The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-14

Mrs. Frank c. Porter. of Bradley street. gave small tea on Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. Ray. of Washing ton, D. c.
 Miss Laura Moeller, of Crown street, with MT. and Mrs. c. s. Johnson, of At Iantic City. sailed on Saturday for Eu- rope. They will be away about three months.
 Miss Alma Dodworth, of New York, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Koch ersperger. of Orange street. Miss Dod- worth, who is soon to marry M. How ard Kochersperger, came to attend the Walker Currier wedding.
 Miss Elizabeth Denny, of Altoona, Pa, is visiting Mir. and Mrs. Archie B. Emigh, of Il Shelter street, for a few weeks.
 Mir. and Mrs. Luman S. Parker, both aged ninety-one years. the oldest mar ried couple in New England, returned home to Meriden Saturday from an ex- tended trip across the country. They left Merlden about a month ago and visited the Worlds fair, and from there went down into Indian territory Texas and up into California While in st. Louis they visited their son, |. s. Par ker. jr.. one of the Worlds fair com missioners.
 Miss Rebecca Beach. who has been travelling in Europe for the past year, will not return home until spring.
 Miss Mollle Stanford. forward on the high school team had a tooth brok- en by the ball in the game with the Anderson gymnasium girls on Satur- day. The ball bounded from the floor and hit her in the face.
 ice-President-e -eiect and Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks will be in New Haven at the Yale-Harvard football game next Saturday. They will be the guests of their sons, Robert and Richard Fair- banks. who are students at the univer- sity.
 Miss Laura Milford, Mrs. c, w Stan nard, Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, Mrs. George Monroe and Miss. Lizzie Cook, of Branford. are delegates from Fran ces Willard W. e. T. II. to the county convention to be held at Meriden to- morrow.
 Attorney and Mrs. w. r. Wilcox, of Chester, have announced the date of the wedding of their daughter, Mss Katherine Wilcox, and Dr. R. M Gaylord, of this city. as Wednesday, November 30, at the brides home in Chester.
 Dr. Kenneth Mckenzie. of Yale, Dr.. l w. J Taylor, of the high school. Miss Marian F. Whitney. of the high school. l and Mrs A B. Woodford of the Hop kins grammar school, were in Hart ford Saturday in attendance at the sec ond meeting of the Connecticut group of the New England Modern Language association, which met at the high school there.
 John N. Jilson and wife, of this city, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of I their marriage at the home of their son, Eugene N. Jilson, at Short Beach on Saturday. A large number of friends called during the afternoon and even- ling to offer congratulations. Mir. and Mrs. Jilson were former Branford resi- \ dents.
 l Miss Elsie Hotchkiss, whose wedding to-morrow afternoon to Carl Brandes .I Ely, of Harrisburg, Pa. will be one of the largest weddings in many years, will have as maid of honor Miss Hen rietta Ely of Bryn Mawr, sister of the bridegroom, and for bridesmaids Miss Mary Tucker, of Albany. Miss Louise Barnes, of New York, Miss Marie Su- zette Hall, of New York, Miss Eloise Williams, of Detroit Miss Elizabeth j Hudson, of Syracuse, Miss Helen Day, of Indianapolis, and Miss Eunice Par \ ish and Miss May Russell, of this city, all Pennington girls with the exception I of Miss Russell. The best man will be S Stuart Hotchkiss, the brides brother, and the eight ushers, who are also Yale men, will be Augustus S. Blagden, of this city Vance Mccormick, of Harris burg, Raynfarn Townshend, Charles Brinley, of Philadelphia, George Lyon, of Pittsburg, James McClean Walton, James M. Mitchell, of Buffalo, and j Charles l.. Tiffany, of New York. Dr, 4 Newman Snyth will perform the cere- mony at 4o'clock in Center church, and 1 in all probability the church will be crowded, as 4,0O0 invitations have been sI sent out It is expected that at the re- l ception which follows at the home of the brides father, Henry L. Hotchkiss, of Hillhouse avenue, between 400 and 300 will be present. There will be a great many out-of-town guests. The bridegroon's parents, MT. and Mrs Theodore S. Ely, are already here, as are his sisters, the Misses Henrietta and Gertrude Ely, of Bryn Mawr. Champion will have charge of the dec orations, which will be on a very elab- crate scale Sherry will cater. This evening Miss Hotchliss will give din- ner to her attendants, at which will also be present Mrs. E. E. Garrison Miss Gertrude Ely Miss Helen Caring ton and Mrs. Trowbridge Allen. MT Ely gave his bachelor dinner at the Yale club in New York Saturday night I To introduce her school friends who are to act as her bridesmaids Miss Hotch- kiss gave small informal tea on Fri day afternoon at her home on Hillhouse avenue The hour was 4 o'clock, and the receiving party included her at tendants at the wedding tomorrow af- ternoon. The young girls of this city including many of the sbride's friends were the guests.
 $, The wedding of Miss May Bishop and John Walcott Thompson, of Salt Lake City, Wednesday, will be one of the