The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-26
PERSONAL JorTINGs.

| Mayor Farnsworth left town yester- day to be away short time. Presi- dent Burton of the counoilmanic board is acting mayor pro tenn. The Rev. and Mrs. A. w. Torbert of St. Paul, Minn, parents of Mrs. Sam uel s. Holiday of 21 Whalley avenue, and who have been her guests for the past two months, left for home Thurs day.
 Miss Mildred W. Jackson, who has been seriously i'll at her home, AS Clark street. is recovering rapidly, and will soon be able to be about.
 Miss Farnces Heath of Albany has been engaged as soprano at Trinity M. E. church. She has been a guest with her sister on two occasions this winter of Coroner and Mrs. Mix, and has sung several times at the Sunday services and in two or three concerts, the most recent being the one given last Wed nesday evening.
 | A. Frederick Hunie of Crown street, who has been confined to his house for the past two weeks with symptoms of l grip, is able to be out again. | MT. and Mrs. John McGarry of New London will leave on the steamer Cam pania Saturday for an extended tour through Ireland.
 l Mrs. George Sanford, president of the Daughters of Erin society, is confined to her home, corner of George and Temple streets, with pneumonia.
 c. D. Rinehart, a graduate of the Yale Law school, '8S, and now promi- nent lawyer of Jacksonville, Fla. is in town for a few days, the guest of Prof Wurtz of Trumbull street.
 Willis filling will be retained as or ganist at the Dwight Place church, W. s. Cook remaining as director and bass singer; Seymour Spier, tenor, and Miss Mary Lynch, contra1to, have been re-engaged. Miss Neva Squires, so- prano, will not remain, and her place is open to aspirants.
 Mrs. George Rogers of Goffe street and Whalley avenue has cards out for a charity whist to be given Monday | afternoon.
 Mrs. Dudley urk-Fitzgerald has been reciting during the week at a charity fair held in Meriden. Besides her work in New Haven Mrs. Fitzger- aid has recently undertaken teaching twice week at St. Roses school in Meriden.
 President S. A. Howe, s. Goodman J. B. Judson, s. H. Kirby, Theodore Gruener, c. B. Hart and perhaps some other officers of the New Haven Retail Merchants association are expected to go to Bridgeport Tuesday night when about seventy-f1ve merchants of that city will form Merchants association Mrs. s. S. Thompson is in Washing ton attending the Congress of D. A. R. She joined MT. and Mrs. Frank Stiles, who had been to Pittsburg for a visit, returning to Washington for the con- vention. The party is stopping at the Normandie. They are expected home 1 to-day.
 The Wayne Democratic Press of Ly- ons, N. r., February 23, says: An inn pressive service was held at the Methodist Episcopal church last Sun day morning. The official board of twenty-two members took seats within the altar and assisted the pastor, Rev. R. T. Cooper, in welcoming into fel- | 1owship of the church twenty seven adults, the fruit of the recent revival. Both spiritually and temporarily the church is in a fourishing condition. After having thoroughly repaired and refurnished the parsonage the trustees have employed Architect Levi Hayne, of New Haven, Conn.,, to draw plans and specifications for extensive repairs on the church edif1ce. MT. Hayne and the board of trustees spent Tues day morning in looking over the church property and the projected plans will be submitted for approval to a public vote of the congregation Monday, March 2, at D.. m. While a visitor in Lyons, MT. Hayne will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs. R. T. Cooper.