The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-10
Local Weather Report. FOR FEB RUARY 9. 1900.
Brief Men ton,
High water to-day, S:2s a. m.

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 Bargains in shoes at Howarth Bros.
 F, w. Moore, 1903, has been elected leader of the Freshman Glee club, and c. F. Leonard, 19OS manager.
 Colonel Rutherford Trowbridge and wife are sojourning at Lakewood, stay ing at Laurel-in- -the-Pines hotel.
 The smoker of the Yale Southern club that was postponed from last Friday was held last evening in Warner hall.
 The Rev. P. M. skagen of Oakville, near Waterbury, was in New Haven this week in consultation with the rail- road officials in regard to a new depot in this place.
 A special meeting of the St. Cecelia Young Ladies' T. A. B. society was held in St. Patrick's hall last night in rela ton to their banquet which will be held Monday evening.
 Rev. c. s. Macfarland, Ph. D., of the Yale Divinity school will be in charge of special party being formed by ADunning and Sawyer of Boston, which will make tour of Europe this sum- mei.
 The Naval Reserves, under Command CT Hutchinson, and the First Separate company, under Captain Woods drilled last night. The Machine Gun platoon, Captain Sears, commanding, practiced with the gun.
 M. F. Coen of Naugatuck was in New Haven Thursday and secured that talented Irish Joan of Are" Maude Gonne as the principal speaker of pro-Boer mass meeting to be held next Friday night in the Gem opera house there.
 The Misses Marie Mills and Alice McCramn of New Haven, who were vis- itors in Meriden this week. have re- turned home. They called at the Cath olic club during their stay in Meriden aud were very much pleased with the rooms.
 Samuel A. Eddy of Canaan, who has charge of the 1900 census for this state, has appointed Malcolm D. Rudd of Lakeville as chief clerk. MT. Rudd is son Of General w. B. Rudd. Mr. Eddy had also appointed Miss Ethel IA Strong of Hartford stenographer of his office.
 Miss Lucy Pierson of Hartford enter tained few friends at luncheon at her home on Tuesday to meet Miss Helen Hotchkiss of New Haven. Those pres- ent were Miss Antoinette Pierson Miss Elizabeth Mansfield Miss Westcott, Miss Edith Corwin and Miss Hall.
 Charter Oak circle, Wallingford, has received an invitation which was ac- cepted to attend the reception given by Sterling circle in New Haven on Mon day evening, February 26. The circle also elected four new members, initiat- ed three and received three applica- tions.
 State Secretary B. T. Bates of this city assisted in the organization of the Willimantic branch of the Young Mems Christian association at meeting at the Methodist church there Wednesday evening. A roll of sixty members was secured. Rev. MT. Macbeth, formerly of Trinity church, this city, was among those elected directors.
 At the adjourned meeting of the Co., 1onial Danes in Hartford next Satur- day, February r, at Mrs James B. Cones on Pennington avenue, Mrs. Edward s. Van Vile will give a brief account of college life at Yale and Harvard in the colonial period, and Miss Florence Gay of Pennington will speak of the church music of those days.
 J. H. Hale of Glastonbury, the great fruit grower, was in town yesterday and paid a visit to his old friend, MT. Ives. the restauranteur MT. Hale was on his way home from New York. He has just returned from Georgia, where he has 900 acres of land devoted to fruit growing and he says the prospects for the crop are splendid-the best in years. Last year was one of the worst years in the country for fruit in a long period.
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