The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-10
Local Weather Report.
 Brief Mention.

High water to-day, 5:41 a. m.
 Two-family house 2.6oO-R.E. Baldwin Rev. Robert Early of Meriden is wis., iting in this city.
 Colonel S. B. Horne of Winsted is quite i'll at his home.
 Mrs. Libbie Willard of New Haven is visiting Mrs. c. H. Hoadley in Nau- gatuck.
 The Red Men of the state will have an outing at Compounce on Wednesday, August IT.
 Mrs. Ellen Hills of this city is visit ing Mrs. J. E. Futile of Main street, Union City.
 Mrs. A. M. Chamberlain of Fair Ha- ven is registered at the Beardsley house in Winsted.
 F. A. Ganung and wife are guests of MT. and Mrs. Fillmore Waterbury in North Stamford
 Polar Star lodge, I. O. o. F., of Fair Haven, will hold a picnic at Mansfield's S Grove tomorrow.
 Mystic chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, gave trolley excursion to Cosy Beach last evening.
 The Century Whee1men will make a run to Savin Rock Sunday under the direction of Captain Ashley.
 The Young Mems T. A. B. society of Meriden will make an excursion to Glen Island Saturday, August 20.
 Many from this city and quite a par ty from Meriden took in the Consoli- dated roads excursion to Block Island yesterday.
 General George H. Ford and wife and afternoon for a stay of several weeks in Litchf1eld.
 There will be an anniversary requiem mass at St. Josephs church, Westville, Friday morning for the late Margaret Heffernan.
 The Misses Rose Nevsky, Emma Kilt, Freda Riepenlanse and Tessie Donegan are spending two weeks vacation at Block Island.
 The Second Connecticut Light bat tery association will hold it's thirty-sec- ond annual reunion at Pleasure Beach on Thursday, September 1.
 Miss Minnie Farrell, bookkeeper for the Central Railway and Electric Co.,, New Britain, arrived yesterday at Mor- ris Cove for a two weeks outing.
 w. H. Williams of Winsted is the guest of H. Tanner at Short Beach and came down in part to make war upon the blackfsh, which are now biting we'll
 The Bridgeport board of education has received letter from Miss Villa Faulkner Page, declining her appoint ment as principal of the Bridgeport training school, and Miss Bessie E. Hawes of Cambridge, Mass, was ap- pointed in her stead.
 Dr. William P. Baldwin has returned from a very pleasant stay of two or three weeks in the Adirondacks. With him on the trip was a prominent New York lawyer, Luke A. Lockwood, who is an ex-past grand master of the Con- necticut grand lodge, F. and A. M., and by MT Lockwood's law partner, MT. Hill
 Highway Commissioner James H.
 
 Macdonald was in North Canaan yes- terday inspecting a stretch of gravel road in process of construction. He will be in Greenwich on Wednesday and Middlebury and Naugatuck on Thurs day. He has accepted the work on the macadam roads built in 197 in Durham
 Miss Edna Mix of this city is the guest of Miss Adelaide Walter of Vine street, New Britain.
 The Order of Seven Wise Men will hold their national convention in Bridgeport September 5, 6 and '. There will probably be about three hundred delegates present from all parts of the United States. The Philadelphia dele- gation will be particularly strong and will bring it's own band and the uni formed rank of Philadelphia. The or der will hold a grand concert and ball in Madison hall on Tuesday evening, September 6, which the whole order will attend.