The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-23
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
ITElISOFINTERE EST CONCERNING
 NEW HAVEN PEOPLE
And Other People Known in Thl. Cit,

Horace Day, one of our oldest ana best known and most esteemed citizens, is critically i'll at his residence. 10 Col lege street. MT. Day is eighty-six years of age and his condition is due to gen. eral breaking down incident to old age. MT. Day was the first superintendent of schools in this city, and since 1868 has been secretary of the board of edu- cation.
 Superintendent J. P. Hopson of the Derby New Haven and Berkshire di- visions of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company will take possession of the Naugatucll diVi- sion on August 1st. Superintendent l Hopson will take charge of the Nauga- tuck division in the capacity of superin- ! tendent in the place of Superintendent Beach, who has resigned.
 William Doolittle, Miss Grace Dooiit- 1 tie and Miss Lizzie Erbe of Southing- l ton left on Monday morning for Scran- | ton, Pa, for a two weeks vacation. George H. Bishop of the firm of Peck & Bishop, has recently returned from | He says the crops there are phenome- nally large and the wet weather has been a benefit to the sandy soil. In Iowa and Illinois, however, the rain has 1 hindered the progress of crops and i caused big losses.
 1 President Hadley of Yale has return l ed from NewtoWn, where he spent Sun l day with his family, and will remain a good share of this week in this city. His regular office hours will be observ- ed. President Tyler has been out of town since Saturday. He is expected l to return to-day. All the Yale eXecu- tive offices are kept open during the summer, whether the cabinet officials are in town or not. The office of Dean Wright is opened every morning in charge of Registrar A. K. Merritt.
 Mrs. Honore Cote and children of Worcester, Mass, arrived in Walling- ford Sunday and are the guests of Jus tice and Mrs Paul Maillette.
 Morris Hugo, with the Schroeder ln- vestment company, left last week on trip to Colorado. He will combine pleasure with business and expects to De gone aDOuC montH'"
 MT. and Mrs. B. J. Williams and thelr son, Charles Williams, arrived here Saturday afternoon from Philadelphia and are stopping at c. F. Schrader S, Fair street.
 The Misses Sara and Elizabeth Stan ford of 45 Clark street are registered at the New Columbian hotel, Saratoga.
 MT. and Mrs. A. F. Miller, Porter Miller and MT. and Mrs. H. A. Bos- worth of southington will spend week a Morris Park.
 The members of the Connecticut pro- bate assembly will meet for their an- nual dinner at Hills Homestead, Savin Rock, Wednesday, July 30, An excel lent menu has been promised by the committee and the attendance is eX- pected to be lafge The committee in charge of the arrangements consists of Edward P. Nobles of Bridgeport and Joseph B. Banning of Deep River
 Jack Camp, Fay Curtis, Clifford Hamlin, Harry Camp and Frank Doo- little of Southington will spend their vacation at the Hitchcock cottage, Short Beach.
 Mrs. H. w. Griswold of Terryviue who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Daniel L. Barber, in Wallingford left yesterday morning for Cosey Beach.
 Miss Zina May Howard of BIT Win throp avenue has gone on an extensive trip to Boston, Maine and Canada. On returning she will stop at Springfield l s-I,o |, loroa pTnlp Ot friends.
 Organist W. P. Vinal of St. Paul's church, Wallingford, left Monday morn ing with twelve boys of the St. Paul church vested choir for three days outing at Stony Creek, stopping at the
 Elm Tree house They will return Thursday afternoon. Those who went
 down with Organist Vinal were Harry
 Smith, Clifford Bullis, Carl Miller, Will
 liam Buckley, Arthur Mcknight, Joh1
 Buckley, Burton Backes, Fortiss Per
 kins, Raymond McGee, William Bax :, ter, William McGee, Nelson Bullis. MT. and Mrs. E. H. Chapin of 25 Townsend aveneu are visiting friends : in Springfield, Mass,
 T. S. Payson of this city is at th' Plimpton house, Watch Hill, L. l.
 A letter recently received in Middle town from Jerome Smith, who went t. - Colorado some months ago on accoun 2 of his health, is of an encouraging char ] acter. He is at present in Denver e where he is pursuing an out of door Tiff g and residing in a tent to further hl ]. purpose. MT. Smith was obliged to re Q sign as cashier of the Pagosa Spring
 bank on account of his continued il ] health.
 t The Misses Alice, Rose and Katherin f Brown are spending their vacation Englewood on the Hudson. V pr. George l.. Beardsley, who has fo S four and a half years successfully di d rected the choir of the Derby M. F q church, has resigned the position an e will not conduct the choir again. H = said Monday that his professional du e ties made 1t imperative for him to giV t up the choir, although he regretted talk
 ing the step very much.
 S Among New Haveners at Watch Hil y R. l., are MT. and Mrs. H. T. Englisf 5. Masters Harold and Philip English an
 Miss Alice M. English and maid. The
 are staying at the Watch Hill house. ). c. W. Blakeslee & Co. of this cit f have the contract for work which is < be done for the A. B. & c. Co.,, of AT ~ sonia, and will soon commerce on tf = same.