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LOCAL NEWS. Brief Mention. High water to-day at 9:05 a. m. Invest money in New Haven.-R. E. Baldwin. a To-night it is expected there will be meteoric display unless the signs fail. Concrete walks laid and repaired by Conn. Concrete company, 49 Church street. City lots exchanged for savings banks' books. Clark, 121 Church street, Room 18. Phoenix lodge, T. of H., of New Britain makes an excursion to Savin Rock to-morrow. Now that Katydid has been heard the next thing is look for the frost six weeks hence. Miss Mabel Collier, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Collier of Adeline street, is recovering. Mrs. Emma Morrissey of Liberty street is spending a few weeks at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Sergeant McBride is rapidly recovering and was able to be out for a short time yesterday afternoon. Miss Maggie Noonan, the popular dressmaker on Frank street, is spending several weeks at Springfield, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. William Noonan of Washington street, who were recently married, have gone to housekeeping on Sherman avenue. Excursion tickets to Chicago $17.00, and $26.40 with stop-over privileges. Morse, Schroeder & Stock, Room 10, Benedict building. Open eveninga. Mrs. George T. Bradley, her daughter, Miss Mabel, and son, Mr. Walter Bradley of West Chapel street, are at the White Mountains for a stay of several weeks. S. H. Moseley of the New Haven House, who has purchased a building lot in Norfolk, Ct., one of his favorite summer resorts, will probably erect a cottage there. Miss Fannie Fenwick of this city is filling the position of stenographer at the Derby Silver company's office during the absence of Miss Mattie Lynn, who is spending her vacation in Meriden. The Ansonia and Birmingham National banks have notified depositors that they will not cash checks on other banks on demand, but will collect for depositors if they will wait until the local banks can secure money. Peter Mooney and eon returned last evening from a visit to another son in New Jersey. Mr. Mooney has been gatetender for the Consolidated road over twenty years, and this is his first vacation during that time. Nathan Hale camp, Sons of Veterans, of New Haven will make an excursion to the Noroton Soldiers' Home, Wednesday, August 30. It is expected that many of the officers and members of Admiral Foote post will join in. On August 9, 1871, twenty-two years ago yesterday, the first trains were run over the "Little Derby," as it was then called, between Ansonia and New Haven. Conductor E. B. Bradley then, as now, was in charge of one of the traine. William H. Allen of the firm of Porter & Allen, New Britain, is slowly gaining in health. Mr. Allen and wife left for Indian Neck on the sound near Branford yesterday afternoon, where he will spend a week or two with his son, John W. Allen, the contractor, who has a cottage there. The Rev. Dr. Harris of Yale Divinity school, who for many seasons past has been a regular summer visitor in Litchfield, is sojourning in Lakeville this year. The correspondent of the Canaan News reports that the doctor preached in the Methodist church there recently to an "enraptured" congregation.-Litehfieled Enquirer. Willis Curtiss, financier of Momauguin lodge, A. o. U. W., now in his fifteenth year in that position, takes his first vacation in twenty years this month, leaving next Thureday for a stay in Litchfield Hills of a week or ten days. His wife and grandson will accompany him. Mr. Curtiss is foreman of the pattern department at Peck Brothers & Co. and has been in that position for the last twenty years, ably discharging the responsible duties of the place. Mr. Curties is one of the wheel horses of the A. O. U. W. in New Haven.