The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-30

-Interesting Social Events Here and Elsewhere.
 Mrs. Durant, wife of J. H. G. Durant, the well known jeweler is in Whining ton, Del, visiting with Mir. Durant's sister, who resides there.
 Mrs. Emma Scott, daughter of J. H. G. Durant, has gone with her husband to live in Battle Creek, Mich. MT. Scott is with a large manufacturing firm there. A. coincidence connected with their being located there is the fact that sister of Mir. Durant has born in Battle Creek sixty years ago.
 Mrs. E. A. Chatfield left last Tuesday for Rockledge, Fla, where she will spend the winter.
 Thomas F. Miller, who for over two years has held the position of stage car penter at the Hyperion theater, has re- signed. He will open a scenery studio in the near future on Davenport ave- nue MT. Miller will have the best wished of a host of friends in his new field of labor.
 The second informal dance of the Ma iectic club will take place this evening at Republican hall Music will be furn- fsned by Stanford's orchestra. The ar engagements are in the hands of James " LePenn, Casper Lambert, and John l. Sullivan.
 MT. and Mrs. Morris F. Tyler of Col- lege street have been taking 8 trip west the past week.
 Miss Olive Thompson's dance in Pyth- ian hall, Branford, tomorrow night will be largely attended and will be very pretty affair. The barn dance by St. Mary's Ladies T. A. B. society in Music hall tomorrow evening will also be well attended and enjoyable.
 MT. and Mrs. Mahlon H. Marlin of Temple street, who have been in Scot land for the past two months sailed last Tuesday from Liverpool on the saxonia for Boston.
 The Unter Uns club of Branford is looking forward to a pleasant winter with their German teacher, Miss Gene vieve GeihI, who figuratively is going to take the club with her as she goes over again her European trip of the summer. Miss Geihl will speak alto gether in German, so also will the mem bers of the club in discussing the trip each evening. The club, which now numbers nineteen members, will meet semi-monthly at the lodge room, Pyth- ian hall.
 Mrs. w. D Whitney and the Misses Whitney, who have been at their sum- n1er home in Wainscott, L. l., opened their house in Church street this week. Several prominent society women are planning to give tea and sale for a local charity at the home of Mrs. Mar < ris F. Tyler some time during the early of November The affair will be arranged by Mrs Tyler and Mrs George B. Farnarn. who is expected home fro nlaibroad soon, and they will be assisted by Mrs. Robert E. Manross, Mrs. S F. Butler, Mrs. B R. English, Mrs. H. B. Armstrong, Mrs. Arnon Alling, Miss Florence Merwin and Mrs. George B. Stevens.
 Miss Hilda Welch, who is to be mar ried to Charles Welles Bross of Hart ford Thursday next, will give dinner to her attendants at the Country club on the night preceding the wedding Several out-of-town people are expect ed for the wedding, althoubh it is to be rather small affair. The ceremony will take place at the First Baptist church, of which the brides family are prominent members at o'clock on Thursday afternoon. At the reception which follows at the home of the bride there will be only the relatives and a few friends of the bride.
 Mrs, A. Maxcy Hitler of Temple street has had for her guests during the week past Jacob Riis and Prof. Ed- ward Howard Riggs. On Friday even- ing after Mrs. Riis' lecture in Woolsey hall, Mrs. Hitler gave a little supper for her guests. ".
 Alice Merritt Cochran, who is one of the most popular of American sopranos, has been engaged to do the solo work in the production of Horatio Parker's work, "St Christopher" to be sung by the New Haven Oratorio society in FWoolsey hall, December i. Mrs. Coch- ran has a lovely voice and handsome stage presence.
 Word has just been received that Harold Woodhouse, formerly resi- dent of Wallingford, now residing at Pasadena, Cal, has recently been mar ried.
 On account of the transfer to high CT grades of work of Grace M. Rora- back and Josephine A. Hayes, the sal ary of the former has been fixed by the school board at $69O instead of $64O, and that of the latter at $500 instead of $55O the change to take effect in each case October" "27. The superintendent has ap- pointed Sarah L. Krouse to room 3, Or ange street school Her salary was fix ed at S400 to date from October 27, and Ella G. Galligan, from room to room 6; Anna A. Egan, from room to room A.
 A fine baby girl was born Saturday to MT. and Mrs Ericsson Bushnell at their home, 210 West 45th street, New York. The girl is a gouncer, and the 1,ah1y and eirl are doing we'll Mr