The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-29
OF LOCAL INTER EST.

August Ii is the day set by the Vet eran Odd Fellows for their annual summer outing, It will be held at
 Savin Rock with dinner at Skeeles. About 100 will attend according to
 present expectations.
 The annual picnic of the Howard avenue Baptist Sunday school announc-
 ed for yesterday at Mansfield Grove, was postponed on account of the weather, and will be held next Monday.
 The party will meet at the church at
 9 o'clock, Cars will leave the green at 10 o'clock.
 The picnic of the Daughters of Erin which was to have been held yesterday was postponed until this afternoon, when it will be held if the weather proves pleasant
 Hack Inspector Sergeant Driscoll has
 been served with notice of the amend
 ment to the ordinance regarding H.
 censed vehicles, which provides that
 all public hacks, whether they solicit
 business or not, must be numbered. The Harugar Singing society will
 have a moonlight excursion tomorrow
 evening on the steamer Hildegarde. The
 boat will leave Belle dock at 8 o'clock.
 The Hebrew holiday of Tisha Boy, commemorating the destruction of Je-
 rusalem's temple by Titus in A. D. 70
 was observed yesterday. The day be-
 gan with fasting at o'clock Wednes-
 day evening and lasted until ' o'clock last evening.
 The TWenty-sixth regiment, c. w., will hold it's reunion at Ocean Grove,
 New London, Conn, August 23, 1898. Mayor Farnsworth yesterday sent a letter to Superintendent Wrinn of the police department extending congratu- laions to the superintendent for the fact that his men will do their duty
 even if necessary to arrest an alder
 man for selling liquor on Sunday. The
 mayor also asked that his congratula- tions be given to the officers who made the arrest and secured the evidence. Despite the storm yesterday two ex-
 cursion parties went on the steamer | John H. Starin to Glen Island, the St. | Ignatius T. A. B. society and the leu tonia Maenner Chor About 200 people went with the societies.
 The annual meeting of the Peck, Stow & Wilcox company was held Wednes- day afternoon. The showing the com pany made for the year was a satis- | factory one. The capital stock of the
 company is $1,400,0o0 The sales for the year were $9O0,000, showing profit
 of $7S,000. The Cleveland factory did
 over $26s, 900 worth of business with a | profit of $3s,0OO. There were 37,5S5 votes represented at the meeting, or $1, ,000 900 of stock The following officers were elected directors: E. E. Stow, stephen Walkley, A. R. Treadway, W. R. Walk
 ley, s. W. Sessions. M. B. Wilcox, M. C.. | Ogden, s. H. Wilcox, F. l.. Wilcox
 These later elected F. F. Stow presi- dent, A. R. Walkley secretary and
 Stephen Walkley treasurer A dividend of 1A per cent. was declared, payable l July 30
 Orders from the adjutant general STdHL ledNt Ol dDSGlCS IO 1OlD1el l4u- cien P. Burpee, commanding the Sec | ond regiment, c. N. C., during his ser vice in the volunteer service of the United States. Colonel Burpee will is- sue an order placing Lieutenant Colo | nel Callahan of New Haven in com
 mand of the regiment during his ab- sence.
 Lawrence Curtis, the well known l carriage maker of 120 Cedar street, and | a very estimable citizen, sailed on | Wednesday on the White Star line | Cymbric for Liverpool. He will visit | the principal cities and places of inter- l est, and visit the old homestead in Woodenstown, County Louth, which he | left many years ago for America, when but mere lad not yet in his teens. | He will stay for some time with his | brother, Thomas Curtis, who is in | charge of Casete Bellingham brewery | stores at Clones, County Minaghan. He | has many letters of introduction and | his trip will no doubt be a most en- I joyable one.