The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-04-28
Local Weather Report.
FOR APRIL 81. 1898.
Brief MlenJlon.

Brief MenuIon
Esq High water to-day, Ali p. m.
Two-fannily house s2,eOo-R.E. Baldwin
Mrs. E. H. Clark Of this city has been
spending a few days in Morris.
Charles e. Miley of the Springfield
Rubber Tire company was in Hartford
yesterday.
Mrs. S. J. Hoadley of this city has
returned to Plymouth and opened her
house for the season.
Rev. Mr.. Robertson of this city sup
Piled the pulpit Of the Congregational
church In Morris last Sunday morn
ing.
Sergeant Albert H. Viten of Derby
came to this city yesterday to enlist in
the Signal corps, which has failed to
respond to the call. He says he has
six men to go with him.
Mrs. J. p. Davenport of New Haven
erected a monument in the Methodist
cemetery in Seymour Tuesday to mark
the resting place of her mother, the
late Mrs. Elizabeth Thayer.
At Elm City park yesterday after
noon the Hillhouse High school base
ball team defeated a team composed of
members Of the faculty and graduates
of the school by the score Of IL to TO-
Yale, TOwne & Co., manufacturers of
hardware, employing 300 men, yester-
day announced that any of their men
who go to the front will be allowed half
pay and their places will be retained
TOR them.
The Defenders baseball team hereby
challenges any baseball team in the
city whose members are not over four
teen years of age. Charles Clerkin S21
State street, is the manager of the De-
tenders team.
Selectman Smith of Seymour received
word yesterday from Highway Com
\ missioner Macdonald that the state had
allotted the sum of $1,000 to the town
for the work Of matchmaking the
streets. The bids for the work will be
advertised next week.
Next Saturday the Hopkins Gram
mar school baseball nine and the Taft
school nine play at Watertown. The
Taft nine plays the Yale freshman nine
at Watertown, May 7, Yale '9S at Wa
tertown May % and the Hillhouse high
school nine at WATERFOWL June 4.
John A. Hendrick of this city, the
champion billiardist of this state, has
entered the amateur billiard tourna-
ment of the United States in New York
next week and has gone to New York
to begin training for the event. He
has been practicing in Miller's parlors
In this city.
]. Montgomery Sears, Yale IT, has
rendered his yacht Varuna to the navy
department as a patrol boat in Boston
harbor free of expense. The offer was
accepted with thanks. The Varuna is
814 feet long, 1871 feet wide, and draws
S.4 feet Of water. Her tonnage is 81.
She was built in Boston in 1893.
DR.. Carmalt arrived home yesterday
from New Orleans, where he attended
the annual convention of the Ameri-
can Surgeons association, of which he
was a delegate. He reports an unusu-
ally large attendance at the convention
and that there is far more war talk
and excitement here at the north than
In the south.
The employment bureau of the United
Workers will hold a sale of garments
at their rooms, 200 Orange street, to-
day Thursday from 10 until 4. All
persons interested in the work are ur-
gently requested to attend. A large
: quantity of childrens clothing and
household articles of good quality can
be found there.
The Graham Manufacturing company
of West Haven, which purchased few
weeks ago the plant in Derby near the
electric light station, known as the
Franklin Brass and Bronze factory,
will take possession Monday. The firm
has received orders from the briggs
Seabury Gun and Ammunition compa-
ny, which will make it handy for both
concerns, las they will be near neigh
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