The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-27
PERSONAL MENTION.

seasons past. Efe has much improved
his hotel at Rockledge and has intro
duced a gas plant by which the entire
hotel is now lighted by gas. The mum.
Der of guests at the hotel is this veal
much larger at this stage Of the season
than ever before.
A numerously signed petition for the
appointment of w. ]. Atwater to the
position of shell fish commissioner is in
circulation. 1t is headed by George B
Martin, president Of the Republican
league, and John B. Gaffey, president
of the Young Mems Republican club
One of the signers is Ex-Governor Hen
ry B. Harrison.
Miss Justine Ingefsoll has returned
from pleasant visit in New York the
guest of Mrs. Charles Mitchell at her
charming apartment, 1.-The Adelaide -
Park avenue.
Miss Grace Peterson of rs Cottage
street was surprised by number of
her young friends Tuesday evening in
honor of her eighth birthday. The
young folks had a pleasant time. Those
present were the following named Fla
eel Durant Norma Hahn, Doris and
Ethel Bishop, Hera and Katherine CAL
lagher, Mildred Brown, Gladys and
Horton Dockendorf, Emmett and Tracy
Healy, Howard Davis and Earl Red
field.
About twenty-five friends Of Miss
Hattie Voltz Of Orchard street rendered
her a surprise party Wednesday even
| ing, the occasion of her eighteenth
| birthday. Dancing and refreshments
added to the happiness, as also did an
impromptu but entertaining musical
and literary programme which was rem
dered, including reoitations by Edward
]. Leavitt and Miss Amanda Clark, and
solos by George Wezer and Miss Annie
Hine.
| Mr.. and Mrs Don s. Thompson enter
tanned Amelia Bingham over Sunday.
Miss Bingham played the lead with
| Frohman's company in "On and Off,
seen at the Hyperion last Saturday
evening.
Don S. Thompson, who has been i'll
with a severe attack of the grip, is re-
covering.
The following communication printed
in yesterday mornings issue Of the
Hartford Courant Will, interest the
many members of Mary Clap Wooster
chapter, D. A. R., in New Haven:
To the Editor of the Courant;
IF Mrs. Sara T. Kinney's resignation
is accepted and confirmed by the ma
tional society at Washington, Mrs.
John M. Holcombe's name would meet
;,,1p ,apt from thn
Connecticut Daughters. One Of Them,
in Sabra Trumbull chapter, Rockville.
Carl l. Blenner gave reception at
his New York studio THE Sherwood"
Thursday the 18th, from to p. m.
There was quite sprinkling of New
Haven people present.
A number of friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Whalen surprised them by CALI
ing unexpectedly in a body Wednesday
evening, and had a very pleasant house
warning at their new home on BroWnell
street Mr. Whalen has just completed
new house on Brownell street. 1t is
the second house that has been built on
the street, which was opened short
time ago. Among those present were
Mr.. and Mrs. Goering, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs. Bishop. Mr..
and Mrs. Richardson, Mr.. and Mrs
Reynolds, Mr.. and Mrs. Unger Mr.. ana
Mrs. Day, Mr. and Mrs. Sprague, Mr..
and Mrs. Nugent, Miss Thompson, ana !
Mr.. Wolfe. |
Mr.. and Mrs. @. w. Lewis has been |
spending several days in New Yorl. at |
the Waldorf Astoria. They were pres
ent at one Of the regular afternoons"
of Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox at her no.
tel apartments. Miss Leavens, who con-
ducts the Friday morning literature
class IN New Haven, accompanied Mr.
and MIS-. Lewis when calling on the au-
thor and poet.
Frederick Judd and wife of Mohawk.
N. Y. are visiting with Deputy Sheriff
Kirck and Mrs. Kirck.
Mrs. J. II. Hitchcock is back from a
trip to Boston, Mass, and is stopping
with her sister. at 159 York street.
Mrs. Fl. Karsruher has recovered
from her recent illness and is now able
to call on her friends in this city.
A daughter was born Wednesday to
Mr.. and Mrs. William Yeomans of
|
the Second Congregational church. has
accepted a call to the pastorate of one
Of the old Congregational churches at
plymouth, Mass.
Mrs. Walter Bishop, teacher in Dis
trict No. l, Clintonville, who has been
sick is improving and expects to re-
sumo her duties as teacher next Mon
lay.
Ellsworth Stevens, the Northford gro
,eryman, had narrow escape last Sun
lay while crossing the railroad near
station. The 12:45 being
ate. came by just as Mr.. Stevens had
crossed the track.
Henry Isaacs, who left this city in
he early part of December to rejoin his
brother in the Klondike gold fields, has
lust left Seattle on his long trip to the
frozen country where he expects to
make a fortune.
Mrs. Il. l.. Converse Of No. Whalley
avenue, who has been spending the past
week with her sister, Mrs. Smith, at her
home in Newark, N. j.. has returned.
Miss Hettie Sonnenberg, daughter of
Sonnenberg, has just left
Dr.. B. A. Cheney's sanitarum after I'M
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