The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-02

PERSONAL MENTION.

Miss Jessie Holmes of Kansas is
 spending the winter with her aunt
 Mrs. George F. Newconlb of York
 Square, Miss Holmes is a graduate of
 Boardman school.
 Ex-Superintendent Bollman of this
 city says he is not a candidate for the
 position of warden of the state prison;
 that he would not take the position if
 it were tendered to him. The report
 that he was a candidate for the place
 is therefore erroneous.
 Cards have been issued by Mrs. Will
 liam l.. Elkin of Prospect street for a
 tea to-day given for her guest Miss
 Heating, the tinancee of Roger Adams,
 Mrs. Elkin's brother.
 1 MT. Pinney of the L. c. Bates com-
 pany of this city, was in Naugatuck
 Saturday.
 Dr. William McKenna, the popular | first lieutenant of the Sarsfield Guard,
 says he has not sent in his resignation,
 although it is true that he is contcm-
 plating doing so.
 Miss Dotha Stone Pinneo, of the Gen.
 tral club Norwalk, and secretary of
 the State Federation of Woman's clubs, will address the Kalmathean club of West Haven some time this month. w. E. Merrill, the popular proprietor
 of the Berkshire cafe, becomes proprie- tor of the Westmoreland hotel to-mor- row. He has conducted the Berkshire which is next down to the Westmore- land, for the last five years. His many friends will congratulate him upon his success, and wish him continued pros- perity. He will make a number of i'm provements in the hotel at once. The hotel is the property of the Messrs. Yale in Wallingford.
 The report that R. s. Hinman, for many years chief clerk in the office of the secretary of state, had withdrawn from the race for clerk of bills in the general assembly, is pronounced un- true by that gentleman's friends.
 Arnon filling will go to Virginia next week for the wedding of Frederick Ter Till of New Hartford, the brother of his tiancee, whose marriage to a beautiful southern girl, Miss Ross, will be cele- brated on January Ii at Bedford City, the country seat of the Rosses.
 Henry Isaacs of this city, one of the few men who made strikes in the Klondike gold fields, is now at Detroit and will start in a few days for Daw son City where he has acquired exten- sive interests since the gold craze in that section developed.
 Recent New Haven visitors in Wash ington were: At the Arlington, MT. and | Mrs. Rutherford Trowbridge and Miss Elsie E. Trowbridge.
 Dr. Frank S. Todd, Yale s. '95, and | Yale Medical school '97, who has been ! connected with the Patterson general hospital for a year and half has sev- cred his connection with that institu- tion and will start in private practice there after vacation. He will spend . three weeks with his parents at 62 [ Whalley avenue before beginning prac- | tce
 Harry Rowe Shelley's F minor sym phony was played in St. Louis recently | and the Globe Democrat says: Tn spite of the shortcomings mentioned, MT. Shelley's symphony is great work and one which reflects credit, not only upon the composer, but upon American mu- sic and musicians.
 James A. Reilly, for several years clerk for the Hogan Drug Co, is about to leave for the south to go into busl- ness at Miami, Fla, of which town his brother, John Reilly, is mayor MT. Reillys many friends wish him sue cess.
 A dinner by Thornton Hunt at his beautifully appointed house on Wooster
 tt,o oo,se tiyities, given for Mir and Mrs. Henry l.. Hotchkiss and Mrs. Hotchkiss' sis- ter, Mrs Powell, and Dr. Powell of Newport Plates for eight were laid. MT Hunts other guests were Miss Eliza Hotchkiss, Miss Kate Trowbridge and J. Edward Heaton.
 Fire Captain Charles O'Neil of New Haven. President of the State Fire mems Association, was in Bridgeport Investigating complaint made by Mrs. Edward G. Melius, wid~ ow of Bridgeport fireman that she was not receiving her pension money regularly. The affair was arranged to he satisfaction of all.
 John J. Hogan, senior member of the Hogan Drug Company of Derby, has dissolved his partnership with Walter , ;. Torrance son of Justice Torrance of he supreme court and has sold out his interest in the Derby store to his late partner. MT. Hogan will devote his at S ention solely to his New Haven store. l Professor P. F. Browning of Kent Y aboratory is visiting his parents in I | Assistant Corporation Counsel Bis I ol has adopted sharp measures to bring / to pay for old snow liens a hat have accumulated for years. The l. umber of these Is beyond expectation. a Captain Allen, the popular armorer W f the Second regiment, entertained last I aturday, party of present and form i' r military officers. In the party were Y 'apt. La Barnes, of Wallingford, in- g pector of rifle practice; Lieut.. Newton, U x-paymaster of the Second regiment; J X-Capt Burr Hall, Of Wallngford, lieutenant Hurd, who saw service on ne auxiliary cruiser Yankee during 1e late unpleasantness, was also in the T 
 Miss Bessie Grannis teacher in the igh school at Charlevoi, Pa, who has Q cen home for the holidays, will return V ext week. n Miss E. Isabelle Mast, of Wnalley o venue is visiting in Hartford, the f, uest of Miss Bessie L. Taft. Last e,