The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-19

Grand avenue, is also a member of the committee.
 sherman I. Graves, supervisor of the Strong district, is arranging for New Haven party to visit Washington in April leaving this city April and re- turning April 12. He hopes that quite a number will go. J. R. Tucker, of East Hartford, has charge of the en- t ire party from this state.
 Attorney Wallace s. Moyle, of Wool sey street, is generalissimo of the New Haven Commandery, in which there are many Fair Haven members. The Knights Templars of Connecticut will hold its annual conclave in this city to- morrow. Burton H. Strickland, of Grand avenue, is the warden, and Will liam A. Waterbury is treasurer of the New Haven Commandery, and MT. Moyle Is to be the toastmaster at the banquet to be given at Music Hall this evening.
 Friends of MT. and Mrs. Thomas G. Hinckley will be interested in the par ticulars of their golden wedding, which was celebrated at their home in Osgood street, Springfield, Friday from to Il p. m. The couple resided here many years, removing to Springfield in 1885. Their daughter, Cuba King Hinckley, wife of Fred L. Willis, resides here, and the two grandchildren are George and Minnie Willis. MT Hinckley ha been locomotive engineer fifty-two years, having been employed by the New Haven road forty-two years and retiring year ago. On their anniver- sary they received many valuable and beautiful gifts, among them gold headed cane which was presented to MT. Hinckley by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The residence was filled With relatives, friends and neighbors of this beloved couple. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hinckley enjoy good health and many congratulations are extended to them, which express the wish that they may live to celebrate their diamond anniversary. A Spring. field paper, in referring to the ahnlver- sary says in part: Fifty years ago, March l6, 1856, a young bride of eigh- teen, Miss Martha A. Rogers, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Richard Rogers of New London, Conn.,, was united in marriage to Thomas G. Hinckley. Rev Jabesh Swan, an old time evangelist and preacher, performed the ceremony in her fathers New London home Two years previous Mir Hinckley had begun engineering in the west and the couple started out for Ohio, and their early welded life was passed in that state and Missouri, where he was engineer on the North Missouri and the Pitts burg and Fort Wayne railroads, now | the western system of the Pennsylva- mia railroad. The first passenger train | that ran through the tunnel of the Pennsylvania road under the Allegheny mountains just bsyon6. Altoona, 1t was his privilege to engineer. During the civil war his work led him in the rail- roading service of the government, He is now an active and beloved member of the E. K. Wilcox post of the Grand Army in this city, Both als active members of the Carew street Baptist church, where they have attended since that church organized. Mir Hinekley is a deaconbf this church, and Mrs Hinckley Is president, of the Missionary and Ladies Aid societies and a teacher in the Sabbath school MT. and Mrs Hincktey's home life has been exceed ingly happy, and MT. Hinckley points with the same pride to his bride of if. ty years as he does to little daguerre. otype that graees the home, showing his pretty young wife as she looked ir their early married life, and he tells how that picture has travelled many thousands of miles, over many roads ot I the country, In his waistcoat pocket Ten years ago they celebrated in an in formal way the fortieth anniversary oi their marriage, while a severe snow storm was raging.
 At the regular meeting of QuinnipiaC
 Conclave, Improved Order of Hepta sophs tonight, three candidates will D, initiated by the degree team, and ont of Captain Ackerman's famous clan chowders will be served All Hepta, sophs will be cordially welcomed. Or Saturday, March "A, the degree team will go to Meriden by special invitation to H5ork the degree on class at Meri- den oonclaye.