The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-25
r ERSONIL JOTTiNGS.

Mrs. Pierce N. Welch gave dinner party at the Country club Saturday
 evening.
 The fourth organ recital for the year |, will be given i'll Battell chapel this af- ternoon at o'clock. The public is cor
 dially invited. Professor Jepson will
 render the following programme:
 John Sebastion Bach-Fantasia and Flu
 que in c minor.
 1 Harry B. Jepson, Rhapsodie.
 M. Enrico Bossi-Scherzo, Op. 49, No. 2.
 Leon Boellmann--Deuxieme Suite.
 I.-Prelude Pastorae ! IL.-Allegretto con moto. | III.-Andantino.
 IV.-Finale-Marche ! A cablegram from Gibraltar states
 thav the New Haven party which sailed
 on the Furst Bismarck last Thursday
 arrived there all well after pleasant
 passage. The party includes Rev. Dr.
 Smyth and family, MT. and Mrs. Jus
 Jus Hotchkiss, Mrs. Lynde Harrison
 and others
 | Much regret is expressed in Torring-
 ton and elsewhere over the severe ill.,
 ness of the Rev. Dr. James A. Cham
 berlain. pastor of the Center Congre-
 gational church of Torrington, and the
 unfavorable reports of the physicians i who examined him at Clifton Springs, New York. These physicians diagnosed his case as a disease of the brain and
 gave little hope of his recovery. Dr. Chamberlain has been taken to Grace hospital, Marietta, O., where his brother is a professor in Marietta college, and
 his son a student in the same institu- tion
 The condition of Burton J. Hendrick, one of the editors of the New York Evening Post, formerly a resident of this city, is much improved. His many friends here have been pleased to learn that the typhoid fever with which he
 was attacked has run its course and
 that he, is now slowly convalescing. MT. and Mrs. J. M. Marlin left Satur- day for Florida, where they will remain for two months.
 About week ago Miss Mary Wheel er of Bethany fell down the cellar stairs at her house andlwas badly shak- en and bruised. Fortunately, no bones were broken.
 Miss Leila Earle, of Cottage street, is visiting in Westfeld, Mass, the guest of Miss Bessie Way.
 Miss Anne Dolan, who is attending the New Haven Normal school, is making a short visit at her home in Danbury
 Miss Eleanor Barnum gave small luncheon the past week for a friend who was visiting her from Cincinnati, Ohio.
 The Wolf Tone club, of this city, is again, for the ninth consecutive year, planning to publicly honor the memory of Robert Emmet, the 123d anniversary of whose birth will be celebrated at the Hyperion theater on Sunday evening, March 8. Hon. Michael J. Ryan, bril- liant and eloquent attorney of Phila- delphia has been secured to deliver the oration.
 Miss Elizabeth Whittlesey, of Pros- pect street, has gone to Annapolis for several weeks.
 The Bristol Press says: Miss M. Lou- ise Gallagher, the talented larpist, who will play at the lecture-recital given by Miss Allen Friday evening, March i, in high school hall, is a most charming performer Her style if execution is eminently refined. She does not make i the mistakes, frequently made, of try | ing to vie with the piano in volume of | sound. The result is sweetness of har- | mony without the oversnapping of the | strings, so trying to the ear of listen- | ers"
 Mrs. w. c. Wurtenberg, of Elm street, gave an exceedingly pretty luncheon on of the past week. The table | was unusually pretty with large bunch es of yellow daffodils and quantities of yellow ribbon artistically festooned. At | the table were Mrs. Dean Lyman, Mrs. Samuel York, jr., Mrs. James English Miss Adams, of Boston, Mrs. H. c. Hol- comb and Mrs. Thomas Bassett.
 E. G. Kelley, of this city, has return ed home after visit with MT and Mrs. Christian H. Stone, of 91 Balmforth avenue, Danbury.i
 Professor William Wade Rogers has gone to Washington to deliver an ad- lress during the present week. Mrs. Rogers is visiting her mother in Tren- on, N. J., while Professor Rogers is in w dolllHS IOI. l A very pretty dinner party was given he past week at the Country club for Irs. Frank Shell and her guest, Mrs. Dean, of Washington. Covers were laid or ten guests, who included MT. and drs. Walter Camp, Mir and Mrs James locke, Dr. and Mrs. Henry Ring, MT. nd Mrs. Shell, Mrs. Dean and Profess or Sumner.
 Mrs. W. H. Downs, of Bethany, who vas laid up with the grip for several avs, is about again. Mrs. Nathan White, of Lawrence I treet was the hostess on Wednesday Q fternoon of the past week for a de- ghtful small whist party Among hose present were Miss Elizabeth Mrs. Lippincott, Mrs. s. viatt, Mrs. Thomas Bassett and Mrs harles Walker. M l.. Sykes, vice president and secre- ary of the Chicago and Northwestern a1lroad company who has resigned to 1. Ike effect June ] after over thirty