The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-09
PERSONAL JOTTINGS,

lIdnDuIy, IsdS COIlG u 4NCN AiS'NSii "
 spend a portion of the winter with he
 son, Charles Ball of 96S Chapel street.
 Superintendent Beede reported yester
 day that about twelve school teacher i, are on the sick list at the present time ;. All the available substitute teachers
 and others who can be called in in cast
 of emergency, are at work taking thu
 place of those who are absent.
 The January meeting of the Mar!
 Clap Wooster chapter, D. A. R., vii
 be held on Tuesday, January 15, at
 o'clock at Foot Guard Armory. There
 will be two papers read, one on "Tht
 Social Life of Revolutionary Days" bJ
 Miss Goodyear, of North Haven, the
 other on What Our Great Grandmoth
 CTS Read" by Mrs. George Barnum.
 Rev MT. Ralph, acting pastor of the
 Congregational church, in Somers, has
 returned with his family to New Haven
 having passed the holiday vacation
 with Somers parishioners.
 The many friends of Miss Dorothy
 Trowbrdge will be sorry to learn thai she is quite ill at her home on Temple street.
 William A.. Saullman, M. A., of this city, spoke at the opera house, Ansonia
 Sunday afternoon on "The Greatest Question in the World" Mr. Saullman
 who spoke in Ansonia few weeks ago has recently returned from a three years trip through Australasia.
 John Creswell, eight years with the New Haven Web Co.,, as superinten- dent dyer; also of the B. Goodman Co.,, of Bridgeport, has accepted and now has charge of the largest dye works in Canada, capacity 5000 looms.
 Mrs John N. Champion entertained last evening the whist club, of which she is a member, at her home, 200 Els worth avenue.
 The Danbury News says: Ward Nichols, who died in New Haven last Friday, was a conductor on train i from New Haven to New York for l twenty-five years. He was we'll known here by the travelling public and had personal friends here whom he visited occasionally his last visit being last summer to Timothy Jones, of Delay 1 street."
 | The engagement of Miss Sophie F. Kern to H. Markendorff of New York, was announced Monday evening at a family supper given by Mrs. Fanny Kern at her residence, 33 Lyon street. 1 Past National President Harriet J. Bodge, of Hartford, who installed the officers of Admiral Foote Woman's Re- lief corps on Saturday, received a pleas ant surprise in Hartford last week by Merriam corps in the presentation of an oil painting of Mrs. Bodge. The presentation was made on behalf of the corps by Mrs. Sarah J. Welles, past president of the corps Mrs. Welles Is an artist and her landscapes are pro- 1 color and shading.
 Joseph H. Mcdonald, a popular stu- dent of the Yale university, has com posed a ballad for the Elks' minstrels, entitled Sleep, Little One, Sleep" and it will be sung for the first time in pub lie at Sterling opera house. Derby, Fri day, January Ii, by Frank E. Edgar, and repeated at the Elks' entertainment at the Hyperion Tuesday. January 15
 Dr. John J. Ryle of 336 State street is seriously i'll at his apartments suffering from grip and congestion of the brain Dr. J. F. Luby, who Is attending him. said yesterday afternoon that the phy- sician's condition was quite serious. He was taken i'll last Sunday and Dr. Luby was summoned. Dr. Ryle is one of the best known and most popular of the younger physicians in New Haven. He belongs in Stamford, where his father, mother and brothers reside
 Webb Scranton, well known livery man of New Haven, has opened the stables in connection with the Bristol house, Bristol
 The Book club held it's first library meeting in Wednesday last with Mrs. George Butler of Dwight street. This club is limited to sixteen members, who are to meet the first and third Wednes- day in the month. At the last meet | ing the poem of Ella Wheeler Wilcox entitled "Mauriene," story of friend ship, was read by one of the members and greatly enjoyed by all. Those who are connected with the club include Mrs. Walter Wellman, Mrs. H. P. Tut tie, Mrs. Rollin Woodruff, Mrs. Sidney Dawson, Mrs. John Shaw. Mrs. Ed Todd, Mrs George Coan, Mrs. Clifford Booth, Mrs. Charles Loomis, Mrs Charles Coan, Mrs William R. Demer est, Mrs. Angelena Cummings. Mrs c. H. Small, Mrs Serene C. Sperry, Mrs George Butler Mrs. Crosby, of Nyack | Mrs. Laurens-Lennox, and Mrs. E. & | Osborne, of Olive street.
 Dr. George T. Stewart, who was on Monday made the head of Bellevue hos pital, formerly resided in New Milford | and married the daughter of the late Dr. Charlie" Taylor of that town. He is physician of much skill and exper fence.
 On Friday evening, January 1s the new officers of Danbury concIave. Im proved Order of Heptasophs will be in- stalled with ceremonies which will be public, in Elks' hall District Deputy Supreme Archon Fillmore s. Wade, of New Haven, will be installing officer, After the ceremonies there will be an the principal feature of which will be an address by the Rev. Alexander F. Irvine, of New Haven, member of Quinnipiac conclave.
 A Suicide club has been formed in South Norwalk, the organization con- ing to life on New Years day through the efforts of Daniel Loeser and Mat Weller, the only two surviving members of the famous Suicide club of Bridge port. The officers are as follows: Inn perial majesty, Carl Schaub president, Daniel Loeser; vice president, Henry Jol