The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-10
Brief Mention.

High water to-day, 4:5S a. m.
 Another meeting of the Trolleymen's S 11nion is to be held in Aurora hall Fri day morning at 2 o'clock.
 The extensive Milford milk route owned by Rogers Brothers has been sold to Arthur Smith, of Wheeler's Farms.
 Company A, of Waterbury, has se- Iected it's team to compete at the regi- mental shoot to be held in this city next Saturday.
 Miss M. Newman, of New York, who has been spending the last two months in this city with N. Frankfurt and fam fly, has returned.
 Miss Olive Flint, of Worcester. is vis- iting Miss Elizabeth Hall, of Lake place. Miss Flint is to enter the Bos- ton Art school this fall.
 The members of the Railroad Young Mems Christian association are discuss ing the probability of having a restau- rant attached to their building on Com merce street.
 Miss Anna O'Connor, who has been < spending the vacation with her parents at the Totoket hotel, returned to Mt. St. Joseph's seminary, Hartford, yesterday to resume her duties in the senior de- apartment.
 The electrical department of the Con- solidated railroad is arranging for the stringing of high tension wires for the third rail system in New Britan. When the work is completed the car service there will be much improved.
 A meeting of the Policemen's Mutual Aid association has been called for the purpose of making arrangements for the annual reception and ball. The meeting will be held at police headquar- ters next Friday afternoon at three o'clock.
 F. A. Olsen, aged fifty years, a grand Juror of North Haven and one of the best known citizens of the town, is crit icalIyill at his home with stomach trou- bIe, and little hope of his recovery is entertained. He has been troubled for about a year.
 Conductor William Skinner, who was threatened with typhoid fever, was in much improved condition yesterday. Dr. Rowland, the attending physician, hopes to have the patient around in a week or ten days. His many friends will be pleased to know tllis
 A very pretty lawn party and musi- cale was given by Miss Janett J. Ford at her home, 519 Dixwell avenue, Mon day evening. The orchard which sur- rounds the house was illuminated with innumerable Chinese lanterns and many hammocks were hung for the comfort of the guests.
 Howard Kirkwood, 1903 S., of 272 Or chard street, this city, who during the past summer has been in the civil engi- neering department of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, has returned to this city to take up his college work. MT. Kirkwood was with the Newark divis- ion in Newark Ohio.
 Within two weeks the new Cheshire trolley line of the Cheshire Electric Railway company will be in readiness for operation, so far as the roads con- struction work is concerned. It is doubtful, however, if the line will be opened for some time, as no steps have been taken in that direction.
 There was a very largely attended anniversary mass yesterday morning at St. Patrick's church for the late Mrs. Margaret Higgins, wife of Patrick Hig- gins, of Grand avenue. Rev. Father Russell was celebrant. The music was excellent. Miss Conway and MT. Goet- tings sang and Professor Brennan pre- sided at the organ.
 A letter has been received in this city from Mrs, Hary Bowling, of Mo- 23O Lily avenue, San Francisco, who wants information concerning family named Bowling, who emigrated from County Westmeath, Ireland, to Hartford in 1S38. She wrote that there was proper ty in. San Francisco that belonged to one of the brothers, who is dead, and she would like them to have it if they can be found.
 There were 610 scholars at Boardman school yesterday, an increase of nine since Monday, and at Hillhouse there were S2O, an increase of ten. Superin- # tendent Reeds says that the districts most crowded are Webster and Woes ter. At Webster school there are 11O children attending in the first grade. at Wooster 100 and at Oak street school seventy-nine. Double sessions will be required to accommodate all these pu- pills, excepting perhaps at Wooster school.