Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-29
PURELY PERSONAL


 weeks vacation to Pine Orchard.
 John Lane of Oak street spent Sat- urday and Sunday with friends In Ansonia.
 Milton Well has returned home after spending Saturday and Sunday at Savin Rock.
 Joseph Smith, the we'll known ar chitect, and his sister, Miss Margaret Smith of New York will leave early next month for a trip abroad.
 Frank Fitzpatrick of New York is spending a few days with Edward O'Brien of North Willow Street.
 Lewis Madden of this city will play the piano at Highland lake, Winsted, during the summer months.
 Mrs Margaret Fitzgerald of Beacon street attended the funeral of Miss Elizabeth O'Connell in Winsted to- day.
 Ex-Senator William Kennedy and | family of Naugatuck have opened their Buena Vista cottage at Wood mont.
 William J. Shannahan, assistant comptroller, was visiting in New Haven yesterday with friends and relatives.
 Alfred Straub has returned from a short vacation spent at Highland lake, Winsted, where he was the guest of friends.
 Edward Byrnes, son of Mir and Mrs James Bysnes of East Main street, a student at Harvard university, has re- turned home for the summer.
 John Ryan, a student at Dart mouth college, will spend the sum- mer at the home of his parents, MT and Mrs Edward Ryan of Liberty street.
 William Comber of Central avenue started to-day on a vacation visiting Mount Vernon, Albany, Buffalo, Ni- agara Falls, Detroit, the great lakes and other places of interest in the middle west and Canada.
 Miss Lillian Hewitt of Mitchell avenue, Miss Molly Noonan of Wol- colt street have returned from Win sted where they spent the past few days. Friday night they attended the dance of the graduating class of Gil- bert high school.
 Michael F. Bowler, formerly mana ger of the Western Union Telegraph Co in this city, visited friends in town yesterday. He was called to New Ha- ven from Philadelphia by the illness of his father. He left Waterbury for Buffalo last evening.
 J. G. Twining of Cheshire road with his daughter, Alice, left for Short Beach Saturday noon and from there he will go to the new town of Gary, Indiana, to sell building lots and thence to Missis- sippi, Georgia, for the same purpose.
 Daniel F. Keenan, James Carroll, Edward Keefe, Paul Venda, Ralph Kenyon and Michael Flannigan, members of the Wideawake club, left this morning for Bantam lake where they will spend the next ten days start and left this city about 4:30 o'clock.
 Attorney William E. Egan of Southington, who has just received his degree from Yale Law school, is spending the day in town, the guest of Dr Henry McGrath, also just grad uated from Yale Medical school. and Thomas McGrath, who is now study ing law at Yale.
 Ed Speedy" Mcdonald of the Democrat, the Newsies star twirler, was presented with gold" watch fob by H. w. Yeager, the manager of the Hallet & Davis Piano com pany. for the fine manner in which he threw his benders around the Cops necks Saturday. The fob is made on a patriotic plan, the design being a gold mounted pendant on silk ribbon of the national colors.
 James Flannigan of North Main street has received his degree from Johns Hopkins medical school, and is spending vacation at his home in this city. Dr Flannigan received his preliminary education at Mt St Mary's college where he completed four years course in three and by so doing won several prizes. He took post graduate course in the aca- demical department of Johns Hopkins after which he spent four years in the medical school. He is one of the most brilliant young men that has ever gone to college from this city.