The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-30
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

Rptohers' Coming Jubilee-Harmony, s.
 of T.-Mr. Gompertz's Experimental.
 o.o. F., r. c. Ms Meet at Lighthouse
 Point--Post Office Men Happy-New
 Haven Arohiteet's Plans for Pine orch-
 ards New Chapel, Etc.
 r. A. Bradley of this city has invent ed and had patented Q temporary bind- CT for books pamphlets, letters, etc.
 Henry Stadtmiller has invented mo- tor key pin lock and a patent granted the inventor has been assigned to Sar- gent & Co.,
 The Butchers Retail association has decided to hold it's barbecue at Scheut- zen park August 19. Chris Richards, A. Eislie and George Rothman are the general committee on arrangements. It is expected to make this a. big affair.
 The picnic given by Columbia lodge, D. of R., at Lighthouse Point yester- day was well attended. The party took electric cars at the green at o'clock They had most enjoyable time.
 Harmony division. Sons of Temper ance, will have watermelon cut to- night. The W. F. would like a large attendance, as there Is important busi- ness to come before the division.
 The state road commission has ac- cepted the new Meriden road, which has just been completed. It runs north from Colony street and is a model thoroughfare.
 The Past Grand Masters association, A. O. U w., will hold its annual meet ing at Lighthouse Point August 23, when shore dinner will be served. J.. P. R. Ricketts, the president, will pre- side and business of importance regard ing the proposed reserve fun will be considered
 Noah H. Swayne, 2d, Yale 93, class secretary, yesterday sent to the mem bersof the class handsomely printed pamphlet giving an account of the tri- ennial meeting held here last June. The book contains a full page portrait of Theodore l.. Bristol, jr., of Ansonia, the class boy.
 The pulpit of the Congregational church, Stratford, will be supplied dur ing the pastors vacation by the fol- lowing clergymen: August 9, the Rev. c. w. Judson. orange, Mass; August 16, the Rev. F. s. Fitch, D. D., Buffalo N. Y; August 23, the Rev. J. c. God dard, Salisbury. Conn; August 30. the Rev. s. H. Dana, D. D., Quincy, Illi- nois
 First Assistant Postmaster General F. H. Jones yesterday issued orders which increase the salary of the follow l ing named officers and clerks of the To- cal postoffice: Pierce N. Maher, super l intendent of mails; Edward T. Kenne- | dy, superintendent of carriers; John T. I.Kerrigan, chief mail clerk: E. s. Hop kins, chief box clerk; Thomas s. Pit
 man, box clerk: William H. Merrow
 and w. H. Moakley, box clerks. The
 order is to the effect that these mer shall each receive $100 year in addi- | tion to their present salary. Severa I weeks ago Postmaster Beach asked the l department to allow S7o0 additional fol l the running expenses of the office, the money to be used in increasing salaries 1 Yesterday Assistant Postmaster Rowe
 received notification as above stated. 1 Brown & Berger the architects, ol l this city, have about completed plans for the new union chapel which the summer residents of Pine Orchard have
 raised money for and propose to erec as soon as possible. The plans show z wooden building with oblique roof sur mounted by cupola. The building is I 33 feet wide 54 feet deep and finished inside with pine sheathing. It will sea I 250 people. The general design is art istic. A committee of summer resi-
 dents will soon meet and look over tht 1 plans and then call for bids from con 1 tractors.
 1 Architects Brown & Berger have completed plans for remodeling Charle:
 Gerner's three-story double tenemen
 house on State street, between Clarl
 and Humphrey streets, and the build I ing of an addition 12 by 16 feet. | MT. and Mrs. Horace o. Case O Hartford avenue, who have not fev l New Haven friends, celebrated the If ty-fifty anniversary of MT. Case
 birthday Monday evening. It was ; l we'll arranged surprise to MT. Case, ant he received many valuable and usefu presents. There were many presen from out of town, and very enjoyabl evening was passed A collation wa
 served during the evening. Amonl | case which MT. Case will take on hi | visit to Cleveland to attend the con vention of the supreme lodge of tn 1 Knights of Pythias.
 In the August issue of the "Thera peutic Progress" published in New Yorl city, there appears an article of Dl Louis M. Gompertz, Yale medica school, '96, now of Bellevue hospita l New York. The title of the article "Lysidine, Its Value in the Treatmen of Gout" Dr. Gompertz is the first i this country to experiment with thi
 drug, it being German preparation and first being used by pr. F. Gramit in the University Medical clinic in Der lin. The results obtained by Dr. Com pertz agrees with the observations c
 Dr. Grawitz. The drug is a uric aci
 solvent, and the analyses were carrie
 on the in the laboratory at Yale.
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