The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-12
yARIous ITEMS.

II ers' union is called for this evening in
 room 24 Insurance building. M J. Reil- ly. secretary and business agent. yes terday said that matters of importance to all members would come up for con- sideration.
 An effort is now being made to secure
 a general closing of all stores on Labor | day. The barbers' union has appointed
 special committee to confer with the
 Master Barbers' association, looking to-
 wards the closing of all barber shops
 for the entire day. Other organizations of employees will also follow suit, and
 select committees to secure this end. Herbert N. Casson of New York city,
 Esho has been secured to speak at the
 annual picnic of the Central Labor
 union at Hanover park, Meriden, Labor day, will take for his subject The Ben
 efits of Labor from Organization; the
 Trust and the Trade Unions. . The board of education,s committee on
 schools has awarded the contract for re-
 pairing Eaton school to David H. \ Clark. the builder. and MT. Clark has already set force of men to work
 clearing away the debris. The bids were
 as follows: David H. Clark, s6,241; c. w.
 Murphy, s6,272 John s. Osborn CO, $6,-
 66S; John A. Fogerty, $6.9OO.
 The ladies o. U. A. M. circle of Meri- den will give their third outing at Savin
 Rock to-day. leaving Meriden at 8 a.
 m. returning leave New Haven at 7:3O
 D. m. The Circle will accompany the
 Meriden church excursion which leaves at that time.
 | Miss Minnie Smith of West Haven
 has returned from her trip to Washing
 ton, Conn.
 Mrs. George Thomas and children Of
 Norwich are visiting Mrs. Thomas
 mother. Mrs. George Andrews of Mar | tin street.
 Meriden is to have another first class
 hotel. It will be run by MT. and Mrs.
 Henry Bloxham, who have had several years of experience in the hotel and res taurant business. They have leased the
 upper stories of the Warnock block on
 West Main street. formerly occupied by
 the Arlington house and will open the
 Hotel Bloxham about Seotember l. Dana Bartholomew of South Meriden | is to open brokers office in Dr. Rust's
 old cuartess in Palace block in that city Mr. Bartholomew is having the offices fitted uo and expects to open | them in week of so. Mir. Bartholomew is now in the brokerage business in
 Hartford and Boston.
 The additions to the house iil Cheshire occupied by A. L. Whitney are complet- ed and J. H. Mansfield of this city, who owns the place, has taken possession Of the rooms for the rest of the summer. Henry Schiey of New Britain is visit 1 ing his daughter, Mrs. c. Q. Blake of
 Center street. West Haven
 Special one day excursion tickets have been placed on sale by the IN. Y., N, H. a and H. R. R. Co. at the low rate of s1.60 from Merlden. $1.4O from Wailingford, which provides rail passage to New sHa- ven and return, and round trip steamer passage between New Haven and New York, offering opportunity for an enjoy
 able water trip that should be appre- ciated.
 The directors of the Congregational
 Sunday school of Cheshire met at the
 home of L D. Walters "wednesday even 1 ing and decided to have basket picnic
 at Lighthouse Point. Wednesday. Au- gust 19. if pleasant If stormy it will
 be held the next pleasant day. MT. Wal ters, F. A. Ives and Miss Mary Baldwin were appointed a committee to make arrangements. Special cars will run dis
 rect from Cheshire. to the Point.
 Professor Curtis of this city preached
 at the Congregational church, Cheshire, Sunday. Rev. Mir. Newlands will occu- py his pulpit next Sunday.
 Rev. Louis K. Berry, pastor of the \
 First Congregational church, Walling- a ford, officiated Monday afternoon at the \ funeral of Mrs. .Ieannette F.. Carvill, aged eighty-three years. whose death occurred early Monday morning at the
 State Masonic home. The remains will
 be taken to Waterbury for interment.
 The late William E. Dodge of New
 York city was the founder of the Dodge lecture course at Yale. which provides that a speaker of national reputation
 shall annually deliver course of ad- dresses on the general theme The Re-
 sponsibility of Citizenship" The course
 was opened two years ago by Justice
 Brewer of the United States supreme
 court. The lectures were delivered a
 year ago by Bishop Henry c. Potter of the Episcopal diocese of New York city, and last spring by President Hadley of
 Yale. The course is one of the most valuable at Yale.
 A concert for the benefit of the home
 Missionary society will be given in the
 Congregational church, Norfolk, Ct. on 3 Wednesday evening, August 26, under the leadership of Professor Agramonte of New York Miss Anito Rio soprano,
 Mrs Gertrude May-Stein Bailey con
 tralto, John Young tenor, and Julian Walker basso. will be assisted by another quartet of prominent New York singers. the Misses; Charlotte E. CareW and Dolores Agranonte and Emilio Ag- ramonte and Harry Mozealous, The singers will be accompanied by organ,
 piano, harp and strings. Horatio Park
 CT, the Battell professor of music at
 Yale university. will render one of his own organ pieces. The selectmen of Seymour held meeting Monday night at the town hall and carefully looked over the plans,
 specifications and bids for the building
 of the Broad street bridge The contract for the mason work however, was giv-
 en to c. W. Blakeslee & Sons of this city. The contract for the bridge itself will be awarded shortly.g5 szgs a