The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-16
PERSoN1L MENTION.

l SN 'etUS VIII pt Sldu lO NllOWI liuCll lIli-
 proved and is expected to return home
 in two or three weeks.
 The committee of the s. o. club for
 their coming masquerade ball are John
 shaughnessey, Joseph Lines, Michael
 Good, James Foley and Emil Rein
 hardt The club is composed of fifteen young men belonging to the St. Alloy
 sius Y. A. B. society. The ball will be
 given in St. Aloysius hall on Thanks
 slVing eve. The ball last year was at tended by over 800 and it is expected
 this years affair will be just as success
 ful. Lilley's orchestra will furnish mu-
 sic and Mir Reilley will prompt. 1 Cullen B. Foote of North Haven, who
 has been president of the State Sun day School association for seven years and in various ways connected with the
 work of the association for nearly twenty years, positively refused re- nomination to the presidency, and w.
 Il. Hall of West Hartford, who has de- voted nearly all his life to Sunday school work, was elected in hs stead | c. J. l.. Ljeingstrom of Providence,
 R. l., the well known representative for the Swedish newspaper, "Skandina- Vian was in town yesterday. | The engagement is announced of Miss [ l.. H. Rice of Lombard street to Henry
 J. McGowan.
 | George Albert Thompson, the portrait
 painter, is painting a portrait of Pro-
 lessor James M. Hoppin Of the univer-
 sity The work is commission from the Divinity school MT. Thompson has also begun work on a portrait of Pro- lessor Sanford of the musical depart
 ment. Prfessor Hoppin is done in his doctors robe. Professor Sanford is
 done almost squarely in profile, seated
 at the piano.
 James P. Peaker of this city has
 been invited to address a large indig-
 nation meeting to be held in the Cooper
 institute, New York Thursday even- ing.
 1 Professor William H. Brewer and his son returned Monday from six months l stay abroad. Miss Nora Brewer, who went over with her father, will remain on the other side some time longer At
 present she is in Berlin.
 Sergeant William W. Ward of this city who enlisted in the Seventh New | York regiment at the outbreak of the war, is ill with fever and is patient
 in the Red Cross hospital at Atlantic Highlands, N. J. He has been i'll for
 twenty days, but is recovering. | Professor John F. Weir of the Yale
 Art school will speak December 10 in 1 Hartford on "A Roman Itinerary in the
 Time of Michael Angelo" The lecture
 is to be given in a series of lectures ar
 ranged by the Hartford Art society to
 be given afternoons at Hosmer hall. 1 Mrs. William Rarnum has recovered
 and is out again, after suffering from
 sprains received in an accident recent l ly, when her horse slipped and fell on
 the asphalt pavement, breaking the
 carriage slightly.
 | James Whitoomb Riley well known
 as "The Hoosier Poet" and who will
 appear in this city this evening in sslect readings of his poems, is the guest Of | Professor William Lyon Phelps of the Yale faculty. MT. Riley and his host have been invited to be present at the chamber of commerce banquet and it is hoped by the committee that he will ac- cept. Mir. Riley is a guest at the New
 Haven house.
 1 George E. Thayer, a graduate of the | Vale Law school, and well known in | Hartford as one of the most popular
 men in the First regiment, has opened 1 a law office at 59 State street, First Ma tional bank building, Hartford. l Attorney James J. Buchanan has an- nounced himself as a candidate for the office of city clerk on the democratic ticket in the next city election, and is
 confident of landing the plum. l The Rev. Dr. J. F. Bingham and Mrs. Bingham of Hartford sailed yesterday on the St. Louis for Europe to be ab- sent for two years. Their res delce on Pennington avenue has been lsased by John C. Taylor, who moved his fam | fly from Obed's Heights, saybrook, yes | terday.
 The Rev. W. S. Perkins, D. D., pastor
 for six years of the First Universalist church in Meriden, has been called to the Church of Our Father in Brooklyn. He has not yet accepted.
 Mrs s. w. Tomlinson of Bridgeport is the guest of her son, Frederick Tom linson, of Fopson avenue, Branford Clifford and Edna Reed. aged nine and eight years respectively, played
 duet at St. Lawrence's fair in the town hall, West Haven, last night Their IaJner IS sc. h. I(E6Q, Aio I1OWdru ave tnue. an engineer on the Consolidated read.
 John N. Champion is chairman of the Pequot club committee on entertain ment which is to arrange for the clubs annual banquet which will take place in
 the near future.
 Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur c. Stone will hold an "at home" this evening at their home, 371 Crown street, from to TO- MT. and Mrs. Stone were mar ried on October 26.
 Mrs Casper Grover of Newton. N. J., is visiting her sister, Mrs, D. J. Bigelow of Bradley street. Lieutenant Colonel T. r. Callahan filed his list of election expenses yester-
 day morning. His candidacy cost $365, divided as follows: $175 to town com
 mittee; S25 for advertising; $1G5 for pas
 ters, clerical work and distribution. Invitations are out for the wedding of Miss Annie Farnam Whitney, the
 daughter of Eli Whitney and Thomas
 McElrath Debervoise. The wedding will take place in the Whitneyville church on December 6.
 Miss Grace Unger of Division street entertained the United States Whist
 club of which she is a member, yester-
 day afternoon.
 Mi and Mrs. Edwin G. Russell of