The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-16
TARIOCS ITEMS.

The engagement is announced Of Miss
Florence c. Pierce, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George E. Pierce of Bridge
port, to DR.. David NJ. Trecartin of that
city. The engagement was announced
Saturday afternoon at tea given by
Mrs. Pierce and Miss Pierce at their
residence, S24 Park avenue, for Mrs.
Trecartin and Miss Trecartin, who are
visiting in Bridgeport.
The Contemporary club of Bridge
port will meet with Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles NJ. Calhoun, 329 Washington
avenue. this evening. President Arthur
Twining Hadley of Yale university viii
deliver the address taking as his sub
ject 1.-THE American College, Past, Pres
ent and Future" President and Mrs.
Hadley while in Bridgeport will be the
guests of DR.. and Mrs. E. G. Fullerton.
Mrs. George A. Cook of this city has
been visiting with Mrs. Charles T. Dart
and will remain over Sunday.
Connecticut pensions: Originals, AL
bert NJ. Perkins, Norwich, S.; increase,
reissue, ETC., Charles B. Foote, New Ha-
ven, SIP; Charles H. Townsend, Will
mantle, IS; widows, minors and depen-
dent relatives, Lizzie e. Cooper, Hart
ford, IS.
Walter A. Sadd. a native of South
Windsor, and a former student of the
Hartford high school, is visiting his
father in South Windsor. Mr. Sadd
was calling on friends in Hartford Sat
urday, among those visited being Rob-
ert D. Bone, chairman of the board of
town assessors. Mr.. Bone and Mr..
Sadd graduated in the same class at
the high school, that of 1881. Mr.. Sadd
is now resident of Chattanooga, Tenn.
He is president Of the Chattanooga
Savings bank, and republican mem
Der of the city's board of aldermen. Mr..
Sadd has been in Chattanooga fourteen
years and is enthusiastic in speaking
of the city's success and prospects.
Miss Lena S. Annis has resigned her
position as teacher in the grammar
school in New Britain to accept teach
ership in the Union school of West Ha-
Ven. Miss Annis will begin duty in
West Haven to-day.
Harry Woodstock, formerly organist
Of st, Paul's church, this city, appeared
at a concert given last Tuesday evening
in the assembly rooms of the Church of
st, Mary the Virgin. New York. Mr..
Woodstock rs the organist of st. Bar
nabas' church, Irvington-on-the-H ud-
son, where his musical accomplishments
are highly appreciated. Another solo,
list who took part in this concert was
Miss Agnes Littlejohn of Norwich,
Conn. Her studies have been pursued
at the music department of Yale uni
versity and she was one of the talented
pupils o. Professor Troostwyk
Saturday evening at the Hotel Oneco
on Church street, j. F. Condor, local
manager of the Hartford Life Insurance
company. entertained thirty members
of the local STAFF at a fine banquet.
For three days this week, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, the wesleyan
chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, Middle
town, will yield up its house to bevy
of young ladies', according to report.
Luxurious, and perhaps studious collie
gians who have for two or three years
reposed upon the most approved kind
of soft cushions and window seats and
watched the incense rising from their
briars in irdolent ease, will disappear
and society girls from New York, Brook
lyn, Hartford and New Haven will oc-
cupy their apartments and use their
furniture.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Ford of WASH
ington avenue have the pleasure Of an
nouncing the new arrival Of bouncing
twelve pound boy. Mother and child
are doing well.
Mrs. Sylvia Durham, OF southington,
win be 1903 years old six months hence,
IL she lives. Mrs. Durham is in COM
paratively good health, gets about the
house at times fithout assistance, eats
heartily and enjoys restful sleep. She
rises with the sun, dresses herself and
spends the day in her favorite easy
chair Good eyesight enables her to
read much, the Bible being her usual
choice. Possessed of happy temper
ament, the old lady welcomes all her
visitors.