The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-08
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LIVES OF MANY CAME AND
 OTHER BIRDS

Banquet = TeamstsrE Union = Irish
 Language socIsty--aIen Who swim In
 Icy Pools iu Zero weather-Peary and
 the N. Y. Yaie Club smoker.
 Charles F. Curtis was Wednesday night elected as financier of Momauguin lodge, A. o. U. W. This is the first step toward the reconciliation of the two factions in the lodge. Mir. Curtis was a.delegate to the grand lodge which adopted the new assessments. and upon his return was opposed by the dissatis- fled element, and was deposed from the office he then held. Wednesday night he was chosen for the best office in the gift of the lodge.
 Treasurer William H. H. Hewitt of the New Haven Democratic club yes- terday received assurances of accept ance from two distinguished democratic
 brethren The men who have accepted the invitations to attend the Bryan
 banquet are Representatives David A. lA<C<A4 l4lC E0lAlI COttS4 CSSlOI-
 al district of Butler. Mo-, and F. w.
 Plaisted, the national committeeman of
 Augusta, Me.
 The basketball team of United States soldiers, who are taking a years die tary experiments under the direction of
 Professor R. H. Chittenden, have just
 arranged their second game of the sea- son. They will meet the Edwin Ban croft Foote Boys club at the clubrooms
 next week in friendly game. The soldiers were beaten, 49 to 4, last week, in thenr opening game with the naval reserves.
 Landlord George T. White of the Tor
 tine hotel has been awarded the con-
 tract for the banquet to be held in the
 Wononsco house, Lakeville, January 15. by the Litchf1eld County University club.
 Lucien A. Merriam and Barlow S. Honce of Branford have been summon led as jurors to serve on the civil side of the court of common pleas. Sheriff Bradley served the subpoenas. Tonight New Haven commandery,
 No. 2, Knights Templar, will assemble
 in festive session for the purpose of in- lstalling the officers-elect and enjoying 1 a banquet.
 F. L. Jackson of Branford went to
 Durham yesterday morning to visit relatives. Mir. Jackson and wife leave Sunday for California, where they will remain until spring.
 Ten shares of New York, New Haven i and Hartford Railroad company stock were sold in Boston yesterday at 1951a. Miss Eugenia Bradley of Branford
 has returned from a ten days visit with friends in Brooklyn, and has resumed
 her studies at the Anderson gymnasium in this city.
 It was stated yesterday on reliable authority that the sum of $1,600 has been raised by the teamsters' union of this city to defray the expenses incl dentalto defending the men on the ,charge of conspiracy.
 Mfiss Roberta Bradley of Branford, who has been visiting in Providence, has returned to her home in Montowese l street.
 The strike at the mills of the New Haven Iron and Steel company declar- 1 ed a few days ago, Is resolving itself
 into waiting game. The state board
 of arbitration has volunteered it's ser vices, and the men have declared
 themselves willing to rest their case in
 the hands of the board and abide by ! it's decision.
 ! John F. Pero. jr., of Branford, return ed to Stamford yesterday morning to
 resume his duties at Betts academy. | The officers elect of Olive branch No. S4, A. F. and A. M., of Westville, will
 be duly installed next Thursday evening
 by District Deputy David R. Alling. Wainwright, son of pr. D. w. Johnson on Montowese street, Branford. is on the sick list again and is suffering from the
 prevailing influenza.
 l The superintendent of the state in
 sane hospital has sent word to Chief
 os Police Wrinn that ex-F,ire Captain William Johnson will not be received
 again in that institution until a bill owed for Captain Johnson's care on
 another occasion has been paid. A new
 bond will have to be filed by Captain
 Johnson's conservator before he is ad-
 mitted to the asylum. Captain Johnson ] is now at the county jail.
 | Messrs. Hoadley, Jourdan, the Palmer boys, and Woods, all of Branford, have
 resumed their studies at Yale. The two l former are in the Scientific school and the three latter in the academic depart ment.
 Congressman Hill has presented a pe- tition to congress from the Irish Lan- guage society of Bridgeport, in behalf
 of bill to erect a monument to Com
 modore John Barry, who is known as I the father of the American navy. l Senator O. H. Platt has introduced a
 bill in congress to increase the pension
 os William J. P. Buck of Ansonia, to
 $72 in place of $12 that he is now get
 ting. Buck served in Go. D, Second reg iment, Connecticut heavy artillery. He
 has lost both his feet and is entirely helpless. The same bill was introduced
 by Congressman Sperry last month. l Rev. Nicholas Coleman of Danbury visited New Haven friends here yester-
 day.
 | On the theory that bird saved is a
 bird gained the Danbury sportsmen are l taking measures to preserve the game ! through the winter. Feed sacks filled with bird edibles are to be erected at
 convenient points in the woods where quail and partridge abound. This plan
 is similar to our townsman, E. Knight
 Sperry who has this season, as for sev-
 eraI seasons past, had a bird rack of