The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-07
PERSONALS

MT. and Mrs. Samuel P. Davidge
 of Short Hills, N. J., announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Dorothy L. Davidge, to John B. Cot ton, son of MT. and Mrs. Clinton N Cotton of Gallup, N. M. MT. Cotton is 9 member of the S4th Aero Squad ron at Camp Kelly, San Antonio, Tex.
 Miss Davidge is well known in this city as she has frequently been guest at the home of Mrs. Henry C. Fairchild on Golden Hill street.. Dr. Wilfred Grenfell whose won derful work in Labrador is so we'll known to everybody is to speak on Friday evening in the United church at 8 o'clock. His lecture cannot fail to be interesting.
 Miss Helen Ahearn a member of the Senior class of the Connecticut Froe- bel Normal school on West avenue spent the week end with friends and relatives in Naugatuck.
 Mrs. Benjamin Abinger of Bran ford entertained at her home on Sun
 day. in honor of the engagement of
 her granddaughter, Miss Vera Carney and Oscar Boldtman of this city. 4 1 l Mrs. William Henry Harrison Mur- ray of Guilford announced the mar
 riage of her daughter, Miss Ethel Esther Murray, to Thomas Coffing Beach of West Hartford, younger son of Charles Edward Beach of Vine Hill farm which took place at the city hall in New York, July 27, Mag istrate Scully officiating. MT. and Mrs. Beach are now in Florida, but are to live in Hartford. Although she had known of their engagement, Mrs. Murray said today their marriage was a surprise when she was informed of it g. few days after it took place, no relatives of the couple having been present. The announcement was de- ferred until now because of the. youth of her daughter, she said, who is not yet 21.
 The brides father, the late Will liam H. H. Murray, who died in 1904, was widely known as an author and clergyman, and his writing on the Adirondacks gave him the sobriquet of "Adirondack'' Murray. He was native of Guilford, and his family live at the old Murray homestead in that town. W. H. H. Murray was graduat- ed from Yale in 1862 and was pastor of churches in Greenwich, Meriden and Boston. He delivered lectures in various cities, and his books, which included Camp Life in the Adiron- dacks," Music Hall Sermons" and Adirondack Tales'' achieved wide circulation. The present Mrs. Beach is a sister of Miss Grace Murray, of Fairfield County organizer for the Connecticut Woman Suffrage associa- ton, active in the Connecticut leg is1ative campaigns, and she worked in this city during the early spring and
 summer, and now working for sui frage in New York.
 Mrs. Harriet L. .Stapley has an nounced the marriage of her daugh- ter, Bertha Lucy to Dr. R. Warren Hall, the ceremony taking place on Tuesday of last week. Rev. B. IF. Root officfated and the couple arc now enjoying a motor trip through the Berkshires Dr. Hall is we'll known here being city tennis cham pion.
 Mir. and Mrs Patrick Burns of Hurd avenue have had as their house guests, Dr. Thomas F. Donlan of Springfield, Ill.
 Miss Bessie Kelly has had as her guests at her home on Laurel ave- nue~ Miss Anna Tierney of Norwalk and Miss Elizabeth Connolly of New Rochelle They came to the city to attend the wedding of Miss Kelly and Harry McCabe which was solemnized in St. Augustine's church this morn ing at 10 o'clock.
 The Round Table Gathering of the
 Catholic Charitable Bureau will meet
 at the rooms of the Bureau. b42 Fair field avenue, on Friday evening, Nov.
 g, at o'clock. Important busine-,s is to be transacted and all members are asked to be present.