The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-24

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 Frank Atwater Ward, who is engaged in the automobile business in New York, will spend Christmas at his home, 1S9 College street.
 The New Haven house will serve a special Christmas dinner from until s:8O. Price s1.oo. Tables may be re- Served in advance. d242t
 The annual Christmas entertainment by the Short Beach Sunday school and distribution of gifts will be held at the chapel this evening.
 Mrs. Hobart L. Hotchkiss and daugh- ter, Mrs Clark, of Pittsburg, are spending the holidays with Mrs. George Hunter. of 27s Blake street, westville.
 Last year there were 2Ss fire alarms. Up to date this year there have been S46. which is a record. The fire losses this year are smaller than the total last year, nevertheless. 7
 The thermometers low record for yes terday morning was 19 above zero. As to Christmas weather, there is doubt yet at the weather office. A storm, however, is threatened. E
 On still alarm the chemical engine put out a chimney fire yesterday morn ing shortly after o'clock at the house of Rutherford Trowbrfdge, 70 Grove street. No damage was done. .e 5
 Miss Mary Chatfeld, stenographer and bookkeeper at the Thompson Shop, New Haven, is spending the holidays with her parents, MT. and Mrs. E. ssyNales Chatfield, on Chestnue Tree Hill, Oxford.
 The authorities in the Peabody ml1- scum are at work unpacl1ing the boxes of fossils that were received several months ago. The fossils will be num- bered and put in their places during the vacation.
 Assessors T. F. Callahan and John J. Hogan are both confined to their home by illness. MT. Hogan is suffering with a throat trouble and will be around again in a few days. Colonel Callahan, However. is i'll at his home on Blatehley avenue. E
 T. J. Shaffer, national president of the Iron, Steel and Tin Workers union, is expected here to-day to arrange 3 settlement of the Rolling mill trouble. Nothing will be done toward an adjust nient of this difficulty until Mir. Shaffer gets here. ,.@. 4 -. <,
 Examinations are in progress at the State Normal school in this city for the seniors for teachers certificates. The examinations are given periodically during the senior year. About eighty members of the class are taking the ex- aminations.
 There is the usual Christmas rush at the postoffice. One thing people some times forget is that the sub-stations about the city offer the same facilities as the general office does for the trans mission of Christmas packages. The rush at the central office just now is a large one.
 Work was yesterday commenced on the new rowing machines in the Yale X gymnasium. They will be constructed on the main floor under the direction of Coach John A. Kennedy. They will be in readiness for the Yale oarsmen when the winter term begins next month.
 Hon. Frederick A. Betts, of the ra- tional commission for the Louisiana Purchase exposition, has returned from St. Louis, where he attended a meeting of the commission. Commissioner Betts says that progress is being made on the buildings, and that the fair will be in readiness for the opening next May.
 Mrs. Margaret Coffay, of Gilbert avenue, made many young hearts glad yesterday as is her usual custom at Christmas time. She visited many homes of poor children and left kind tokens of her love. Mrs. Coffay is well known in this city for her great charity, and none appreciate it more than the little ones.