The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-21
Loc1nT THINGS.

Items of Intere,, ,. .iaveners--WorI
 Begun for a New chureh-soeiai AffAirs- | odd Fellows.
 This evening the members of the liar
 monie club and their lady friends wil
 hold a prize bowling contest for prizes
 Miss Mathews of George street fl
 home for the holidays from school a
 Bonn. Germany
 William A. schappa of ss St Johr
 street. foreman at the Fitch manufac
 tory. has received notice from Auditor
 elect B. D. Brown that he will be ap
 pointed janitor of the city part of cit,
 hall at salary of s1.OOo to succeed James Carney.
 The masquerade ball of the City Guard will be held at the armory Jan uary 2S. Lieutenant A. Laudensack and Sergeant H. Kapitzke will go to New York to get costumes.
 Workmen have begun excavating for the new St. Johns Episcopal church at the corner of Orange and Humphrey streets. It will be an ele- gant stone structure of the fifteenth century style. ''5. George Munger, a well known citizen, who died in Bridgeport Tuesday of pneumonia, was an uncle of F. F. s. Munger, clerk of the Fremont house, this city,
 Miss E. R. Andrea. class of '97, Mt. Holyoke college, is spending the Christmas holidays at her home, 60 Sylvan avenue
 John Capelia has been appointed steward of the Republican league.
 The members of the Odd Fellows Mutual Aid association of Meriden Gen. ter lodge, No. 8, meet this evening to elect directors for the coming year, and also delegate to the annual meeting to be held in this city January 8, 1895.
 J. E. Mcbride, through Attorney Pinney, has attached machinery owned by P. B. Mclaughlin. in suit to re-. cover $7OO for services. ...
 Attorney Charles Kleiner has filed an objection to, the saloon of Francesca Onofrio on Factory street, because of it's proximity to the synagogue
 The Hartford Evening Post an nounces that Hon. Gardiner Green of Norwich has retired from the race for; speakership of the next house of repre- sentatives, Editor Porter has also re- ceived telegram from Attorney War, ner of Putnam announcing his with drawal from the speakership race.
 The famous Temple cup, monster up of solid silver on massive pedestal # choice wood, which was won by the New York Giants in their contest with the Baltimores, is shown in the window of Laubers cigar store on Chapel street, near the bridge. It attracts great at- tention from, the pubic, especially all, interested in baseball, the city over. = j
 The Shore Line division of the Con solidated raiRGoad is at present ndedi with tramp huts from Lake Saltonsta1lI to. SaybrookvE Construction Superinten-i dent. Crofut. of the Telephone company vas heldr.upl this week, among others, !, md demand made for all the cigars, tobacco and whatever else he. possessed. Superintendent Waterbury of the rail- ooad calls the novels "tramps' hotels" They are made of old ties found along he road andsethich have been discarded n the new cSnstruction:: The ties are placed on ap angle slanting toward the .orth and covered with sod and grass. They are left open toward the sun. There are more than forty of these af' airs along the stretch of road above. mentioned. The tramps make a busi-s ness of s.rking them nightly and prey on the farmers roundabout for food; md have .heeee9me heesS9,m a decided menace tol he community. At night they lightf their fires, and as the trains pass past sengers can see'the bands of tramps ex-l hanging notes and making themselves thoroughly at home in these shanties. An effort is to be made to break them!