The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-22
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 Mrs. Jacob Hunie, wife of Deputy Democratic Registrar Hunie, of the Tenth ward, fell on slippery pave- ment on Broadway Sunday and frac- tured her wrist.
 The work of repairing the Yale base ball cage was started yesterday morn ing. The broken glass in the roof will be removed and new glass put in it's place There will also be some work done on the inside of the cage.
 Congressman N. D. Sperry will prob- ably come home to attend the wedding of his secretary, MT. Walmo, which oc- CUTS next Saturday at St. Johns P. D, church. Congressman Lilley will also be home a few days during holiday week.
 At a regular meeting of the Fair Ha- saHen and Westville Railroad company nefd Yesterday afternoon the usual quarterly dividend of 1A per cent. was declared. The books will remain closed from December 21 to January 1, inclu- sive.
 A nice little Christmas gift would be a sterling silver or gold plate miniature frame We have very choice collec- tion, and also French bronze, solid ivory and tapestry effects. Special sale this week. The Curtiss Studio, 1o90 Chapel street.
 A special train has been arranged for the students of St. Paul's school at Concord, N. II, who will return to their homes in the south and west for their annual Christmas vacation. This train will leave Concord early this morning and will arrive here about F o'clock.
 The regular meeting of the board of warden and burgesses of West Haven will be held tonight, when several mat ters of importance will come up. The question of the borough streets will be one of the subjects discussed and some steps will be taken to improve their condition.
 Preparations have been made to give the freight men Of the Consolidated road a holiday Friday so that they may enjoy the Christmas feast at home. To this end orders have been issued annul- ling a number of freight trains on that day The office building will be closed all day Friday.
 The regular monthly meeting of the teachers in the public schools of this city was held in the New Haven high school yesterday afternoon. The speak CT of the afternoon was Principal Ar thur B. Merrill, of the State Normal school. His subject was Reading in fIa pI1h1in Enh0oIs s'5a
 The cutting of ice on Lake Whitney yesterday by the New Haven Ice com- pany was not begun, as calculated, ow- ing to the rise in temperature and the swelling of the lake in consequence of the big rainfall of Sunday. The work will not be begun until the weather grows colder.
 The order passed recently by the al- dermen making Saturday afternoon a holiday at city hall throughout the year was approved by Mayor John P. Stud ley yesterday afternoon. The new or dinance cannot become operative until 1t has been advertised in the newspa- pers three successive times. This can be accomplished during the week, and the half holiday will commence next Saturday. -..
 The board of health holds it's regular semi-monthIy meeting this afternoon. It is possible that the board will take up the matter of appointing the physi- clans for school inspection for 1904. This board was allowed $1,200 by the board of finance for such inspection, and the appointments will soon be made. As the board will not meet un- til after January the doctors must be named now if the work is to commence with the new year.
 Mrs Charles Sanger Mellen, wife of the president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, has re- turned to the New Haven house, where she has rooms for the winter. She went to St. Paul about two weeks ago and visited her home in that city, which she left last month. On her return she stop- ped at Washington and, with her hus- band, was the guest of the Roosevelts at the cabinet dinner last Thursday night. Mir. and Mrs: Mellen will have their quarters in this city during the winter, spending most of their time here.