The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-02
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
ITEMS OF xNTLKESr CONCERNING
 NEW HAVEN PEOPLE
And Other People Known in This City Local Social Events Here and Else- where.

Local Social Events Here and Else
 where.
 The engagement of Miss Leila E
 Schappa, teacher in Gaffeys school o
 stenography and daughter of William
 A. Schappa, the popular janitor of cit. hall, to Carl w. Selk, electric enginee | of the Manufacturers Street Railway | is announced.
 Mrs. Ada Kumus. and daughter, O
 Hartford, are visiting at Mrs. c. o
 Beardsey's, 972 Chapel street.
 On Wednesday evening "A Story
 Teller's Evening" will be the attraction at the Blackstone library Branford
 Speaker, Miss Dotha Stone Pinneo. Thi. is to be followed the next Wednesday
 evening by an evening of Scottish hu.
 mor by Hon. Wallace Bruce, subject Robert Burns"
 w. F. Damon, Yale '04, has been ap.
 pointed secretary and treasurer of the
 Lawrenceville club.
 Virginia Kelsey of Center street
 West Haven. was given a masquerade
 surprise party Friday evening, which
 was a complete surprise. Some of those
 who attended were Greta Bailey, Helen
 Nichally, Mabe and Edith Ray, Leslie
 Bailey, Raymond Main, Paul M. Smith, Earl Jones, and Fred Coe. Games were played and refreshments served.
 meeting of the creditors of the
 bankrupt estate of Ambrose McPhele- my, formerly manager of the Groveland hotel, will be held at the office of Ref cree Newton on December 10 at 10 a. m., on the question of the granting of a dis charge to the petitioner. The estate it
 s believed will pay nothing to the cred itors.
 Mir. and Mrs Lewis l.. Fowler of IA Kimberly avenue announce the mar riage of their daughter, Eva Louise, ot Walter Clifton Willard of Hartford, Conn. They were quietly married at the home of Rev. William Martin in Roxboro, Mass, Thursday, November 2S, at p. m. MT. and Mrs. Willard are now at his home In Roxboro, Mass, and will return to New Haven in about a week.
 J. Henry Powell, the ladderman of aerial truck No. 1, who was the only survivor of the five firemen caught un- der the falling wall at the Judson pack ing house fire in Winchester avenue on February 19 last, is now back again at his home, 256 Franklin street, and is slowly recovering from the second set ting of broken leg
 The girls of the state normal school got happy sort of Thanksgiving sur prise Wednesday,, when Principal Mor- Till announced that no divisions would be made this year. Heretofore 1t has been customary to separate the pupils about December 1, those who were of high standing being put In the first d. vision. and those below that certain stand in the second division.
 w. Gardiner, 1903, has been elected captain of the Pennsylvania football team for next year. He played right end this year.
 The Friday afternoon Whist club of West Haven met with Mrs. Frederic Dickerman, of Campbell avenue. Mrs. James Jones won the first prize, a handsome Japanese china celery tray: Mrs. Edward Burtis, the consolation box of writing paper.
 George Woodruff has resigned as coach of the University of Pennsylva- mia football team and has severed all his athletic rela tions with that univer- sity
 Willard C. Warren, president of the Record Publishing company, and man. ager of the Commercial Record of this :ity who has been for the past several months extending his business interests n Boston, has been elected vice presi- lent and general manager of the Re view and Record company in that city.
 In the Christmas number of Scrib- ler's Magazine there is an article "The Last of the Fairy Wands." by Profess tor William Henry Phelps of the Shef- field scientific school.
 Mrs. Cline Bradley of Branford gave little informal whist Friday evening or few intimate friends of her laughter, who is home from Pratt h. titute, New York, for Thanksgiving | ecess.
 s. F. Poli and David Percente went | yer to Double Beach Saturday to see f they could find some ducks. They 1 ound sixty-one of them and brought | hem home. It was great array of | anne for three hours hunting. Almost | II of the birds were shot on the wing.
 Mrs. Allen Renfrew entertained q lumber of friends Friday evening at er home, Smith street. West Haven James and dancing were enjoyed, after Ihich light refreshments were served Imong those present were Mrs c. F. Baldwin of East Haven, John Hoopes f West Chester, Pa; Mrs. Holman, Iiss Olive Belcher, Mrs Clarence mith of West Haven, and Miss Ethel .enfrew Miss May White, George rown, and l.. Lewelyn Hoopes of New laven.
 The subjects for 1902 for the Me- aughln Memorial prizes and the Win ton Trowbridge Townsend prizes in le freshman class at Yale university. re as follows: Subjects for 1902. 1, Sir 1alter Raleigh 2, Tennyson's Concep- on of Chivalry; 3, Matthew Arnold's xford s Oxford Essays in competi- on are due at 15 White hall on Satur- 4y, April IS, at noon. Attached to ,ch essay should be a sealed envelope the writer's name On November 25, 1851, Carlton How'd 1d Miss Harriet E. Giddinss were lited in holy matrimony at Barkham- ed, Conn, by the Rev. Moses Ballou, of the bride On Mon- ", November 25, 1901, Mr and Mrs. arlton How'd celebrated the fiftieth of their marriage amid re- | ,