The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-19
Local Weather Seport New Haven, Feb. IS.
Eriei Mention.

High water to- day S:29 q. m.
 County Health Officer c. F. Hoadley has gone to Louisville on business trip.
 Miss Clara Kimball has resigned as manager of the Branford telephone ex- change, her resignation to take effect May 1.
 Mrs William Farnham, who has been visiting in Westerly, R. l., has re- turned to her home on Crescent street, Westville
 The Fair Haven and Westville com pany had about eighty teams and 200 men at work yesterday clearing snow from along it's tracks.
 A son was born Sunday in the family of pr. Willis H. Grove, of Whalley avenue. Mrs. Grove is a daughter of State Highway Commissioner James H. Macdonald.
 Tomorrow evening pr. w. G. Ander- son, associate director of the Yale gym nasum, will deliver a lecture at Exeter academy, New Hampshire. He will also lecture at Phillips academy, Ando- yer, in about two weeks.
 Attorney w. s. Moyle has returned from Silver City, New Mexico, where he went to represent Mrs. Marie Augur, of this city, in the will contest that is now pending in the superior court over the S100,000 estate left by J. Heitman Augur.
 The Fair Haven and Westville Rail- road company has ordered from the builders ten fifteen bench open cars This is the style known as Jumbo, and was first introduced here by the Winchester avenue road. The cars will probably be used for suburban traffic this summer.
 Rev. Dr. Frank Woods Baker, rector of Trinity church. has been secured by Rev. J. Frederick Sexton to off1ciate at the Lenten services In St. James Eps- copai church, Westvile, tomorrow eve ming. Hereafter on each Thursday night there will be prominent New Haven preachers officia ting at the ser vices
 At Plymouth Congregational church parish house this evening at 8 o'clock a very interesting entertainment will be given. F. w. Sweet has kindly consent ed to present his collection of fine lan- tern slide views of scenes and places in and about New Haven. Admission fee will be small and the money realized will go to the ladies band of workers for church purposes.
 Owing to the non-arrival of County Commissioners Walter, of Cheshire, and Brewer. of Waterbury, who were de- layed by the snowstorm, the arguments i,, of Wagner, who asks for a saloon at Il Shelton avenue, were postponed until this afternoon by Commissioner Thomp- son.
 Director Coe had about 200 men em- ployed yesterday clearing the streets and sixty double teams were carting away the snow. Much qualification Is expressed that the snow is not all be- ing carted onto the green. The snow is being dumped upon the green, the Union avenue lot and the Water street park. Chief Willis l.. Moore, head of the 1. United States weather service at Wash | ington, is expected here to- day. He was to lecture last evening before the stu dents of Wesleyan college and will stop over in this city on his return. It will | not be an official visit to the weather | office in the Insurance building, but as New Haven is so important a station Chief Moore desires to look it over again.
 Owing to the binding snowstorm of . and big ice field the Richard | Peck was nine hours in making the trip from New York to New Haven. The i ice field was met with in the narrow part of the sound near Eatons Neck. Locked in the ice, the big sound steam nr was carried for about five miles be- fore she was liberated in a more open part of the sound Then her engines were started up once more and the steamer came along through the snow storm to New Haven without further difficulty. The Peck reached Belle dock at 1:10 yesterday morning, nearly five hours behind her schedule.
 
 THE GERMAN PLAY POSTPONED.
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