Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-05
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LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.
Buy a lot-$1OO-R. E. Baldwin.
DR.. Hesdy and family of Milford are tax
ing their annual vacation.
Turing and grading by the Connecticut
Concrete company. 40 Church street.
To morrow's races at Southington will
be the $50, 2:29 and free-for- all classes.
Higby's drug store, Milford, is fast being
restored to its former handsome appear
ance.
Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, U. s.
N, ia the guest Of Bedell Benjamin of
Stratford.
The closing exercises of Mishkan Israel
Sunday school take place next Sunday at
the church.
Rebecca Naomi lodge No 1, o. z. s. B.,
will give strawberry festival In Golden
Rule hall June 20.
Major Bromley of the Consolidated road
will occupy his cottage at Eastern point
about the Goth inst.
Fred J. Brown and family of Waterbury
left Saturday to spend the summer at their
cottage at Woodmont.
Miss May Sullivan of this city takes the
part of Josephine in the presentation of
"Pinafore" in the city hall, Waterbury,
this week.
DR.. and Mrs. George L. Bsardsley, Mr..
and Mrs. A. q. Alling, and Miss Carrie E.
Alling of Birmingham start for the worlds
fair this week.
Interest this week in the etate legislature
will center upon the debates which are
likely to arise on the proposed constitu-
tional changes.
The largest variety of ideal furniture
suitable for summer furnishing will be
found at the Bowditch & Prudden Co.'s
stores, Orange street.
Grand Master Ware of the I. o. o. F.
has called meeting of the district deputy
grand masters to be held in the Odd Eel
lows building in this city Wednesday,
June 7.
Seaside cottages, mountain and summer
residences and hotels of every description
can be most e1peditiously and economically
furnished from the warerooms Of the Bow
ditch & Prudden Co., Orange street.
John Benjamin, the New York broker,
whose yacht was ransacked and robbed
Thursday night in Stratford harbor, has q
summer residence on Elm street, Strstford,
and is estimated worth $2,000,O00.
John Shea of the Willimsntic Young
Mems Athletic club, champion high kicker
of eastern Connecticut, has left thsthread
city for this city, where he has accepted a
position as fireman of a locomotive.
The William Nicely Athletic association
of New Haven is busy arranging for their
annual regatta on Lake Whitney on July Z.
From the preparations this event will sur
pass all others held by the association.
Mrs. N. P. T. Southworth of 100 Whal-
ley avenue, who WAS taken suddenly and
dangerously i'll Saturday afternoon, is i'm
proving and her physician, DR.. futile,
thinks she will be able to be about again in
few days.
Next Wednesday night the students of
Yale will consider the revised constitution
for the athletic organizations. A member
of the committee says there will be consid-
cradle talk about doing away with under
graduate rule.
The New Haven District Ministerial as
ISOLATION will hold its sixty sixth meeting
in Hartford on Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week. Rev. William McNiohol reads
Q paper on CLONE Rule in Ireland" at the
Wednesday morning session.
At the council of education meeting in
this city Saturday officers were elected as
follows: President, v. g. Curtis, New Ha-
ven; vice president, Mr.. Graves, Hartford;
secretary and treasurer, 8. P. Willard of
Colchester; executive committee, E. q.
Forbes of Hartford, N. B. Bishop of Nor
wioh, F. q. Bede of Willimantic and
Charles d. Hine of New Britain.
The most important real estate transfer
in stratford during the past few weeks is
the sale of the property known as Fresh
pond to the Housatonio Oyster company.
The purchase was made from Sheriff Rob-
ert L. Clarkson and Deputy Sheriff Charles
B. Curtis. The sale of this property will
result in new industry for Stratford
which promises to be very successful
Charles T. Hemingway of East Haven,
who has been appointed immigrant in
spector of the treasury department by
President Cleveland, will begin his duties
this week, and will report at the New York
custom house. The salary il $4,000 per
annum. Mr.. Hemingway is thirty-fou |
years of age and one of the prominent !
democrats in East Haven. His father,
Stephen Hemingway, was postmaster in
the town for thirty years, until the time of
his death few years ago, when his son
was appointed to succeed him by President
Cleveland. The latter is = very popular
the Monticello club.