The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-23
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fANA1P UT AAht AhA A@Ats Choral Society to he FOrmed-W. F. Kraft in Charge-Bsrbeeue on AdoIph Xarsch's Farm-seamon on Eldrtdge and Huntley Assigned to U. s. s. East Boston, to Leave for Cuba Melon Festival Tonight.
 At the time that the sacred cantata of Esther was given last spring the chorus work was so successful that there was talk of forming Q choral society from among the singers. This matter has been taken in hand by w. j. Kraft of 342 Grand avenue, who so ably conducted the chorus last spring. Notices have been sent out to all members of the Esther chorus ask ing them to signify whether they would join or not. If a sufficient num- per respond the first rehearsal will be held September 5. the place of meeting to be announced later.
 MT. and Mrs, D. W. Burnham and Hrs. E. A. Howard and son are spend- ing month in Bernardston, Mass. Miss Daisy M. Hartman and Frank R. Burn ham have just returned from a week spent with the party.
 Miss Charlotte Fairchild of 30 Bright street is visiting friends in East River. Druggist Salisbury was gone on his annual fishing trip to Block Island. Accompanying him were William Kel- logs, Elihu Bradley and Seth Langley. A party of about sixty Germans held barbecue on Adolph Karchs farm near Foxon on Sunday. Two lambs and a quantity of beef and other good things were cooked,
 John Bannahan who was struck by train near Milford Sunday, is a son of Michael Bannahan of Pine street, and Is well known by the employees of the New Haven Street Railway Co. having worked for the company at one time.
 Nathan s. Eldridge of East Pearl street and Henry Huntley of Exchange street, members of the Connecticut na- val reserves, have been assigned to berths on the U. $. s. East Boston, which will soon leave for duty in Cu- ban waters.
 There will be melon festival in S. of T. hall this evening under the aus pices of Co. B, Loyal Crusaders.
 Yesterday there were fifteen or twen- ty fishermen on the Camargo bridge after the little bluefish. Some caught as many as two dozen.
 The cars on the East Chapel street of ICoi, vile railroad were run on the east bound track yesterday on- account of excavations made by the New Haven Water Co.,, near James street.
 Stewart Morgan has just completed a fine wo-family house on Chambers street and will move in this week. MT. and Mrs. Harry W. Crawford will oc- cupy one floor.
 Michael J. Murphy, clerk at station A, is on duty again after an enjoyable va cation.
 The funeral of Calista l.. Noble will be held from her late residence, 341 Exchange street, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The body will be taken to New Britain for burial.
 Wells J. Bray of the East side went to New York to see the naval demon stration and stayed over until yester- day in order to visit the ships. MT. Bray took passage in naphtha launch from Staten Island and visited each of the ships. In the Iowa he spent considerable time in chatting with Cap tain Robley Evans, whom he describes as one of the noblest gentlemen he ever met MT. Bray was shown the mech anism of the big guns and in fact was shown all through the ships. He con- yersed with number of the sailors whom he says are a very intelligent class of men. The warships he de- scribes as far exceeding his expecta- tions, and must be seen to realize their magnitude.