The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-02-13
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mary's church, is ill with malaria Ifever.
 Attorney Calef of Middletown is il 1With the grip.
 Captain Albert Bishop of the Starir line, with Mrs. George Jacobs an(
 daughter, Miss Clara l.. Jacobs, vii lspend February in Florida at New Der
 lin, with Captain Emery.
 Dr. c. A. Dorman M. D., of this city the physician and lecturer, was an Inounced to lecture at the New Britain Y. M. c. A. hall yesterday afternoon on
 Personal Purity" The lecture was il- illustrated by twenty oil paintings. Dr. Dorman has been quite i'll with the grip but has recovered
 MT. and Mrs. J. Schlesinger of Derby fannounce the engagement of theil daughter, Fannie, to Charles Gabriel of
 this city. At home February 22, 219
 Caroline street, Derby.
 Miss Edith McDonald, who has been
 wintering in Wallingford, has returned to her home in this city.
 Miss Madge Hayes, who has been
 stopping in West Haven for several
 months, returned to her home in Hart ford Tuesday.
 l At the Center Congregational church,
 Meriden, Friday evening, Rev. J. H. Grant, the pastor, was presented with a purse of over fifty dollars by the mem bers of the Young Peoples society and his friends in the congregation MT. Grant has recently recovered from se- were attack of the grip. Friday was his
 twenty ninth birthday.
 State Secretary D. T. Bates of the Connecticut Y. M. c. A., whose home is | in this city, was in Norwich Friday making arrangements for the State Y. M. c. A. convention that will be held there February 23-26. Present indica- | tions point to a largely attended and 1 successful gathering of Y. M. c. A. men from all over the state.
 Mrs. F. L. Converse of i Whalley avenue will give a small charity whist at her home tomorrow afternoon. Miss Sarah Milford left Branford Friday for visit to friends in Meriden.
 Mrs. T. J. Adams will open her par lors, No. 73 Whalley avenue, for char ity whist Thursday afternoon, the 18th. Mrs Harvey Beach, H. W. Hubbard and Mrs. Boynton of Branford attended the funeral of Cyrus Graham in Hart ford Saturday.
 Mrs. T. J. Lawton of Olive street has returned from Waterbury, where she was the guest of friends.
 Miss Hettie Sonnenberg, together with her mother and nurse, will go next week to Atlantic City, to be away un- til April 1.
 J. M. Marlin of 326 George has gone for two months trip south. He will visit Georgia, Florida and the Bahamas.
 Superintendent Baldwin of the street department has received a commenda- tory letter from Nathan Easterbrooke, jr., in which Mir. Easterbrooke expresses himself as very much pleased at the method used by MT. Baldwin in scrap ing the snow from the guttsrs as being both economical and most expeditions Mir Baldwin uses the road scraper with four horses attached
 Elizur Sperry and family have gone for a trip south, which will include visit to Havana and Rock Ledge, Fla.
 Joseph Glennon of 32 Haven street fell on slippery sidewalk at James and Clay streets Saturday evening and fractured his right leg in two places. He was sent to the hospital by the po lice.
 Rev. D. J. Clark of East Haven preached in exchange with Rev MT. Mutch of the Howard avenue Congre- gational church yesterday morning.
 The engagement is announced of Miss Gertrude M. Cummings, daughter of Dr. James Whitcomb Cummings of West Haven, to Herbert E.. Chamber lain, travelling salesman for Childs & Chlds of New York city.
 Miss Alice May Waldron, daughter of Frederick H. Waldron, delightfully."- en- tertained at her home, 105 Howe street, the young ladies who were associated with her in the tableaux in the produc tion of 'The Drummer Boy"
 George F. Harrington well known in polo circles, drove his horse and sleigh from Waterbury to this city Friday in about an hour and three quarters, dis tance of twenty-four miles. The sleigh ing waa superb.
 John E. Healy, the real estate dealer, sailed Saturday on the Peninsula of Spain to buy directly from Spanish own- CTS such property in Cuba and Porto Rico as he can conveniently acquire and handle. Mr. Healy has succeeded in in- teresting half dozen New Haven spec ulators and men with capital in his pro- ject.
 Assessor George Neal, who has been | Ill with the grip about two weeks, is now able to be up and about his house. He | may be able to resume his duties at the 3ity hal! on Monday.
 The late Bishop Williams was for many years a familiar figure to the | summer visitors at Watch Hill. He all | ways expressed himself a charmed with hat resort, and large part of his time n summer was spent at the Hill. The bishop was an indefatigable pedestrian md delighted in long strolls by the sea coast. Probably no person was more amiliar with the points of interest in hat locality than the late Bishop Will jams.