The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-02
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Bargains in shoes at Howarth Bros.
The rite of baptism will be admins
\ tered tomorrow morning at Hope Bap-
4 fist church on Lawrence street, Rev. r..
n e. Sage pastor.
The Second Advent church of Hart
ford has filed in the state secretary $
office a certificate that it has transfer
red its property to the Advent Christian
church.
Mr. and Mrs W. Manning Reynolds
are receiving congratulations on the adj
went Of a boy baby weighing eight
pounds, which arrived a day or two
since. Mother and son are doing well.
The city authorities yesterday put to
work 100 men to shovel the snow from
Ehe house owners have neglected to re-
move the icy obstruction from them.
The council of administration of the
7. G. A. r. will meet in Hartford to-day
to arrange the place for the holding of
the state encampment in May. Quar-
and United States Marshal Bishop are
members Of the council. 1t is expected
that the encampment will meet in New
-Lendon.
The first drill of the season for the
police department was HELD yesterday
afternoon at the armory. A number of
policemen were excused because of ILL
ness The drill was conducted by Ser
geant Herman, drillmaster. Company
"A was under command of Captain
Brewer and Company under COM
mand of Captain O'Keefe.
Superintendent Beede reported yes
terday that many school children are
y absent at the present time owing to
sickness. The reports of the various
schools for the month of January
show that nearly five per cent, of the
pupils are absent from school. In the
aillhouse and Boardman high schools
the percentage of absentees at present
lis about the same as In the grammar
schools
While rummaging about wood pile
In the basement of the city hall yester-
day noon, James Grant, superintend-
ent of the fire telegraph service, found
an eighteen-inch rattlesnake. The ami
NAL was captured after an exciting
chase by Mr.. Grant and others, and is
NOW on exhibition in the building. 1t
is supposed that the snake was brought
In last fall when the wood supply for
the winter was obtained.
The firm of Lewis Osterweis & Sons,
the well known cigar manufacturers of
this city, will suffer several thousand
dollars loss by the destruction of the
factory of the William Wicke company
in New York city Thursday afternoon.
Osterweis & Sons have had all their
cigar boxes made by the Wicke COM
pany for some time. All their labels,
stamps, moulds, dies, and, in fact,
everything used in making boxes were
In the factory, which is practically de-
molished.
The next quarterly meeting of the
Mayors Associat ton of Connecticut will
be held in the aldermens chamber in
Hartford next Tuesday morning at IL |
o'clock. Mayor HARRISON will welcome
the mayors to the city, and discus
sion on several municipal matters, /
which it is proposed to bring to the !
attention of the legislature, will follow
NIdyOT DTlEcOll, OI view maven, Will pre- !
side. 1T is expected that after lunch /
which will be served with Mayor Har-
bison as host, the mayors will visit the
legislature.
Weston Ferris, one of the best known
of the older toWnsmen, who was COM
missary sergeant in the First Connect
cut cavalry regiment in the civil war,
lies very i'll at his home, No. TAT George
street He was taken i'll with erysipelas
at about the same time that his daugh-
ter, the late Miss Mary Ferris who was
a school teacher in Woolsey school, Fair
Haven, was taken i'll with the same dis
ease. Miss Ferris died last Friday
morning and Mr.. Ferris was then so i'll
that he was unable to attend the fu-
neral. He was delirious much of the
time for several days, but is now con-
science and his physician, DR.. Walker,
thinks that if his strength holds out he
may recover Mr.. Ferris wife is assist
ed in the care of him by her son, John
w. Ferris and his wife, of Georgetown,
this state, who came here some days
before the death Of Miss Ferris. A
trained nurse is also in attendance.
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