Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-10
LOCAL NE w s.
Brief Mention.

Invest money in New daven.-h. L. Baldwin.
 Tonight 1t is expected there will be meteoric display unless the signs fail.
 Concrete walks laid and repaired by Conn. Concrete company, 49 Church street. City lots exchanged for savings banks' books. Clark, 121 Church street, Room IS. Phsnix lodge, T. of H., of New Britain makes an excursion to Savin Rock to-mor- row.
 Now that Katydid has been heard the next thing is look for the frost six weeks hence.
 Miss Mabel Collier, the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Joseph Collier of Adeline street, Is recovering.
 Mrs. Emma Morrissey of Liberty street is spending few weeks at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
 Sergeant Mcbride is rapidly recovering and was able to be out for short time yesterday afternoon.
 Miss Maggie Noonan, the popular dressmaker on Frank street, is spending several weeks at Springfield, Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. William Noonan of Wash ington street, who were recently married, have gone to housekeeping on Sherman avenue.
 Excursion tickets to Chicago S1700, and $26.4 40 with stop-over privileges. Morse, Schroeder & Stock, Room 10, Benedict building. Open evenings.
 Mrs. George T. Bradley, her daughter, Miss Mabel, and son, MT. Walter Bradley of West Chapel street, are at the White Mountains for stay of several weeks.
 8. H. Moseley of the New Haven Houee, who has purchased building lot in Nor folk, Ct, one of his favorite summer re- sorts, will probably erect cottage there.
 Miss Fannie Fenwiok of this city Is fill ing the position of stenographer at the Derby Silver company's office during the absence of Miss Mattie Lynn, who is spending her vacation in Meriden.
 The Ansonia and Birmingham National banks have notified depoeitors that they will not cash checks on other banks on de- mand, but will collect for depositors if 
 cure money.
 Peter Mooney and son returned last evening from 8 visit to another son in New Jersey. MT. Mooney has been gate tender for the Consolidated road over twenty years, and this is his first vacation during that time.
 Nathan Hale camp, Sons of Veterans, of New Haven will make an excursion to the Noroton Soldiers Home, Wednesday, August 30. It is expected that many of Foote post will join in.
 On August g, 1871, twenty-two years ago yesterday, the first trains were run over the ''Little Derby," ss 1t was then called, between Ansonia and New Haven. Conductor E. B. Bradley then, as now, was in charge of one of the trains.
 William H. Allen of the firm of Porter & Allen, New Britain, is slowly gaining in health. MT. Allen and wife left for Indian Neck on the sound near Branford yesterday afternoon, where he will spend week or two with his son, John W. AL len, the contractor, who has a cottage there.
 The Rev. Dr. Harris of Yale Divinity school, who for many seasons past has been a regular summer visitor in Litoh- field, is sojourning in Lakevilie this year. The correspondent of the Canaan News re- ports that the doctor preached in the Methodist church there recently to an "enraptured" congregation. n.-Litchfeled Enquirer.
 Willis Curtiss, fnancisr of Momauguin ledge, A. o. U. w., now in his fifteenth year in that position, takes his first vaca- tion in twenty years this month, leaving next Thursday for stay in Litchfeld Hills of 2 week or ten days. His wife and grandson will accompany him. MT. Cur tiss is foreman of the pattern department at Peck Brothers & Go. and has been in that position for the last twenty years, ably discharsing the responsible duties of the place. MT. Curtiss is one of the wheel horses of the A. O. U. W. in New Haven.