The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-20

fine as those made by MT. Beers for the boards the past two years. l H. Quintus Brooks, business manager | of Her Atonement company, was in | town yesterday completing arrange ments for the presentation of this fla nous show at the Hyperion next week ! Thursday, Friday and Saturday. He | closes the season here after a brilliant series of engagements in Brooklyn, | Washington and New York with the | Atonement company.
 Yesterdays Waterbury American says: Joseph T. fWhittlesey of New Haven was in Waterbury to-day and said that plans for his new building to be erected on the old Scovill house sta bles property on Harrison avenue will not be ready for inspection for some time yet. MT. Whttlesey is improving his Bank street property, the building occupied by Paul Asheim, the cigar dealer"
 Miss Emma E. Thrasher, sister of Secretary S. P. Thrasher of the Law and Order league, has been engaged to teach shorthand at the Martha's Vine yard Summer Institute, which begins July Il and continues throughout the summer. Miss Thrasher is teacher of the Chandler system of shorthand in Springfield, Mass, high school.
 Charles Zink of Branford is expected home soon. He graduates with high honors from the medical school in Bal timore.
 J. w. Martin will address the Phi Beta Kappa society of Yale next Friday evening on English Lessons in Terri torial Expansion Mir. Martin is a member of the Febam society of Great Britain and is now featuring in the United States and Canada and is gather ing material for book on social sub jects.
 Wilson Thompson of Branford has finished his course at the Philadelphia college for this year. He expects to en- ter again next fall.
 George H. Collett amateur champion bicycle rider of the United States, who has taken no active part in the fight between the l.. A. w. or the outlaw bicycle associations, yesterday received certificate No. Il in the outlaw associa- ton and sent his application for regis
 
 joined the outlaw association it is prob- able that Jacobson, Forbes Lawrence Sullivan and all the other racers will follow suit.
 Governor Lounsbury on Tuesday au- thorized the admission of Jacob Weis, jr., of this city, to the American School for the Deaf. He also authorized the admission of Harold Strobridge of Stamford to the Connecticut School for Imbeciles.
 Principal s. A. Smith of Glastonbury academy is seriously ill with measles.
 Mrs. F R. Gorham of Winthrop ave- nue left Monday to visit friends in Will mington, Del.
 c. w. Comstock of Norwich returned Tuesday from business trip to New Haven.
 Miss Florence May Bragg, daughter of MT. and Mrs Frederick S. Bragg of Wooster street, Hartford, will sail for Europe to-day on the Teutonic in com pany with her grandfather, John Davey of Torrington. She will remain six months in England, visiting relatives, and will afterwards visit the continent.
 The Center Congregational church and the Brattleboro East society of Brattleboro, Vt, are to hold a meeting Friday evening to see if they will ex- tend call to the Rev. Harry R. Miles. pastor of the Windsor avenue Congre- gational church of Hartford, formerly of New Haven. The church is the old est Congregational church in the city and bears about the same relation to the community as the Center church in Hartford does to Hartford. The Rev.