The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-15


 Major Charles F. Mccabe of the First battalion. Second regiment, c. N. G.. has made the appointment of James I. Webb from Company F to be battalion quartermaster, with the rank of second | lieutenant. vice Howard G. Young. who has resigned. The new appointee is son of Attorney James H. Webb of Hamden, and has been a member of the Grays for about two years.
 The board of educa ton will be invited to meet the finance committee next Thursday night wheil will be discussed plans to see that the high school pupils get free text books the same as all the other public school children.
 The two infant daughters of Samuel Beeler of Valley street are i'll with the measles.
 The portrait of Simeon Baldwin, New Haven's fifth mayor, who served in 1926. and which is the gift of Judge Simeon B. Baldwin, was received by the city yesterday and will be given a position of honor on the walls of the aldermanic chamber. The paintin is copy of a drawing executed in 1903 by St. Mes min.
 The janitorship of the T. A. B. hall on Fountain street, recently held by Peter Kennedy, has been taken by Thomas O'Connor. The Junior assembly will give a ger man at Harmonic hall this evening. About one hundred pc ople will dance. The New Haven Gra.ys have decided to hold an indoor circl1S at the armory the second week in February. | F. w. Ravens of New Britain gave a dinner Wednesday evening at the AL lyn house, Hartford. for eight ladies and gentlemen from HaI tford and New Haven.
 Mrs. William E. Wells and her daugh- ter of Woodbury are visiting Mrs. Charles M. Walker of West Chapel street.
 Mrs. s. $. Adams, Mis-. F. D. Meigs and Miss Ward of 25 Wall street went to New York yesterday to see Farsi fal' at the Metropolitan opera house. | Dr. Edward S. Moulton, who former ly lived at 22S York street, has return ed with his family from a year and a half spent in California and will open an office with Dr. B. Austin Cheney at 3S Elm street.
 The Twentieth Century Whist club Iof Branford will meet this afternoon with Mrs. Edmund Zacher.
 Henry l.. Salisbury, " ho spent the lpast two weeks at his home in this city, has resumed his studies at the Phila- delphia Dental college.
 Owing to impaired health Mrs. Peck will close Oak cottage at Bran ford Point for the balance of the winter and for the present will stay with her daughter Mrs. Coffee, in Bridgeport. Mrs. Peck, hopes to go south later.
 1 The evening of February 15 has been chosen by Division No. 9, A. O. H., for their annual ball, which will be given at Harmonic hall.
 l George Friday of East Hampton, Mass, was the guest of S. A. Gris- wold in Branford on Wednesday,. Mir. Friday and MT. Griswold left yester- day morning for New York to attend the furniture exposition. l Mr. and Mrs c. A. Maycock delight fully entertained their evening whist lclub of twenty-four members Wednes- day evening.
 The Saturday Afternoon club will meet this week with Mrs. George E. Evans.
 | Frederick U. AveriIl, clerk of the common pleas court, is in Washington attending the convention of command ling officers of the naval militia.
 The second of the series of social dances will be given at Pythian hall IBranford, Wednesday, January 20, by Burton F. Shepard. Music will be fur- Inished by Stanford's orchestra of this city.
 I John Donohue, superintendent of the Grand View sanitarium at Winsted, lcalled on Judge Celaveland of the pro- bate court Wednesday,
 Deputies Snavely and Cunning of the Royal Arcanum, and Grand Regent Paterson paid an official visit to Bran ford council, 1860, at it's regular meet ing on Tuesday evening. Officers were lelected for 1904 as follows: Regent, George w. Baisley; vice regent, H. T. Allen; orator, Frank Stoor; secretary, F. J. Kinney; collector, J. B. Thomas; treasurer, Willis Bradley; guide, E. J. Reynolds; warden, F. Stieler. After the business meeting short speeches lwere made by the grand officers. l Mrs. H. Poiser, who has been i'll and under the care of Dr. Luddington, is reported as on the road to recovery.
 James G. Palmer of Branford left yesterday morning for visit with MT. land Mrs. F. D. Whitney at the Wake field house, Wakefield, Mass. Former Senator and Mrs. Charles F. Lyman are the guests for few days of relatives on Lynwood Place.
 Mrs. Skidmore Beach is indisposed at her home on East Main street, Bran- ford
 A. H. Day of Kimberly, Root 6 Day. who is a member of the reorganization committee of the Denver & Southwest ern railroad, stated yesterday that 97 per cent. of the bonds of the company had been deposited and the success of the committees plan was assured
 A. L. Sutherland and T. J. tsoe, com nittee, appointed by the Brallford fire
 department to buy fire engine for Stony Creek, will leave for Boston on
 Friday morning for said purpose.
 Mrs. w. E. Chatfield entertained her afternoon whist club on Monday last at her home, 299 Whalley avenue. The