The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-22

Wheeler, organist ar tne sacred aSail church. has gone south for a vacation and during his absence Professor Mar tin Reynolds is presiding at the organ.
 George A. w. Dodge. the former man. ager of the New Haven Street Railway company, and now connected with a Boston banking house. who has been the guest os David Corey and James J. Lawton for the past few days. returned to Boston yesterday morning.
 Grand Chancellor Fuller of New Ha- ven has designated Monday. April IS, as the date for the fourth district con- vention. At this time twenty-one Pyth- ian lodges will convene at Pythian hall in Hartford.
 The condition os Mrs. c. ". Pickett continues favorable and she is gaining strength daily. Recovery will be slow, but Dr. Ramsay expects it to be con- Dlete and permanent.
 The formal opening of St. Johns Catholic club will take place April Il. The following Thursday evening Fa- ther Ford will give lecture in the club on the Russo-Japanese war.
 Mir. and Mrs. Arthur Kelsey of Provi- dence, R. l., are the guests of their par ents. MT. and Mrs. Jarvis Kelsey of Center street.
 A Parker service is being rehearsed for the Easter music at St. Paul's church. All of the works to be sung are from the pen of Horatio W. Parker.
 A leap year dance will be given April P at the West Haven town hall by the Misses Jennie Kimberly. Lillian Vest colt. Alice Westcott and Bernice Sim mons. Music will be furnished by Stan ford's orchestra.
 Mrs. Ernest Doolittle of Whalley ave- nue. choir director of St. James Epis- copal church. has recovered after seri- ous attack of the grip.
 A great deal of interest is being taken in all parts of the city on the coming sair to be given by St. Joseph's church of Westville in Music hall, April 23, and the week following also. in the big whist tournament to be given on the evening of May 4, in Music hall, by the same church. Ladies in many of the city parishes are striving to dispose of tickets, particularly for the whist, which promises to be a great success.
 Mrs. c. D. Horton, soprano of the Trinity M. E. church choir, and Miss Harriet S. Ward. organist and choir directress, have been re-engaged in the same capacity for the ensuing year.
 P. T. Odea of Saltonstall avenue has accepted a position in New York city.
 Joseph Lawrence of Gamer street. who has been i'll all winter, is convales- cent.
 The ladies' aid society connected with the Allingtown chapel are planning for a supper to be held Wednesday, March 30. It will be a New England supper. The ladies of this aid society are noted for their excellent suppers, and it is ex- pected that this one will be equal to the others. as the ladies are working hard to make success of it. An in teresting programme will be given.
 Marsden Gold of Whalley avenue spent Sunday with his son, Russell, in Warren, Mass.
 Eugene McGrail clerk in the office of the town clerk clerk, resumed his duties yes terday morning after an illness of ten days with grip
 The Rev. Father Kennedy has engag- ed new coachman. Edward Brennan. His sormer one has gone to New York to live.
 Mrs. Edward Wolvin of Burton street is seriously i'll.
 At the meeting of the Edgewood lodge, K. of F., last evening, the rank
 
 candidates.
 Miss Ruth MacrilIe of Second avenue. West Haven. celebrated her eleventh birthday Friday afternoon from 1 until o'clock. Parlor games were played by the young people. The dining room table was very prettily decorated with pink, and the birthday cake with the eleven candles looked very attractive. Miss Ruth was the recipient of many gifts. Some Of her guests wska the Misses Helen Merriam, Rosalind lS.own, Ruth and Ethel Maisland, Ola Higgins, Gladys Sutton, Ruth Stannard, May Lawson. Master Ray Goodwin. Made line Mcdonald, Martha Hull, Irving Maisland and Edwin Mackrille.
 The members of the Ladies Social union of Trinity Methodist church re- port a large number of tickets sold for their Old Folks Concert to be given next Thursday evening in the church auditorium. The programme is very attractive one, and this, added to a most worthy cause, is sufficient to make the demand for tickets very large The committee has been most fortunate in securing Miss Belle Manross Sigour- ney, violiniste, and Mrs. Horton as the soloists. They will be assisted by a chorus of thirty voices under the direc- tion of Miss Harriet S Ward, the or ganist of the church. Miss Sigourney will play twice. Her first number will be Polonaise in A major, by Sitt. The second number will be double one. She will give for that one (a) Berceuse, by Renard, and (b) "The Bee, by Schubert.
 Announcement is made of the engage ment of Miss Emma Tompkins, of Der by, to Owen Clark Underwood, of Washington, Pa.
 William Hooker Atwood, vice-presi- dent of the New Haven Carriage com pany and member of the board of finance, who has been abroad for three months, is now travelling in South Af- rica, and has been greatly benefited by his vacation, part of which has been devoted to business
 It is expected that Professor R. L. Sanderso, who is away for the benefit of his health, will have sufficiently re-