The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-20
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
ITEMS or INTEREST CONCERN
 ING NEW HAVEN PEOPLE
AHd othrr People Known sR This City, InteFessiaE SocinI Event. Here aah Elsewhere.
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remain there during the holiday Yaca- tion. ..s
 Mrs. Josephine Fitch of George street left late last week for visit with her daughter, Mrs. Lemuel Hopton of Plainfeld, N. J. She will be joined on Saturday by her son, Nathan Fitch, who will spend Christmas there. Mrs. Ernest Doolittle of Whalley ave- nue. leader of St. James choir, Vest vile, is seriously i'll at her home.
 Mrs. Samuel M. Hammond will leave on Friday for Torrington, where she will spend Christmas with her father. Dayton D. Hammond will join her on Sunday.
 Miss Loretto Murray of Fountain street has been seriously i'll for several I days.
 There will be musicale at the parish house of the Church of the Ascension in 1 Ward street this evening at 8 o'clock. 1 Among those who will take part are Miss Daisy F. Pierce, soprano soloist of the Pilgrim church. She has a very sweet soprano voice of high range; Miss I E. Jeannette Futile, elocutionist, a pli- } pill of Prof. Wetzel; F. T. Kelsey. Yale '07, a violinist of great talent. I Miss Alberta Kelsey is spending a week in Boston with her sister, Miss Virginia Kelsey. who is attending school 1 there.
 Edward Bradley of Shelton avenue, who has been, east visiting with his par ents. MT. and Mrs. James Bradley, has returned to Los Angeles, Cal, where he is employed by the Smith Premier l Typewriting company. MT. and Mrs. 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, I Conn.
 George White of Rosette street. for the past three years with the Dunn Mercantile Agency, this city, will on the first of January enter upon fine posi- tion in Buffalo with the same firm.
 The children of Roger Sherman school 1 will on Friday morning have Christmas exercises. Music, recitations and a grab bag will be the foretaste of the merry Christmas holidays, which begin l at noon on Friday.
 l Mrs. Charles Cough of West Haven was one of the prize winners at the poultry show which was held in SRFIrig- field, Mass, three days last week. N Mrs. Harry Chamberlain of Cornwall, Conn, is visiting Mrs. John Hayes of 446 Second avenue, West Haven, and I will remain during the Christmas loli- days.
 Miss Addie Watson, who has been i studying for the past year in Bridge port, is spending few weeks with her parents at their home in First avenue, West Haven.
 Kenneth McKinsey Laughlin of 277 Crown street will leave on Thursday for | BrockyilIe, Canada, where he will spend the holidays with his parents.
 Miss Hattie Fuller of Elm street. West Haven, is slightly improved after a severe attack of tonsilitis. l Delta chapter of the Theta Sigma fraternity of the New Haven high school will give its fifth annual enter tainment and dance at Music hall 6n 1 Friday evening, January 20. j The children of St. Johns Sunday school, Westville, are daily rehearsfng l for the Christmas festival to be held in the church on wednesday evening, fol- lowing Christmas. Presents have been provided for the sixty members of the school.
 The following have been reinstated in the list of eligibles by the civil service q board: William H. Dyer of Al Chat ham street, lieutenant in the fire de- 3 partment; Albert p. Thompson of 125 Shelton avenue janitor; George L. Rowley, 27 Gibb street, and John J. Healey of "A Wallace street, sergeant fir the police department.
 The Knights of St. Patrick will give their annual ball on the night of Febru. ary 20 at the Hyperion. The following is the committee: Henry E. Norris chairman; Thomas F. Nolan, secretary Michael F. Campbell, treasurer; Frank M. Carroll, James s. Maher M. D. James H. Flynn, M. D., Dr. Thomas Corbett, Dr. M. K. Grady, Stephen H Moore. Michael Murphy, M. J. Rafter Joseph Mccarthy, Thomas Gibbons Thomas F. Sullivan, Thomas Keenan,
 Michael Shanley.
 Chapter 1730, Brotherhood of St. An drew, has elected William D. Howe as director and Charles Coutts as secre- tary and treasurer for the ensuing year Miss Elizabeth Gessner is reported as improving at Grace hospital. The exhibition of decorated china by
 Miss Mary w. Atwater of this city a, the Phelps gymnasium at Wallingford Hast Friday was beautiful display ot Iskilful work. One set of plates might
 easily have been taken for genuine Louis XIV porceiaine, so exquisite wal it in taste and workmanship. There wa, music by Miss Moulthrop and Miss
 Hall, graduates of Yale music depart. nlent, which was artistic and most er1. joyable. The young girls of the scfoo served tea in delicate china ci,na fron,