The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-28

Charles W. Scranton of the Charles ". Scranton company, investmsnt brokers, has returned from his summer
 home at Madison and is occupying his city residence at 42 Trumbull street
 MT and Mrs. Jacob J. Newman of
 Park street entertained MT. and Mrs.
 H. J. Adams and MT. and Mrs. A. L.
 Newman of New York over teh Sab
 bath. While here they were dined by
 Dr. and Mrs. Mailhouse
 Mrs Annie Hampstead of this city is
 the guest of her sister, Mrs. Henry
 Hatch, in Windham.
 At the annual convention of National
 Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents, held in Louisville, Ky, last
 week, John c. North of this city was elected first vice president.
 Miss Knaggs of Springfield is the guest of MT. and Mrs. Vosburg of
 Campbell avenue, West Haven.
 Miss Mamie Dempsey and John Me
 Mahon, both of Meriden, will be mar
 ried at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning at
 St. Roses church In Meriden. Miss An
 nie Dempsey, a sister of the bride, will
 be bridesmaid and the best man will be
 William Coppinger of this city. Miss Bessie Spaulding of Canaan,
 who has been i'll in this city for sev-
 eral weeks, returned home Saturday.
 She will spend some time with her sis
 ter, Mrs. B. A. Peirce in Canaan.
 Dr. Chauncey B. Lamb said yester-
 day afternoon that he felt much en- couraged over the condition of May Lee, the two and one-half year old daugh-
 ter of Mrs. Mary Lee of 517 Columbus
 avenue, who was badly burned Satur-
 day afternoon. Dr. Lamb says the
 child's arm is seriously injured, but un- less some unforeseen complication sets in he believes the child will completely recover.
 Thomas M. Shields, Claire A. Barnes, Edward S. McNeale and George c. Shaw, Yale students, left Norwich with
 guns and dogs at-daybreak Saturday
 morning for days hunting in the
 Lebanon and Franklin woods. MT.
 Barnes is one of the best marksmen of the Yale university shooting team. The Economic league has received a reply from Colonel N. G. Osborn to the challenge issued him to debate the question of the propriety of the city government going into the fuel busi-
 ness. Colonel Osborn says that other engagements and dates prevent him from acceptig the challenge and that in any case the debate is now out of nT,6n hn hoe arfn cd The league will consider the reply at its meeting tomorrow evening. George Mortimer of West Haven has
 been visiting his mother at The Pines, Sound Beach.
 MT. and Mrs. John Lomas have re- turned from Greenport, L. l., where Mrs. Lomas and children have been spending several days.
 Superintendent F. H. sBeede of the
 public schools will start to-day on a trip through New England for the pur pose of making an inspection of the
 public schools elsewhere. The superin- tendent will go to Boston, where he will
 make an inspection of the portable school house that are in use in that city. Boston, owing to tn over crowded conditions of it's schools, has been forced to open about forty of the portable school buildings.
 Miss Elizabeth F. Doody of this city and cousin, Miss Margaret E. Doody, ! were guests of MT. and Mrs. M Sylves- ter McKernan in South Meriden over l Sunday.
 J. H. Griffin of Rocky Beach has gone | to Havana on pleasure and business trip.
 MT and Mrs. J. B. Lawrence of West street, Norwalk, are entertaining Mrs. l R. l.. Mum of Whalley avenue. | Miss Susan Newell of Elm street,
 West Haven, is visiting relatives in 1 Chester and her health is being much | improved by the visit.
 | Professor H. S. Graves of Yale uni versity, who is experimenting the for estry work under the direction of the l board of water commissioners accom- panied the commissioners and Secretary
 Berry on a tour of inspection to the Hartford reservoirs Friday afternoon. 1 Engineer Johnson was also of the par 1 ty. The greater part of the time was l spent inspecting the new canal from 1 reservoir No. f to Mo- 1. The canal is
 of stone quarried at the water works property. It is 4,000 feet long, ten feet | in width, and about two and one-half
 feet in depth The work was approved 1 by the board
 | The Misses Husted of Main street West Haven, are entertaining Mrs. l Thorp ot Philadelphia.
 | At Sundays services held in the 1 Westville Congregational church, let ] ter from the church committee, accept ing the resignation of the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Henry Davies, was read. This
 popular pastors withdrawal not only from the Westville parish, but from the Congregational ministry, will take
 place January 1, when he will embrace
 the Episcopal faith. The matter of his 1 kindly and capable management of his present pastorate was dwelt upon at | length in the letter and the committee 1 expressed it's regrets at MT. Davies de- | termiation, at the same time compli-
 menting him on the manner of his con-
 ducting the affairs of the congregation, 1 which was under his charge Nothing
 has yet been decided upon as yet in re- | !ation to the successor to the resigning
 pastor. The committee however will 1 begin this work within a few weeks l Miss Shoot has returned to this city
 from New Bedford, Mass, to take an- l other years course in the co-educa- l tional department at Yale. She is fit 1 ting for an instructor in womens col- | leges This is har Ia St vear ir, va1e