The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-24
VAR1oUs ITEMS.

Arrangements are being made by the supreme officers of the Fraternal Bene- fit league of this city for the institu- tion of a new council of the order in Meriden next Friday evening. Supreme President Howard and Secretary Tyler will speak.
 Henry E. Norris of this city will be in New Britain this evening for the purpose of arranging a committee for the organization of an aerie of the Eagles there.
 Some forty girls employed in the Can- dee rubber shop are i'll with the grip.
 Ex-Senator Lyman H. Johnson re- ceived a good many handshakes of con- graduation in city hall yesterday morn- ing because of the fact that he became grandpa on February 21, and the Johnson name will be perpetuated. On that date a son was born to MT. and Mrs. Harry P. Johnson of S5 Clark street, Harry Johnson being Senator Johnson's son.
 The farm in Columbia belonging to the estate of the late Simon Hunt has been sold to Walter D. Crockett of this OAtS= L4C WILL lHONC O4i lO lllS plqCC while the wood and timber is being cut off,
 Colonel Rollin s. Woodruff returned yesterday morning from two weeks trip spent in the south.
 Charles w. Hensig and Lebbeus Charter caught two of the largest pick ereI ever seen in Rockville Monday morning, while fishing through the ice at Crystal Lake. One weighed five and the other four pounds. A Rockville man has made a bet of s5 that he can eat the largest one, dressed and baked. with all the fixings, at one meal. He is to give the exhibition in a local res taurant.
 The third lecture of the very interest ing lectures on "The Religion of Egypt" by Professor steindorff of the University of Leipzig was given last ! evening at o'clock in Osborn hall. The ! special theme of the lecture was HThe Temples and Their Ceremonies.'' The enga cement is announced of A. H. Loomis and Miss Grace Cunning. both of New York. MT. Loomis was | formerly of Hartford He is the son of Vice President A. c. Loomis of the National City bank of New York and is | employed by the Farmers Loan and Trust company of that city. The funeral of Mrs. Lucy Stanton Wheeler, real daughter of the Ameri-
 can Revolution, who died at her home
 in Old Mystic on Saturday, was held at the M. E. church in Old Mystic yes- | terday morning. She was ninety-seven years old and tn daughter of Edward and Martha Stanton. Her father was
 a survivor of the Groton massacre. though badly wounded in the fight. l Mrs. Wheeler was member of Anna
 Warner Bailey chapter, D. A. R., and of the First Congregational church of
 Mystic, which she joined in 1888.
 Civil Engineer Sperry has completed ! plans. for the proposed drawbridge over
 the East Haven river, These plans
 have been practically accepted by the selectmen of Branford and East Haven.
 They will be placed in the hands of \ contractors and bids asked for. It is
 believed that the bridge will cost a
 trifle less than $12,O00
 q The appointment of Austin Cheney of
 South Manchester as inspector of small
 arms practice to succeed Captain F.
 F. Small resigned, is announced by Col
 oneI Edward Schulze of the First regi-
 ment, c. N. c. MT Cheney is a Yale
 graduate. class of '98 S.. was in the
 Yale battery in the Spanish war and
 is much interested in military matters.
 He is a son of Colonel Frank w. Che
 ney and is at present superintendent
 of the Morgan street plant of Cheney
 Brothers.
 The Consolidated road owns all but
 five pieces of property on the west side
 of Union street, between Chapel and
 Water streets. Three of these pieces
 are owned respectively by the Sulz- berger & Schwarzchild Beef company the New Haven Beef company, and the
 Hammond Packing company. The two
 other pieces not owned by the railroad
 are less important. The property is be-
 ing acquired in order to widen the cut Don't forget the farmers institute tc be held to-day in the Congregational :. church, Woodbridge. It will take place
 under the auspices of the Woodbridge grange. Everybody is welcome. Those who wish to attend the meeting may
 ISdcH WoouprluSe py SoiHS tO lue eHe
 of the Westville trolley line, where car. ! riages will be in waiting to take visitors
 to the church The morning session l will open at 1O:SO and the afternoon l session at 1:S0. During recess luncr vii be served by the grange. T Rev. William Maher, D. D., pastor O l St. Joseph's R. c. church, South Nor
 walk, son of Mrs. Maher of Nash street
 this city, arrived home Saturday nigh
 from a months vacation spent in Flor ' ida. He was welcomed by large con gregations at the Lenten masses at tn, church Sunday, and stated that hi. , trip had been a pleasant and beneficia
 one.