The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-01
VARTOUS ITEMS

Mrs. James Church of this city IS the
 guest of Mrs. Frederick Augur of
 Church street. Bransord.
 The Beacon Falls Rubber company
 has filed with the state secretary cer-
 tifcate of increase of capital stock from
 $2OO GOO to $25O,OOO
 The New Milford Power company has
 filed a certificate of increase of capital
 stock from $1O0OO0 to $1,000, 900.
 George w. Lyon, aged eighty, presi-
 dent of the Meriden Malleable Iron
 company, is critically i'll at his home
 His condition is such that his physi-
 clans have no hope of his recovery.
 MT. Lyon is suffering from a complica-
 ton of diseases resulting from an at
 tack of the grip.
 Captain Phelps of New Jersey, who
 spent last summer at Indian Neck, and
 while in Branford purchased Rogers
 Island, one of the Thimbes, will not
 build a new house on the island this
 season, but remodel the best house now
 on the island and occupy 1t next sum
 mer.
 Major McCabe. Lieutenant Kraft, ad-
 jutant of the first battalion, and Ser geant Major Young of this city, all off cers of the Second regiment. c. N. G., paid a visit to Company K. Walling- ford Thursday evening, Captain Nor tons command was given battalion drill during the evening. The members of Company K are arranging to give a smoker in the near future.
 The Saturday Afternoon Whist club of Branford will be entertained to-day by Mrs. H. Guy Linsley of Hillside.
 Invitations are out aor the marriage of Miss Emma Helen Gilbert Of Hart ford and John Belden Stevens of Brook lyn, N. Y, The ceremony will be at the First Congregational church in Chester, Wednesday, March 5, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Miss Gilbert was formerly employed as stenographer in the office o3 the Scottish Union and National Insurance company in Hart l ford.
 EX-Mayor Cornelius Driscoll will en- certain Mrs. Helen O'Donnell of New York city and Bernard O'Donnel. who will sing at the Wolf Tone clubs en- tertainment in the Hyperion theater on Sunday night
 There will be a meeting next Friday evening of officers of the Connecticut National Guard interested in the or ganization of a military club in New Haven. The committee held meet ing Wednesday night and have an- nounced that in response to the letters sent out nearly twenty men have filed application for membership.
 Truman C. Hart and Miss Maud Neal were married at the Congregational parsonage in Southing by Rev. F. O, Blanchard Thursday evening. They will reside in Milldale.
 A certificate of deposit for $36, issued by the Deep River National bank in August, 1862, in favor of William H. Goodspeed of East Haddam, which has been missing nearly forty years, was discovered the other day among some old effects of MT Goodspeed, who died twenty years ago. Richard l.. Sheldon, Jr., cashier of the Deep River bank, found the document to be good and up- on presentation it was paid. Had the sum involved been on deposit in sav- ings bank since 1862 the interest alone would amount to about $l60.
 The new ship building industry which the chamber of commerce committee have been trying to have locate in this city is not coming to New Haven. The announcement has been made by Col onel Charles Scofield, late superintend ent of the Eastern Shipbuilding com pany at Groton, that he has decided to | build upon a site that has been offered | at Perth Amboy, N. J. Colonel Scofield | said that the reason he did not get location on Long Island Sound was that | real estate prices were too high,
 Contractor Richard Bradley of Bran ford has broken ground for a new sum mer cottage at Pine Orchard for Mrs. Squires of North Haven. MT Bradley has nearly completed a new double house on Harbor street for Mrs. Eliza beth Linsley of Short Rocks.
 President Charles F. Smith of the Landers, Frary x Clark Co.,, has re- turned from Europe, MT. Smith has been absent but a few weeks. his trip being a purely business one.
 Spring improvements have been com menced by Contractor c. W. Harring ton at the Owego house, Indian Neck. At the annex the old chimney will be taken out, thereby making more room. Both hotel and annex will undergo d new system of sanitary plumbing.
 The surest sign Of an early spring was seen Thursday, early in the morn Ing, when a flock of wild geese went over the city, flying northward and creeching in discordant chorus Wealth. erwise men assert that this is a sure indication that the winter weather will disappear early.
 The engagement is announced of Miss Iettie Northrop of Bridgeport and liar y Trumbull OF Plainville. MT Trum- pull is secretary of the Trumbull Elec- rio company of this place and is pop liar young man. Miss Northrop has many friends here, where she has often risited Mrs. Charles Sanford of this city, an unt of Mrs N. F. Taylor of Kensing- on, is critically ill at her home A full list of the new fire alarm boxes with locations and numbers recently in tailed by the department under the di- ection of Superintendent Grant fol 1ws: Garde hotel, 171 Hyperion thea CT, 24S; corner Union and Fair streets, IA; corner Orange and Gamer streets, SS; corner State and Humphrey