The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-21
LOCAL NE US,
Brief Mention.

High WRtef Io-uay at l%:41 p, m.
Buy new house-R. E. Baldwin.
Mrs. Theodore F. Platt is very i'll at
her home.
G. W. Royce Of this city is to open a
fish market in Derby this week.
Rev. Mr. Pope of this city preached in
the NJ e. church in Bristol yesterday.
Business at the Branford lock works
Us booming and more help is being add
ed.
]. w. Rickerd Of this city has accepted
G position as bookkeeper with D. N.
Clark in Shelton.
The General Conference of Congrega-
tional Churches of Connecticut occurs
at Waterbury November 1920.
Admiral e. K. Benham and Mrs. and
Miss Benham are the guests this week
of Mrs. McMaster, High street
Ladies will do we'll to attend the spe-
cial sale of trimmed millinery at E.
Moses & Co.'S establishment to-day.
The ladies of ST. Joseph's r, C.
church in Westville will give a harvest
supper in Masonic hall, Westville, Oct.
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Two italian laborers were killed last
Friday afternoon at the Sachem's Head
quarries by the caving in of a bank of
earth.
Rev. William r. Mulford of the
Church of the Ascension preached at
st. Marks church, Mystic, yesterday
morning and evening.
Mr.. James Dooley, manager Of the
Dooley Pretzel Works, has returned
from an extended business trip through
out southern New England.
Rev. DR. Twichell of Hartford preach
ed at Battell chapel yesterday morning
and addressed the general religious
meeting of the university at 40 in the
evening.
the funeral yesterday In South Norwall1
of Oliver Mumford, who was killed by
the trolley cars. The Odd Fellows con-
Quoted the services.
The body of the drowned man which
was found in New London last Friday
has been identified as that of Thomas
Pratt, who has son, Thomas Pratt, jr.,
and two daughters living in this city.
A dispatch says: G. A. Nelson, Bran
ford shoemaker, has left town after
drawing his funds amounting to sew
eral hundred dollars, from the bank.
His wife is left in destitute circum-
stances.
Mrs. Frank l.. Arnold of 372 Grand
avenue, wife of the train dispatcher of
the Shore Line division of the CONSOLE
dated railroad, has returned home from
a six weeks visit to relatives in Cleve-
land, O.
The nut crop is great this year, while
the chestnut harvest is one of the great
est ones in the history of Connecticut.
In the woods the ground beneath every
chestnut tree, big and little, old and
young, is literally speckled with the
brown fruit.
Frank ]. MCGUIRE, who is at Eagny's
drug store, Grand avenue, was one of
the three pharmacists who successfully
passed the last examination conducted
by the state board of pharmacy L. F.
La Pierre of Norwich and c. H. Shea of
Worcester, Mass, were the other two.
The latter thinks Of locating in this
city.
Samuel P. Baker, one of the popular
train dispatchers of the Consolidated
railroad, is one of the happiest men IN
the city, and to-day will be busy dis
tributing cigars among his many
friends. Saturday afternoon his wife
presented him with ten-pound son and
heir, hence his exhilaration. Mother and
son are doing well.
The Central II. A. union held a meet
ing in st. Aloysius rooms last evening
and appointed to arrange for an enter
tainment, the proceeds of which will be
used for giving rallies. The committee
consists of John MCGOWAN of st. Igna-
thus, Edward Sheehan of st. Patrick's,
Thomas Flood of Samcred Heart, and
Thomas Meagher of st. Aloysius.
A citizenwrites: The sidewalks on
Crown street, north side, between
Orange and Church streets, opposite the
harness shop. should be repaired and at
once. A lady fell down there to-day
Sunday owing to the defective pave
ment, and was severely bruised and
stunned. And there are others who
have fallen there, owing to the same
cause.
Mayor Scofield, Commodore James D.
Smith and H. K. McHarg, members of
the board of trustees of the Stamford
hospital, came to New Haven Saturday
and visited the New Haven hospital.
They also visited the Bridgeport hospi-
tai Their object was to obtain infor-
nation which will prove valuable in
making plans for alterations in the
building soon to be used as a public
hospital in Stamford,