The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-17
PE RSONiL.

Miss Mary E. Shepard of Dickerman | | street returns to-day from Northfeld, l | Mass, where she has been to attend | the commencement exercises of the | ladies seminary. She has friend also | at Mt. Holyoke seminary, with whom | she spent a day very pleasantly on her | way to Northfeld.
 Mrs. Nicholas Cannon of Wallace street Is i'll. suffering from stroke of paralysis.
 Miss Nora Hunt of Bishop Block, Bridgeport, will sail to-day on the steamship Campania for England, She takes the trip for the purpose of wit messing the ceremonies attendant upon Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.
 The many friends of James Reynolds will be pleased to learn that his health is much improved and that he is able to be up and to attend to business.
 The Rev. R. H. Gesner, rector of Christ church, Episcopal, West Haven. will go to the White Mountains with l AiAS Ioiiiily loi ouly anu August w Hilc there he will officiate at St. Matthews church. During July his pulpit will be supplied at the morning services by the Rev. MT. Bailey. In the evening some city clergyman will attend.
 Speaker of the House Joseph l.. Bar bour has arranged all his plans to sail for forty days trip in Europe and
 will probably start next week. The speaker has worked very hard during the long legislative session and goes for a needed rest.
 Mrs, George William Douglass, wife of Trinity's rector, will spend the sum-
 mer with her mother, Mrs. Hugh T.
 Dickey of Newport.
 Mrs. S. A. York and the Misses York
 are spending a few days in Branford.
 Mrs. Philo S. Bennett of YorkeWall
 has recently returned from a visit in
 Waterville, N. Y.
 Stanley F. Bloomfield of the next
 years senior class of the Divinity school,
 has accepted the pastorate of a church
 in Detroit, Mich, where he is at present
 very pleasantly located performing his
 ministerial duties His many friends
 here will be glad to hear of his sue cess though regretting that he will not return to graduate next year. MT.
 Blomfield's home is at Morenci, Mich, where his father Is pastor of a church.
 J. B. Fitch with the Misses Margaret and Anna Fitch and Mrs. Tibbals of
 New Haven are at the Ray house on South street, Litchfeld, for the season. MT Ozias Dodge of Flushing, L. l., has been offered and has accepted the directorship of the Norwich Art school.
 MT Dodge studied for four years at the Yale Art school, then for two years , , at the Art league, He then accepted the head -mastership of the Victoria . Art school. Halifax, N. s. This po
 siton he filled for two years with en- , tire success, resigntng to go to Paris. , , Here he studied under Gerome, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts. While in this , school he received the first mention for figure drawing. Mir Dodge has done much work in illustration for the lead ing magazines
 Clarence Deming and family of this
 city have again taken Mrs William
 Deming's house in Litchfield for the l season.
 Ex-Mayor w. B. Bostwick of Bridge l port has within the past few days be- come an ardent admirer of the wheel l and mastered it Tuesday after strug 1 U
 steed.
 Yesterdays Bridgeport Telegram says: George Starr, one of the best t known press agents in the country and e | who for years has been with the Bar
 mum & Bailey show, but who is now
 with the Forepaugh & Sells combna-
 tion, took a party of invited guests = from this city to see the show at Stam- e ford yesterday, and all declare that s the exhibition this year is far better e than ever before. The local party was e headed by H. H. Jennings. e Judge Studley of this city Is occupy Il ing the bench of the civil common pleas = court in Bridgeport while the suit of e Marsh, sMerwin & Lennon against An e drew Selleck is being tried. Judge Cur t tis, for reasons best known to himself, ,. declined to try the case.
 Il Miss Elizabeth T. White of this city l. has been the guest of Mir. and Mrs. Will e liam Trumbull in Litchfleld. = Mrs. T. Mclaughlin and her sister, It Miss Bush of this city, have been the s guests of Mrs. D. D. T. Mclaughlin in : Litchf1eld.
 t Professor and Mrs Harris and Miss . Skinner of this city have arrived at n the Wadhams house, in Litchfield, for y the season.
 MT. and Mrs w. J. Durley of this a city arrived at Maple Ridge, West Nor Il ris, June l. Mrs. Durley will remain S there with her parents for a month or l. more.
 Martin R. Waller, son of ex-Governor
 Waller, has been appointed superinten- n dent of the Port Jervis, Monticello and t, New York railroad.
 l. Mayor Coe and Town Clerk Hess of 1T Meriden attended the dinner given by is the New Haven Knights Templar at IS Branford yesterday
 IT EXHIBITION OF SKETCHES.