The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-19
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST CONFIRMING
 NEW HAVEN PEOPLE
And othcr People Known fin This City Local Social Events Here and Else- where.

The many friends of Mrs. William Peterson of r Burton street. who wa threatened with pneumonia last week will be glad to learn that she is recov
 ering.
 MT and Mrs. George w. Osborn O.
 Whitney avenue have as their guest.
 Lieutenant Russell c. Langdon, U.
 A.
 Miss Sadie Flames. who recently wa!
 a guest of the Rev. and Mrs. Arthur J
 Gammack, has gone to Florida.
 The Young Business Mems Gymna-
 sium club of Branford will hold its first
 meeting for practice at Pythian hall or
 Tuesday evening.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Spencer witt
 their two children of Washington ave.
 nue, West Haven left yesterday for a
 weeks visit They will visit MT. Spen-
 cers parents in Fall River, spending
 Thanksgiving with Mrs. Spencer's par
 ents in Medway, Mass, Boston and sev-
 eral other places will be visited before
 they return to West Haven
 MT and Mrs J. Trumbull Smith, who
 have been the guest of their daughter,
 Mrs. J. Frederick Sexton. at her resi-
 dence on Whalley avenue. have return ed to their home in Hartford.
 The rummage sale to be held by the ladies of the aid society of the First Congregational church, West Haven,
 began yesterday under very favorable
 auspices. It is held on Lafayette street,
 this city.
 A parlor meeting of Frances Willard,
 w. c. T. U. of Branford, will be held l oy, Tb,,r oft ot he
 of Mrs. Daniel Sharpe on Rogers street.
 Reports of delegates to the state con- vention will be read at the meeting and full attendance is requested. | The many friends of Samuel Bush of | 75S Chapel street and of Miss Clara Winter, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Phil ip Winter of 127 Howe street. will be interested in knowing that their en- gagement has been announced and the wedding will take place in the near fu- ture. Mir Bush is a prosperous proprie- tor of the restaurant at 75S Chapel street, formerly occupied by Paul Well.
 George P. Wiltshire of Temple street has been entertaining Captain A. B. Torrey, U. S..A., recently from Manila,
 Dr. Charles A. Futile has purchased the c. s. Mersick homestead on York street. He is to erect handsome resi- dence on the property.
 Rev. MT. Winans was not able to off, ciate at the services in the Methodist church, Westville, Sunday. A week ago MT. Winans was chopping piece of kindling wood with a hatchet, and an end flew up and caught in his left eye, cutting it very badly. He innme- diately went to New York to be treated by a specialist, and the injured member is now slowly healing.
 Grand Secretary Grinnell and Deputy Wooster will make an official visit to Princess lodge, N E. o. F., of Bran- ford, this evening.
 Mrs. Lu Johnson of Ridgefield Is the guest of Mrs. G. E. Downs, 1S7 Howard avenue.
 The reorganization of St. Marys T. A. and B. Drum corps of Branford, in- to what will be known as the Indepen- dent drum corps of Branford, has been completed, and the following offifficers were elected: President, P. H. Dunn: secretary, F. J. Kinney; treasurer, P H. Dunn; leader, A. H. Marshall; as- sistant leader, T. G. Fisker; drum ma jor, F. J. Kinney. It was voted to in- crease the membership and to make it non-Sectar!an.
 About dozen teachers of the public | schools in this city, including two of | the supervising principals, are taking the course of lectures in pedagogy given | on Saturday mornings at Yale by Dr. | Stuart H. Rowe, principal of Lowell ! school, whose appointment was made a year ago.
 Mrs. George Bradley of Westville has as a guest her cousin, Miss Decker of | New York city. Miss Decker is a home and by request spoke at the Sunday school and Y. P. S. c. E. Sunday. At both meetings she spoke on the work of the missionaries in New York city among the slums.
 The high school whist club of Bran 'ord held it's second meeting on Satur- lay evening with Miss Annie Beach at Ter home on East Main street,
 Clarence T. Bliss resigned his posi- ion at the railroad car shops Saturday. Mr. Bliss has been employed there for six months and will take short vaca- io, after which he will return to his orner position with John A. Peckham, he electro-plater of New Haven.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Murphy and daughter Edith have gone up the mountains for Ter daughters health.
 George B. Baldwin who was injured " trolley car at First avenue and dain streets, West Haven, on Saturday g reported as resting comforta bly, at he hospital and recovering. A unique club of young women which styles itself the Bachelor Girls ave dance on Friday evening in the Anderson gymnasium. Thirty couples we're on the floor. They were Miss . Esther Hull, Miss Cora Hotchkiss, Miss z Anita N. Brett Miss Clara Hughes, ( Hiss Sadie Fiske, Miss Harriett Hub ell, Miss May Coggshall Miss Mabel 'helps, Miss Mabel MacMahon, Miss florence Low, Miss Grace MacMahon, Hiss Nione Sperry, Miss Maud Kelly, < Hiss Helen Brown, Miss Etta Sparks, Hiss Ethel Mix, Miss Bertha Platt, Miss aiken. Miss Dorothy Beers, Miss Harriet Gates, Miss Marion Mix, Miss 1artha Towne, Miss Ethel Lowell, Miss trace Hum, Miss Harriet Elliott, Miss ! .nna Baldwin, Miss Alice Minor, Miss lay Minor Miss Alice Hardy, Miss Iary Townsend, Miss Maud Purdue, Iiss Lillian Peck, Edward Hopkins, William Rutz, Warren Doolittle, Her art Dnp1or, EJorr1y Da mon Tow l V