The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-06
PERSON4L JOTTINGS.

l
 nesday for Birmingham, Penn, having 1 accepted a position there at Mountain
 seminary.
 MT. and Mrs. I. Newman expect to
 start the 17th inst. for California to
 remain until the middle of April Il
 will be MT. Newman's fifth trip across | the continent.
 Wilbur F. Day, jr., of this city, has been appointed general agent for the | Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance | company of Hartford for the district | including New Haven, and will for the present occupy the office of the con- | pany in the Exchange building. | Miss Alice A. Maynard H. H. s. '92,
 and graduate of Smith college in the class of 97, leaves Monday for the
 south to be gone until spring. On her
 return north in May, she Is to sail for Europe to be absent about year. The statement that Mike Murphy, the | former Yale trainer, has already signed
 contract to return to Yale, is not gen. erally credited
 A birthday party was given Wednes-
 day evening by MT. and Mrs. T. A. Wyre of 615 George street, for their youngest daughter, Miss Montia. About thirty of her most intimate young friends and schoolmates were present. The announcement that it was the young hostess birthday did not appear pn the invitations, but the youthful guests discovered it and nearly every one carried a pretty gift in remem- brance of the occasion
 c. w. Blakeslee & Sons are building an electric road of seven miles from Bellows Falls, Vt., to Saxton's River pretty village, where summer re- sort will be established. The road will carry freight and passengers, connect ing with the Boston and Maine steam road.
 The third annual of the Thirteen club" was held at the residence of Mrs. s. s. Adams Wednesday, night. Every year some little sketch has been pre- sented, the one given Wednesday even- ing, and which proved to be a great success, was "One Night in a Lunatic Asylum" 8 play presented at Vassar college. The rooms were daintily and artistically decorated for the occasion and after the entertainment buffet lunch was served and dancing was in- dulged in. The event was given this year somewhat earlier than usual in honor of Miss Bernice Golden, the charming daughter of Richard Golden, the famous comedian, so long and we'll known in the title role in "Old Jed Prouty.' The cast of characters was as follows:
 Knight Rupert ...... Miss Grace Brown Pleading Child ..... Miss Grace Brown Roaming ill the Morning. g............
 .................. Miss Irene Semon Liebesgarten, Op 24, No. 1, trio
 Miss Anna Peterson, violin; George
 Tucker, cello, and Mrs Meigs, piano. Hobby Horse :. Miss Ruby Thompson Riders Song. ......... Miss Clara Horton Hunting Story... Miss Ruby Thompson
 Of the various lunatics the most amusing was probably Frank Miller in the costume of fairy. A German sketch given by him was also well done. In connection with the sketch, solos were well rendered by Beta Chamberlain and Ashby Mears. A recitation was also charmingly given by Miss Maude Goodwin, the delightful elocutionist.
 Presiding Elder Adams of this city was in Simonsville last evening at the Chapel street Methodist church and the fourth quarterly conference was held at the close of the prayer meeting.
 Mrs. J. B. Ullman, who has been on the sick list has sufficiently recovered to be able to be out.
 Miss Ruth Greene of North Stoning- ton returned to the state normal school, New Haven, last Monday.
 The many friends of Mrs. H, M. Mar lin, who has been quite ill at her home on Park street, will be glad to hear that she is improving.
 MT and Mrs Horace Sibley, formerly of Bethlehem, have taken rent in this city, in close proximity to Charles H. are keeping house.
 q. Edward Osborn and family have moved into the Osborn homestead on Olive street.
 Mrs. ,Jilson Dinsrnore, sister of Mrs A. F. Champlin of Hamden, formerly of Waterbury, has received shock of paralysis of the right side which has left her powerless to move.
 Miss Emma White of Eld street, who has been visiting for some time in Bos ton, is expected home the last of this week.
 Roland L. Andrews of Winsted, for a. ong time local editor of the Winsted Citizen and later a reporter for the Hartford Telegram, has been added to the city staff of the Waterbury Repub- ican.
 Professor T. R. Lounsbury of Yale will read paper on Home this morning before the Saturday Morning ,lub at Mrs. Riggs on Forest street, Hartford
 MT. Desmond, who has been in New York during the holidays has returned. l
 Quite a number of invitations were 1 'eceived in this city by the friends of ] Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hopkins Clark | If Hartford for their wedding reception 1 he first of which came last Tuesday. | The receiving hours were from 4 uI- | il and a large number of their friends | ,alled. The receiving party was in the | reception room on the right of the hall | lnd the refreshments were served in the ibrary beyond and in the dining room lcross the hall. Logs were burning | in all the fireplaces, and on l very hand there were clusters of | ,inks roses, lilies of the valley and l ,ther flowers.
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