over thirty patients. This worthy
and successful young lady has also re-
ceived a very flattering offer to go to
Europe this summer with a wealthy
patient, which she is quite likely to
accept.
Included in last night’s audience in
Grace church, was a woman from Silver
Mine who missed her pocket book, and
straightway came down town, reported
her loss at police headquarters and Was
escorted back to the church by Chief
De Forest who found the missing prop-
erty partly under the seat which the
woman had occupied. She made so
great an outcry over what proved to
have been her own carelessness that
one would have had strange ideas re-
specting church-goers in general.
This name invariably “strikes terror
to the foe” when its owner fills lip with
tanglefoot. Peter is a hatter by trade
and a bummer by occupation, paradox-
ical as this may seem. Last Friday
night, when the firemen were at werk
on the O’Brien mansion, in Center ave-
nue, he benevolently insisted upon
men who, acting under Chief Prowitt’s
orders, was trying to [cut away a part
'of the house in order to get at the fire.
Yesterday afternoon O’Brien got
drunk again and proceeded to ‘ ‘do up ’
the Italian shoemaker and the Chinese
laundryman who are neighbors on Main
street. ‘ While engaged in this pleasing
pursuit Oflicers Adams and Morehouse
captured him and started with him for.
the lockup. O’Brien opposed their hu-
mane efi'orts, tooth and nail, and when
in front ‘of Dwyer’s harness shop all
three fell to the sidewalk. Then Ofli-
cer Adams applied the nippers, O’Brien
was bundled into a wagon and the pro-
cession started with Oficer Adams coin-i
fortably seated on O’Brien’s stomach.
the rest of him. This morning O’Brien.
was arraigned before Justice Coolidge
and was fined 36 and costs, the whole:
amounting to, nearly $15.
Moisten a _handkerchief with Johnson’s
gaggdyne Liniment and inhale 'for wakeful-
“puttingahead” on one of the fire- .
and Officer Morehouse distributed over -
, WEDNEsDAIfI .
Jacob Turk cameup to Norwnilk to
see old friends on Saturday.
Ex-Gov. Harris of Louisana is pre-’
paring for a removal of his "efi'ects from
7 the Woodbury place to Chicago. ‘
10am and soil from his son’s former hot
house on Harbor avenue, up to his new
place on Belden avenue. '
The bodies of the four children of
Mrs. Samuel Mitchell, of South Wilton,
are to be disinterred to-morrow and
removed to Riverside cemetery.
Drygocdsman Scofield is eating rad-
ishes and lettuce out of his own gar-
den. Scofield generally manages to
get in a little ahead of his neighbors.
Trainer Lockwood has stable accom-
modations at the track for 65 horses
and has 20 to care for at present, all
foreigners, save one. On Saturday he
expects several crack equines from
Brooklyn.
The Italian contingent shook some
of the dirt from their garments yester-
day, and departed, while a few went to
work again‘for their old boss, Contrac-
tor Rider, on the Matthews place.
Csrds are out for the marriage of
Josie H. daughter of E. H. W. Barden
of Shrub Oak, N. Y., and Robert-J.
Brundage of Norwalk, which takes
place at Shrub Oak, N. Y., May 14th.
Mr. W. R. Morton of San Francisco,
son-in-law of Rev. Dr. Noble, has re-
turned from Boston and with his wife
and son are stopping at Dr. Noble’s.
Mrs. Morton is slowly regaining her
health.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Miss Hellen Frances Van Alstyne, of
Norwalk, to Christopher A. Johnstone
of Hartford, which is to take place at
the M. E. church, Norwalk, on Tues-
day, May 5th, at 3 o’clock p. in.
Rev. C. M. Selleck performed a pro-
digious amount of clerical labor last
Sunday, officiating alone and preaching
in four different churches during the
day and evening, and riding over
twenty-two miles of country roads.
At the adjourned annual meeting of
the Fire Police held last evening, the
following ofiic‘ers were elected for the
ensuing year; President, D. C. Nash;
captain, A. J. Meeker; 1st. sergeant,
W. A. Ambler; 2nd. sergeant, J. Kel-
logg; secretary, H. C. Mosher; treas-
urer, F. A. Quintard. P
A Miss Sweet, who came to Norwalk
from North Cornwall, Litchfield coun-
ty, some time since, with a very pretty
little girl of five years, made applica-
tion to Selectman Daskam to get a good
home for her child. It was so unusu-
ally attractive and interesting that
Daskam’s big heart was too much
touched to let it go to the town’s poor
children’s home, and so he got it adopt-
ed into the family of Mr. Charles Ben-
nett, the mother relinquishing all claim
to it and promising never to interfere
with it, so long as it received
such kind ' ’ and tender care.
About five weeks ago Miss Sweet mar-
ried a nephew of Mr. Ike Lee and to-
day she demanded the child, which Mr.
and Mrs. Bennett of course refused her
as they have become very much attach-
ed to it and the child to them. The
child also wants to remain with her fos-'
ter parents and cried bitterly when
Sheriff Toner asked it if it wanted to
go back and live with its erring moth-
er. It'is understood that the mother
proposes to try legal means to get the
child, but Selectman Daskam also avers
that he will exhaust every legal means
in his power to compel its mother to
keep her contract, for the best inter—
ests of the child.
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THURSDAY.
A case of scarlet fever is reported on
Knight street.
Several horses in town are sick, with
the grippe. _
Mrs. William K. Lewis is quite ill
with 1a grippe.
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Mallory have en-
gaged board in town. "
The Mrs. 0. S. Ferry place is. not
sold, but is still for rent or sale.
Miss Nellie Lawlor of North Wind-
ham is visiting Dr. Tiniothy Healey.
The two daughters of Mr. J. B. Ells,
have been visiting friends in Water-
bury. . '
Harold and little .Mary Seymour,
children of the Senator, are illwith
chicken pox. ‘ '
Miss Cora Dann, of New Haven, is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Osborn
on Mei-win street. ‘ '
Charles F. Osborn" left this morning
aged stepmother, to-i'norrow. '
' Mrs. Knight, of the Boston stare, re-
turned from New York, lastevening,
brimful of pleasing millinery intelli-
: genes, that is, pleasing to the ladies,
_ without reference to the more or less
anxious husbands and fathers who will
foot the bills.
Supt. Hanford is carting the rich
for BallstOn to attend-the funeral of his
1. m4: “AM
i Thealuinni and students of the high 3
"school department of the Over Rive;
:school‘ will held. a‘ reception in the
; Opera Hoese
! The total receipts at the Gregory
auction yesterday were about $2,500.
Everything was sold except the coaches
which are to be disposed of at private
sale.
Messenger Charles A. Haviland has
sold his route between here and New
York to Mr. Clark, formerly with Sel-
leck Bros, who will take pessession to-
morrow.
The artistically wrought alms boxes,
terday, together with the hymn tablet,
were the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H.
Smith.
Mr. Thomas Cavanagh is unloading
a car load of furniture for Mr. C. H.
Andrews, of the Williamsburg Fire In-
surance 00., who will occupy a house
on Maple street.
Miss Bella Jarvis is sufl‘ering from the
effects of a blow received, yesterday,
from a base ball in the Union school
yard. The'doctor attending fears that
peritonitis is imminent.
The farmers are said to be complain-
ing of an unusual scarcity of farm help
this spring. The adjournment of the
out a little.—[Meriden Republican.
Two old fashioned cherry trees on
the west side of Mrs. Wm. K. James’
residence, are densely covered with
white blooms, making a far richer and
prettier appearance than the more pre-
tentious early spring time magnolias.
William F. Bishop has felled the two
large spruce trees in front of his Bel-
den avenue residence, to the improved
appearance of his spacious lawn. These
evergreen trees may be suitable for a
cemetery but are out of place in a vil-
lage door-yard.
Three Gold Watch ballots were for-
warded to the DAILY GAZETTE yester-
day for Miss Nelly Platt, from far of
Olympia, Washington. The little
DAILY GAZETTE seems to get about
pretty extensively on this globe of ours.
It at least “gets there.”
Lumberman Hill has a train of freight
cars now unloading in his yard some
of which are from Michigan, some from
riflbany and one each from Georgia and
North Carolina.
Mrs. William Randle Smith expects
to reach Washington Saturday, where
she will be the guest of Dr. Ellery 0.
Clark for a few days, returning to Nor-
walk sometime next week, Miss Bertie
Wilson accompaning her.
have changed their purpose of going
west from Washington and will return
to Mrs. Van Hoosear’s on West avenue
to-morrow evening. Miss Bertie Wil-
son will leave Washington for home
with them to-morrow morning.
Since those artists of pigments and
hog-bristles have put the zebra stripes
up and down the mastodonic columns
of the Norwalk Hotel, it has become
more densely filled with guests, (as
well more beautiful) than ever. Our
Patagonian town house now. pales be-
fore it, as a specimen of classic archi-
tecture.
John Henry Aiken, Fred Lockwood,
James Gilmore, Hart Weeks and
Charles Shrader, (Dutch Charlie,) went
down the creek duck shooting and re-
turned last night with nineteen of the
web-footers. “Dutch Charley” says
that the string ought to have been an
even twenty, when the amount of bait
it took to catch ’em is considered, don’t
it ?
A sample of decided optical illusion
is iurnished by the DAILY GAZETTE’S
red, white and blue pennant flying at
the mast head. From the street below
it looks to be about twelve or fifteen
feet long and the letters ”DAILY GA-
zETTE,” to be about five inches: high.
The elevation above the side-walk is
just about one hundred feet- and the
streamer is thirty feet long and the let-
ters twelve inches high. But it keeps
“at the top” just the same. '
Shortly after seven o’clock this morn-
ing fire was discovered in the wash
house of Michael Finnegan, on Center
avenue, a small frame building in the
rear of the dwelling. Burgess Burr
and other neighbors were quickly on
hand and the flames were easily sub-
dued without turning in an alarm. Had
the outbreak occurred- in . the night,
with such a wind as we had during the
day, the result might have been disas-
trous. ‘ ‘
While Contractor Bach’s men were
digging in front 0f W. S. Hanford'a
store near the East Norwalk station,
this morning, fer the laying of a water
was unearthed. It is supposed to be
tified were found about what was left of
him. This gives all an equal chance in
jogging their memory as to whom the
bones, when in life, belonged to. Of
course by the school boy rule of “find-
ings is keepings, ”. they, the bones”, be-
long to Mr. Bach. He immediately
“set ’em up” for the boys. ‘ The beer
not the bones. ’
a» new ~ - a... 3 “hr... .‘
Friday evening, Mayjii‘h. .
at Grace church, referred to by us yes- ,
senate for two weeks may help them’
Mrs. Throop and her son Wm. H., -
pipe, the skeleton of a human , being.
the framework of a man who when in'
good healthweighe'd atleast 150 pounds, .
No papers by which he could‘ be iden- . . '
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“ten“, fifairweathcr isapproacfing; Haggard _‘ abud or a
igssomgsoqga the blue birds. and the irohpis 414% win them the joy
inf-fishinglfiltis time to buy. ' 1' . I. ..
SPRING GARMENTS.
Reefers or Jackets or anything else in the
long line of séasdnable garments fer women and
misses. Fit never counted more inithese things
than it does today An easy touch all ov
No straining, no bagging—that's the way all
tight-fitting garments are to set. See. if they
don’t Right stufi‘s and colors, of 7 come.
Youngsters of from 4 to 10 take decidedly to
the Reefers with Sailor Collars; some Flannels
and Serge's with wide, flat binding; others in
foreign Homespuns, neatly braided.
. Pnicrs was mom $1.98 to $5.59.
The tide of Women's Jackets of all kinds is at its flood. Some of the
sorts have been scarce. They may be again. Choosing will never be
easier than now.
Pszcss RANGE most $1.98 To $20.00.
Dress Goods-
At this time the importations for the season
are practically all in the store, and the aggregate
of attractions, representing the best products of
the world’s best makers in each branch of tex-
tures, is simply overwhelming. From far and
near the country over, come observers and
buyers to this great exhibit of Industry and Art
in Textures for Ladies’ Dress. We are justly
proud of this exhibit, of the constantly increasing
sales, and, more than all, of the satisfaction and
pride our patrons have in it, and the distinction
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which Norwalk rightly gains thereby in business circles throughout the
two continents.
Seasonable Millinerv.
You might just as well get the latest while you are
about it. If you get anything else you save nothing and
you lose the satisfaction of being up to date. It costs
us no more to be in the style than out. of it, and what it
may cost you if you cling to the old fashion you can
never tell. People are judged by appearances in this
world. Perhaps you can afford to snap your fingers a
popular judgment, but the chances are. you eannot.
L‘j Whether you can or not you make no mistake. in pur-
chasing your Hat or Bonnet of us, as our stock is replete
with handsomely finished, stylish shapes. In case we
should not happen to have in stack a combination al-
ready trimmed to suit a particular costume, our expert
designer will cheerfully aid you in the selection of the required material
from our great assortment of Straw Goods, Bonnet Frames, Millinery Laces,
Gilt Goods, Jet Goods, French Flowers, Novelty Trimmings, Ribbons, etc.
FLOWERS,—Artilicid, but such exact counterparts of nature that
it is hard to realize that they are not natural. We have them in almost
endless variety, from the simplest to the finest French goods.
Tea. Gowns-
Do you worry and fret over the making of
your new Spring Tea Gown? There’s no
need to, as they are here ready made. and for
bout what the wrapper would cost you. ’
~ A presentable wrapper for 49 cents,
and a rich and lovely tea gown for $5.
Almost anything you care for between. More
kinds and more of a kind than you can see
anywhere else in town. ‘
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score" thGHAMS. _-
Weeks ago We thought we had reached the. ne
plus ultra. in Ginghams; then we got more Ging-
hams and another ne plus ultra; then still more,
and at last concluded that we never _ would know
when the Gingham limit was reached.
The latest step in the great retailing came with the
313:2: 353:1? pieces of inghams opened vesterday
Of course you are skeptical of the story told of
/ them. It is tough but true. They no equal the
', ‘, 40-cent quality. . They Ann of. excellent styles. The
.« i j . Width is extraordinary. Thepres‘entation—a whole
. ‘ . ' - '. J if. countable—quite remarkable. The wonder W111
grow when yes has them. There is a cause for this which we do not state.
You care for effects, not causes. This afi'air' in Ginghams is a consistent
incident of the Greatest Dress Goods Business—greatest in Connecticut.
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