The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-29
WOODMONT- Y-THE-SEA.
SOCIAL EVENT AT THE CHAPEL
 LAST EVENING.

gramme-many Personal Items About
 woodmont Residents New Houses to
 be Erected.
 Woodmont-b -by-the-Sea presents wintry appearance under it's mantle of ice and snow. and the extreme cold weather has been severely felt in some of the farm houses which have not the modern methods for heating. Residents are not inclined Ito wander from their own firesides' very frequently this win ter. but the church functions are not neglected. and the Woodmont chapel presented lively scene last evening on the monthly occurrence of the sup per which is served by the ladies of the chapel. About one hundred persons par took of the lovely supper. about twenty
 five going over from this city and about thirty-fve from Milford. After the supper an entertainment was given in the chapel.
 The musical and literary programme was as follows: Violin selections by Miss Gibson of this city; recitations by Miss Thomas of West Haven; mandolin selections by Miss Bessie Houghton of Stratford, and piano and organ selec- tions by Mrs. Broadman and Mrs. Har- ry Merwin. Some of those present from this city were MT. and Mrs. Shew, Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. Arthur Rowe, Mrs. Edward Davis. Harold Davis, Mrs. Alexander Fulton. Mrs. William Hall, Mrs. c. F. Merwin of Eld street. Mrs. Arthur J. Sloane and son, Mrs. John Damn. Herbert Damn. Miss Damn, Mrs. Charles Merwin of Bishop street
 Benjamin Ryder and wife are spend- ing two weeks in Mystic. Conn. Mrs Mortimer Treat went Tuesday to spend a month with her niece. Mrs. Joseph Smith in Mystic, Conn. Miss Julia Emmons will go next week to spend couple of weeks with her sis ter, Mrs. William Stone in New Milford. Nathan F. Smith, superintendent of the Woodnont Sunday school, went two
 weeks ago Palatka, Fla, to spend the
 rest of the winter. He writes that he is enjoying the balmy air of the south. Rev. MT. Upson, the pastor of the Woodmont chapel esides in Munro, Conn. but comes to Woodmont every Sunday to conduct the services.
 MT. Blackall of New York is having a number of improvements added to his cottage on the Crescent and comes with some of his samily every Sunday to spend the day.
 MT. and Mrs. Mark Gillespie of Wood
 mont went last week to Readville, Mass. where MT. Gillespie will be en-
 Dloyed in the new railroad shop. They will reside in Boston this winter. Mrs. Charles R. Ayres of Bridgeport spent the day Wednesday, with her brother, Fred A. Smith.
 Robert Benham, the former shoe deal
 CT in this city. still remains in Wood
 mon. since the death of his daughter,
 Mrs. Greenwood.
 The old homestead sos Deacon Ever ard Clark of Woodmont has been sold 1 lately to MT. Weaver brother-in-law of G. Worth Howe. MT. Warner will oc- cupy it and will make a number of in-
 provements on the place.
 1 MT. Petts and family, who lived on the place several years, will remove April 1.
 c. I. DoolittIe. who resides perfna-
 nently in his fine house on the Mer-
 wins Point section. has purchased land near his residence. which was part of the Merwin estate,s and will build in
 the spring nice house, which he will
 rent for a permanent residence. Mrs. Upson of Kensington will also build a nice house in the same section. The Hotel Bonsilene is for rent for the coming season. MT. Morse of Hartford who with his brother conducted hotel in Hartford, sold the business lately
 and with his family are living in his cottage on Merwin's Beach. Miss Bertha Hubbard, clerk for the
 postmaster of Woodmont, was one of a large sleighing party which left Oys- ter River last evening bound for the
 adjacent towns.