The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-26

Island, and leaves here Monday to as- sume his duties. MT. Britten has been visiting friends here after an absence of nineteen years.
 At Short Beach, at their cottage
 homes, are Bishop Goodsell and family, Frank Reynolds of the Reynolds Bolt works, Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Rev. A. H. Simonds, a retired clergyman, and wife; Mrs. Horace r. Shares and her daughter, and Harvey Shepard.
 George Stebbins, the singing evangelist, and wife will soon occupy their Birds Nestcottage,and Miss Churchill and her mother of Meriden, are at the Cash
 man house, not having opened their cottage yet. Watson F. Stone has com pleted two new cottages at the Beach, one of which is occupied by Clifford b. Knitfin. A syndicate, it is reported, has bought Johnson's Point, opposite Shep-
 ards Point Mr. Borden of the Young Mems Institute, who spends his sum-
 mers at Killams Point, is reported to be at the head of the syndicate.
 F. c. Bradley has sold to D. B. Shell don of New Haven the old red house at Pine Orchard with land and buildings,
 about twenty-nine acres in all. MT. Sheldon has resold to David A Granniss of Hartford a part of his purchase, and rumor says that George L. Barnes has sold his quarry property to the same party. The same is to be cut up into
 building lots, and Contractor M P. Rice has been engaged during the week lay ing out thirty-eight building lots.
 F. c. Bradley, so prominently identi- fled with Pine Orchard, and all its in- terests, with Mrs. Bradley and party
 of friends, spent the winter travelling through Southern California.
 Among those who will spend the
 summer at Pine Orchard are A. M.
 Young and family at the Anchorage,
 Henry c. Rowe and family, Ericsson
 Bushnell and family at Winthrop Bush-
 nells cottage, Robert Morgan, who ar
 rived home recently from trip to the
 Holy Land, and various other coun-
 tries; M D. Chatfield, of the Chatf1eld
 Paper Co., who Is having handsome
 new home built next to Mir Schaffer's,
 and Captain Manson and family. N.
 D. Winter and his sister, who own and
 occupy the twin Colonial cottages, were
 guests at the Sheldon house during the
 week, experimenting repairs and reno
 vations; Mrs. L. I. Munson of Water
 bury has purchased from Mrs. Vince
 lock the Taylor cottage, and is making
 very extensive repairs, Contractor Har-
 rington Is doing the work. Mrs. Whee-
 lock has also sold her corner cottage
 on Mample avenue to A. M. Young.
 At the cotilion, which was given on
 Wednesday evening by Mrs. Thomas
 Wallace, jr., at her residence on Pros-
 pect street, in honor of their young
 son, Master Thomas Wallace, the fol-
 lowing young people were present: The
 Misses Ruth Kingsbury, Mabel Robert
 son, Emily Morgan, Margaret Thomp-
 son, Mabel Billings, Clara Baker, Julla Billings, Margaret English, Lima Car rington, Stephanie English, Miss Wal lace and Harriet English, and David Daggett, Charles English, Perrin Gal pin. Robert Deming, Pierpont Bigelow, Harry Webb, and Lawton Sargent. The cotillion was led by Thomas Wallace dancing with Miss Wallace, and was a verv enioyable affair. The souvenir favors were very handsome DOCKS while the others were 1orgnettes for the girls of colored paper and spectacles loI the boys, pencils, purses, coins, ana small silken flags of the different na- tions. A huge cake was served Wlth tile usual coins and rings concealed within and much merriment was had over the discoveries. Robinson's orchestra furn- ished the music.
 An original affair was the entertain nent on Thursday of q a. numoef or friends of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shell, an the site of their new home to be, on St. Roman street When the guests ar- rived they found the place among the trees like an impromptu gypsy camp, a ! large decorated ice cart having been into receptacle for holding | the refreshments. Punch was served in A bowl formed of huge cake of ice. The guests were each given pail ana shovel, with which to commence eXca- yations for the cellar. As much soil as could be lifted with the shovel in one one hand and transferred to the pail | was then carried to the committee or l weights and measures, F. Thornton | Hunt and Wilbur F. Day, jr., and then | The one whose spells weigh | ed the heaviest was awarded the prize, | a five pound box of Huyler's with cov- er decorations of the Queen or l Spades" which was quite appropriate. | The contest was very close between | Mrs. Hadley, Mrs. Talcott H. Russell, Mrs. Camp Mrs. Thomson, and Miss l Sanford, the last named finally win l ming. The whole thing was decidedly l jolly, the guests remaining until all most time to attend the tapping" fes- tiyities on the campus. Among those present were Captain Whittemore, U. | $. A., Miss Low, Mrs. Talcott Russell, | President and Mrs. Hadley, Anson 1 Phelps Stokes, ir., Mrs. Walter Camp, Dr. and Mrs. Ring, Mir. and Mrs. H. Grant Thompson, Mrs. Frank Trow- bridge and her cousin, Miss Bailey of New York, Wilbur F. Day, jr., MT. and Mrs. William Henry Bishop, Mrs. Stephen Whitney, Henry Stanley Knight Professor and Mrs. Perrin, and F. Thornton Hunt
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