The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-23

The tea previous to the sophomore german will be given at the home of Mrs. Henry l.. Hotchkiss on HillhOuse avenue, on Monday afternoon, January 24
 Miss Ethel Dunn, a Wellesley college girl, is the guest of MT. and Mrs. A. L. Norton of Westville for the holidays. Miss Dunn's home is in Chicago.
 MT and Mrs. James M Vanstone of Ansonia are booked to sail, Friday, on the steamship Lucana from New York for Liverpool, England They return to England with the intention of mak- ing their future home here. They have resided in Ansonia for some time and have formed a circle of friends there who are 10th to lose them.
 Mrs. Andrews (nee Miss Annie Cur tiss) of Springfield, Mass, is visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs, Robert Cur tss of Lynwood street. Mrs. Andrews is convalescent after serious illness.
 Conductor McDermott of the Nauga- tuck division is laid off duty because of a severe cold. Conductor EMahoney is in charge of his train.
 MT. Hunter, student at the Park Avenue Institute of Bridgeport. is the guest u HIS IOlI1lpi CldSSitldlP, Leroy W. Wilson, the latter a pupil at Lover idge's Business college. MT. Hunter is en route for his home in Hartford for the Christmas holidays. MT. Hunter, ST, is president of the City Water com pany of the Capital City.
 William Greatorex of Ansonia. who has been ill the past two months, i'm proves but slowly, not yet being able to leave the house.
 The engagement is announced of Miss Belle N Manville of Park street and Frederick s. Hurlburt, son of Samuel W. Hurlburt, the Chapel street grocer.
 Miss Manvile is one of the active work CTS at St. Paufs Episcopal church and is a charming and accomplished society young lady MT. Hurlburt is engaged in business with his father and is a.. yOug man of business ability and ster- ling worth.
 P. J. Ryan of Ansonin has gone to Brooklyn to remain until after New
 Years, but will return to Anscnia be- fore he sails for Australia. MT Ryan is an old veteran, having served some three years in the United States army during the rebellion.
 Tomorrow afternoon Miss Hortense Allen Matterson of Allenton R. l., and Arthur F. Booth, instructor of chemis- try at the Boardman Manual Training school of this city, will be united in
 marriage, Rev. MT. Forbes tying the knot. It will be quiet home affair only the immediate relatives of the bride and groom being bidden. Miss Matterson is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. James Matterson. She is a young woman of fine education and accom- plishments, having graduated from the Rhode Island State Normal school and of the Boston Emerson School of Ora tory. MT. Booth is a graduate of the Yale Scientific schol, taking a post graduate course afterwards. When the chemical department at Boardman was opened Mr. Booth was appointed in-
 structor, and has retained the position
 ever since. After their wedding trip the happy couple will reside at No. 3 Lake
 Place. The groom is 8 brother of Nal coIm Booth, for several years in the high school and later assistant princi- pal of the Training school and now principal of the night schools of the city.
 Miss Hattie B. Hutchings, trained nurse from the New Haven hospital, who has been in Ansonia for month stopping at the home of A D. Bastedo, | where she came to be treated by Dr. w..
 H. Conklin. left yesterday for Brook lvn N Y. Her health is much inn DroVpd