The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-08
pERsoNA1 MENTION.

ness enterprises in Germany since the
 Franco-Prussian war, at the German
 club at Yale tonight
 Miss Julia Hadley of Lewiston Me
 and Miss Dorothy Higgins of Shelton
 are the guests of the Misses Celia ano
 Teresa Lynch over the Knights of St Patrick ball.
 1 W. E. Thompson, former clerk Of rec
 ords of the board of public works and
 Lewis B. Brown, formerly clerk in the
 controllers office, are candidates for the nomination of registrar of vital statls-
 tics on the republican ticket 1 John L. Douglas, Esq, of Orient, h.
 l., is the guest of MT. and Mrs r. E.
 Platt of Peck street.
 The many friends and acquaintances | of Rufus Agget of No. 40 Sperry street
 will receive with sorrow the news that
 he is not expected to live and that his
 death is expected at any moment. sun ! day morning he became i'll with conges- i ton of the brain. A consultation or physicians has been had in the case. MT. Aggett has been for some time enl- played in the Candee Rubber shop. He i is a member of the Admiral Foote post, | G. A. R., and is well known civil war
 veteran. He was taken prisoner during the war and confined In Andersonville
 prison. His company was Company l, Seventh regiment. MT. Aggett is fifty five years old. His family is composed
 of two sons and two daughters besides
 his wife.
 Miss Sophie c. Heart, professor of
 English at Wellesley college, is spend
 ing the week In this city visiting the
 classes in the English department at
 the university.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles w. Hoyt of
 Cold Spring street left on Tuesday for
 weeks trip through the south and
 west.
 Miss Maud Come, the Joan d'Arc of
 the Irish nation, who arrived in this
 country few days ago, was to have
 been the guest of the Knights of St.
 Patrick last night at their ball in the
 Hyperion, but was unavoidably delayed
 in New York. She will arrive in this
 city thi afternoon.
 Chief Engineer Frank s. Soop of the
 New Haven Steamboat company has
 come to this city to superlntend the overhauling of the steamer Continental which will begin to run regularly on the Hudson river April 1. The engineer has begun work with force of mechan- ics on the steamer. which is moored at Heaton's wharf, near Belle dock
 w. w. Kelsey and Frank $. Conklin sail from New York February 20 for Nassau New Providence and Cuba. They will also visit Guantanamo, San tiago and Cienfuegos, and they intend to stop at Havana for a week or more
 pr. and Mrs. James O'Reilly of Lake Place have gone to Boston for visit of a few days,
 Miss Mabel Pratt entertained few of her friends Tuesday evening at her home, 104 Lake Place. Music comprised the larger part of the evenings enter tainment. Vocal solcs were rendered by Mrs. J. J. Hogan and D. Chamber lain. Miss Pratt was the accompanist and was ably assisted by Fred Hall, f1utist, and Mr. Steffins, vioinist. Af- ted the entertainment a buffet lunch was served
 Of interest to many of the former students of Wellesley in this city is the announcement that Miss Louise s. M. Habermeyer, for eight years an in- structor in the German department of the college, has resigned her position to accept an opening in the Girls high school of Brooklyn, N. Y.
 The Pinehurst, N. C., Outlook of Feb ruary says: D. N. Clark of Wood bridge, Conn, arrived at the Berkshire last evening and wilt spend the season here. He is an enthusiastic admirer of Pinehurst and the present winter will be the third that he has spent in the He has hosts of friends here who are giving him hearty welcome.
 A portrait of the late ex-Mayor J. B. Robertson has been procured for the aldermen's chamber at city hall, where it will be placed in a few days. It was executed by Miss Finney of New York. She was a granddaughter of the late William Reynolds, who resided in a | house which stood on the site of the 1 church in Elm street.
 The following officers have just been elected for the ensuing year by the Mar in Fire Arms company Mutual Aid and association: President, | James D. Cosgrove; vice president, | Fred F. Thompkins;, secretary, William l treasurer, John M Marlin, l directors, F. F. Thompkins, J. Wilbur, | J. J. Brady, J. w. Hutt c. E. Gerner, w. s. Flagg, R. Johnson, H. Hassel- man and w. Cook. MT. Cosgrove, who is very i'll, was reelected an officer of the association in testimony of the as- sociation's high regard for him. At the | seventeenth annual-re- ports of the secretary and treasurer were read, showing that during the last seventeen years the association has paid nearly $3,000 in sick benefits and at the present time there are S7O0 in the treas- Try, with no outstanding obligations. There are ninety on the membership list. attended the meeting Tues lay.
 The committee of the State Bankers association appointed to discover way oy which Connecticut banks may get ,n the par list of the New York Clear ng house or to secure good results in some other field, met in this city Tues lay. There were present at the meet ng President c. H. Trowbridge of this ,ity, Vice President w. K. Seeley of Bridgeport, Secretary Robert Foote of his city, Treasurer G. H. Burt of Hartford, and the following members If the executive committee, Charles B. Curtis of the City Bank. M. H. Wha- oles of Hartford, A. Chamberlain of Meriden, F. C. Burroughs of Bridge port and w. H. Newton of Walling- ord Tha commit will raport Iot l