The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-09
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 MT. Albert c. Coe and family return ed yesterday morning from Burrville, Conn, where they have been spending the glorious Fourth.
 The first grand excursion of the Journeymen Plumbers and Steam Fit ters' will be given Monday, July 22 by the steamer Continental to New York, Bay Ridge and Coney Island. Music for concert and dancing will be. fur nished by a full band. Tickets are selling very fast for the excursion. Miss Stella Raymond of Meriden was rescued by Harry Damon from a death by drowning Saturday at Short Beach. With party of girls she went beyond the stakes, but as all are good swim mers nothing was thought of this. When some little way from the others she was taken with cramps. Neither her father, who was in the water, nor her companions, heard her cries, as all were making considerable noise, but | Damon, who was on shore, saw her distress and jumped and rescued her. Governor Coffin has engaged quar- ters at the Morton house. Mantle, for the state militia encampment, which is to be held there from August 12 to 1T. l The local oyster growers yesterday morning began in earnest the work of planting shells for the coming season, lit is estimated that in all 100000 bushels of shells and stone will be used.
 The First Baptist church Sunday school of this city have an excursion | to Hanover Park to-day.
 Mir. and Mrs. l.. P. Smith of New Haven, formerly of Hartford, have ar- rived at their cottage at Middle Beach, | Westbrook, for the summer.
 General Brayton Ives of the old First Connecticut Cavalry and whose father resided for many years in New Haven will deliver an address on the secret history of the Bond Contract" at the annual convention cf the New York State Bankers association, which vii be held at Saratoga tomorrow. Gen. eral Ives is the president of the West ern National bank of New York city and a leading New York banker. Ht went to the war from this state in tht Fifth Connecticut, and was advanced to the command of the First Cavalry l Subsequently he was breveted brigadiel lgeneral for meritorious services I The Rev Dr. George M. Stone, pastor of the Asylum avenue Baptist church
 Hartford, will leave for the south or
 Tuesday, and will be absent from tn,
 city until September He will spend the month of July in the mountainou Iregions of the south, going as far al
 hattanooga, and visiting the battle fields in that locality. He will after
 wards visit the Adirondacks, spendin,
 the month Of August in that region
 During the rest of this month, pr
 Stone's pulpit will be occupied by tn
 Revs T. F. Stidham of New Britain
 P. s. Evans of New Haven and Arthu
 Phelps of Colorado, son of the Rev
 s. Dryden Phelps In August tn
 church will be closed.
 The checks to pay off the legislator
 are ready for use to-day. t"They hay
 been all ready for three weeks" sai the treasurer yesterday.
 The stockholders of the Bridgepor
 Forge company held their annual meet
 ing yesterday and the old board c directors was reelected The board 1
 composed as follows: Franklin Far cell, Ansonia; D. C. Lewis, Waterbury Charles F. Bliss, Ansonia; Beniami Fletcher, jr., and Thomas Haller Bridgeport. The directors afterwar, met and reelected MT. Farrell presi dent, MT. Fletcher, treasurer and ger , cal manager and MT. Hallen. secretary , Are you looking for first-class tabl board? Try the Cafe Francais, $7.00 pc r week. Table d'hote dinner 50 cent. 3 1o68 Chapel street, corner High.