The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-16
PERSONAL MENTION.

Eugene F. Mckenna of the Grand opera house will be i'll for at least ten days, his doctor says. He is threatened With pneumonia.
 l.. M. Maynard, who formerly kept a restaurant in this city, is in town on q visit from Porto Rico. He has been there since last October, and upon his return will open a general store.
 Mrs. Jacob c. Luft of 915 Grand ave- nue fell on an icy pavement on Chapel street Thursday evening and broke one or the small bones in her ankle. She was taken to her home and Dr. Charles Vishno was summoned to attend her. The accident will confine Mrs. Luft to her home for two weeks.
 An interesting part of the Manson Holcomb wedding reception Wednesday night was the announcement made of the engagement of MT. and Mrs. Man sons second son, D. Edgar Manson, to Miss Fife M. Coney. Miss Coney, who was one of the bridesmaids, is the daughter of pr. P. P. Coney of Worces- ter, Mass. She was graduated from Smith college in 1898.
 Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Elizabeth Stetson, daughter of John H. Stetson, of the firm of Howe & Stetson, to Morgan P. Brooks. MT. Brooks, who is of the firm of Brooks X Co.,, is now at Saranac Lake, where he is recuperating from an illness of several weeks
 Edson F. Sinister of 5S Foster street is i'll. While trying grips" with a friend a few days ago the skin on one of his thumbs was torn off. He thought nothing of the matter until the thumb began to swell. The swelling extended to the wrist and a physician was sum moned. He said that MT. Shuster was threatened with blood poisoning. The marriage of Dr. Harry Little Welch, son of pr. and Mrs. William c. Welch of College street, to Miss An nette Vail of New York, daughter of noon yesterday. Only the immediate friends of both families were present | at the wedding, which was solemnized at the church of St. Mary the Virgin at high noon. On Saturday Dr. and Mrs. Welch will sail for Europe on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II for long residence in Germany, where the young doctor will continue his studies. The bridegroom's parents went down for the wedding.
 Richard w. Meigs and S. l.. Blatchley' have formed a partnership to deal in real estate and have taken lease of | the offices formerly occupied by the New Haven Street Railway company | in the Exchange building. Mr Blatch- | ley has been engaged in this line of l business for years, while MT. Meigs has | been connected with the Arnold com l pany for several years in the capacity | of secretary and treasurer
 | The marriage is announced of Miss l Sophie Isaacs, daughter of MT. and Mrs. | Isaacs of 112 Washington avenue, and sister of Mrs. Edward Sparks, to Sher- l man J. Williams of 20 Carmel street, son of Lewis Williams. The Rev. MT. McElvern performed the ceremony on December at Brooklyn. MT. and Mrs. | Williams are now at the home of the | bridegroom's parents.
 l At the meeting of the Reynolds Mon- ument association Tuesday night in Emmett hall the following subscrip- tions. were reported: N. w. Kendall, $10; l Dennis Keane, $10; Michael Sullivan l $5; William Nicely, S5; Colonel Healy $1; M. A. w. McGrath, s1; C. B. John son, $1; c. T. Driscoll, $25; J. J. Kirby ! $5, and John Heslin S5
 i J. Milton Griest was chosen president of the Westville Improvement associa- tion Wednesday night; A. N. Farnham | vice president; William A. Borden sec retary, and Henry l.. Bradley the treas urer. The executive committee com | prises, among others, Mesrs. L. Wheel CT Beecher Amos Dickerman, William H. Forsyth, George M. Griswold and Charles A. Marvin Another business meeting will be held on the evening ot January Ii at the Masonic hall in West vile. The prospects are favorable fol an earnest interest being taken in the work of beautifying and generally i'm proving Westville, and it is expected that the place will be greatly benefited in the near future.
 The soloists for the coming produc. tion in this city, January IS, of Cowen's Rose Maiden, by the Euodian society o1 West Haven are: Mrs. s. s. Thompson soprano; Miss Edith M. Beers, central. to; Willis s. Moyle, tenor, and Charles H. Mann, baritone. Charles Stormon
 is conductor of the Euodian, whcI choral society is now in the second year of a prosperous career.
 Cards have been received in Bran ford for the marriage of Frank Brady and Miss Grace Dunn, both of Brook. lyn, the marriage to be solemnized ir St. Luke's church Tuesday, the 20tl of December. The groom is a son o1
 James Brady, formerly a rrominen resident of Branford.
 Mrs. Merritt Monroe of Branford has 1 returned from a three weeks vis spent with her son and family in Co. T Cob.
 Among the out of town guests at z large dancing party given by MT. ant Mrs. J. Richard Smith at Leavenwortf hall in Waterbury Wednesday evening were Miss Sullivan of Cleveland, Mis-: Harper of New York; Miss Lucy Youne of New York, Miss Hayden of New | York, Miss Harrison of New Haven Miss Woodruff of Thomaston, Miss Hal of Hartford Miss Barbour of Hartford Miss Ketchum of Oswego, MT. and Mrs John Buckingham, MT. and Mrs. Harry Hemingway, and Miss Helen Upson O
 Watertown, MT. and Mrs. Harry Whit