The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-07

man Pickering. Bixby has been a po- Iiceman since 1884, and for years was stationed at the Union depot. IL Is thought that he will recover
 Miss Elsie Hotchkiss is spending the week with her cousin, Mrs. Louis Shell don of New York.
 This afternoon Harry B. Jepson will give his sixth organ recital in Wool sey hall at 5 o'clock. Following is the programme:
 Sonata in D minor, op. 42. I, Lento
 maestoso; Allegro; II. Pastorale:
 III, Finale ....... Aiexandre Guilmant Priere pour les Trepasses..
 J. Guy Ropartz .safenuet" ......... Gabriel Pierne Fugue in r minor .............. Handel Prelude to "ParsifaP' -......... Wagner 'sFlat Lux ........-...-. Teodore Dubois
 Mrs. Walter Camp returned to Allan tic City after the Milliken-Stoddard wedding in New York Thursday.
 Charles F. Bradley completed his thir- ty-fourth year in business in Branford last week. During that time he had been in three different places, and has seen many changes in the town. He has occupied his present store since 1885.
 Dorothy, the youngest daughter of the Rev. T. S. Dewitt and wife, is seriously i'll and Dr. Gaylord is in constant at tendance. Mrs. Davitt is on the sick list and their second daughter, Zella, is also iil
 At meeting of the Hopper Kettle klub Henry Dickinson '05S., was elected presiding officer for the coming year.
 Dr. Sanford H. Wadhams, first lieu tenant and assistant surgeon in the reg ular army who is well known in this city, has been ordered to Iloilo, Panay, for duty. Dr. Wadhams, who is a grad uate of Yale '94S., spent some time in Cuba and Porto Rico.
 Mrs. Charles F. Treadway of Kensing- ton has gone to Old Point Comfort, Va, for a month.
 MT. and Mrs. M. A. Dean and Miss Dean of Boston have taken apartments at Warner hall. They will remain in New Haven for several months.
 A. E. and V. T. Hammer and John W. Nichols were among those from Bran ford who attended the funeral services of the late w. H. H. Murray at the Murray homestead in Guilford Saturday afternoon. MT Murray was in Guilford Center about a week before his death and had a conversation with MT. Ham, mer over the telephone. This was the last time he was out of his house and he was quite weak then, but full of courage and hope.
 By special request Mrs. Joline Smith, pianist, and Nikolai Sokoloff, the tall ented young violinist, will give recital on Saturday afternoon, March 19, at Jolin Smiths studio on Orange street They will be assisted by Mrs. H. Grant Thompson, who will recite and sing Bimberg's beautiful Death of the Poet" The full programme will be an- nounced later. It is unnecessary to praise either Mrs. Smith or MT. Soko- loff as individual musicians, or in their ensemble work. It is enough to say that immediately after their first recital they were requested to give another at the earliest possible date. MT. Sokoloff also won new honors at musicale given by Mrs G. c. Havens, jr., of Fifty-third street, New York, recently.
 Among those who went down from New Haven to the wedding of Carlos French Stoddard of this city to Miss sandol Milliken of New York which took place on Thursday afternoon at the Church of the Ascension on Ma1i- son avenue were MT. and Mrs Colin MacCrae Ingersoll, MT. and Mrs. Eugene Bristol, Miss Elsie Hotchkiss, Mrs. Gill bert. Miss Hotchliss, Mrs. Charles Rowland MT. Kitchel, Mrs. Walter Camp. Everybody was enthusiastic over the wedding, and Miss Miliken made an exceedingly attractive bride. She wore a beautiful gown of white tucked and pleated chiffon, cut princess style with a long train and trimmed with point ap- plique. With it she also wore a coat of the same lace and a long tulle veil. Directly following the ceremony at the church the wedding breakfast was served at the brides home on Madison avenue, where the young people were showered with the usual congratula- tions and best wishes. They left that evening for the south, where they are spending their honeymoon at Pinehurst, N. Y.
 The Harstrom club banquet will be held at the Tontine Wednesday, March g, at o'clock, instead of at g, as pre- viously announced.
 One of the prettiest dinners of the sea- son was given on Friday, night at the Country club by MT. and Mrs. Herbert c. Warren of Whitney avenue to a small party of friends as sort of fare- well, as they expect to leave this week for the south to be gone until the late spring.
 Mrs. Ambler of this city won the high est prize at a whist given in Seymour Friday night by Olive chapter, o. E. S., in Masonic hall.
 MT. and Mrs. Bruce Fem, Master Russell Fem and Miss Ellen Page Sar- gent, who have been at Lakewood, N. J., returned home this week. Master Fem, who was taken i'll at the Hill scool in Pottstown, is very much im- proved in health.
 Mrs. Frank H. Whittemore of Elm street has been spending the week in New York.
 Great regret and concern was express ed among the society people here on learning from Hanover, Germany, Fri day, that Baron von Waldersee, field marshal of the German army, was very i'll there. The Baroness von Waldersee, who was a New York girl before her marriage is quite well known in this city, being a cousin of Professor James