The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-18

and who lives at NO. 09E CguIlnlpldt avenue, returned on Saturday from
 New Orleans, where he has been stay ing for the past three or four weeks
 He left Mrs. Barnes there with friends
 and she will return home later on in
 the season.
 Robert Elder announces the engage
 ment of his daughter, Janet Rlddell, to
 Charles Frank Mansfield of this city.
 Miss Jessie Dyer of 120 Dwight street
 will sail for Europe in June with some
 Boston friends, to be absent for three
 months. They will tour through Great
 Britain and also take the usual trip on the Continent.
 St. Patricks day was celebrated Ill Branford last evening by the eight eenth annual ball of the Emerald So- ciaI club of Branford at Blanford mu- sic hall. The club completed elaborate preparations, and the affair eclipsed those of former years. Harmony or chestra furnished music for dancing.
 County Commissioner Charles Brewer of Waterbury has written to his col leagues in this city, noting his safe ar rival in Florida, after stormy pass age. He is at present at Gainesville. where the temperature is S6 degrees in the shade, and the landscape is made beautiful by roses adn palms.
 A committee os well known officials of the Consolidated road are making arrangements for a splendid banquet to be rendered to Henry A, Bishop, the former purchasing agent of the road who recently resigned to accept posi- ton with a West Virginia company. tails, but will meet again the latter part of the week and may then decide on the time and place for holding the banquet
 A son was born to MT. and Mrs. Charles B. Rowe of Putnam street Sum- day.
 The Westville Up to- Date club will hold the regular weekly meeting at the home of Mrs. A. w. Marsh on Whal- ley avenue this afternoon Mrs. LenoX will conduct the reading.
 Mrs. Charles Willard of Clinton has returned from a visit with her daugh- ter, Mrs. George Bailey, in this city.
 Dr. Simon Flexmer, professor of path ology at the University of Pennsyl- yania, will deliver a lecture in Room Al Osborn hall this evening, before the Yale Medical Alumni association on the subject "Bubonic Plague"
 A benefit entertainment and social of Morning Star Rebecca lodge No. 43, I. 9. o. F., will be given at Harmony hall, March 26, for the benefit of a brother odd Fellow. A fine and inter- esting programme has been prepared by the committee in charge and it is to be hoped that large number will be present as possible as the object is a worthy one. Tickets can be secured of the committee in charge or at the door.
 Attorney James D. Dewell, Jr. is ill with a severe attack of tonsilitis at his home. 1S4 Bradley street.
 MT and Mrs. R. H. Phelps and daughter of Clinton were called to Hadlyme last week by the illness and death of Mrs Phelps father, H. c. Burnham.
 Miss Ella Fairfield of Meriden, who has been the guest of her mother on Montowese street for week, left for home yesterday.
 Mrs Bishop of Brooklyn, N. Y, is visiting Miss Mae Colt, the well known reader, O: Howard avenue. Mrs. Bishops visit is in the nature of fare well, as she sails very shortly for the to join her husband, who Is an officer in the United States navy. Mrs Bishops stay will necessarily be short.
 Rev. F. A. Noble, Ph. D., who was formerly pastor of Grace M. E. church in Bridgeport. and has been superin- endent of the Methodist hospital at Brooklyn for the past five years, has been elected principal of the Methodist seminary at Hackettstown, N. J.
 Two hundred invitations were issued for the mid-Lenten dance and enter tainment by the Sacred Heart alumni in honor of St. Patrick last night, It was a very enjoyable affair.
 Charles Westermann of Main street Fair Haven, has just returned from Middetown, where he has done the dec orating of the German Lutheran church. The church was dedicated last 
 Owing to the illness of Mrs. George Stannard's little daughter the Half Hour Reading club of Branford will change it's place of meeting next Thurs day afternoon to the residence of Mrs. Walter Fowler on Cedar street. The readers for the afternoon are Miss Palme and Mrs James Fowle.
 l., O. Jones, a former resident of spent Sunday with MT. and Mrs. Borden at their home on Alden avenue. MT. Jones now resides in New London.
 A crystal wedding was held at the Campbell avenue home of MT and Mrs. James Puritan in West Haven. Friday night in celebration of the fourteenth anniversary of their marriage. A de- ightful evening was spent. Songs were rendered by Misses Mccormick. Doyle and Barrett, Messrs. McNamara, Ka- pitzke, Cook and Naroney; violin solos by the Puritan children; recitation, 'Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" by Mr. McNamara. On behalf of those present, F. J. MarOney presented MT. and Mrs Juritan with a handsome crystal lemonade set. Dancing and I supper were enjoyed. As the party was about to berak up, W. Mclaughlin took a fashlight of those present, who