The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-18
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

The Epworth M. D. church Boys Brigade will give an entertainment in Pyramid hall, corner of State street and Hine Place, February 2S. An or- chestra from the brigade and bur lesque drill will be the attractions.
 The Reynolds School of Elocution will give it's fifth annual reception at Harmonic hall tonight. The Rainbow Dance" by Miss Lottie Reynolds will be the attraction. w. Manning Key holds, the well known humorist, will assist. There will be dancing after 9:30 o'clock.
 The sixteenth annual meeting of the Union ex-Prisoners' of War association of the State of Connecticut will be held at the Grand Army hall on the 22d of February at 1O:30 o'clock at Hartford. All prisoners, whether members of the association or not, and their lady friends are invited to be present on the occasion.
 The stockholders and holdings of the members of the New Haven Polo and Bowling club filed this week the arti- cles of incorporation in the town clerk S office, as follows: D. M. Smith, 26; Edwin F. Peckham, 64 c. H. Hilton, so; William Aufert, 4; Charles J. Platt, 4. r. man, 16; Edward c. Hausman, 16; George H. Collett, IS; G. P. Holland, 24; c. E. Larom, 4; Louis A. Rosen- berg, 1; c. H. Miller, 4; George T. San dalls, g. There Is total of 150 shares at S25 a share.
 The department of parks now has quarters in the city hall, and at certain hours of the day President Henry T. Blake of the park commission is at his desk to represent the department.
 Frank P. Clark at the auction sale of horses in Madison Square Garden New York, on Wednesday, purchased the fast -year-old trotter Bluebird 1 for $2,350. At the same sale Eugene P. McKenna bought Joe Irwin, 2:21k for $525. Both animals will be brought here.
 F. E. Bowers, Thomas G. Bowers and Robert F. Morton have formed the Gil bert Manufacturing company under | the corporation laws of the state. The new company will make and sell high I grade of corsets and corset waists | The company's works are located or | Center street.. The capital is 2,00( and each of the gentlemen named owns a third of the stock.
 National Secretary Daniel Colwell o1 the Knights of Columbus, whose office is in this city, said yesterday that the laws of the order made it pretty cleal that a successor to John B. Hayes, late supreme knight, would have to be elected at the annual meeting of the national council of the order to bt | held in this city March 1.
 The New Haven Grays are preparing to revive their dramatics, which were extremely popular some years ago l This committee has been appointed tC arrange for the revival: Lieutenan Charles Smith, Sergeant Edward o Greuner, Corporal N.S White and Pri yates J. P Earle, A. William Sperry M. D. Osborn, William c. Morgan anc E.. s. Willis. Sergeant Greuner i: chairman of the committee.
 Major Benjamin E. Brown, com manding the second company, Cover nors Foot Guard, has issued an orde, for the company to report at the ar mory Sunday afternoon at o'clock tt | attend the memorial services at Day | export church, conducted by Davic Humphreys branch, No. 1, Connection | society, Sons of the American Revolu tion. The company will be paraded il fatigue uniform, overcoats and sid, | arms.
 Detective Henry J. Donnelly yester day noon arrested John Bosten, aget twenty-four years, who Is wanted il Ansonia for not supporting his wifi and child. Bosten has been living ol Edwards street. Chief Ellis of Anso nia came here and took Bosten hom in the afternoon
 C. R. Warehouse has been awarded the contract for the Milford Stree Railway company for the piling an, l trestling and the building of tn bridges on the companys line betweel l Woodmont and Washington Bridge il Milford. There were five or six othe contractors who put in bids for tn work. The contract specifices that tn work must be completed on or befor the first of May. MT. Warehouse vii start a gang of men on the work mex week. The bridges to be built and tn length of each are, at Calves Meadows 250 feet at the Gulf in Milford, 52 feet; at Great Creek, 300 feet; at Fetch CTS Creek, 150 feet, and at Little Creek 300 feet The entire work will requir 10000 feet of yellow pine lumber an
 will necessitate an expenditure of be | tween $9,000 and $10,O00.
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