The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-22
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
ITEMS OF JNTERESE CONCERNING
 NEW HAVEN PEOPLE
Local Social Evonts Hero and EIse-

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 William Brian Hooker of Farming
 ton, a prominent member of the senior
 class of Yale university, is in a serious
 condition from appendicitis. A consul
 tation of physicians was held Thursday night and it is believed that it will be
 necessary to perform the operation of l laporotomoy Mr. Hooker is one of the
 most brilliant Yale undergraduates of
 Yale in literary matters
 C. IT. Mann wjll be the bass soloist
 on Sunday evening next at the Dwight
 Place Congregational church at the
 singing oe Stainer's "CruciflXion" by | the Choral union Seymour l.. Spier
 will direct and sing the tenor part,
 Harry Whitaker will be at the organ.
 The condition of F. r. McGregor of l the middle class of Yale Divinity
 school who was stricken with appen- | dicitis a week ago and was taken to
 the New Haven hospital and operated
 upon, has continued to improve since | the operation and indications now strongly point to his recovery l The Sis Hopkins company now play ing at the Grand opera house and the
 regular orchestra at the theater visit ed the Artizan street engine house yes terday afternoon upon the invitation of Captain Chapman of Truck 1. An ex- hibltion was given in quick bitches of the horses and many other interesting stunts which firemen and horses in fire departments perform daily and the the atrical people were much entertained. The orchestra then gave a concert in the smoking room on the top floor, Captain Chapman is an old theatrical man and has many personal friends in the troupe.
 Philip Staebel of 10S Nicoll street. an employe of the Southern New England Telephone company, who has been sta tioned in Hartford for several weeks, has returned again to the City of Elms
 The large circle os friends of M C. Swezey Of 729 Washington avenue whose New Haven business office is on Court street and who is a prominent worker in the Church of the Redeemer, will be interested to read the following from the Patchogue l.. L. Advance, with whose tribute to MT Swezeys success all his many friends will be highly gratified The Patchogue paper says. under the heading "Patchogue Boy to the Front:
 The brains and push of one of East Patchogue's boys has made a large and comfortable business for the Acme Cash Railway company.
 M. c. Swezey the patentee, has fought wou1d-be competitors in the courts for twelve years on patent suits and has finally won out, The busi- ness of the company is now more pros porous than ever before, orders for January being more than double that for the month in any previous year in the history of the business, and there is every prospect of it's increasing all the while with each succeeding month.
 Since the law suits have been set tied merchants have not been an moved by threats of patent suits and many have adopted the system on it's merits in preference to other systems, which they were deterred from doing before the final test suit was settled in favor of the Acme people.
 M c. Swezey is patentee an6 presi-
  here will be glad to learn Of hls great | success"
 MT. Swezey is as much of Sunday school worker as he is a wide awake business man. He has for several years had charge of the adult Bible class at | the Church of the Redeemer and has | succeeded in making it one of the larg | est and most interesting of any in the | city, He secures prominent speakers from among literary and business men . to lecture to the class every Sunday.
 MT and Mrs Clarence L. Clark of | Main street. West Haven, have return ed from their trip to Boston and are now in Philadelphia They are eX- pected home Saturday.
 The annual ball for the children of the members of the Harmonic club will be held on Friday, March 28, from for the children of members, and it will be an enjoyable occasion for the little people who participate.
 MT and Mrs. Joseph Ennever of Clark street, West Haven, are receiv- ng congratulations, A son. Frank Craig has arrived at their home.
 A birthday party was gwen at the 'esidence of Miss Alma Terhune of Harrison avenue, Brhnford, Thursday ,vening Music and games were feat lres Of the occasion and refreshments were served,
 MT. and Mrs George T. Downs were he recipients of pleasant surprise larty at their home in North Haven Thursday evening. About thirty of heir friends and neighbors gathered tt their home at o'clock The entire ,arty was masked and a great deal of un resulted theresrom. Miss Elizabeth Cranston Matthewson f New Jersey who has been the guest f Miss Mitchell of Whalley avenue or the last week, left on Thursday for Boston, where she is student at the New England Conservatory of Music. During her visit here, many jolly little fairs have been given in her honor. A meeting of the West Haven Mis- ionary Study circle was held yester- ay afternoon in the parlors of the Congregational church. The leaders , ere Mrs. Clarence l.. Clark Mrs. 7 eofge Mortimer and Miss Bertha Ora am. Mrs. William H. French was the ianist. The subject was Constantine