The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-07
PERSONAL JOTTINGS.

ion, No. 16, Sons of Temperance, at theil Irregular session held in the parlors oi the Congregational church there last levening.
 Mrs. Wesley Garfield of New Haver
 is spending the summer with her par
 ents, MT. and Mrs A. F. Jones, in New Canaan.
 Professor M. E. Britton of Yale, will
 address the regular meeting of the New
 Haven County Horticultural society
 which will be held at 126 Chapel street,
 on Tuesday evening, May 7, at o'clock
 Mrs Emma Comstock and daughter
 Anna of New Haven, have arrived in New Canaan and will make that place
 their home in the future. They will oc-
 cupy rooms in Seymour Comstocks res iidence.
 Naomi Rebekah Lodge, No. 1, will
 have clipping party in lodge rooms
 Thursday evening and those of the
 members who have not contributed packages are requested to kindly bring lone that evening.
 E. H. Jenkins, director of the Connec- | ticut Agricultural Experiment station, will deliver lecture on the "Adultera- tion of Food" before the Bridgeport Medical association this Tuesday even ing, at S.30 o'clock, at the hall of the
 Bridgeport Scientific society in the Bar
 mum Memorial institute. A general dis
 cussion will take place after the lec- ture
 At quiet home wedding to take place at the home of the brides parents on l the 14th of this month, Helen May Lowe
 will be united in marriage to Fillmore
 Wooster Platt. Miss Lowe is a daugh- ter of John Lowe, the Fair Haven build
 CT, residing at 362 Grand avenue. MT.
 Platt is a son of Henry B.. Platt of Edgewood avenue, and holds a respons-
 ible position with Williams, Wells &
 Co. of this city. This wedding will be
 quiet affair only the immediate fami- | lies of both parties being present. Upon their return from their wedding trip in the early part of June, the bridegroom and the bride-elect will hold large re- ception to their many friends in new home on Shelter street
 Judge Harry w. Doolittle of this city, began his two years term of court in the Branford court house yesterday morning. Prayer was offered by Rev. Henry Winkley of the P. E. church. Judge Doolittle was sworn in Saturday by the town clerk. Yesterday morning Deputy Judge Edward c. Kelsey was sworn in by Judge Doolttle, who in turn swore in the prosecuting attorney, Frank J. Kinney No business offering, the court adjourned until to-day.
 Walter Clapp has resumed his posit- ion as depot master at Branford, after a winter spent in the sunny south. MT. Clapp Is greatly improved in health.
 Mrs. Whitlock of Woodbury is in town for a few days. She was guest at the wedding of Fred Thompson to Miss Jennie Lewis, which took place Friday, May 3.
 The annual meeting of the Connecti- cut society. Sons of the American Revo- lution, which takes place on Friday May 10, at Hartford will be attended by large number of the members from New Haven. The meeting will be held at the Board of Trade, room 49, Pearl street at o'clock, noon.
 A joint song recital will be given Monday evening, May 13 by Macken- zie Gordon, tenor of St, Bartholomew church, New York, and Mrs. Susan Hawley Davis, well known as contralto and director of the choir of the Park street church. The recital is under the | of Ebert F. Newton, the musical critic and author of New Ha- ven, and will deal with Scandinavian music with explanatory notes by MT. Newton. The concert will be given at the Masonic Temple at S.30 o'clock, and will no doubt be largely attended by | music lovers.
 MT. Harry W. Vanderbilt of 35 Rowe | street has just returned from Jackson | vile, Fla, where he has been spending | the winter. It was a combined pleasure | and business trip, and while there he | was looking out for the interest of a To- cal piano company of Jacksonville, for whom he travelled to all parts of Flori- da. On his travels he secured quite a large and fine collection of all kinds of sea shells from the Gulf of Mexico.
 Henry Hutchins and Miss Cora Little, both of Chestnut Hill, Columbia, are to be married on May IA at D. m. Miss high and Normal schools, and has taught SuCCSSSI ully III INeW I1dNeT
 The only colored teacher in the New Haven public schools is Miss Grace Booth, teacher in room No. 3, Dixwell avenue. She is now receiving $400 sal- ary and next month would have been 'aised to $450, but she has resigned her position to accept better salary in In- Annapolis. When Superintendent c. J. Kendall of the Indianapolis schools was lere few weeks ago he secured the ervices of Miss Booth, to take charge of ! colored school, one of the departments # the Indianapolis public school sys- em. She Is to receive the coming year ] larger salary than she is now receiv- ng and will ultimately get maximum alary of s650. She will begin her new luties in September. Miss Booth is poken of as very capable teacher.
 Announcement is made of quiet wedding, which took place Friday noon t the home of MT. and Mrs. Frank L. 3igelow of 205 Whitney avenue. The ride was Miss Jennie Lewis, sister of Irs. Bigelow, who was united in mar iage to Frederick w. Thompson of herman avenue. In honor of the event he Bigelow home was very prettily dec- rated, flowers being arranged through ut all the rooms and the dining room
 beautiful center piece of roses, with | arns and smilax, made an effective dis lay. The ceremony was performed at 2.30 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. Watson L.