The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-03
Brief Mention.

High water to-day, 857 p. m.
 Insurance & Leans. Chas. Wilson & Go. Two family house 2.e00. RE. Baldwin. Thermometer last night at Il o'clock registered 12 above zero.
 Jacob Smith was last night installed as recording secretary of Sarsfield council, No. IA, o. U. A. M.
 Winthrop castle, No. F, K. G. E., last night worked the second degree on six candidates and received two appli- cations for membership.
 About fifty couples attended dance in Arion hall given by the shot shell loaders of Winchesters, last night Lenox's orchestra furnished the music. The general committee which has had charge of the arrangements for the celebration of Washingtons birth 5 day will meet this evening in room 10 and Il city hall
 The remains of Mrs. Susan Beach, a former resident of Collinsville, were taken to that place from New Haven Tuesday. The burial was at the old Canton street cemetery.
 Professor William Lyon Phelps gave the closing lecture in the Thursday Morning club and University Extension course in Meriden last evening. His subject will be ''Siendiewicz.'
 MT. Robinson, Yale Divinity school student, will address the Young Peo- ples society of the First Congregation al church of Meriden Sunday evening, February 20, in the interest of foreign missionaries.
 In Old Union armory last night the Defenders Social club gave their second annual masquerade ball. Fitzgerald S orchestra furnished the music for the dancing About seventy-fve couples were present.
 The name of the new weather observ- CT in New Haven is Tarr and we think it safe to assume that the general opin- ion down there is that the weather he has brought with him knocks the tar out of anything they have had there since the big blizzard-Meriden Jour- nal
 MT. E. H. Clark of No. Whitney avenue has sold his grocery depart ment to David J. Corbett, formerly of the Heublein Brothers. MT. Corbett will occupy the store which has been occupied by MT. Clark. MT. Clark still retains the management of the Litch- field milk and cream department, and will locate in new quarters very soon.
 Mrs. Jennie Servis, employed in the railroad station in Rochester, N. Y, held large audience of women for an hour in Hartford yesterday as few speakers could. Her subject was pre- ventive and rescue work for young girls. Her words stirred every wo- mans heart She will speak to-day at o'clock in the United church chapel on Temple street.
 MT. and Mrs. T. H. Warnock. Mrs F. B. Sands, Mrs. A. D. Meeks, Mrs. E. E. Smith, Mrs. Wilbur F. Parker, Mrs "A. B. Squire, Mrs. G. R. Curtis, Mrs. N U. Beckwith and the Misses Ada Coop CT, Florence and Grace White and Hor- tense Hall were among the Merider people who attended "The Highway man. matinee yesterday afternoon al the Hyperion theater.
 Yesterdays Meriden Journal says: Miss Lucy Stock, secretary of the junior department of the State Sunday School association, attended the meet ing of the Primary Teachers union al the First Congregational church yes terday afternoon. She was the guest of MT. and Mrs. J. W. Logan and re- turned to her home in New Haven or the 9:01 train this morning.
 In Academy hall last Tuesday night was given a pleasant. dance by the Young Ladies Elm City Cycle club A bo11t SeyeutV-fiVe coIplee yyera rraS. ent during the evening. The members of the club are Miss Josie McFeeters Misses Anna and Nellie Vowenkle, Mrs Rhein, Miss Britelle and Miss Harri- gan A feature of the evening was the formation in the grand march of a let. ter H, which was led by W. H. White lock.