The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-14
Local Weather Report.
 FOR JUNE l3, 1889.
Brief Mention.
gh water to-day. 7:51 a. m.

' High water to-day, 7.51 a. m.
 Two-family house s2,6oo-R. E. Baldwin
 The local weather bureau reports continued hot weather due to-day. in- termingled with showers.
 The annual Connecticut Episcopal hiocese convention takes place in New Haven to-day at St. Thomas church.
 William H. Conklin. of the Journal and Courier, and family leave this morning for stay at the Grand Gen. tral, Newtown.
 About twenty-five members of the Meriden chapter, o. E. S., of Meriden, will visit Harmony chapter of South ington this evening.
 Corporation Counsel William H. Ely of this city, accompanied by M. F. Smith, aso of this city, is new ar- rival at the Cochran in Washington.
 Mrs. Eams in Washington, this state, recently gave & lengthy report of the recent meeting of the woman's board in New Haven, at the missionary meeting in the parsonage in that town,
 Dr. Charles w. Page has been elect ed to the superintendency of the State Insane hospital at Middletown. Dr. Page is now superintendent of the Danvers Lunatic asylum in Massachu- Betts.
 Walter, the five-year-old son of Thomas Doran of Greenwich, died late Sunday night from alcoholic poisoning. On Saturday the child found in a med tcine closet half pint bottle of whis- ky, and swallowed the whole of it..
 The Meriden common council has decided to have it's annual outing and dinner at Branford Point, and Messrs. Brainard and King will go down there to-day to look over arrangements. The outing will probably be held on June 20.
 To-day Is Flag day, the anniversary of the declaration by congress That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in blue field, representing a new cOnstellation.'
 Beer is now taxed $1 barrel of 31 1-2 gallons. The new tax is $2 barrel, and all beer on hand, wherever found, whether with the retailer or in the warehouse, which has not been tapped, will be assessed S1 extra, after which the price of stamps will be doubled.
 Rev. Albert Whitaker, now located ~a+ ;xa4N Tn rsys11 hnY,a 1,i ie week and next Sunday will preach at Grace church in New Haven. While Rev. A. T. Randall of St. Andrews church Meriden, is away on his vaca- tion Rev. Albert Whitaker will supply his pulpit.
 At Calvary Baptist church. June IA, at o'clock, an evening of story and song, on "Old Times Down South,'' will be given by Polk Miller, from Rich- mond, Va, in his imitable dialect, re- cital and delineation of the old plan- tation negro character. The entertain 1ment is under the auspices of the Young Mems class of Calvary Baptist Bible school.
 Max Eff of Hartford and Miss Minnie Glickstein of this city were married on
 
 Hartford by Rabbi Joseph Kram &C., cording to the ancient Jewish custom. There were fully 150 guests present. The best man was Abe Gliekstein of this city, and the maid of honor was Miss Eva Later of Hartford. Supper was served in the hall. and dancing fol- lowed.
 The strawberries grown by Deacon Games N. Payne of Whitneyville are a beautiful sight to see, and they taste as we'll as they look. The good deacon had them tested in this office yester. day, and if the rest are as good as the samples those who eat them will be forcibly reminded of the saying: .Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but he never did.
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