Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-16
LOCAL NE " 5.
Brief Mention.

Colonel White passed slightly easier day yesterday, but his recovery is despared of
 Max Adler is confined to his home by an attack of illness, but it is not considered of serious nature.
 MT. and Mrs. J. w. Kenny of 19 Park street celebrated the forty second anniver- sary of their marriage Saturday.
 Steeple Jack is in town at work on the smoke stack at the lumber mills of George filings Sons on Water street.
 Tonight the committees report on the city contract for water supply will be made to the board of aldermen.
 The fine chance to buy of those genuine Turkish rugs at Enfajian's, $40 Chapel street, brings out many lady buyers.
 Miss Gill's juvenile class will give Ger man next Saturday morning-forty eight members of the class will participate.
 At the impromptu reception at the St. Ignatius club house last night MT. Phil Rooney gave very excellent recitation.
 The Rev. Joseph Anderson, D. D., will be the guest of the New Haven Congrega- tional club at the Davenport church this evening.
 Vandals smeared the old liberty pole on the Branford green with tar Friday night and set it on fire. It burned to the ground.
 MT. and Mrs. Hubinger of Keokuk, Ia., the parents of N. w. and J. E. Hubinger of this city. are visiting at the residences of the Hubingers on Elm street.
 Professor E. T. Mclaughlin will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa lecture Friday evening before the students at Yale. He will speak on the subject, Authors as Men,"
 The third annual conference of the Con- necticut chapters of tho Brotherhood of St. Andrew began in Christ church, Aaso- mia, yesterday and continues to-day.
 Charles Fromm, house painter of 537 Grand avenue, fell from a staging Satur- day at Assistant Postmaster Boyd's house. He fell twenty feet and was badly injured.
 Tho board of education has bought lot adjoining the Fair street school house, of MT. Coburn. Upon it the new schoolhouse will be erected-an eight room brick build ing.
 The asylum at Middletown is overcrowd- ed. Saturday in order to get in two un- manageable patients from this city, two docile patients had to be brought back in exchange.
 MT. c. H. Blakeslee will commence his third season of German at the Y. M. 0. A. rooms this evening at 8:15 o'clock. All last years members are requested to at tend, as an effort will be made to form an advanced class.
 "The Valley of Dry Bones'' was the sub- ject of forcible and eloquent sermon preached yesterday morning in the Church of the Messiah by the pastor, Rev. L. H. Squires. In the evening Rev. MT. Squires spoke on "Why Believe in the Protestant t Religion"
 Next Thursday, November 19, the East Rock lodge, A. o. U. W. will entertain the Pyramid and Sterling lodges, A. o. U. w. This is to be the first of series of mutual entertainments. Arrangements have been AI4noo GO hoNo SnA oAA gA0 EalI 1Adfcu 1lut ready at East Pearl street to bring the wis itors back to the city.
 New Haven is exceptionally favored in her abundant water supply. The New York World of yesterday tells of New York's alarm over the scanty water supply there. All over Connecticut except here the low water supply for weeks past has been cause of anxiety and in not few places of financial losses.
 Among those present at the great na tional convention of the w. O. T. U. now being held in Boston is Mrs. William F Green, formerly president and now vict president of the New Haven county or ganization. She attends as delegate iron this county. She has for the past sever years served with ability as president O. Union, No. 9, Fair Haven w. CT. U.
 MT. Henry F. English has notified th' Historical society that he has donated t' the society fine building lot on Grow street fronting Hillhouse avenue, on whicl he will erect and present to the society handsome building thoroughly designed for the society's use. The society ha most gladly accepted this opportune ant generous gift and passed resolutions il recognition of their high appreciation o the same