The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-17
PERSONAL NOTES.

NAC SPSlAuiilS d COupl6 Ol months with relatives in Madison, Wis.
 Mrs. Charles Mott and son of St. John street will go this week to their cottage at Morris Cove for the sum- mer.
 The members of the E. o. W. Whist club and ladies who have substituted in the club the past winter went to Hartford by trolley Wednesday, taking lunch at the Hotel Garde and visiting the parks in Hartford, Mrs. Garde was formerly member of the club
 Miss Katherine Irene Gallagher of 22 Home place, who on Wednesday, June 26 is to marry Joseph Lyons of this city, is the first bride to receive a check of $50 from the Edward Malley company. At a meeting Of the em- ployes a few days ago the firm an- nounoed it's intention of presenting gifts of $25 and $50 as marriage gifts to their sales people. Miss Gallagher has been head of the handkerchief depart ment for several years. Announcement of the gift was made on Thursday eve- ming when number of her fellow em- ployes gave the bride-to-be utility shower. The guests gave hearty cheer for their employers.
 In St. James Protestant Episcopal church in Westvllle at o'clock Satur- day evening Miss Leila A. G. Surridge of 800 George street was united in mar riage to Edwin s. Pickett, the popular assistant clerk of the court of common pleas. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. e. Frederick Sexton, rec tor of St. James church. The organist, Miss Skinner. rendered carefully se lected programme of wedding music. The church was tastefully decorated with flowers and ferns. The bride, who is an exceptionally pretty girl, looked charming in a Princess gown of white silkedowne with yoke of baby Irish lace and trimmings. of chiffon, with which she wore large white hat and carried q bouquet of bride roses with shower of white sweet peas. Miss Sur ridge had as her bridesmaid Miss Helen e. Jones of Shelton The best man was Dr. Lester F. Turney, of windsor, Yale '9s, classmate of the groom. Miss Ella Hungerford of Wallaston, Mass, and Miss Helen Blackman of Shelton acted as maids of honor. The ushers were Carleton Read and Ralph Read of this city. MT. and Mrs. Pick ett win not go on a wedding trip until after court adjourns next month.
 A. M. Drummond of Auburn, N. r., Is for a few days theyguest of his uncle, A M Drummond 40 Whalley avenue MT. Drummond is a graduate of Ham, ilton college. '06, and during the past year he has been taking a post-grad- nate course in English literature at Harvard university. He has been ap- pointed as an instructor in the depart ment of oratory at Cornell university
 The engagement is announced of Theodore l. Driggs of the academic sen for class at Yale to Miss Louise Thacher. the daughter of Thomas Thacher, the lawyer of New York city, and onelof Yale's most prominent alum nj. Young Driggs is a popular mem her of the senior society of Scroll and Keys and also of Alpha Delta Phi. He fs an accomplished pianist and has been conspicuous on the campus for the past four years as the glass of fashion and the mould of form. In the 1907 class book in the vote for the best dressed man "he won first place, the star or Starin and the choice of Chase" MISS Thacher is a sister of Thomas Thacher, f.. who won the John A. Porter prize last June Driggs is the son ot George IA Driggs of Waterbury, the head of the American Pin company. The en- gagement is the eighteenth in the aca- demic graduating class.
 Mrs W. J. Moss, of Waterbury, ana her sister, Miss Emma Dumond, Of North Haven, left Wednesday for Wis., consin. They will spend the next six weeks visiting in Maustin with their aunt, Mrs. Mary Curran.
 The wedding of Miss Marie Wood ruff. daughter of Gideon Woodruff, or Williamsport, Pa, and Herbert Man. ton Upson, of Watertown, was solemn ized at the residence of the brides cousins, MT and Mrs. w. T. Woodruff fin Thomaston Saturday afternoon at o'clock. The ceremony was performed bv the cousin of the bride, Rev. Bishop Eartsoch, pastor of the Forty eighth Street Methodist church, New York assisted by Rev Austin Hagen, pastor of the Congregational church of Thom- aston. The reception which followed the ceremony was attended by about 200 guests, most of whom were from Water bury. Among others were MT and Mrs. J. H. Whittemore, Mrs. B. B. Tut tie and MT and Mrs. Howard Futile of Naugatuck; MT. and Mrs. Charles F Brookers and MT. and Mrs. Charles F Bliss, of Ansonia; Judge A. Heator Robertson, New Haven; Mrs. Hull and Mrs. Alling, of Montclair, N. J.; Miss Coe. Mrs. Godfrey and Mrs. Lewis, oi Titchfeld. Faulmann's orchestra fur nished music. MT. and Mrs. Upson will be at home at ITS Hillside avenue Thumaston.
 David Stanley Smith, of the Yale Music school, has just been admitted a fellow of American Guild of Organ ists, taking first prize of $1O0 in an ex' animation among thirteen candidates This is the most exacting musical ex' animation offered In New York, thu consideration being technique, inter. pretation, transposition. Improvisation reading from orchestra score, besides fugue and counterpoint writing in 2 given time.
 At the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran church yesterday Professor G. A., An