The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-03
vARIoIrs ITEMS

lodge at it's installation and banquet Monday night.
 The Woodbridge Ice company began cutting ice again yesterday morning with a force of about fifty men. The houses of the company have a capacity of about 10000 tons, and more than two- thirds of this amount has been gather ed in. The ice now being cut is about sixteen inches in thickness.
 James Birmingham. arrested some time ago for passing a counterfeit half dollar and sentenced by the United States court to jail and a fine of $10O was released yesterday, as Birmingham took the poor debtors oath on the fine and served the jail sentence.
 E. c. Beecher has closed his machine room ill the Geometric Drill company's building and will go out of business. MT. Beecher has had few expert ma chinists working on patents for a num- Der Of years. and much of the machin- cry of the Diamond Match company has been designed here. The Geometric Drill company will occupy the entire build ing in the future.
 Mrs. D-. Graeber and family moved from Durham to Meriden Monday, where they will reside in the future.
 Paul Minkwitz of Salem, who has been in the New Haven hospital suffer- ing with cancer of the stomach had an operation performed Sunday afternoon. It was very successful, and MT. Mink witz is reported as recovering rapidly.
 This evening at 6:SO the ladies of the Calvary church will serve special SUD- per in the lecture room. The supper will be followed by an evening of song by the choir. The quartette, directed by c. Franklin Pierce, is composed of Mrs. Marion W. Tolhurst soprano; Mrs. F. G. Ball. alto: Frank Shay, tenor. and Warren Williams, bass.
 Charles H. Jonas, who held down an outaeld position with credit for the Naugatuck high school for the past two seasons, is one of the many candidates for the Yale freshman baseball team the coming year.
 The first anniversary of the Forbes chapel guild will be celebrated at the chapel on Forbes avenue next Tuesday evening. The historic home of Mrs Betsy Bradley, standing since revolu- tionary times, is well worth the visit, even if the bountiful supper were not such an inducement to draw invited guests.
 Joseph Clancy, the walking delegate of the Iron and Bridge Workers union, who was assaulted last Friday night in Ansonia. was seen by Chief Ellis of Ansonia yesterday at the New Haven hospital, and stated that he was stab him. The police have learned nothing further in the case.
 Announcement has been made that in all probability the Hoadley building, recently partially destroyed by fire, will be ready for occupancy by the middle or latter part of September next.
 There will be a special meeting of the Rubber Workers, union, No IA. at Knights of Columbus hall this evening.
 Officers have been elected by Brick layers union No. s as follows: Presi- dent, John W. O'Brien; vice president, James Welch; recording secretary, John F. Kelly; financial secretary, Joseph H. Mulvey: treasurer, Michael F. White.
 Gilbert w. Chapin of this city is ar ranging for the organization of the "Chapin Family Association,' to gather and preserve the records of the family and descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin of Springfield, Mass. Those eli- gible will be descendants and those who have married descendants of Samuel Chapin. MT. Ctapin is sending out cir cular letters seeking information. Frank M. Travis, the treasurer of the
 New Haven Gas Light company. was
 chosen a director of the New Britain
 Gas Light company Monday. The board
 as newly constituted is as follows: A.
 J. Sloper, H. E.. Russell of New London, G. M. Landers. F. N. Stanley, John
 Walsh, and Frank M. Travis. Such expressions as fudge" rub | Der" swell, neasy mark and kindred slang phrases have been tabooed by members of the senior class of the Der by high school in a resolution passed ai
 class meeting. All members of the class
 are pledged to abstain from using slang either in writing or speech until gradu- ation
 | Mrs. George Rohne and Mrs. L. Dor man contemplate an extensive sojourn in Germany next summer The ladies
 will visit their relatives in the Father
 land and also view all large cities and points of interest
 l MT. and Mrs. Charles Goldreyer re-
 turned from their wedding trip from Washington and the west Saturday
 having had 8 lovely trip and will leave tonight for New York. MT Goldreyel | is in the gentlemen's furnishing busi.
 ness, Eighth avenue and 43d street, New
 York.
 The exhibits of drawing made by the
 New Haven public school pupils for tho l Worlds fair were put on exhibition il the Boardman school Monday night where all the teachers viewed them The drawings reflect much credit on tht l pupils who made them, and will nc doubt attract much attention at the bis
 fair at St. Louis. where they are to bt sent soon.