The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-26
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
ITEMS OF INTERE EST CONCERNING
 NEW HAVEN PEOPLE
And Other People Known in This City
 Local Social Events Here and Else-

Local Social Events Here and Else
 where. ; MT. and Mrs Henry Stadtmiller an family, of 279 Humphrey street, spen
 yesterday with MT. Stadtmiller's broth
 CT, Louis Stadtmiller, of Meriden.
 William H. Newton, cashier of tn
 First National bank, Wallingford, i confined to his home by illness.
 As Miss Florence Woodford, of Sey
 mour, Is soon to leave Seymour and at
 tend school in West Haven, members o the Sunnyside club, of which she is
 member, arranged to surprise her Fri
 day evening. They met with thei friends, to the number of twenty-five
 and proceeded to her home, the rectory
 which they reached about 1880. A mer
 " evening was spent in the games
 songs and jolly time generally that usu
 ally go to make up the sport of such ;
 gathering. Refreshments were served
 during the evening and the compan!
 broke up at midnight. During thu
 course of the evening Miss Florence
 Woodford was presented with a large
 box of writing paper from the members
 of the club.
 c. P. Kent, of Yalesville, is spending
 a short vacation with his sister al
 Stony Brook, l.. I.
 Mrs. Alfred S. Stephens, of Water
 town, who has been visiting in this city has returned.
 Rev. MT. Hurlburt, of Fishkill, N. Y
 has received a call to preach in the
 Baptist church. Yalesville.
 A number of Meriden people came to
 New Haven yesterday and attended ance of Arizona given here by the original New York company at the Fly perion.
 Henry Tegmeir, station agent at the Nanugatuck Junction, has been suffer- ing from poisoning contracted gather ing evergreens i'll the woods near where he is employed.
 Frank N. Kelly tenor soloist of Wal lingford, assisted the vested choir at Christ church, West Haven, yesterday morning.
 l Edward J. Nettleton, former Milford man, now of Bridgeport, who has been l ill the past five weeks at his cottage at | Walnut Beach, was taken to the home of his son. Dr. Nettleton, in Bridgeport, | on Sunday, and yesterday his family vacated their shore cottage. r. S. Thorpe, of Yalesville. spent yes terday with his family in North Ha- ven.
 Rev. MT. Jackson, of East Haven, conducted services in St. Peters church in Milford yesterday. The Mexican Herald of December +, published in the City of Mexico, notes in personals as follows: Edward Law renee, J. W. Rembert, H. W. Atwood and A. w. Hooper. four prominent busi ness men from Hartford, Conn, arrived in the city yesterday from Vera Cruz, having sailed from New York by way of the Ward line steamer Monterey. All of the party are guests at the Jar din.'
 Raymond Dickerman, a genial and popular Southingtonite, who was for a. long time in the employ of the Meri- den, Southington and Compounce Tram way company as bookkeeper at Milldale station, will soon give up his position to accept one with a Boston firm manu- facturing enamels. His new position vii keep him on the road most of the time.
 The fortieth wedding anniversary of Mir and Mrs. A. s. Laidlaw was observ ed at their home, No. 404 William street, Bridgeport, December 23. A number of friends and relatives spent the evening in very pleasant manner, and though the event was decidedly of an informal nature, it proved to be very enjoyable. Visitors were present from New Haven and New York Mir. Laidlaw is engi- neer at the Union Metallic Cartridge companys establishment, where he has been employed for the past thirty years They have resided on William street for many years and are well known in East Bridgeport,
 As the party of eight Bristol people now at Indian Beach, Fla, were going up the St. Johns river on the 1roquois to Jacksonville shortly after noon last | Friday, they had an experience none | of them would care to repeat. Steam ing up the river at the same time, | headed for the same port, was the AL | from Boston, and the two i steamers started in for a race. The | was forging ahead, when sud denly the Algonquin swung around and | crashed into the Iroquois. Passengers were thrown down, walters upset, dishes broken and everybody thorough y scared A large hole was made in the steamer near the stern, while if it had been a few feet nearer the middle the steamer would have been cut in two.
 MT. and Mrs. Ray Potter and son Harold of West Haven. were the guests If Mrs. Clark Coffrin. MT. Potter's sis CT in Meriden over the Christmas hol- days.
 Miss Helen Johnson, of this city, will :pend the holidays with her sister, Mrs. ). D. Lee, of Meriden.
 MT and Mrs E. E. Gorham and son, If Cove street, East Norwalk, spent Christmas with her relatives in this 'ity.
 Miss Airline Dennison. principal of the ora ttsville school, Meriden, has gone to N. Y, to spend her Christmas 
 Relatives from Rowayton, New Ha- en, Long Island and the Norwalks at ended the family reunion at Daniel 'etty's. East avenue, East Norwalk esterday. Miss Elizabeth Ross, teacher at the 1,i iol Sohpp1 will cnand Chricf- |