The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-12

J. R. Lomas; superintendent. c. Her bert Fry; first associate superintendent, Elmer E. Thomas second associate su- perintendent Thomas Cairns, jr. 1 Among the dinners of the week was that given on Wednesday by Miss Helen Benedict at the Country club. Covers were laid for ten.
 William H. French, of Savin avenue, West Haven, has resigned his position on the New Haven Register and is now in the employ of the Waterbury Repub- | lican.
 Miss Little, of Boston, has been the guest of Mrs. Colin MaCrae IngersoIl. jr of Whitney avenue, during the past week.
 r. A. Peterson will deliver a German lecture in Teutonia hall next Monday evening. He will speak on "Das fries ische Volksgericht.' Professor and Mrs. Richards, of 215 York street, have closed their house and have gone to their summer home in Woodbridge
 A. J. Waring. Yale 1903, will repre- sent the Yale Lit. at the banquet of the Princeton Literary Magazine on May 12.
 The Connecticut society, Sons of the American Revolution held it's annual meeting in Hartford on Saturday and elected the following officers: President. Jonathan Trumbull, of Norwich; vice president, General E. S. Greeley, of New Haven; secretary, Charles q. Stone, of Hartford; treasurer, William F. Chand- Ter, of New Haven; historian, Joseph G. Woodward; chaplain, Rev Dr F. s. Lines, of New Haven; necrologist, Cap tain Henry R. Jones, of New Hartford. Following the meeting the members had lunch at the Hotel Hartford
 Chief Sanders, of the first division of the railway mail service, went on Sat urday to Boston to confer with Super intendent Ryan relative to the estab- fishing of new mail pouches for the summer months.
 MT. and Mrs. c. M. Ingersoll, jr., of Whitney avenue are out of the city for short visit.
 c. D. Castor, of the Divinity school spoke at Yale hall yesterday
 The engagement is announced of Miss Helen Benedict, of New York, to Jay Wurts, of this city son of Mrs. Charles Pemberton Wurts. of Whitney avenue.
 
 of Mrs. Wurts, and is a very charming young lady.
 F. s. Van Tassell, Yale 1903, and S. A. Le Blanc, Yale 1905, have been elect ed members of the Yale Cornthian Yacht club.
 The engagement is announced of Vol colt Phelps Robbins, graduate of Yale in the class of 1896 and a member of hn Vol oI,, teltas Clark, of New York No date has been set for the wedding which will probably not take place for year at least.
 Tickets for the concert by the Fresh man Glee club and the Apollo Banjo club to be given next Friday for the benefit of the freshman crew are now on sale at the Coop. and the New Ha- ven House Pharmacy.
 In the windows of the E. P. Judd 1 company on Chapel street is a most at tractive display of stuffed birds, the | skins of several foxes, a mink skin. l belts, together with a number | of fine photographs which illustrate the | book that Dr. Morton Grinnell of Beav- CT Brook Farm Milford, Conn. has re- gently written. Its title is "Neiehbors | of Field, Wood and Stream" The story opens with the midnight stroll in Jan uary of family of foxes prowling for and is ingeniously written, for the dialogue is as though the ani- mals themselves told the story of their habits and manner of living, giving to them a real and living interest. The story deals entirely with the wild anil mals and birds which are natives of this country. The book is finely Illus trated from photos from nature