The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-21
PERSONAL JOTTLNGS.

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c. A. Kellogg, jr., Yale 1900, who won
| the Cook poetry prize at graduation
| last June, Is a member of the faculty
at Trinity Hall school, Washington,
Pa. He is teaching classics.
Edwin M. slocombe has returned
from Cornell university to spend his
Christmas vacation at his home on
Townsend avenue.
Mrs. Hurlburt, wife of John H.
Hurlburt, staHoner of the New York
New Haven and Hartford railroad, of
Is Albert street, West Haven, who is
seriously i'll with typhoid fever, was
very low yesterday and Mrs Hurlburt's
family are awaiting anxiously turn
for the better
1t is now Lieutenant Colonel Charles
FL. Sheriff., for Governor-elect Odell of
New York has appointed the old Yale
track team captain a personal aide
on his staff. Mr. Sheriff. graduated
from Yale in 1899, and has ever since
been an adviser in track team cam
paigning. He is a lawyer in New York.
Professor and Mrs. Horatio w. Par
ker have returned from Boston, where
they went to attend the first presenta-
ton in America of Professor Parker's
new musical composition, THE Wan
derers' Psalm The concert was one of
the famous Sucher series given at the
Peoples Temple Boston, on Monday
evening, and was very largely attend
ed, the audience showing great appre-
ciat ton of Professor Parker's new work
1t will be remembered that Professor
Parker spent this past summer in Eng
land and it was there that the work
had its initial presentation, receiving
at the time very favorable notices from
local critics. The work is written for
orchestra, chorus and soloists.
Philip B. Stewart, a well known
alumnus of Yale, who graduated in the
class of 1886, will spend the remainder
of this month with Governor Roosevelt
of New York, in hunting mountain
lions in Routt county, Col. Mr.. Stew
art lives in Colorado Springs.
The annual Forefathers' banquet of
will be held this evening at Memorial
hall in that town. The occasion will
celebrate the two hundred and eightieth
anniversary of the Landing of the Pill
erins. These annual events are among
the most important social festivities of
the year in North Haven. For the
banquet the women bring out their
choicest old china, heirlooms in the
family, their finest napery and most de-
licious viands. Nothing is too good for
this event and all unite in making elab-
crate preparations for the banquet
Robert o. Eaton is POSTMASTER of the
evening He has occupied this import
ant position several times
The next meeting of the Thimble and
Literary club will be held at the resi-
dence of Mrs. D. A. Blakeslee, SOL
George street, corner of Dwight, on
Monday afternoon, January Z. Miss
Webster will speak on the subject "The
World of Letters and Fiction"
A quiet and extremely pretty we'd
ding took place at o'clock Wednesday
evening, when Miss Edith M. Sill, sec
ond daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Ed
ward e. Sill, No. 1862 Whaley avenhe,
was married to Robert Henry Keener,
formerly of st. Joseph, Mo-, and of the
class of 49, Yale university. Rev. John
q. Davenport, d. D., of Waterbury, a
college classmate of the brides father,
and lifelong friend of the family, per-
formed the ceremony. Only the family
and intimate friends of the bride and
bridegroom were present The parlors
were decorated with Christmas laurel
and holly and the bridal party, pre-
ceded by the little ribbon girl, Miss
Marion Snow, entered the room to the |
strains of the "Lohengrin wedding |
march. The brides gown was of white |
;atin with veil of tulle. Mr. and Mrs. |
keener will be at home after New |
Years at 1862 Whalley avenue.