Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-04
LOCAL NEW s.
Brief Mention.

Editor Amos P. Wilder is home again from Europe.
 Attorney Chase is the father of son and heir, born yesterday.
 Hiram lodge resumed it's weekly com munication last evening.
 Try the Royal school shoe; sold only at 92 Church street, near Chapel.
 The Misses Emma and Emile Neebe of this city have returned after spending seven weeks in Meriden.
 Professor F. A. Fowler will resume his lessons in voice, piano and harmony on Wednesday, September Il.
 Sopranos and altos wanted for St. Paul's church choir. Apply to F. A. Fowler, director, S51 Chapel street.
 Pioneer council No. 1, O. U. A. M. ,initi- ated seven new members last night, and more applications are coming in.
 MT. Skiff, wife of Dr. Paul Skiff, was a trife improved last evening, and addi- tional hope of her recovery is entertained.
 A reunion of the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth regiments, c. ", (colored) will be held at Savin Rock, Thursday of next week.
 The doctors have given up all hopes of the noted Hartford criminal lawyer, Sam uel F. Jones. His death is expected at any moment.
 Conner Brothers have finished laying the foundation to s. E. Merwin & Sons packing house, which is being built at West Haven.
 Mrs. A. J. Warren of ITO Whalley ave- nue has gone to Boston for four or five weeks. She also intends visiting the shore places in that locality.
 The summer meeting of the Society of Civil Engineers was held yesterday in Birmingham. Among those present was Professor John E. Clarke of Yale.
 Clarence M. Parker, the Chapel street optician, and family, have been spending the summer months at the pleasant new cottage erected MT. Parker at Madison's fine beach. ,,,,-
 c. w. Lockwood, the private express messenger of this city, who is at the pri vate asylum at Cromwell, is very i'll and appears to be gradually sinking. His wife is with him. 2.
 Jacob Nepel, for fifteen years 8 jewelry merchant in this city and for the last sev- en years of New York city, is in town for @ day or two and has had many warm greetings from old friends.
 The Diamond Match company of this city have on exhibition at their machine shops, Al Whitney avenue, new mechan- ical device for the generation of electricity for illumination by the incandescent sys tenn.
 The bridge builders of the Shore Line road, David Sharpe of Guilford superin- tendent, will picnic at West Haven shore to-day, with headquarters and dinner al the Twitchell house, where a capital shore dinner will be prepared.
 The plans are completed for Ottenhei- mer Brothers new corset factory on Hill street. The dimensions of the building are 48x126 feet, with boiler house and engine room 32x52. It is to. be four stories high, built of brick with asphalt roof, and will cost about $35, ,0OO. s.
 Work on the new addition to the hospi - tai is going on very rapidly. Contracto, David H. Clark's men are placing the roo1 on the south wing and Mason Contractor E. H. Sperry has large force of mer working on the new north ward. The foundation is now being laid for the boiler and engine house. .z,s, ,-., 7.
 Editor B. w. Naples of Norwalk is agair in very serious physical condition, sine. his return from his trip to the far west which was thought to have decidedly bene fitted him. His home physician and { specialist whom he has consulted hay, ordered a complete cessation from al mental and physical labors and activities
 Frank Bristol, the shoe merchant, ant wife, and George A.-Whitmore, the drug gist, and wife, had very enjoyable triE recently on an excursion to Niagara Falli and Saratoga, returning via the Hoosat tunnel. Messrs. Bristol and Whitmore rode from here to Albany on their bicycles The first day, despite MT. Whitmore'f avoirdupois, they rode to New York city from New Haven.
 MT. w. G.. Merrels, for the last two years with Gilbert & Jerome at 100 Orange street, has associated himself with E. R. Jefecott, at the corner of Elm and York streets. He will be pleased to meet all his old customers and as many new ones as they can introduce. and will be pleased to show them the finest line of wall papers and at the lowest prices to be found in the city. MT. Merrels was very popular with Gilbert & Jerome, and hopes to make him. seH e valuable to his new employer.