The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-30
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Ia Scheduled for Friday EvenIng-Rev. Frank Whitman to Preach in Pilgrim Church-O,her Itsms of Interest.

Ia Scheduled for Friday EsenIng-Rev.
 Frank whithsm to Preach in Pilgrim
 Church-Oiher Itsms of Interest
 B. W. Arnold. secretary of Home council No. 10, Brotherhood of Relief, has prepared a notification to the mem bers to meet tomorrow (Friday) even ing at 8 o'clock at Polar Star hall. At this meeting all members will sign the bylaws and by doing so they become entitled to all the benefits of the coun- cil. The proposition fee for member ship is one dollar and the dues are fifty cents per month. The benefit in case of sickness or disability is ten dollars per week for not more than ten weeks in any one year, and death benefit of $75, to be paid to the nearest relative of a deceased member. For the accom- n1odation of those members who will be unable to attend the meeting to- morrow evening the secretary will have the bylaws in readiness to be signed at his residence, 204 Front street, such signatures to be considered as dating from May 1. Any who have not been heard from Friday evening will be con- sidered as not desiring to retain their membership, and their names will be dropped and all vacancies filled from among the applicants on the waiting list, of which there are many. The new council is starting out under very fa- vorable auspices.
 During the month of May the pulpit 1 of Pilgrim church will be supplied by Rev. Frank E. Whitman, of the state of Washington. MT. Whitman has been stopping in Hartford of fate. During a recent religious gathering in this city some of the committee from the church met him and were favorably impressed with the gentleman, and, believing that he might prove acceptable to the church, he was invited to preach for a month. While his coming is not re- garded exactly as a candidate, it may place. It is understood he has no pas- toral charge at the present time.
 John Osborn Coburn died at Shokan, in the Adirondacks, Tuesday at the age of thirty years. He was son of Mrs. Emma J. Coburn, of IFS Exchange street. His father, the late Alexander H. Coburn, died some time ago. He was unmarried. Young Coburn had been out of business several months owing to ill-health, and few weeks ago went to the Adirondacks. He was suffering with lung trouble and failed rapidly after going away. The remains were brought here last evening and mo- tice of the funeral will be given later. Mir. Coburn was a young man highly respected and leaves many friends.
 F. w, Besley, a student at the Yale School of Foresty, will give an address in Granniss hall, Strong school, on the afternoon of Arbor day, Friday, May l. The pupils of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, and their friends, will be present. There will be singing by pupils of the seventh and eighth grades. There will be appropriate exercises in all the school rooms.
 In room II Strong school the pupils are undertaking work in basketry and they are meeting with encouraging sue cess.
 The weather yesterday was decidedly hot the thermometer soaring up in the eighties. Such a sudden and unexpect- ed burst of summer weather found most people unprepared, and there was much suffering from the heat.
 Principal Graves, of the Strong dis trict, is giving instruction in carving chairs in the Strong school, and the pu- pills enjoy the work.
 The law preventing further bass fish ing during the season at Lake Saiton- stall goes into effect May 1.