The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-26
PERSONAL MENTION.

8 to D. m.
 Roy Freeman of Branford left yester- day to attend the peace jubilee in Phil adelphia.
 Clarence s. Thompson, a well known and popular newspaper man of this city, has decided to locate in Porto Rico and will leave for that country within a short time. He will act as a correspondent for a newspaper syndi- cate. MT. Thompson was a member of battery A and was among those mus tered out of service yesterday after noon.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Harrison of Branford returned the last of the week from a very delightful trip to the Cats kills. When passing through New York ! city on their return they called on the Wolfe family formerly resident here, and found that Miss Louisa Wolfe, their daughter, was at home from Mid- dletown and quite rational which is | good news to her many friends The ladies of the First Presbyterian church will give a corn social tonight opening at 6:30.
 | Miss Atwater of 60 George street was given a surprise last Monday evening the occasion being her eighty-ninth | birthday. The relatives, eighteen in number, represented four generations, and included her cousin, Mrs. Isaac Eaton Jones from St. Louis, Mo. The whole affair was not only enjoyable, | but a decided success.
 l George Webber of Hamden will sail | to-day on the steamer Paris for Eng | land.
 MT. and Mrs. George w. Osborn of l Whitney avenue have gone to Ridge | field, Conn.,, for the improvement of the health of Mrs. Osborn, who is prostrat- ed by the death of her only son, Lieu- 1 tenant Osborn. It is hoped by her 1 family that change of scene may as- sist her recovery.
 MT. and Mrs. Salmon, who have been | spending the summer in North Haven, have returned to their home in Florida.
 Mrs. J. G. Farrill, who has just re- turned from a long sojourn at Pine Or chard, is now at Grove Hall. Mrs. Far rell will leave soon for New York, where she will spend the winter. | Lieutenant Cushman Rice of the 18th | Minnesota volunteers, who was receiv- ed in the hospital Sunday evening with 1 typhoid fever symptoms, is very sick man. The disease had developed un- mistakably since the patient was re- ceived.
 Mrs. James Goodsell of Front street is spending a week with her daughter, Mrs. Charles I. Shepard of Crown street.
 MT. and Mrs. George w. French of l Westville are absent on a ten days driving tour through western Connecti- cut to New York state. They are ini- tiating a handsome new Stanhope car riage drawn by a pair of spirited horses.
 The engagement is announced of Miss Florence L., eldest daughter of MT. and Mrs Willis F. Bodwell of Olive street and Joseph Turner of Montowese,
 D. Walter Pattern has been nominat- 1 ed by North Haven republicans, for representative. He received 126 votes out of 131 cast.
 The wedding of Miss Grace Phelan tc Charles Payne took place last evening at the First Presbyterian church on | Elm street, between Orange and State The Rev F. A. M. Brown, the pastor performed the ceremony.
 The solid silver tea set which the 1 Grays will present to Lieutenant Damn is of colonial design and is marked with the letter "D.'' The set includes tea and hot water urns, sugar, creame1 md ic tr l gift The present is peculiarly appro- 1 priate in view of the approaching mar riage of the recipient
 A daughter was born to Prof and Mrs. James P. Gross, on October 13, al Paris, where they are now residing Mrs. Gross was Miss Beata Roesser daughter of MT. and Mrs. Paul Roess- | less of this city.
 | Invitations for the wedding on Tues | day. November 8, of Edwin Barnes l Frink of this city, to Miss Lena Marion i Hunt of Providence, have been issued MT. Frink is a corporal in the New Ha- Der and assistant secretary of the Gou- | nod society.
 George Abraham, a brother of Police man Abraham of this city, a soldier ir the 1st New Jersey volunteers, married | Miss Lillian Berger of Staten Island l October 15. In one week he will gc south with his regiment. His wife will | stay with her family in Staten Island until his enlistment is up, which will l be in one year.
 Prof. Bauer's method of teaching the French language is certainly remark. | able example of the beauty of simpli- city, It limits itself to the vocabulary | of 4000 words-the vocabulary of every 1 day life-which it combines in all pos. sible ways in correct idiomatic French
 Mis- Mattise Denison of Mantle and 1 John A. Huntley of Newq London were married at the Baptist parsonage ir | Branford by Rev. Joseph McKean Mon. day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Huntley are friends of MT. and Mrs. McKear and came here to have MT. McKear | perform the ceremony.
 Miss Jennie Edwards of the Shelton postoffice is visiting friends in Bran ford.
 Clarence Davenport, corporal in Co l F, 1st regiment U. s. volunteer engin. eers, son of Dr. John G. Davenport ot Waterbury, is suffering from typhoio l fever in Porto Rico. l POSTPONED MEETING. | Washington Camp, No l. P. o. S. of