The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-22


 Newington, who have been in New Ha
 ren spending the winter, expect to re turn home by April 1. Miss Anna c Latimer, who teaches i'll the Hillhoust
 high school, and c. Myron Latlmer, Wht | is student in Yale, will remain here | till June.
 MT. and Mrs. c. K. Markle of No. 4 | Whalley avenue are receiving congrat
 ulations on the birth of a daughter at
 their home Sunday evening.
 Mise Florence Cummings and Mise Julia Gridley of Southington will play
 in concert given in Hartford on Apri
 17 by the Hartford Philharmonic or chestra.
 D. IT. Clark & Go. of this city have
 been awarded the contract for a large
 club house which is to be erected by
 Louis Fisk at the Branford Driving park this spring.
 | Highway Commissioner James H
 Macdonald has received the application
 of the town of Bethany for $1,000 out of
 the state appropriation for good roads
 This ifs the first application this year,
 and it will be the first time Bethany has received anything from the state | towards good roads since the law was
 passed. MT. Macdonald has also ar
 ranged for meetings with selectmen in the towns of Beacon Falls, Scotland and East Lyme this week for a talk on the advantages of towns building good
 roads under the state law. The outlook is that these three towns will build good roads.
 6oy hvy re.
 Marion o. Nichols to the marriage of
 her cousin Miss Grace Mae Nichols, to
 Frederick Gardner Crabb The date is Wednesday, April A. at high noon. The ceremony will be performed by the Rev Dr. Gilbert at the Trinity M. E. church in the presence of a large number of invited guests Miss Nichols has for several years been the organist at this church. MT. Cpabb is slSilful engrav- CT, and the prospective bride and groom are we'll known and liked in social cir cles.
 Judge c. H. Briscoe of Thompsonville was a eon-in- law of George Bradley, a prominent Newtown man who died this week.
 Judge James J. Platt says in regard to the published report that his father, Senator Platt, Is to give up his resi- dence in Meriden and divide his time between Washington, D. C., and Wash ington, Conn, that so far as he knows there is nothing to the story, He added: "I think that, if he were to de- eide upon such a step I would have heard something to that effect. He has been very explicit concerning keeping his name on the voting list here, and I do not think he wishes it changed''
 The result of the recent civil service examinations held in this city in De- cember, were made known yesterday. Robert H. Cone of 27 Leonard street leads the applications for positions in the postoffice as clerks, With a stand ing of 9040 Bernard E. Farrell of 197 Wooster street is second with per eentage of S9.70. Frank P. Wrinn of 127 Davenport avenue is third, his rat ing being S9.60. There were thirty-four applicants for cerkships Clifford Coleman of 24 Pearl street stood first among the candidates for positions as letter carriers, his standing being 91. John P. Murphy of 2S6 Exchange street received Sk6S, Patrick F. Richardson, S6, and William J Mcclure of 96 Syl- van avenue, S5.6S. Postmaster Howarth will select one clerk from the list with in few days to succeed the late Ed mund K Mullen, who died about two weeks ago.
 Prof John Norton Pomeroy who has been appointed as instructor in the Yale Law school for the remainder of the academic year, as announced yester- day. was until recently giving instruc- tions in law in the Washington and Lee ad previously in the Leland Stanford university of Califoria. He is a graduate of Yale in the class of 'S7 and two years later received the de- gree of master of arts. The University of California gave him the degree of IL. B., in 1891. After that he went to Leland Stanford university as a mem- Der of the faculty of law Prof Pom- cory is a young man of fine talents, legal education and experience in teaching the law. He will be wei comed to Yale.
 large number of the citizens of Bristol assisted MT. and Mrs. George c. Arms to celebrate the fiftieth anniver- sary of their marriage Tuesday even- ing. Among the out-of-town guests present were MT. and Mrs. Levi Neal, l each over eighty years of age. of South ngton, and O. D. Woodruff, also of a local preacher. Mir and | Mrs. Arms were married on March 2O | 1850, at Moretown, Vt. Four children nave been born to the couple three of ! whom are now living. Those living are ! Mrs. Isabel Whithill of Avon, Mont, Thief of Police Howard G. Arms of | Bristol, and Mrs. William Gibb, widow If Rev. William Gibb, pastor of the Advent church, who died in 1897, while | listing his old home in Scotland. MT. Arms has been very successful in the marble business. For the past twenty vears he has been very active in church | ffairs and was for eighteen years sll- of the Advent church sunday school in Bristol. He is also reasurer of the church and one of it's rustees. Mrs. Arms was Abigail laughter of Howard Mitchell of Vest 'ort, N. Y.