The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-22
OF LoCAL INTEREST.

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 1 A Danish picnic was held at Schutzen
 Park yesterday and to-day a Swedish ! picnic takes place there.
 Professor F. Wells William of this city arrived in Norfolk, Conn, yestsr-
 day and will enter his summer cottage
 at once.
 Mrs. Joseph Graves of Charter Oak
 Place, Hartford gave a delightful tea
 yesterday afternoon in honor of her
 guest, Miss Allen of this city.
 Rev. w. H. Gilbert of this city spoke
 at a union service of the First and
 South churches In New Britain last
 evening on 'The Claims and Work of
 the State Bible society.
 In addition to the regular program
 at the o'clock service at the Grand avenue Congregational church, part of
 the responsive service will be rendered
 by boy choir, Mrs. Brown will sing
 solo and MT. John Gould will lead the congregational music with cornet.
 A special meeting of the Second com- pany, Governors Foot Guard, was held in their armory last evening. The com pany on July will attend the coming unveiling of tablet at Fort Wooster park in honor of the defense of New Haven at the invasion of the British in 1779.
 The Rev J. E. Twitchell, D. D., of Dwight Place church, will preach in the Second Congregational churcr, Fair Ha- ven, tomorrow evening at 7:30 The evening services are in charge of the Congregational Brotherhood and will close for the season with a praise ser vHe, June 30.
 The marriage of MT. John R. Miller of F Tyler street and brother of MT. George Miller, the Tontine hotel barber, and Miss Marie Marquis, sister of the wife of the latter, will take place in the Zion Lutheran church next We'd nesday evening at 730 o'clock, Rev. D. H. Fisher, pastor of the church, otticiat- ing.
 The new public free bath house at Fort Hale Park for men has just been completed and the contractor, ex-Post- master Samuel Thompson of South End is completing the new public bath houses for ladies and children at the same park near where the Be1cher. store SlQbus IhIS, 1DlpIOpg WllG OL SOlldltSlpl Bishop of the Morris Cove electric road, is to have charge of the latter.
 Complaint was made to the police last evening that some sharper was going the rounds of the city and col- lecting laundry work, which he failed to return. His modus operandi is to go to houses where laudry is generally collected, secure it from the person who opens the door and sell it or pawn 1t. Several persons have already been victimized in this manner.
 The schedule of daily exercises at the Connecticut summer school for teach- CTS are out. On one page may be found a plan of work by Prof. Jepson, super visor of music In our public schools, in which Is set forth a systematic course of lessons enabling any teacher with fair voice and ordinary ability to make 1 music a. successful study in the school I room. To Connecticut teachers the course of lessons are free.
 Charles D. Barnes, for many years 1 town clerk and leading business man of Southington, will be married Tues day morning, July 2, to Miss Margaret l Harper Taylor of Brookline, Mass, at | tn home of the novelist, Charles Cane- I ton Coffin. The, happy pair will take l m extended wedding tour in Europe, 1 going as far north as the North Cape. | MT, Barnes has many friends in New I Haven. The bride-elect is a southern ady of refinement and high educa- ion
 The seventh year of Mrs E. T. school at S77 Crown street, vas completed yesterday morning by In exhibition Of the work of the year The school Is divided into primary ln intermediate and Kindergarten department, and the work of each de- >artment was illustrated eRading, ex- rcises in phonetics and recitations were given. The Kindergarten gave sames and songs Clay modelling and l he usual kindergarten work was ex- libited.
 The experimental opening of the Nan asket Beach branch of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, which has been equipped with elec- ricity, occurred Thursday evening and vas very satisfactory. Vice President Tall pulled the lever which started the lectrical current into the wire. Those resent were: Vice President John M. Tall, Third Vice President James Ken rick, John c. sanborn, superinten- ent of the Plymouth division of the pad; General Freight Agent c. Peter lark and Master Mechanic S. P Willis the Old Colony division