The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-21
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
ITEMS OF TNTEH EST CONCERNING
 NEW HAVEN PEOPLE

And Other People Known in This City
 Local Social Events Here and Else.
 where.
 Professor William Lyon Phelps, o
 the English department of Yale univer,
 sity has been obliged to cancel a mum.
 Der of lectures and other engagements
 owing to the state of his health. Dr
 Phelps has been working very hard an6
 in suffering from the effects of over work. Under the advice of his physi- clans he is now attending only to his work in the university, Among the en- agreements which he was obliged to cancel by advice of his physicians was one to lecture last evening at the resi- dence of Judge Howard J. Curtis in Stratford
 Miss Whittelsey of Prospect street went to Boston Wednesday to speak yesterday before the Woman's School association of Boston. Her subject was Women and the Social Sciences Miss Whittelsey will be the guest of Miss Irwin, dean of Radcliffe college, and Mrs. Agassiz, president of Rad cliffe
 The reorganization of the Lenten sewing class, started ten years ago, and which was such a success, is com- plete and doing active work, having the first meeting Wednesday. The pro- rI,ny i1-ct ganized, being: Mrs. Stephen Whitney, Mrs. Ingersoll and Mrs. H. Grant Thompson, and they have made it sort of neighborhood affair. The class has among it's members: Mrs Arthur T. Hadey, Miss Quincy, Miss Kate Trowbridge, Miss Elizabeth Hotchkiss, Mrs. Emerson Taylor, Mrs. James Locke, Mrs Shell and Miss Sanford, and will accomplish a large amount of work, many of the needy poor receiV- ing much benefit.
 News of Mrs. Sturgis from Las Ve- gas, New Mexico, has reached friends on Prospect hill, and her many friends will be glad to know that the disease from which she is suffering has been arrested, and an improvement noticed. The Sturgis residence has been pur chased by Professor and Mrs Harris, the latter sister, of Mrs Timothy Dwight
 Frederick Colber formerly associated with Fred Kessler in the Wissner piano wareroeoms in this city, and later To- cated in New Haven, has, since his re- turn from the west, invested in the stock of Schleicher & Sons, and now has charge of the Stamford branch of that piano business. MT. Colber's friends in this city will also be pleased to learn that during his sojourn in the West he became benedict.-Brdgepor Standard.
 The engagement of John Edward Heaton to Miss Florence Trowbridge comes as a pleasant surprise to their many friends. Miss TroWbridge is the daughter of William R. H. for years past residing in 1 Berlin, Germany and who lived for | years in the Barbadoes. Miss TroW- bridge is a granddaughter of Mrs Thomas R. Trowbridge of Elm street and has spent the most of her fife abroad She will be a decided ac 1uistion as a young matron to society She is now in this country and at pres ant is visiting relatives in Philadelphia. Mir. Heaton has just recovered from an | attack of appendicitis and is at his ! nome on York street. He is one of the four bachelors who years ago bought | Peter's rock and established sort of | hermitage there. The four men were: MT. Johnson, who has since died; MT. Iilbert, whose engagement to Miss Iotchkiss was recently announced; MT. Ieaton, and Dr. Austin Cheney, the re- naining bachelor.
 MT. and Mrs Frank Butterworth are risiting Mrs. Butterworth's father, ,, G. Stoddard on Temple treet Mrs Butterworth, it will be ,Ie street. Mrs. Butterworth, it will be remembered was Miss Esther Stoddard . very beautiful girl, and a belle in New Haven society. MT. Butterworth vas the famous Yale fullback on the oot ball team of '95 Mrs. B. G. Stod- { ard, who is at Thomasville, Ga, is ot expected back for five or six weeks. Herbert BridgWater of NeWington l anne last Monday to Derby, where he ill enter into business. His brother, . Frank Bridgwater, is living in West , Taven and comes evry day to New Ha- | ( ell. { Mrs. J. D. S. Pardee of Northford has , cen confined to her room for some { avs, owing to a severe attack of indis- l osition. ' Mrs. James E. Killam and family re- 2 lrned to their home in New Haven t after an extended stay in f uffield at the home of the late Charles t . Loomis, father of Mrs. Killam, I MT. and Mrs. F. A. Goodyear of First I venue, West Haven, were given sur rise party Wednesday evening. Some V the guests were MT. and Mrs. T. l. Hoey, MT. and Mrs, G. H. Dill Miss V adie Derby, MT. and Mrs. George t Miles Damn, Miss Durant, c. F ewell. MT. and Mrs. Albert Coats, b iss Ada Coats, MT and Mrs. H. Good r gar. MT. and Mrs. Leverett Goodyear, a r. and Mrs. McGregor, Alan Me t