The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-15
gh water to-day, 4:49 p. m.

High water to-day, 4:49 p. m.
 Bargains in shoes at Howarth Bros.
 Mrs. M. Kohn and son of No. 43h
 Bishop street are spending several
 weeks in Baltimore.
 Mrs. Harry Freeman and daughter of
 Meriden are visiting her mother, Mrs.
 George Robinson of No. 50 Bishop
 street.
 Caleb A. Morse, director of music at
 Epworth M. E. church, who spent a number of weeks in Europe, returning the last of August, has been confined to his bed with serious illness for six weeks at his home on Edwards street, and his physician thinks he may be able to sit up in about two weeks.
 The Sheffield Scientific school Sunday prayer meeting held at 1230 p. m. in the house No. 143 College street, was addressed yesterday by the Rev. George B. Cutten of the Howard avenue Bap- tist church
 James S. Peck, dealer in hardware, farming implements and other goods in Westville, filed a petition in bank ruptcy in the United States court through his attorney, F. L. Tsbell. Peck has debts of $4,719.3o and assets of SSe1.60
 The census of Connecticut, just pub lished, will result in raising the license fee in two Fairfield county towns, Etratford and Darien. New Canaan H- quor dealers just escape the extra fee the population of that town falling thir- ty-two short of 5000. The statute pro- vides that In towns of less than 5000 the license fee shall be $250 and above that population $450.
 The Ladies' Social union of the Trln- ity M. E. church is preparing to give an entertainment at the church parlors on the evening of October 24. The plan ds an old one but will be freshentd up with original ideas It is the District School of ye Olden Time" a scheme of entertainment capable of no end of va riety. About twenty-five members of the union will take part assisted by prominent church pillars, who will ap pear as schoolboys school visitors and school committees Among those who are rehearsing for the affair are Mrs. H. B. Armstrong, Mrs. W. s. Crofut, Mrs. Jesse D. Welch, Mrs. Eli Mix and Mrs. l.. A. Bettcher
 John o. Shares of this city, proprietor of the West Cheshire Brass company's tl,;, and dance for his employees and invited guests last Thursday evening" The en- tertainment took place in the new foun- dry, thirty-flve feet by seventy-five feet, which has just been completed for MT. Shares by the Hubbeli & MerWin company of this city. The feast was given in honor of those who helped to save the property of the old shop dur ing the recent fire which destroyed MT Shares old foundry. Covers were laid flor one hundred persons and tempting repast was served by Thomas Gibbons of New Haven. After remarks by MT Shares dancing followed, with music by an orchestra, and the whole affair was under the personal direction of the su- perintendent of the works, Thomas Sel- | Jew of West Cheshire.
 Robert C. Morris of New York city, | who is the son of the late Hon. Dwight | Morris of Bridgeport, has been nomi- | mated for the position of justice of the 1 city court in New York. MT. Morris is a lawyer about thirty years old, who l prepared for his profession at the Yale | Law school and was admitted to the | New Haven bar shortly after his grad l uation in 1890. In 1892 Yale conferred | upon him the degree ot master of laws, | and a year later made him doctor of | civil law Since 1895 he has been vis- | iting member of the Yale university I faculty. In 1894 he left his Connecticut | practice to build up new one in New | York. MT. Morris has Tammany Hall | to buck against, like all republicans in New York city, but he Is young and energetic as well as capable, and he ex- poets to make q good and honorable showing even if he cannot overcome the s'Tammany Tiger"