The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-07
WA111NsFoRD EVENTS.

J. l.. Merchant was returning from Hanover Park after il o'clock Monday night and while coming under the cul- vert below Yalesville discovered bicy- cle in the gutter and half an hours hunt In all directions failed to discover any owner, whereupon MT. Merchant took possession of the wheel, which he brought home, and the rightful owner can have the same by calling and prov ing property. The wheel is B. & D. Special and nearly new. It looks as if the wheel had been stolen and left be- side the road, when the rider had de- cided to take train.
 The selectmen held their regular meeting yesterday and transacted rou- tine business. The books for the fiscal year were closed last evening prepara- tory to the summing up and making out the annual report.
 The electric road officials have begun work on lowering the track north of the sawmill on the turnpike and filling in and raising the same in the hollow fur ther north.
 The North Haven people are arrang- ing for 6 grand celebration when the stone road from the bridge west of the depot to Colony street at Shady Cor ner is completed. The date of the cele- bration Is set down for September F.
 The condition of Nicholas Sutton is extremely critical and 1t is feared that brain fever will set in.
 Fl. l.. Halls condition yesterday was considered a little more favorable.
 Reports from Hartford state that Dr.. Wilson is rapidly improving.
 G. T. Bramble is home from Balti- more.
 All books must be returned to the public library by the 20th of September or fine of ten cents a day will be charged.
 The many friends of Edward c. Hall of the Rough Riders, now at Fort Me Pherson, will be pleased to learn of a slight improvement in his condition. He has been seriously i'll with typhoid fever.
 Commodore George D, Bullock of Melrose, Mass, is visiting old friends in town for a few days.
 A letter recently received here states that John Hanlon of the Seventy First
  ing from the nalarial fever.
 The Ott brothers "AH Aboard" com- pany Is booked for the opera house Sep tember 16.
 Work has begun on the south end of the trunk sewer line near Pine hill.
 Several veterans from here will at- tend the reunion of the Twenty-sev- enth Connecticut Volunteers at Light house Point to-day.
 The funeral services of John F. Broedlin, who died Monday, aged fifty six years, will be held at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon from his late residence on South Colony street. The burial will be in the Tn Memoriam' cemetery.
 The National band will give an out door concert on the plains this evening and will render the following pro- gramme:
 March-Bride Elect t..........,... Sousa Irene Waltzes Bennett Military hottische-Mountain Echoes
 ....... .,.... Christie Overture-Maritana ........ .... Claus Comique-Cotton Blossoms ........H .HaH Fling Out the Glorious Stars and
 stripes ......-... .-........... ..Gerrlsh Medley Overture .Beyer Star Spangled Banner ............S Sousa
 Ernest Porter of Hall avenue lost a portion of one of his fingers in press at R. Wallace & Sons yesterday. Dr. Dennison attended.
 One of the residents of Whittlesey avenue is not saying word about the bicycle race to New Haven Monday, in which his own wife and another lady made the distance, with a handicap, from Toelle's rest, in eight minutes less time than the gentleman himself. All the contestants had pacemakers.