The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-03
PERSONAL MENTION.

years absence abroad. He IS in the
 best of health and has a well-tanned
 complexion.
 Miss Inez l.. Platt of so Dickerman
 street starts to-day on her vacation
 trip. She will visit a number of places
 of interest, and will return in about
 three weeks.
 Miss Anna Ford of AS Sylvan avenue
 starts this morning for Asbury Park,
 where she will remain a week. l General p. s. Greeley and family
 have returned from Litchfield, where
 they have spent very pleasant sum- | mer.
 Miss Grace Rice, who has been spend-
 ing part of her vacation in Waterbury,
 came to her home in this city yester-
 day, where she will stay the remainder
 of the season.
 Paymaster Frederick D. Averill, who
 has been in the service of the govern
 ment at League Island navy yard, was
 expected to return home yesterday af-
 ternoon. Hosts of friends will be glad
 to greet him.
 l W w lllAtlillS, lOlIllSlly betSS Sp-
 loist of Christ church, Ansonia, is to
 sing in the choir of the Grand avenue | Congregational church commencing on
 Sunday.
 Mrs. Middlebrool of Oakville, near
 Waterbury, mother of William and
 Frank Middlebrook, went to Sandy
 Hook Thursday morning to visit her
 old home, where she had lived seventy
 years before going to Oakville to live
 with her sons. She is eighty eight years
 old, and her mental and physical facul-
 ties are extremely well preserved. Her | granddaughter, Miss Florence Middle 1 brook, accompanied her, going on the l cars.
 Miss Alice Moore of Hartford has
 been visiting at the home of Mrs. Jared
 Andrews in East Haven. l General $. D. Merwin, president of l the New Haven hospital, said yesterday l that one hundred dollars was realized | from the benefit for the sick soldiers | given by MT. Poli. The weather was pretty warm for a large attendance at | the theater.
 MT. and Mrs. E. E. Allyn were in
 Goshen over Sunday. They drove from
 New Haven and on Tuesday returned
 home with their daughter Frances, who
 has spent five months in Goshen with her aunt, Mrs. L. M. Whiting. 1 F. W. Stevens of Port Huron, Mich,
 and John J. Johnson of Hartford, both l prominent officers in the Order of Mac | cabees, were in town Thursday on an
 official visit.
 Charles w. Burpee, formerly of Wa | terbury, has an article in the current
 New England Magazine on Fire Insur-
 ance in New England.' It is a com
 prehensive review of a large subject in a wide field.
 | A. R. Burr of this city spent Thurs | day in Norfolk. l Mrs. Reilly of 69 Nash street is visit | ing her sister, Mrs Holland of Nauga- | tuck
 | Mrs. Charles K Grant and Miss Eva | Grant of Rockville are visiting friends | in town.
 Judge James Bishop of the city court
 and his wife entertained the Septem- Der Driving club at the Morris Cove ho- | tel last night. A shore dinner was en- | joyed.
 William Pierce of this city Is the guest of Oscar Bloomquist at Bristol | for few days. Miss Emma Ryan, a clerk in the su- l perintendent's office of Sargents fac | tory tainted from the excessive heat yesterday and was taken home in a
 carriage.
 | Mir. and Mrs. E. A. Parsons, the plan l ists, have returned from their annual
 stay at Vineyard Haven, Marthas | Vineyard.
 i Frederick S. Weld, the baritone, has l been engaged for the Mishkan Israel quartette to succeed MT. Cook, who re- | tires. The others in the quartette are: 1 Wallace Moyle, tenor; Mrs. Alice Fech- ter-Spier, soprano, and Miss Margaret | Roberts, contralto. | Miss Winona Page, stenographer in l the office of the dairy commissioner will leave on @ three weeks vacation
 Monday. She will visit her parents in | this city and will spend some time in the mountains. Lewis B. Brown, president of the Tenth c. V. Veterans association, and brother of Controller Brown, is suffer ing from the effects of the heat. He came down to the office yesterday morning, but gave 1t up and went back to his home.
 Mrs V. G. Mcdonnell and her daugh- ter, Miss Bessie, of HAP Chapel street, have returned, having spent two weeks at Asbury Park and nearly a month in the Alleghanies at Mountain Lake park, Maryland.
 Rev. Dr. Sage and family will return from their cottage at Summer Island this week. Dr. Sage will preach as usual at the Grand avenue Baptist church tomorrow, both morning and evening.
 Miss Emmie M White, pianist, who has been spending the summer with her mother, Mrs. George M. White of Garden street, left yesterday for Texas, where she will begin her work again as director of music at the Adrian uni versity. This is the third year of Miss Whites principalship at the univer- sity, where she has been doing splendid work.
 The town of Norfolk has elected re- publican delegates favoring James D. Dewell of this city for governor. This is Lieutenant Governor Dewer's native town. The delegation is as follows: Leopold J. Curtiss, Joseph Selden, Robbins Stoeckel and George T. John- son.