The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-19
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 Elsewhere. l At the regular meeting of Admiral ] Foote post held Saturday evening one new member was admitted in the per son of comrade John II. sperry of co. 1 E, 10th New Jersey, who now resides at no NewhalI street. Chaplain Ferris brought with him the account of his life during the war and while a prisoner in the Bell Island and Andersonyille prisons. This was read for the benefit of the past, and many members ex- pressed themselves as much pleased with the story and it's graphic account of the incidents with which they were identified.
 Miss M. Adele Allen, instructor of Greek in the New Haven high school, will leave this week for her home in Holyoke. Mass, where she will spend the Christmas holidays.
 H. Grant Thompson is at Hot Springs, Ark, for the benefit of his health. His daughter, Miss Margaret Thompson, is expected home from Rosemary acad- emy next week, for the Christmas holi- days.
 Mir. and Mrs. John H. Griffin and son, Frederick Griffin, of West Haven, have gone to New York to spend the winter.
 Walter R. Cowles has assumed the position of organist at Christ church.
 MT. and Mrs. A. Todd and daughter, Miss Ethel, who have been the guests for the past week Of MT. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Clark of Richard place, West Haven, have returned to their home in Bedding, Conn.
 A little later a series of interesting French lectures are to be given by Prof. Sanderson of Yale, who will take for his subject French Plays. They will be very largely interesting to those who enjoy these French undergraduate pro ductions, and Mrs. William Lyon Phelps is arranging the series with this in mind.
 Miss Lizzie WadsWorth entertained the members of her Sunday school class Saturday evening at her home on Elm street, West Haven. The boys report ed jolly evening. Those who accepted Miss Wadsworth's s invitation were Har- " Dorman, Edward and Cabel DeWell, Lloyd Terry, Earl Beckwith, Daniel 7dunson and William Hubbard.
 Mrs. Frank H. Porter is receiving congratulations upon a very charming calendar which she has done for this coming year, and which seems to be one of the most approved calendars of this holiday season. Mrs. Porter has called it How to be Happy the Whole Year. and it truly would seem almost impossi- ble to have the blues with this delight ful arrangement of philosophy about, Among others who have written some quotations for Mrs. Porter are Dr. T. II. Munger, Dr. Newman Srnyth and Prof. Frank C. Porter. Of this calendar many noted men have written Mrs. Porter having been heartily congratulated by Dr. Edward Everett Hale, George Cable and score of others.
 A concert by St. Cecelia's ladies' quar- tette and the Home quartette of Spring field will be given at Library hall at Branford on Tuesday evening, January 10. On Tuesday evening. December 20, Prof. Surretti will give an illustrated lecture on s'The Relation of Music to Life, at Library hall.
 Mrs N. Albert Hooker of Wall street has been visiting her daughter Mrs. Ralph Goodwin in Thomaston, Conn
 The Saturday Afternoon Whist club of Branford met Saturday afternoon with Miss Lauretta Babcock. Four members were absent and the substi- tutes were Mrs. H. s. Itovejoy, Miss Eugenia Milford, Miss Bertha Gaylord and Mrs. Hart The club is composed of the following ladies: Mrs. F. $. Brad ley, Mrs. Robert Bradley, Mrs. John H. Beach. Mrs H Guy Linsley, Mrs H. A. Hutchinson, Mrs. Frank Tester, Mrs. Georfie Evans, Miss Grace Covert, Miss Alice Francis, Miss Mabel Foote, Miss Clara Kenyon, Miss Julia Lanphier, Miss Lauretta Babcock, Mrs. T. P. Preble, Mrs. J. Fl. Morton, Miss Vir- ginia Shepard. The next meeting of the club will be held with Mrs. Preble Sat- lirday, December 21.
 The Morris Cove hotel at Morris Cove has changed hands, w. A. Denison hay ing sold the hostelry. The present man ager is Frank c. Murphy. proprietor of the Hotel Brunswick in Court street. It is understood that after January f Landlord Murphy will retire from the Hotel Brunswick altogether and devote his sole attention to the Morris Cove 2 house.
 Mrs c. Purdy Lindsley of Elm street is spending a couple of weeks with friends in St. Louis, Mo.
 Miss Letitia Leighty of Branford has returned from Mendon, IL, and is the guest of Mrs. J. H. Morton till after Christmas.
 Mrs James Hemingway and children of Temple street have returned from Baltimore, where they have been visit ing Mrs. HemingWay's mother, Mrs. J. c. Ludington.
 On Friday evening December 30. the twelfth annual reception and ball will be given by St Mary's Ladies T. A. & B. society, Branford. This event is al- ways well attended and very popular. A fine literary and musical programme Is in course of preparation by the com mittee.
 A son was born Friday to MT. and Mrs Lucius Hudson Holt at their home in this city. MT. Hold, who is grad nate of Yale, 1902, is a son of MT. and