The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-16
VARIOUS ITEMS.

Rev. MT. Beardsley of St. Thomas church this city preached at a joint
 service of St. Johns and Trinity churches in Waterbury last evening. One of the last of the old time res- idents of Bridgeport, Aaron Banks Sherwood, died Monday night at his
 home, s51 Park avenue, at the age of s7 years.
 The Rev. Cyrus F. Stimson, pastor of the Stratford congregational church, has left for the middle west, and dur ling his absence will occupy pulpit where he has been invited to become the pastor, which offer he may ac- cept before he returns. 2 A custom of farmers along the free delivery routes of using the rural mail
 boxes as a medium of advertising their sales is to be heasled off by the Post Office departments A warning has been issued that parties will be prose- |cuted for an infraction of the postal laws if the rural mail boxes are used
 as repository for sale bills or adver- tisements.
 Captain Cross, who has rowed at No. ' in the Yale crew since he has been in college, has been shifted to stroke. This
 move has been contemplated for some time and is the first of the efforts to find a. successor for Bogue the stroke for the past two years. If Cross proves to be good stroke, it is intended to develop Whitney as stroke of the four oar. Whitney was stroke of last years
 great freshmen crew and had been slated for this years varsity. Miller and Whittier, who rowed six and five
 respectively at New London last year, were also changed. Miller going to star
 board and. Whittier going to port. John D. Spear of Topeka, Kansas, is visiting his brother Josiah Spear in Winsted. Mrs. Richard Spear, who has , also been a guest in Winsted, has re- turned to her home in New Haven. The c. w. Rogers company is mal1- ing rapid progress in building the new wharf in Bridgeport for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad com
 pany, on the site of the old Rosedale
 wharf. Half of the piling has been finished
 Dissatisfaction is brewing among the members of Company I, Second infan- try, c. N. C., Meriden, and many of them propose to resign from the ser vice shortly. A half dozen members of the company have either sent ill their resignations or intend doing so this month. In all there are about 25 of these hold over members, and it is reported a good share of them intend to leave the command within the next few months, but nothing definite can be found about it at present.
 The Woman's Relief corps of Buck ingham post, c. A. R., of Norwalk. is making arrangements to entertain the corps of the Department of Connect icut, which will hold it's 21st annual canton in Norwalk on Wednesday and Thursday, May Il and 12. The ses- sions will be held in the Methodist Episcopal church.
 Another and very important step in I the negotiations looking toward the purchase and operation of the defunct Meriden Malleable Iron company plant, Meriden, by Massachusetts man.
 
 ufacturers was accomplished yesterday afternoon, when Attorney F. T. O Brien went to Hartford to file papers with the secretary of state for the incorporation of the Eastern Iron company, manu- facturers of structural and arehitec- tural iron work. The corporation-to-be be is capitalized at s30o,O0O, divided into 5000 shares at S100 each.
 The Stamford Street Railroad com pally, through the New Haven road, received permission from the Stamford Council Monday night for extensive improvements to it's plant near the railroad station. An office building is to be erected there and large addi- tion made to the. present car barns. The work will be commenced as soon as possible this spring.