The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-04
Personal JOTTINGS.

take place this afternoon from until
o'clock. The home will be prettily dec
GRATED for the event, and many societ!
people will be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney P. Butler, Wit
spent the Thanksgiving holiday a
Woodstock have returned.
Elsie Herman, daughter of Michae
Tiernan, who while playing with {
younger brother, fell from couch t.
the floor and broke her collar BONE is
resting comfortably at her home anc
recovering.
The monthly meeting of the Woman's
Church Missionary association will be
held this afternoon at o'clock in
Trinity parish building on Temple
street. The Rev. Arson Phelps Stokes
jr., will address the meeting.
Miss Julia Hall of Georgia and Miss
Frances Jenness of Brooklyn, who have
been visiting with their relatives and
friends in the Elm City over Thanks
giving, have returned.
Captain James Brewer of the Grand
avenue precinct has been ordered by his
doctor to lie still in bed for week at
least. Captain Brewer has been troubled
lately by verbose vein in his left leg.
He was obliged to lay off duty several
days last week, but he reported for
duty on Saturday, and his work that
day caused relapse. The doctor says
that if he does not take extreme pre-
cautions an abscess will form on his
leg.
DIR. G. Il. Strong will leave this week
on hunting and fishing trip for the
south. He will go to the Virginia coast,
where he will stay a fortnight, and
will then go to Florida, where he will
stay a month.
Mrs. Annie e. Hebert of $50 Winthrop
avenue, this city, who is spending the
winter with her daughter, Mrs. Will
liam Minor and her family in Albany,
N. Y, is having a most enjoyable time.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Buchanan of SO
Lake place are receiving the congratu-
lations of their many friends on the
birth of a son on Friday
| Mrs. Caleb Bowers of Crown street,
who with her children have been spend
| ing a month in Washington, d. c., re-
turned home on Saturday.
Miss Hattie jefferson, the daughter
of Thomas G. w. Jefferson of 60 Gin
ton avenue, who has been seriously i'll
with nervous prostration, is slowly inn
proving. She is attended by DR..
Adams.
Mr. and Mrs. Finney of Pigeon Cove,
Mass, are the guests of their daughter,
Mrs. B. S. Milford in Branford.
Myron r. Durham, of the firm of
Brown & Durham, who was taken i'll
several days ago, is greatly improved.
He had high fever at the outset of his
illness, and it was feared he had ty-
phoid. This is not the case, however,
and he will be able to resume business
shortly.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Jessie Natalie Hasbrouck, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank e. Has
brouck Of Bridgeport. to Frank w.
Tefft of New York and Great Barring
ton. Mr.. Tefft is son of w. r. Tefft,
of the firm of Tefft, Weller & Co, i'm
porters.
At a quarterly conference held Sat
urday evening the members of the First
M. e. church of Bridgeport voted to in
vite the Rev. William Fl. Kidd to take
the pastorate for another year. Accord
ingly the next conference will be asked
to reappoint him pastor of the church,
provided that it is his desire to remain
He came to the church more than
year ago, succeeding the Rev. Harvey
E. Barnes of this city, who resigned.
, At Trinity church, Branford, Sunday
evening the Rev. Fl. w. WinlSley gave
the first of his Advent discourses upon
"Civil Life Among the Babylonians."
There was a good attendance.
There was a quiet family wedding
Sunday evening at the residence of Mr., |
and Mrs Moses Briggs at 1871 Whalley
avenue in which their daughter, Miss
was the bride, and Louis Rich
ter of New York, a former resident of |
New Haven, was the groom The cere-
mony was performed by the Rev. David |
Levy, rabbi of the Temple Mishkan |
Israel. Only the relatives and imme-
date friends of the contracting parties
were present Stewart was the caterer
and Moore decorated the rooms with |
palms, flowers and ported plants. A
brother of the groom brought an or
ehestra from New York, which flrn-
shed music for the occasion. Mr.. and I
Mrs Richter will reside in New York
where a residence has been prepared
FOR them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Wallace, jr,
will remove to this city from Ansonia
shortly after Christmas, to make their
nome here. They will be warmly well
'omed. Mr.. Wallace has just purchas-
ID the fine residence and the entire
Of the Mrs. Alice S. H. Davies
state, 1893 Prospect street The deeds
rave not yet been recorded but the
purchase price, if it approXimates the
ea assessment figures, will be near $751;
100 or 100000 The property was origi-
tally a part of the Hillhouse estate
When John M. Davies built the house
md laid out the grounds ii generation
Lgo it was one OF the finest places of
in New Haven. 1t will be en-
rely renovated and remodeled to make
thoroughly modern in appointment | I
nd decorations. Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace ..
will also refurnish it according to their !
wn tastes. IAN auction sale will on
Wednesday dispose of the the old furn-
shings. The land has a frontage of !
90 feet on Prospect street and depth .
f 500, extending to st. Roman street. l
here is a side piece oS land used for d
arden purposes on st. Roman street Q
18th dimensions of 400 by 400 feet. On /