The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-27

l
 who made a very appropriate speech
 and also presented MT, Simonds wlth box of cigars and very handsome
 pipe. Among those present were l George Smith, Harry Yale, Joseph Gold- berg, Herbert Richey, Charles st' | George, Harry Oviatt. Harry Wellmah,
 Edward Mansfield, Howard Clark, Ea-
 ward A. Myrick, Arthur Wing True
 man Wells, Frank Bartlett. MT. slm-
 onds leaves this week for Etflnghahn, 1 H., where he will enter school or
 photography. After bidding him gooa
 night and wishing him success they all
 departed for their homes
 MT and Mrs. w. L. Smith of Seymour entertained the Rimmon Park Whlst club together with a large number or 1 invited guests at their home on Wash- l ington avenue, Seymour Friday eVen- 1 ing A number of selections were rem dered on the Victor talking machines
 and they delighted the company pres ent Play was begun shortly after o'clock and continued until about mid night Nine tables were filled and | twenty-four hands were played, The ! first prizes were borne off by Mrs. c. M, Tucker and J. Sig Bauer of New Haven. The consolation prizes were
 the lot of T. J. Jones and Mrs. Ezra
 Marion. Refreshments were served be- fore the guests departed.
 Tickets are nearly all sold for the
 basketball game at Pythan hall, Bran ford, tomorrow evening between the
 Y M. c. A. team of this city and the Branford team During intermission
 the fat and the lean men will give an exhibition game This promises to be a feature of the evening. Combined
 weight of the fat men is 1150 pounds.
 Professor John W. Wetzel, instructor
 in elocution and oratory at Yale uni
 versity, will give readings from Mich
 olas Nickleby in Boardman hall at the
 Young Womens Christian association,
 56S Chapel street, next Wednesday eve-
 ming at o'clock. All interested are in-
 vited to be present. Admission free.
 Both Judge Henry Stoddard and his
 son, Lawyer Clifford I. Stoddard, are
 confined to their rooms with humps.
 and the doctors do not believe they will
 be able to attend to business for sev-
 eral days.
 Dr. and Mrs. George A. Lawton gave delightful musicale at their home on
 University Place Friday evening" Those who furnished the vocal numbers were Mrs Frances Heath Eaton, soprano; Mrs F. w. Adams mezzo soprano Dr. George A. Lawton, tenor; William F. Morgan, jr., baritone. There were sev- eral quartet numbers, solos, duets, and trios by these talented musicians. Miss Amy Austin of University Place, who is one of the leading pianists of New Haven, contributed several interesting numbers to the programme.
 Adjutant General Cole has issued or ders appointing the following officers members of an examining board for the examination of officers for the Connec- ticut National Guard: Brigader Cen eral Russell Frost commanding brig ade, Connecticut National Guard; Col onel William E. Cone, retired Major Gilbert l.. Fitch, Fourth regiment, Con- necticut National Guard. Ex-Com- mander Edward V. Reynolds, retired, is appointed as an additional member of the board during the examination of officers of the naval battalion. The board will convene at the adjutant gen. erals office, February 10, il, 12 and 13, at 9 o'clock a. m. each day, and make return to the department of the name and rank of each officer examined and the result of such examinat ton in de- tail
 Miss Shepard of this city will be one of the speakers at the Kalmathean club of West Haven at it's meeting next Friday.
 Irving Boynton of the freight office | of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, in Bran ford will succeed Leroy Bartholomew in the office of M. l. F. and Reginald | will succeed Boynton at the | freight office February 1.
 The Hawthorne club of West Haven will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs William Winans of 9S0 Whalley avenue, Westville
 Leroy Bartholomew has resigned his position in the office of the Malleable Iron Fittings company, Branford, and )n February 1 will enter the electrical department of the New York, New Ha- zen and Hartford Railroad company.
 Mrs. L. R. Chandler of Elm street West Haven, is suffering from a severe old.
 The Twentieth Century Whist club # Branford met with Mrs. C. A. Hoad- ey Friday afternoon Mrs. Nelson of New Haven, Mrs. Hoadley's guest, was he only substitute. The next meeting if the club will be with Mrs John Plant, at the home of Mrs. Edmund ,acher of Rogers street.
 Mrs. Florence Pullen, who has been from a recent illness at he home of her sister in this city for he last fortnight, has returned home to Derby, and 'her friends are much grat- lied to find her restored to health. Mrs 'ullen will visit her sister at Seymour or the next few days, after which she { lill resume her position as bookkeeper ' 1ith the Benham Shoe company in Derby
 Mrs. Gertrude M. Beecher and Dick | ( rman M. Bassett of Derby were school l | hates of Horace P. Shares whose { cath at Pasadena, Cal, has just been It was a little country ( eat of learning at North Haven that I ne trio attended during their child C ood. Mrs. Beecher and her brother, | IT.. Bassett, lived about a mile above le school house, and MT. Shares a file below. | The Rev. Father Hartigan has been J ppointed by the Provincial of the Do- | linican Order to take the position of