The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-20
Local Weather Report. New Haven, Feb. 19, 1901.
Brief Mention.
igh water at midnight.

High water at midnight
 The Argosy Magazine for March a
 McKee's.
 Mrs. Cora Andrews, of Meriden, k
 visiting Mrs. Frederick l.. Neebe, ir
 this city, for a few days.
 Attention is called to an opportunity
 for investors in our financial columns
 by Horace J. Phillips at the Tontine ho-
 tel
 Dr.. Charles S. Rodman, of Water
 bury, left yesterday for Washington tc attend business meeting of the Amer
 dcan Medical association. He will re-
 turn Saturday.
 The services in Christ church, West Haven, to-day. will be as follows: 10 a. m, morning prayer. litany and pen tenial office; 730 p. n., evening prayer and sermon.
 Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Clara Elizabeth Hart daughter of MT. and Mrs. Charles H. Hart, of Waterbury, to Edgar C.. Snyder, of this city.
 To- day being Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten season, the day will be observed in all of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches with appropriate services.
 MT. and Mrs. Clarence Thompson, jr,, will entertain the West Haven Evening Whist club, this evening, at their home on Washington avenue, cor ner of Center street.
 A large delegation of letter carriers from this city will attend the annual banquet and convention of the state let ter carriers to be held at Waterbury Friday evening. The event will take place in Odd Fellows hall and fully 300 will attend.
 The annual meeting of the Union Prisoners of War in this state will be held in Hartford next Friday at Tyler Post hall in the Cheney building There will be large attendance from differ ent sections of the state. Egbert Dart, of East Hartford. president of the asso- citation, will preside.
 Bishop Worthington, of Nebraska, breaches the sermon at the first of the united Lenter services of the Episco- pal churches of New Haven in St. Paups church to-day, Ash Wednesday evening, at 7:45 At the Ash Wednes- day morning service at 10:30, in St. Paul's church, Rev. MT. Stokes will preach the sermon.
 At the United church chapel last evening an address was delivered by Rev. Pitt Dillingham;, of Calhoun, Ala, upon the work of the Calhoun coored school. The address was illustrated by istereopticon views. Many residents of New Haven are interested in this school through Miss Thorn, who formerly lived in this city, and is now teacher at Calhoun.
 Mrs. J. F. Jenks, aged eighty-five years, of Waterbury, died Sunday and her husband, J. F. Jenks, died yester- day, aged eighty-six years. Both died of the grip. On September 10 last MT. and Mrs. Jenks celebrated the sixty third anniversary of their marriage and received the congratulations of many friends They were then in the best of health. They have lived in Waterbury for the past nineteen years, going there from Salisbury, wfiither they had mov- ed from New York state, the home of | their youth.
 The board of relief, having examined the properties involved in the appeals from assessment of several appellants, has fixed this morning for hearings on the appeals of the following: The New Haven Water company, whose assess ment Is considered by the company about $40O,000 in excess of what it should be; the New Haven Clock company, which was assessed at S250,000; Anna s. C. Smith, assessment on 63 shares of Middlesex Banking company stock at s75, which appellant says should not exceed $20; Spier & Co.,, whose assess ment of $9,O00 should not be more than S5, ,500; the New Haven Pipe Bending assessment 5000, and the Evening Leader company, assessment b1s, 1000.
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