The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-28
PERSONAL MENTION.

ReV. w. F' Dlckefnan attended, ldSI evening, a meeting of the New York branch of the English society for Psy- ohical Research at Columbia college. | Mrs. Charles E. Covert has cards out for a matinee whist to be given at her home on Milford avenue Thursday af- ternoon.
 Professor John F. Weir is shortly to deliver a series of six illustrated lec- lures in the Art school. The subject for the first lecture is "A Roman Itinerary in the Time of Michael Angelo"
 George Page of Branford has accepted a fine position in Virginia and will leave Branford about February l.
 The many friends of M. F. Dunn, the genial and popular caterer and proprie- tor of Dunn's State street restaurant, will be pleased to learn that he is slow ly but steadily improving in health and will soon be ''as good as new" MT. Dunn was attacked with the grip and had it bad" At one time it looked as if pneumonia might set in, but careful nursing and medical skill averted that much dreaded disease and he is now practically out of danger
 1 Mrs. Samuel 2. Plant and daughter expected to leave Branford yesterday i for Florida, where they will spend the | balance of the winter
 | Henry M. Machol and his two sisters, | Emma and Nettie, are away on short | trip to Washington. On their return l they will stop at Philadelphia, Balti- more and New York. They will be gone about two weeks.
 | MT. and Mrs. Charles Sickle have re- turned from their wedding tour and are now living at 90S State street. William H. Cooper of Orchard street 1 has returned from a two months busi- ness trip to the west. He travelled as far as Dubuque, Ia., and Oshkosh, Wis, being confined in Dubuque with the grip several days
 Henry w. Sanford, now superntend- ent of the New Haven Ice company and at one time in charge of the New Haven almshouse is mentioned as candidate for the wardenship of the state prison.
 Miss Annie Chandler and Miss Mar garet Meehan, both of this city, are spending their mid-winter vacation with William Chandler of Grove street, Springfield, Mass.
 William c. Watrous, formerly con- rected with the Consolidated road, has been appointed superintendent of trans portation of the St. Louis and Western railroad, which is usually called the Cotton Belt line. He has had much ex- perience and expects to be successful
 Mrs. Henry F. English has sent out invitations for an lat home on Friday evening, February 3, at her residence on Hillhouse avenue The guests will be entertained with story and dialect re- citals by Mrs. Waldo Richards
 John W. Parker, jr., who has been employed at Sullivan's pharmacy on State street for several years. has ac- cepted a position in his fathers drug store on Ferry street and will begin work in his new place next week.
 Wilson Thompson, who was called home to Branford owing to the death of his grandmother, will leave for college in Philadelphia on Monday morning.
 Captain Henry D. Phillip continues very sick at his home, 4 Button street. He has been in the sign painting busi- ness here since 1859. The business is be- ing looked after at sl7 Chapel street by his son, Charles R. Phillip, who has
  twelve years.
 Richard Tyner, the counsel for James Britain Miller, says that the story that his client has left town is not true, so far as he knows, and that he believes he will be in court ready for trial on next Monday morning. It is said that ! Miller is ready to prove an albi in some of the cases in which he is charged with taking the books from certain of the [ compliments.
 Mrs. c. S. Dunbar was given sur prise by the ladies of her Bible class of the First Baptist church Sunday | school at her home No. 19 Howard | avenue, Wednesday afternoon. Later the gentlemen joined the party and pleasant evening was spent with games and other entertainment. A bountiful supper was served. Those present were: MT and Mrs. G. s. Dunbar, MT. and Mrs. Willis J. Griffin, MT. and Mrs. El- mer Armstrong. Mrs. G. F. Reynolds, Mrs. John Griffin. Mrs. George H. Smith, MT. and Mrs. H. c. Jones, MT. and Mrs. William Harper, Mrs. Charles Griffin, MT. and Mrs. Walter W. Wood, Miss Wetmore, Miss Louise Griffin and Mrs. S. l.. Doane.