The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-17


 MT. and Mrs. F. B. Tillou, of 1s Col lege street, will start for the south Thursday, February 1T, to spenl two monthss, vacation.
 The first annual ball of the Order of Railway Mail Clerks of America will be held on the evening of Washington's birthday. in Lenox hall. the the cor ner of Broadway and York Square. The committee in charge have perfected most elaborate arrangements for the affair and it promises to be one of the events of the season. The music will be by stanford's orchestra The com mittee of arrangements is made up of A. c. Martin. E. M. Lowndes, William Fitzgerald, Matthew Hanlon and John Grimes.
 MT. and Mrs. Benjamin W. Bacon, of the Yale Divinity school were the hosts Monday night at an at home to mem bers of the Yale Divinity school at their residence PA Edward street. In Hartford Saturday Mrs. Ralph D. Britton gave a luncheon of twelve cov- | CTS at her home on Collins street, to meet Miss Hart, of New Haven. The luncheon was followed by bridge whist
 Forty-five of the old members of the Royers Wheel club held 8 reunion ban- quet Fonday night at the Oneco hotel. There were present members from New
 York, Worcester, Bridgeport and Wa terbury. An association was formed to meet at a banquet once a year.
 A number of New Haveners are at the New Rockledge hotel at Rockledge, Florida, as well as in the cottages there- Stopping at the hotel last week were MT. and Mrs. Minotte A. Chatfield and daughter, MT. and Mrs. Frederick Lord Perry and the latters mother, Mrs. E. P. Newton. Mrs. J. N. Nichols, Mrs. Edward Malley and Mrs. William Medley Going down on the steamer with the Chatfields was MT. Daniel Gill huly of this city. He stopped at Savan nah. He entertained the passengers by singing some of his favorite patriotic songs, 'Hurrah for Old New Englandn in the list. Mir. and Mrs Chatfeld and Miss Chatfield were to leave for Miami, from which point they expected to sail for Nassau on Friday last Major and Mrs. c. W. Blakeslee are at their Rock ledge cottage with MT. and Mrs. c. w. Blakeslee. Rev. MT. F. R. Luckey's mother, who resides in Poughkeepsie, is also expected at the New Rockledge hotel on Thursday of this week.
 The First M. c. church music commit tee has secured for another year the or ganist and three of the members of the choir. The only change will be in the tenor and MT. Frank Shay, formerly tenor of the Calvary Baptist church, has been signed for the year. The choir has given great satisfaction during the past year. Miss Grace V. Iittlejohn, the organist and director, deserves great praise for her excellent work in direct Ing and for the coming year has ar ranged several special musical services The choir is as follows: Miss Sara Gra- ham, soprano; Miss Edith Augur, con- tralto; MT. Frank Shay, tenor, and MT. Carl Wooster. bass.
 Mrs. 0. D. Wright of Orange street, entertained the Sewing society of the Humphrey street Congregational church yesterday afternoon. The mem bers meet once in a fortnight to make fancy articles iii preparation for their next annual Christmas sale. They also make garments for their missionary box which they send off each winter.
 MT. and Mrs. Bruce Fem and their son, Russell, and Mrs. Fenn's sister, Miss Ellen Sargent, are at Atlantic City, where the Fenns have gone for the health of their son. Young Master Fesn is a pupil of Hills school, Pots dam, where he contracted pneumonia, although he had the disease in a very light form.
 Prominent among thes ocial events of the near future will be the luncheon given by Mrs. Henry H. Robinson, of 333 York street, invitations for which have been issued.
 pr. ". M. Higgins, of the Presbyte- rian hospital of New York, has been spending a few days with his sister, Mrs. George s. McLaren, 1o9 Center street, West Haven.
 MT. A. s. Wright has issued invita- tions for a dance to be given at the Country club Friday evening. Music for dancing will be supplied by Albert Williams.
 Herbert H. Slocombe, formerly of this city, who purchased number of green houses in Omaha, Neb., has been very successful in his enterprise, and is con- templating the erection of two large vi olet houses.
 MT. and Mrs Edwin Aiken, of Past ing Flu, China, have sent word to their friends of the birth of a daughter Mrs. Aiken will be remembered as Miss Rose Merrill.
 MT. and Mrs. J. F. Newman are enter taining Miss Rock of New York.
 Mason Rogers, w. R. C., of Branford will entertain Parlnelee, w. R. C., of Guilford at their lodge rooms Thursday afternoon at 2:S0. Following the regu- lar business tea will be served and a leasant hour passed socially.
 The annual banquet of the Andover 1 club of Yale will be held in the Tontine | this evening at seven o'clock. Principal | Stearns of Andover will be present, and | 1t is hoped that as many old Andover men as possible will be on hand, as this l is MT. Stearns' first Yale-Andover ban luet in New Haven. The university | quartet will be present
 News has been received in Branford | that Mrs. zaida Leete of Wisconsin, a | sister of Mrs. Harvey Miller and Miss | Louisa Goodrich, of East Main street. is | very critically i'll.