The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-27
PERSoNAL MENTION.

Mrs. G. w. CurtisS returned to her
 home in New Haven Wednesday after
 few weeks visit with Mrs. J. G. Wet
 more in Winsted.
 Miss Sedgwick of New Haven, who
 has been the guest of friends in Win
 sted, has gone for few days visit in
 Hartford.
 Mrs. Chamberlain of this city return-
 ed to her home Thursday She has
 rented one of her cottages on Laurel Way to New York parties for period Of five summers. .. Dr. Raymond Del Mas, the well known French instructor of modern languages and a member of the Yale
 medical school, class of '9S, has just registered in this city as general prac- titioner of medicine. He will go to
 Paris next October and take there a special course in surgery and gynaecol- oSy In the meantime he will act as assistant to a physician in this city. George H. Ellsbree of Meriden has re- ceived a letter from Commissioner of Pensions Evans to the effect that now, having reached the age of seventy-fve years, he is entitled to SIP per month pension. As according to the law any l soldier who reaches that age, even though he has received no pension be- fore, is entitled to that amount. MT. Ellsbree has been receiving $8 per month, but in the future he will have a $4 increase. He also presented his claim to the Order of Chosen Friends Thurs day night. As he is now seventy-f1ve years of age he will have to pay no more assessments and he is entitled to | $2,266 He has paid in $1,266 in assess ments and according to the rules of the | organization, all that has been paid in over $1,000 is added to the $2,000 insur- | ance. He has been a member of the order for eighteen years and has paid l 292 assessments.
 1 Burdette A. Peck and Charles Terry | of Bristol are on a wheeling trip | through Connecticut and Massachusetts to the vicinity of Hatfield. They will | combine business and pleasure and will | look up some old furniture and antique | crockery. After their return to Bristol | Mir Peck will go to Morris Cove for a | few days. His son, Ray T. Peck, is 1 spending his vacation at Cottage City | Martha's Vineyard.
 A concert will soon be given in the M l B. church in Mianus under the direc- | tion of Miss Rebecca Holmes, one of | our most promising young American | V1ollnists, who has distinguished her | self both here and in Europe. Miss
 Holmes has secured the services of the | well known tenor, George Chadwick l Stock of New Haven, also the excellent local artists, A. E. Brush, pianist and Mr. Poindexter, basso. The concert is l for the benefit of the church. l Eugene B. Price, after a successful | season at savin Rock, will return to | the city September 1, where he will | open @ lunch room at 163 Commerce 1 street.
 | o. w. Humiston of this city has been ] stopping in PIainville for few days l Mrs. R. H. Johnson and Miss Mar I garet Ellington and Mrs. Peter Dow and her daughters, Jeannette, Jean and l Annie, of Hartford, are spending this l week in West Haven.
 ! George T. Keenan, formerly of Hart ford, who has been the guest of relat l tives on Trumbull street, Hartford, 1 returned to this city yesterday. | Miss Elizabeth McDermott of Bran l ford has returned from two weeks l vacation spent in Montreal and Brook l lyn.
 1 Miss Martha Pavious of Crown street
 has returned to this city after an ab- sence of three months spent in Eng land, her former home. Miss Pavious l has lived in America twenty years, and
 has not revisited her English home for | twelve years until this summer. She | had a delightful visit with family and 1 friends.
 Miss Helena Lowe of this city will be | the guest of Miss Leta H. Dorman of l New Britain.
 Invitations are out announcing the l marriage of Miss Meta Linsley, daugh- l ter of MT. and Mrs. Henry D. Linsley
 of Branford, to Lewis Condict Bayles, | M. E., of East Orange, N. J. The mar riage is to take place on Wednesday 1 evening, September 7, at 6 o'clock at 1 the residence of MT. and Mrs. Henry 1 Linsley on Hillside Place.
 | Miss Helen Foster of Orange, N. J.,
 a classmate of Miss l.. Mae Linsey of l Branford at Vassar college, is summer | ing at Indian Neck.
 l Miss Eleanor M. Woodruff, who has l been a most efficient teacher in the | East Haven school, has resigned to ac- cept the position as teacher of room in the Seymour High school. Mrs. Frances Allen of Cherry Hill l Branford, left on Thursday to join the
 Nichols party at their camp in Maine
 The Rev. c. c. Lasby, pastor of the | North Methodist Episcopal church l Hartford, fifteen years ago, and now l pastor of a church in Indianapolis Ind, was in the city with his wife and I child on Tuesday, and called on Major William H. Talcott of that city. 1 MT. and Mrs. J. H. Winans of Laurel street, Branford had as their guest this l week Deacon c. M. Minor of Bridge l port.
 l Mary G. Hannon of this city has been | selected by the New Britain board of ] education as teacher of physical cul- 1 ture in that city. Miss Hannon has 1 had three years experience as physical l instructor at Wellesley gymnasium. l She has studied at Dr. Anderson $
 school in this city, has taught gymnas- | tics in the public schools here, and for | two years has taught gymnastics, elo- | cution and physiology in the State Nor | nal school at F'itchhl1ro Mass She