The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-30
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
ITEMS OF INTER EST CONCERNING
 NEW HAVEN PEOPLE
And Other People Known in This City
 Local soclal Events Hero and EIse-

Mrs. Bena Diebel Van Buren, daugh-
 ter of Mrs J. Diebel, left yesterday for
 a stay at Baltimore, Md. where she
 will be the guest of her cousin, MT. and
 Mrs. Decher, for several weeks. MT. Decher is successful young lawyer of
 Baltimore. From that city she will go
 to Norfolk. Va. to be the guet of old
 schoolmates. stopping at the home of
 Mrs. Thomas Carey and her sister, Mrs.
 Hislop. She will be absent for couple of months. She took her little son,
 Norman Van Buren, with her. She re-
 gently sold her drug business, which
 her husband the late MT. Van Buren,
 conducted, and which she had conduct ed since her death.
 Lieutenant Harry H. Ward, a naval officer, who belongs to an old New Haven family, has just been made flag
 lieutenant of Admiral Crowninshield, and will leave in March for his post on the European station for which Admiral CfoWninshield is to take command. Lieutenant Ward performed excellent work in Spain in the late war and more recently has been with the naval board at Newport, R. I.
 President George E. Reed of Dickin- son college, formerly of this city. who was the guest during the Yale bicenten- nial of MT and Mrs. P. Armstrong of Howe street, has a short article on the value of college education in the cur- rent number of Leslie's Weekly, illus- trated With a cut of himself
 Dc. a colored school in Marietta, Ga, that is founded on the model of Booker T. Washingtons school in Tuskegee. Ala, was in& Newtown last Friday. He went there from this city where on Wednes- day he lad three hours talk with Booker T. Washington. The Congrega- tional church in Newtown has on sev- eral occasions sent barrels of clothing to MT. Paris work and he reports his school is growing there having added departments for sewing, carpenter work and blacksmithing.
 In North Sheffield hall Monday even- ing Superintendent Beede delivered an address to the teachers of the public schools on the subject of School Hy- giene." It was the second lecture in a
 
 en this fall and winter At the next meeting the subject of the address will be School Discipline" On December 5 the subject will be "Art in the School Room" by Henry T. Bailey, agent for the state board of education of Massa- chusetts. On January 14 Dr. Cushing, of the Hillhouse High school. and Dr. Stuart H. Rome of the Lowell school. will tell about the German school.
 A large number of the friends of MT. and Mrs. William E. Ford assembled at their pleasant home on Woodward ave- nue Monday evening to help them eel ebrate the tenth anniversary of their The affair was in the na- ture of a surprise to Mrs Ford, and was planned and carried out by Mrs. William Mack of Woodward ave- nue. who arranged the party. One of the pleasant features of the evening was the presentation to MT. and Mrs. Ford of beautiful Morris chair, the being made by Rev. | Duane N Griffin, who in a happy vein | expressed the esteem in which they were held by the guests. MT. Ford re- sponded briefly, thanking his friends for the token. Refreshments were i served and everybody had a good time | Those of the party were MT. and Mrs. | Hausman, MT. and Mrs. Smith, MT and ! Mrs. Mack, MT. and Mrs. Young, MT. | md Mrs. Duff, Mir and Mrs. Spencer, l Mir. and Mrs. w. B. Thorpe, MT. and | Mrs. Allen, MT and Mrs John Shepard, | Mir. and Mrs L. Meyers Miss Kate | Meyers, Mrs. Collis Granniss, Rev. D. | N Griffin and wife Fred Weideman, ! Mr. and Mrs. Jagger, MT. and Mrs, | Snyder Mrs. Scranton, MT. and Mrs. 1 Smallman MT. and MT Bauman, MT. | Sigel MT. Throm, Mrs Rice, MT. Clark, | Miss Fannie Woodward, Mrs William 1 Woodward, Mrs, Grogan, Miss Haus- nan, Mrs. Brandt, Mrs. Mcclellan, Der lie Mack, Miss Lena Smith, Freddie Mack, Royal Warner, Walter Burrill, | Irwin Allen, Ruth Ford, Mrs. Strict, l Miss Carrie Strict.
 At the Baptst church in Noank Sun lay two most interesting talks were given by Miss Lord of New Haven, and arge congregations greeted her at both morning and evening services. Her re- marks were based upon the duties of | Christians and besides pleasing her many hearers with her low of oratory deeply impressed them with her sincerity and engages the ,losest attention when speaking.-New
 An entertainment and dance will be given by the Whitney social circle of he N. F. O., P. at Harmonic hall to- morrow night. The entertainment will 1e given by Miss Margaret Reynolds md Miss Mabel Cooney, elocutionists; Miss Maud Beers, violinist; Miss Bessie )'Brien, violinist, and the Lyric Man loln club. There will be informal danc- ng after the entertainment. The mem- ,ers of the committee are Mrs. M. r. Walker, Mrs. John Klem, Oscar Edger- ey. MT. and Mrs. George c. Holbrook, 1rs. w. A. T. Smith, and Mrs John Sheridan The members of the mando- in club are Miss Ada Ruth, Christine Daley Miss Altman, Maria Hatch, trace Holbrook, Paul Evertz, Frank Williams, Mr. Gallagher, MT. Streit, and Thomas Maher, with Miss Lillian Hol- 'rook accompanist.
 MT. and Mrs. Ernset Wadhams of Washington avenue, West Haven, cele- rated their wedding anniversary. The uests were MT and Mrs. Harry D. utton, MT and Mrs. Robert Chase, MT nd Mrs. Edward Burtis, MT. and Mrs. frederic Dickerman. MT. and Mrs,