The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-22

and Across the Wave-Many Pleasant
 Visits-Other Personal Jottings.
 H. Grant Thompson will sail for Flu
 rope to-day on a brief business trip of
 about six weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. John M. Peck of Grown
 street left town yesterday for Buffalo
 on a months visit to their married
 daughter. While absent MT. Peck will
 make trip of the Great Lakes with his
 son-in-aw.
 Captain Frank F. Hobbs, U. s. A.,
 formerly stationed here, spent Wednes-
 day in town with friends.
 W. T. Bedford and wife of La Sale,
 Illinois, are guests of M E. Chatfield at the latter's residence, No 1920 West
 Chapel street. Mrs. Bedford formerly resided in this city, being the daughter of George B. Treat and granddaughter
 of the late Atwater Treat MT. Bed ford is the editor and proprietor of the Daily and Weekly Tribune, a prosper ous paper of La Sale. It is six years since MT. and Mrs. Bedford visited friends here, and they are most cordial ly greeted
 Charles s. Treadway, for many years cashier of the Bristol National bank, has been elected president of the bank to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John H. Sessions.
 At concert to be given on Tuesday {l,n NniY street Baptist church, Meriden, the singers will include Miss Miriam Church Griswold, contralto at the Church of the Redeemer, this city, and Miss Minnie Armbuster, also of this city.
 George Raymond Hall, graduate of Sheffield Scientific school in the class of '99 residing in Philadelphia, who has been summering at Atlantic City for the past three months, where he was very i'll with typhoid fever, is now con- valescent. This will be pleasant news to his many friends in this city.
 Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Jones of this city are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. w. Beeman at New Preston.
 MT. and Mrs Edward Fitzgerald have sent out invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Miss May Catherine, to pr. Morris Dore Slattery. The happy event will take place on Wednesday morning, October 4, at 10 o'clock, in St. Johns R. c. church. "At home" an- nouncement gives Wednesdays in Mo- vember at No. 352 Howard avenue.
 Jacob w. Miller has been officially announced as appointed general super- intendent of the marine district of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, with office at Pier 19, North river. The appointment was made at the directors meeting last Saturday. and takes effect from October 1. MT. Miller has filled the office of marine su- perintendent by temporary appointment ] since the death of S. A. Gardiner, few | months since He was formerly super | intendent of the Stonington line.
 Thomas H. Pease Sc Son have the l Connecticut Quarterly for September. Interesting articles on ''The Milford 1 Cemetery" and sharon" and several | other chapters cannot fail to be of in- terest.
 Judge Roraback of the superior court | has been in town for few days visit ing his daughter, Miss Grace Roraback Miss Roraback, who is a graduate of l the Wilmantic Normal school, is now l IedCIlSE III w lHCutSle SCIlOOl.
 Miss Ella McKean York, the con- tralto, has taken house at No. 69 Lake place.
 Judge Hobart L. Hotchkiss left on Wednesday for hunting trip to the Maine woods He will be absent two or three weeks
 Charles H. Day of WhitneyNille has another installment of his very inter- nSo1o l. l Man." in the current issue of the Home Magazine.
 w. T. Bull, who will with others, coach the Yale football candidates, ar rived in town yesterday afternoon.
 MisssN1ay B. Lyon of 100 Howe street, this city, has been rendered by the di- rectors of the Trenton State Normal and Model schools the position of assist ant physical director of their schools at Trenton, N. J., and she has accepted. She will direct the teaching of anato- my and physical culture. Miss Lyon is a graduate of the Hillhouse high school. She also attended the New Britain State Normal school and last spring graduat- ed with honors from the Anderson Nor- nal School of Gymnastics also from a special medical course at the Anderson 1 ScnOOl. FOT several years MISS LyOH | successfully conducted a school of sten- ography and typewriting also copy . ing office, in the Exchange building She has closed her school and has gone ( to Trenton to enter upon her work there. ( Superintendent Kendall reports that Z the returns of the school pupil enroll ment just made and returned to him f show that the total number enrolled in , the ten districts of the grammar and 7 high and manual training schools is 15,- , IA Many children-probably about 400 {, have not yet returned to the city, /, whose names will be added, increasing 2 the total The statistics of attendance f In the various districts, according to r the returns yesterdays, are as follows: T Boardman Manual Training school 3S5, \ EIillhouse 760 Webster, 1,561, Eaton 1,201, ! Lowell 2,126, Winchester 1725, Strong l., 793. Dwight 663, Hamilton 1,160, Day l. :, 80. Welch 1870 and Wooster 932.
 Inspector Flad of the postoffice ser I, vice, who has spent three or four days the postoffice in this city, has made a report recommending that the ,eouest of Postmaster Howarth for new r 1oxes be granted.
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