The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-23
VEST HAVEN.
Many Notes of Interest Concerning Life in
 the Borough and at the Shore.


 the Borough and at the Shore.
 Mr. Wilson Waddingham is receiving the congratulations of his friends over the arrival at his home of a girl baby. The child was born on Fri day and mother and child are reported as doing finely.
 Next Friday afternoon at 2:3O o'clock at Savin Rock grounds will be played one of the most important games of the series in the dry goods contest. It will be between Ewen Mcintyre & Co. and F. M. Brown & Co.'s teams. Each store will have two special cars, which will leave the green between and 2:2O o'clock Friday afternoon. The excite ment among the clerks is at the highest pitch and both teams are doing much boasting.
 The following is the program at the rock this week:
 July "A the Knights of Columbus of New Britain will visit Savin Rock. From eight hundred to thousand are expected.
 Wednesday. July 25. there will be a balloon ascension by Miss Louise Bates, which is guaranteed to be successful This lady has made the most ascen- sions of any woman in the country, having up to date made over five hun dred.
 July 26 there will be a colored picnic of all the different societies in the city at Waverly grove.
 For the evening of Thursday, July 26, the full Second Regiment band has been engaged to give a concert in Rail- road grove at o'clock; selections that lie before that date.
 July 2S the Hartford Machine Screw Mutual Benefit association, to the num- Der of thousand, are expected. to visit the shore.
 The annual union excursion Of the Senior Temperance and Catholic Lite rary societies of Waterbury will be held on Saturday, July 2S, the parties coming to Savin Rock.
 Rev. N. J. Squires of the West Haven Congregational church will leave for his vacation tomorrow. which he will spend in Riverhead, L. I.
 The Mayer. Strouse & Go. nine de- feated the St. Aloysius nine on the Savin Rock grounds Saturday after noon in an uninteresting game by a score of 22 to IA. Next week Mayer, Strouse & Co. go to Bridgeport to play with Langdon, Batcheller & Co.,
 An offarnnnr toQ oiHyop Cof urday afternoon by Miss Anna Chapin Ray of Fremont cottage, Chestnut street, in honor of Miss Mary Mines of Bellows Falls, Vt. Tea was served in the dining room, which was profuse- ly decorated with palms and potted plants. Miss Ray was assisted by her Mrs. Edward A. Ray, and the Misses Madeleine, Eleanor Reynolds, and Bertha Loomis Jackson. Miss Ray wore blue silk, trimmed with velvet; Miss Reynolds was attired in a blue lawn. trimmed with blue moire and white lace. Miss Jackson's costume was of white organdie, with trimmings of moire ribbon and lace. Miss Mines wore 8 chaille gown. trimmed with green velvet and ribbon. Among those present were Mrs. c. w. Ives of New Haven, Miss Ella Clephane of Washing ton, D. C., Mrs. A. Felton Wood, Bertha Graham, Katherine Mckay Tolles and May Reynolds. ..
 The Samoset club house Is rapidly nearing completion, and will be formal ly opened about August 1.
 James B. Thomas has been engaged as steward and janitor of the Graham Hooks headquarters on Washington avenue.
 The Consolidated road have about the roadway over the tracks at First avenue and are now harden ing with crushed stone.
 Contractor D. A. Kimberly has se- cured the contract to furnish the cob oles to be used in paving between the tracks of the new electric road through Congress avenue to Allingtown.
 The pony circus that is now giving free exhibitions at the grove every afternoon and evening is one of the pest entertainments that has been given It the rock in several seasons.
 A most exciting game of base ball vas played between the Graham Hooks md the Fountain Hose company of An sonia on Saturday afternoon on the cottage grounds. The Fountain hose won. srr
 The following were the guests, at the Sea View house, H. A. Speh, pro- ,rietor, for Saturday, and Sunday. July I and 22: B. HsPiumet and wife. Nau- gatuck; L. s. Kingston. Chicago, Ill;