The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-21
Local Weather Report.
Brief Mention.
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Brief Mention.
 High water to-day, 10:56 a. m. Miss Carrie l.. Grumman of 1e7 Blatchley avenue has left home for a two weeks visit with her uncle and aunt, the Rev. and Mrs. William Fris- York
 George Harrison, advertising agent of the Grand opera house and Hyperion ] theater is the happy father of twelve pound boy who arrived Monday night. George is receiving congratulations on all sides.
 Unless the anthracite coal strike is broken within short time, the Con- solidated railroad will be forced o use soft coal on it's steamers and in other places where hard coal has al- < ways been used.
 fresh fire in a cooking stove on the fourth floor of "A York street were the cause of an alarm of fire at $40 yester- day morning. The rooms were filled with smoke, but there was no damage done.
 The members of the confirmation class of the Zion German Lutheran who were confirmed Sunday by Rev. Frederick A. Ottmann, were: The Misses fC1ara Lang, Louise Jaeger. Ayinie Buchhalter, Teresa Schaefer and Minnie Spreyer.
 Business at the l.. Candee rubber factory is driving and among other large orders filled recently was one for Germany. MT. Eckert of Eckert Bros. sof Hamburg, Germany, was in town last week, his second visit to New Ha- ven, and took look about the factory.
 The Consolidated railroad has awarded the Chicago Pneumatic Tool company contracts for two of it's com pound air compressors of 2,000 feet ca pacity for the new car shops in Read vile, Mass. They will be used in sup plying power for the pneumatic tools used in construction work
 The Union Woman's Home Mission ary society of the Methodist Episcopal church will meet at Trinity Methodist Episcopal church to-day at D. m. Mrs. Crocler will speak on Chinese Sunday school work in New Haven, and Mrs Henry Wade Rogers on "The Settle ment Idea and Method"
 The annual field day drill of the Sarsfield guard was held yesterday. The guard, under command of Captain J. B. Donovan, took special car for the rifle range at a. m. There was the usual company drill, extended or sder, guard duty, etc., and at about l O clock dinner was served.
 The constitutional oak or "consttu- tional joke" as 1t is facetiously termed by the police, is still being carefully guarded. The little foot and half stalk acts as if it were ashamed of itself, and so far has not put out single leaf It has not yet been both cred by Yale students owing to the police guard.
 The new board of aldermen will be sworn into office by Mayor Studley on the evening of Monday, June 2, when the twenty mine officials who will con- stitute next years board of city legls- lators will begin their official Work Considerable of this years work will have been left over for the new com CTS to act upon.
 The meeting of the Baptist union, which was held in the Trocadero In Providence, Monday evening, was one of the most successful of the year The dinner began at o'clock, and was followed by an address by Rev. George Hooper Ferris of this city who spoke on the subject, ''Is the Power ot Chr1s- tianity Waning?"
 MT Flanagan, the well known tea merchant residing on Hamilton street. is at Hot Springs, Va, for the benefit of his health. His many friends nope he will return fully restored to health'
 The price of coal was advanced by local dealers yesterday to $7 a ton on account of the coal strike and threat ened scarcity of the black diamonds. ss The starin line sound steamer Glen Island from New York for New 1a- ven. narrowly escaped serious col lision in Hell Gate yesterday. During i Q dense fog the Glen Island was pro- ceeding very slowly through Hell Gate when suddenly the Joy line steamer Virginia loomed to view The two Ves- sells were scarcely under way and they merely rubbed sides. Neither steaiiler was damaged.
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