The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-03
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Choice lots, Whitney ave-, 450 fit deep
 fine chance. D. M. Clark, 99 Church St
 The graduation exercises at the , State Normal school in this city will
 young ladies from all parts of the state
 will graduate.
 Mir. and Mrs. George Wiedemann, of
 ~ Auburn street, are receiving the con- gratulations of their many friends on
 the arrival of daughter Friday. Both
 mother and daughter are doing nicely a The hearing on the remonstrance
 against granting license to John T.
 Stanford, proprietor Of the Stanford
 hotel, at Savin Rock, was postponed ' from Saturday afternoon to June 10, at
 10 a. m., by the county commissioners
 Herbert Banning, of Deep River,
 caught a fourteen-pound salmon in his
 drag net in Brockways Beach at an
 early hour Saturday morning. The fish was sent to E. Hart Fenn, at Hart ford, who reshipped it to Governor Me Lean, at Simsbury.
 The lawn fete and May dance given at Professor Blake's place, Mill Rock" on Friday afternoon by the Young La dies Missionary society of the Church x of the Redeemer will be repeated this (Monday) afternoon from until 6. Un- less the sun shines to-day the lawn par ty will not be given.
 Mir Pol, proprietor of Polls theater and of Polls theater in Waterbury, is now in Paris. MT. Poli is inspecting the best theaters in London and Paris for ideas to be incorporated in his new theater here. He will also secure any acts suitable for American engagements to be used by himself and B. F. Keith over the latter's circuit.
 Clerk George w. Rowe of the Organ ized Charities department, made out his report for the month of May Saturday. It shows that 236 persons applied for aid, PA were aided, 42 were sent to Springside home, IS to general hospital, to Grace hospital, 40 received doctors aid, 73 groceries and 20 cash There were three burials at expense of the city.
 Miss Bertha Morris eldest daughter of Rev. A. H. Morris, of Torringford, has received the prize of S200 at Bryn Mawr college for highest rank and scholarship in the freshman class of that institution. The young lady is a graduate of the Torrington high school, class of '97, where she secured the high est standing of any pupil up to that time.
 The steamer Richard Peck will be placed in dry dock this week for an soverhauling. She will be soon ready to begin running on the summer schedule just announced by the officials of the marine department of the Consolidated | road. The company intends to run Sun- day excursions to Newport this sum- | mer While the Peck is laid off the | New York line the City of Lawrence | will take her place.
 Superintendent Beede announced on | Saturday that examinations for admis- sion to Hillhouse high school and the Boardman school will be held on the following days for grammar school pu- pills who have not been recommended for entrance without examinations: June 24, language and grammar; June 25, spelling and geography; June 26, United States history; June 27, arith- IUtllC. ftlI CAcSlillloliOliS Niii pV IElti eil 1:30 p. m.
 The Veteran Volunteer Firemen's as- sociation holds meeting this evening I at Bradley's office, 371 State street, to make arrangements for the annual dec- ocation of the graves of deceased mem- bers and to transact other business. A full attendance is requested MT Brad ley, who is the secretary of the asso- has been laid off from his bus mess for two weeks, having cut off nearly ona-half of his right thumb while at work with a buzz saw at his 
 The following prize awards were yes terday announced at Yale: The Cook prize in poetry, $50, awarded to Will liam Bryan Hooker 1902, of Farming ton, Conn.,, for the poem, ''Ixion." The John Hubbard Curtis prize, being the income of one thousand dollars given in 1900 by Mrs Virginia Curtis, of New Haven, has been divided between Roy Mason 1902 of Chicago, and Arthur Stanley Wheeler 1902, of New Haven, Conn. The latter prize is awarded for excellence in three literary subjects assigned.