The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-07
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST CONCERN
ING NEW HAVEN PEOPLE

ANA Other PEOPLE known In This City
Interesting Social Events Here and
Elsewhere.
]. Barton Dibble of Edwards street,
Of the Office of the Security Insurance
company,is with his mother, Mrs. Fred
erick B. Dibble spending a few days at
Indian Neck.
Attorneys Albert F. Welles and A.
Burdette Hughes, returned to the city
Saturday night from Clinton carrying
string of thirty-one trout they had
caught during the day. In tho brooks in
Clinton town. The trout were as fine
a lot of the species as has been seen
here this season. The largest trout
weighed two and one quarter pounds.
DE-. and Mrs. William Kent Shepard
and Mrs Shepard, enjoyed little fam
lily dinner party at the Country club on
Friday evening. That same evening
Miss Helen Benedict Miss Helen Car
riagton, Henry Benedict and Charles
Monson, jr., were also among the
guests at dinner there.
Rev. Charles S. Mcfarland of NAL
den, Mass, has accepted call to the
pastorate Of the Congregational church
at South Norwalk DIR. Macfarland
graduated from Yale in 1897 and from
the divinity school In 1899. He was a
member of two of the Yale debating
teams that administered the first de-
feats to Harvard He went from Yale
to the Maplewood Congregational
church at Maiden where he has been
for over six years.
A most interesting engagement an
nounced Saturday was that Of Miss
Phyllis Roe of Reading, Pa, to Or. e.
Reed Whittemore Of Elm street. Miss
Roe, who Is a charming girl, is a sister
Of Richard Logan Roe of Reading, and
resides there with him She is to come
to New Haven within fortnight for a
short visit with Mrs Winston ]. Trow-
bridge of this city, and while here sew
eral things will be given in her honor.
Miss Ruth Spalding, who is at Vas
sar college, spent Founders day and
last Sunday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. Spalding, bringing home
with her college friend.
Mrs. w. H. Hackett of % Lynwood
place will give a fancy article sale at
her home tomorrow evening for the
rectory fund Of st. Marys church
Mrs. Frank p. Furlong of Hartford
and her sister, Mrs. M. Munsell of New
York, were the guests during the past
week of Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Troup
Of 545 Orange street.
Mrs. Henry w. Farnam was the hos
tess at most delightful musicale at
her Hillhouse avenue home on Friday
evening last, to which about $50 people
had been asked. There were almost
that number present and the pro-
gran1rfle given by Miss Mary Porter
Mitchell, a young singer of New York,
and Franz Milcke the violinist, charm
ed the guests. Miss Mitchell is con-
tralto Of great promise, and Is quite a
favorite with the summer residents OF
Lenox and Stockbridge, where the Far
nanls have a country house.
The many friends of Miss Annie
>Krasselt of 1877 Cedar Till avenue and
Joseph H. Delsolo, will be pleased to
learn Of their engagement, which was
announced recently,
Mrs Justus 8. Hotchkiss was the
hostess at large luncheon Saturday
at her Orange street residence.
The former students of Smith college,
including the alumnae and others who
had studied there enjoyed a delightful
reunion at the Country club Saturday
afternoon. Miss whitney was the orig
iriator of the idea to issue an invitation
to all the former Smith girls in town to
meet for little reunion and luncheon
and the result was that over fifty at
tended.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. g. stoddard are soon
to close their Temple street residence
temporarily and have taken apartments
at the New Haven house.
Mrs, J. J. Ridley and Miss Helen Rid
ley Of Orchard street, who have been
travelling in Europe the past nine
months, arrived home by the Anchor
line steamship Caledonia Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John X Beach have re-
turned from a weeks visit at their
country place in Killingly.
Timothy Sullivan, a member of the
local Carpenters union, returned home
Saturday night from Indianapolis,
where he attended a session of the ex-
ecutive board Of the InternationaI
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners,
of which body he is also a member Mr..
Sullivan reports that the executive
board voted $4,000 to the San Francisco
sufferers
Miss Mary Lewis Haley of Elm
street, West Haven who has been sing
ing for the past year at Center church,
Hartford, has accepted a position as
soprano soloist at the Scotch Presby-
terrain church, Ninety-slxth street and
Central Park West, New York city, Her
many West Haven friends congratu-
lated her upon her success in securing
this fine position.
Mrs. q. HAyes Trowbridge will leave
some time in June for Europe and will
spend the summer abroad.
The May Sunshine Bulletin calls at
tention to the annual convention which
will meet in the Pouch mansion 345
Clinton avenue, New York, May II,
and IS, and on Saturday May 10, all
delegates ana friends are invited to
meet at the Sunshine Sanitarium and
Rest home, Bensonhurst-by-the -Sea. A
musicale and reception Thursday even
ing will be another delightful feature
of the convention.
The benefit concert and dance in Mu-
sic hall, Branford, tonight, is the only