The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-01
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
ITEMsoFINTERESTo CONCERNING
 NEW HAVEN
And other People Known ia This oity
 -Interssti.g Social Events Her. and

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 -Interssti..g social Events Her. and Elsewhere.
 William A. Heard has returned from visit to his home in Springfield, N. J., where ke spent a most enjoyable Christmas with his parents.
 The Theta Sigma society of the New Haven high school will give it's annual dance, preceded by an entertainment, | on Friday evening. January 22 in Music hall. The programme for the enter | tainment promises to be an unusually interesting one. As it is an additional feature to the annual dance every eff fort to make it grand success is be- ing made. Cards of invitation have been issued for the marriage of Miss Ray Coleman to Charles Goldreyer, which will be cell ebrated at Music hall Sunday evening, January 24. A brilliant reception will | follow.
 | William and Percy McNicholl, of West Haven have gone to Brooklyn to spend New Years with their parents, Rev. and Mrs. McNicholl. | The Lotos Reading club of West Ha- ven met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. Robert Greene at her home on Wash ington avenue.
 | Professor Osgood, of Hartford, has
 been visiting Professor Pierpont, of
 Mansfield street, for the last few days.
 Fire Commissioner Nicholas J. Hayes. of New York. who was recently ap- pointed by Mayor George B. Mcclellan.
 has appointed as his secretary Alfred
 M. Downes, formerly secretary to May
 or Van Wyck. The salary of this office is $4,SO0. MT. Downes succeeds William Leary, who was Fire Commissioner
 Sturgis' secretary. The new appointee
 is well known in this city, where he was born He engaged in the newspaper
 work here and went to New York fif-
 teen years ago. He is political editor of the New York Daily News. MT. and Mrs. Edward Dickerman en- tertained the Thursday Evening Whist club last night.
 Wednesday evening MT. and Mrs. J.
 J. Merwin, of Orange. entertained at whist MT. and Mrs. Watson Woodruff. Mir. and Mrs. Frank Woodruff, Mir. and
 Mrs. Bella filling, MT. and Mrs. Yelling l ton Andrew, MT, and Mrs. Harry Welch
 and MT. and Mrs. Harry D. Thompson. The house decorations were Christmas greens and holly. A supper was served after the game
 | T. J. Fleming left last evening for a visit to his home in Pittsaeld Mass. l An enjoyable afternoon was spent at I the home of Miss Esther Northrop, 193
 Echange street, on Monday, in honor of her twelfth birthday. The affair was
 in the form of musicale, followed by a birthday tea.
 A thoroughly enjoyable social gath l ering was held at the home of Miss Mae l Mccormick, 57 Pearl street, on Tuesday evening.
 The Idle Hour Whist club of West I Haven met Wednesday, evening with
 MT and Mrs. Frederick Tarr, of George street.
 Miss Irma Daley, the well-known
 dancer and teacher of dancing, will give a large masquerade at 152 Orange street Friday evening, January s. Miss : Dailey's masquerades are brilliant af- fairs and always draw a multitude of l spect ators.
 | Arthur s. Kelsey, the pattern maker l for the National Wire company in the
 and who has been sick with typhoid fever for the past two months, is rap
 idly recovering.
 Several from the Second platoon, Bat 1 tery A. Branford, attended the dance I of the First platoon given in Guilford l last evening"
 | William H. Moseley has returned i from Florida and is now at his house in l Norfolk, Conn. where his family is spending the holidays. l Mrs. H. Grant Thompson, of Whitney avenue, will honor her young daughter, Miss M Thompson, and school friends
 and companions by little dance to be I given at the Lawn club this evening. l Miss Ada Ruth and Miss Christine Daly have gone to Newborn to visit
 Mrs. Thomas Corbett.
 MT. and Mrs. Allspaugh, of West Ha-
 ven. are receiving congratulations on
 the birth of a son.
 1 The first reception of the newly or ganized St. Johns Catholic club will be given in Republican hall Monday even- ! ing, January Il.
 Miss Lorraine Cushman, of Winches- ter Mass, is visiting Miss Katherine | Hemingway, of Harrison street, Vest | vile.
 A surprise in honor of his thirteenth | birthday was rendered John Fitzger- aid, of 1910 State street Wednesday
 evening. About forty-f1ve young peo-
 pie were present.
 Daniel Leary, of Whalley avenue, is confined to his home with an attack of
 rheumatism.
 Mrs. G. B. Bunnell is arranging a delightful musicale for the next meet 1 ing of the Dorothy Ripley chapter, D. A. R., in Southport, of which she is 8 prominent member. She is chairman of the entertainment committee and the
 last of the series will be held on Janu-
 ary 26.
 Robert Jameson, of Branford, Is more than holding his own, and Dr. Gaylord thinks he will be out again in short time.
 The Quinnipiac Canoe club will give
 an informal dance in Warner hall next l Tuesday evening.
 The first social event of the new year | in Branford will be the dance to be given at Pythian hall this evening by
 Burton Shepard.
 St. Andrews M. E. church has given