The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-29
PERSONAL MENTION.


 Israel A. Kelsey, s. Harrison Wag- ner George F. Mathewson, Lyman All press and c. H. Briscoe, will apply for charter for street railroad in East Windsor.
 James Carr, the well known politician of the Second ward, is seriously i'll at his home, 25 Winthrop avenue, from pneumonia. He first had the grip, which developed pneumonia.
 Robert B. Mercer of SSO George street. one of N. A. Fullerton's able assistants at the Boston grocery, is the happy fa- ther of new nine pound baby girl.
 Ernest Moons of Lincoln, Neb., is vis- iting his sister, Mrs. Richard H. Tyner on Livingston street. MT. Moons ex- poets to spend several days in New Ha- ven, and will then go to Massachusetts, where he will visit relatives and friends
 The engagement is announced of Miss Olga Smith to H. J. Becknan of this city.
 Burgess Bushnell and Druggist Simp- son of Southington are laid up with an attack of the grip.
 Mrs. o. w.. King of Southampton, L. l.. is the guest of her sister, Mrs. F. w. Field of Lynwood street.
 At the Baptist church Christmas tree festival in Branford the retiring su- perintendent, B. C. Johnson, was pre- sented with silk umbrella by the
  cipient of handsome etching framed in gilt from his class of young ladies, and Miss Elizabeth Johnson was pre- sented with lemonade set from the Y. P. s. c. E.
 MT. and Mrs. John Dyre Davis of Eld street have as their holiday guest the mother of MT Davis
 Mrs. L. Parkerton of Guilford was the guest of the Misses Merriam of Rogers street, Branford, over Christmas. Miss Harriet Wood of New York is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Fenton, at 206 Crown street.
 Mrs. Sylvester Smith of College street is convalescing from severe attack of the grip.
 Charles T. Thompson of Southington has purchased the bushes sof the Ban tam Lake house at Bantam Lake, Litchfield. MT. Thompson will not take possession of the property till spring.
 Mrs. N. D. Sperry, Mrs. Buckingham and Master Newton Frothingham will go to Washington next week with Con- gressman Sperry. They will stop at the Hotel Buckingham as usual. ! left on Tuesday to visit friends in New London.
 MT and Mrs. William F. Brook of 314 Crown street have gone to Boston to visit Mrs. Brooks mother and sisyer
 H. Wales Lines of Meriden was in Branford Tuesday looking over the sit uation at the Malleable Iron Fittings companys works, where an extensive addition is in course of erection.
 Mrs. Simon shoninger of Orange street spent Christmas with her broth CT, Alexander Steinert, at his home on Back Bay, Boston, Mass. Delos J. Bristol is very i'll at his home, 519 George street.
 Miss Isabelle Cromwell, who went to Old Point Comfort with Prof. Richards and family, has had a slight attack of the grip upon reaching Old Point. Harry Lacey, the actor, who made such an emphatic hit in vaudeville in Rob Racketts Pajamas,' written in collaboration with Jane Marlin, is spending the holiday season with his wife at their Chapel street home, Mir. Lacey is just back from successful trip to California.
 The many friends of Miss Hetty Son nenberg will be pleased to hear that she is improving slowly and that her physi- clans hope for her ultimate recovery. Miss Sonnenberg was on the eve of leaving for Chicago for a visit to her sister, Mrs. Charles Rothschild, when stricken with appendicitis. Mrs. Benedict, recent graduate of the New Haven hospital training school for nurses, is in Sherman, Conn.,, taking care of Hon. J. M. Pickett, who is seri- ously i'll with a, complication of ail- i ments. a severe attack of the grip be- ginning his sickness.