The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-31
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IS the guest Of friends on Latayette street. New Britain.
 Weather Observer Myers of this city will be sent by the government to the mining fields of Alaska next month to open a special weather station. He will take with him Yale senior. Arthur G. Ward from Evansville, N. Y.
 Among the engagements announced is that of Miss Kittie Boothe, eldest daughter of MT. and Mrs. John Gilbert of Whalley avenue, to Mir. James Dem- ing Sutherland of Clinton, Conn. MT. Sutherland is connected with the Wash burn & Moen Manufacturing company of Worcester, Mass. at their agency in Pittsburg.
 Ex-Senator T. J. Fox has received a letter from his brother-in-law, J. T. Mo- ran, dry goods merchant of Eleventh street and Broadway. Oakland, Califor- nia, announcing the marriage of his daughter, Minnie E. Moran, to Charles S. Hannah of that city on the 24th of this month. The groom is the business partner of Mr. Moran. MT. Moran for merly lived in this city and is well known here.
 Morgan J. Flaherty, formerly well known New Haven newspaper man, has written friends in this city that he Is going to the Klondille to represent large trading company. He is now in Manchester. N. H.
 The engagement Is announced of Miss Anna Gertrude, sister of Mir. George C.. Peterson, treasurer of the Hyperion the ater to MT. Frederick c. Gilbert of this city.
 Mrs Goodwin Stoddard of Bridgeport gave a very pretty dinner on Friday evening at o'clock at her home, No. 132 Washington avenue, Bridgeport. to announce the engagement of her sister, Miss Mabel Judson Sanford, to MT. Err win Warehouse Jennings. There were twelve covers laid, and the guests in- cluded Miss Sanford Miss Grace Stod- dard of New Haven. Miss Annie Hincks, Miss Grace Cogswell, Miss Grace Hamilton and Messrs D. M. Jen- nings, Frederick Keeler. William G. Rockwell, Mortimer Comstock and Stiles Goodsell.
 MT. and Mrs H. c. Cornwell (nee AL ice May Williams) have returned from their wedding trip and are stopping for few days with the brides mother at 187 Dewitt street, after which they will return to their new and handsomely furnished residence, 30 Maple street, Springfield, Mass Their lat home" will be after March 1.
 At the Hotel Dunbarton, Washington, are registered James B. Olcott of South Manchester and Sheldon B. Beach of Meriden. Mr. Olcott is the practical agrostologist whose turf gardens have made him well known to all advanced students of agriculture, and he is in | Washington to urge an appropriation for the establishment of grass gardens as a part of the governments experi- ment station work.
 Mir. and Mrs. s. H. Williams of Glas- tonbury are at the St. James, Washing ton.
 MT. and Mrs. J. H. Mansfield of New Haven are guests at the Vendome, Washington.
 The Rev. Dr. Joseph Pullman of Bridgeport has received call from the First NJ F. church at Patchogue, l.. l., and will probably accept. The Patch | ogue church is large and prosperous, and its pastor receives large salary. Dr. Pullman has been considering a change for some time The call is sub ject to the approval of the bishop, but at the present time this approval is sell dom withheld. Dr. Pullman is the clergyman who was sued by the French actress, Jane May. for refiecting on her reputation in sermon.
 l The Hayden jury of 1879 was compos- ed of the following named: William Brotherton of Milford, Joseph c, Kane of Naugatuck, Egbert I. Thrall of Ok ford, David B. Hotchkiss of Prospect, James Barker of New Haven, Garry B. Johnson of Bethany, Horace B. Perry of New Haven John T. Nancy of New Ha- ven, Russell w. Norton of New Haven, Albert E. Clark of Seymour, Eli Bron- son of MiddIebury and John T. Bartram of Middlebury. Of this number Messrs. Brotherton, Kane, Barker, Johnson, Ma ney and Norton have gone over to the
 majority. The other six still live. MT and Mrs. H. S. Holcomb are en route for Bombay, having left Ceylon on Wednesday last. They expect to 1 tour through India, thence on to China and Japan, coming home by way of San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb will probably reach home in May. l Mrs. w. H. Forsyth entertained the Pequot council at matinee whist Satur- day afternoon at her home, S2 Fountain street, Westville. There were sixty-six guests present. Sixteen tables were oc- cupied.
 l MT. F. H. Baldwin of Crown street has written very attractive two-step, March of the Gnomes." It is a very meritorious composition and meets al ready with decided favor
 l Mrs. s. s. Thompson will be assisted in receiving at her home next Wednes- day, February ?, by Mrs. M. T. Sanford, Mrs. Clarence B. Bolmer, Mrs. J. B. Beers and Mrs. H. l.. Pardee. At the tea table will be Mrs. F. 5. Stiles and Mrs. Gardner Morse.
 | Miss Hubbard and Miss Georgie Hubbard of Essex, who have been the guests during prom wei: of Mrs. Charles Bishop of Orange street, will be the honor guests at tea to be given Wednesday by Mrs. Bishop. | Miss Genevieve Allis of Derby, daugh- l