The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-11
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST CONCERNING
 NEW HAVEN PEOPLE

And Othor People Known in This City
 Local Social Events Here and Else.
 where.
 The December issue of Recreation will
 contain a poem by M. T. Maltby of this l city entitled "A Woodland Temple ' This poem will doubtless be of special
 interest to many of our readers. | Dennis Martin, a well known travel ing salesman and member of the
 Knights of St. Patrick, who was for
 merly with the Seamless Rubber Co.,.
 is seriously i'll at his home, 394 How
 ard avenue. MT. Martin has been con- fined to his home for about three weeks
 with tonsilitis, which was followed by
 an attack of rheumatism.
 | The ladies' aid society of Epworth M.
 F. church will give a supper in the
 church dining rooms next Wednesday
 evening. A supper will be given the
 second Wednesday in every month l Price 15c.
 | Yesterdays New York Sunday World says: ''The man of the hour in New
 Haven is Colonel Norris G. Osborn,
 who was elected Tuesday on both the democratic and republican tickets as | delegate to the constitutional conven-
 tion. It was q perfect landslide for the colonel. He received 3,230 votes. His
 opponent had only 374 Colonel Osborn was graduated from Yale college in
 1880. He was popular in college. Was
 voted a member of Scroll and Keys,
 was chairman of his class promenade,
 an editor of one of the college newspa-
 pers, and in society was the greatest
 favoritc in the class. The popularity
 of his college days has been on the
 increase ever since, until at the present
 time he is regarded by many as the
 most popular man in New Haven. As an after-dinner speaker he is without a peer in Connecticut. For years he has been called the Chauncey Depew of of New England"
 The Teutonnia Manner chor will eel ebrate its forty-f1fth anniversary with a grand concert ball at Teutonia hall on next Thursday evening. Adler's or chestra will furnish promenade and dance music, and MT. Taetsch will prompt. The hall will be open to mem bers only and the affair will be private, only members and their friends and families being admitted.
 Frank A. Southworth, clerk for the police department who Is district dep- uty archon of the Independent Order of Heptasophs, was presented with handsome cape by Groton conclave Fri day night. The cane is handsome stick of ebony, surmounted by gold band and bearing the inscription Pre- scented to F. H. Southworth by Mem 1 bers of Groton Conclave, Improved Or der of Heptasophs, Conn, November 8, 1901
 Mrs. c. E. Crofut of Oxford, who has been very III with peritonitis, has so far recovered as to be able to ride out a little during the recent beautiful days.
 The annual meeting of the Knights Templar club was held Saturday even- ing at the rooms of the club in the Ma sonic building on Church street. The officers elected were: President, Charles E. Rounds; vice president, Bruce c. treasurer, Charles F. Root; Eli s. Quintard. Elizur Fl. Sperry was elected trustee succeeding M E. Baldwin. Members of the board of governors chosen are: B. c. Gill chrest, Frank P Hyde A. w. Mattoon, | Henry Fresenus, and W. H, Durant There was banquet after the busi- ness meeting The retiring president | of the club is F. B. Baker.
 Captain John Thompson of East Ha- ven caught big eel in the East Haven river Friday afternoon. It weighed | four and one-half pounds and Mir Thompson presented it to Constable Perry.
 The Twentieth Century Whist club of Branford has organized for the win ter and will hold it's first meeting with Mrs Edmund Zacher on Friday next.
 General E. E. Bradley, president of he Chamber of Commerce, will act as postmaster at the banquet. November 70. Many notable men of the state have accepted invitations to this banquet, among whom are: Hon. David A. 3oody, ex-mayor of Brooklyn; Cover TOT George P. Mclean, General Curtis 7uild of Boston, President Arthur T, Iadley Mayor John P. Studley, Sem ltor Joseph R. Hawley of Hartford, N D. Sperry, Senator o. I. Platt of Meriden, Rev. Frank Wood Baker, Major Smith s. Leach of New london, Judge Henry E. Rowland of New York city, and Rev. E. s. Lines, D. )., of this city.
 The St. Francis cadets T. A. B. had n entertainment and dance in Polar Star hall Wednesday evening and be- ween 300 and 400 were present. Music vas furnished by Arpin's orchestra, nd Professor McCabe was the prompt r. It was very enjoyable occasion
 Conrad Kaiser of 19S Mansfield street, vho has been ill for a long time, is onva1escent and is now able to greet lis many friends. Miss Grace l.. Burt gave tea Thurs ; ay evening in honor of her guest, Miss , Alice Collier of Newark, N. J. The ( ouse was prettily arranged with pink I nd white chrysanthemums. Miss Burt ,as assisted by Miss Phoebe Thomas. .mong those present were the Misses l .lice Waldron, Lillian Armstrong, Hel- { n Morris Lyda Crane Lillian Abbott, l Katherine Lewis, Anna Morris, Carrie ' lawson and Janet Jones. Miss Jane A. Fahey delightfully."- en- l ertained the members of the Hilhouse f, High school society known as Gamma , hapter, of the Kappa Mu Sigma so- ! iety, at her home on Cedar street Fri ( Iar nF l