Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-03
Fair Haven.

Miss Katie Bradley left for Chicago, ILL.,,
on last Wednesday evening" via Springfield |
and Albany, where she will expect to arrive |
at her destination this forenoon.
The schooner William T. rren with cargo
of oysters (the first of the season) from
Chesapeake Bay arrived at the dock yester-
day morning.
Some of the people residing North
Qufnnfpisc street and others are wondering
when they are going to have the concrete
sidewalks that were ordered by the Select
men last summer. November LIST was the
time set for the walks to be completed, but
not one-quarter of the sidewalks have been
laid as yet.
Several of our people who were going east
by railroad were left last Monday morning
That day the time table of the road was
| changed, the train starting from New
| Haven at 1850 going IS minutes ahead of the
| previous time table,
The schooner 4. Mason, Captain Terry,
| commenced loading with oysters in the Rap
| pahannock river, Va, for this market last
| Monday. Captain Walter Avery as also load
| ing Baltimore schooner in that vicinity
this week with the bivalves for Fair Haven
oyster dealers.
The employees on the night freight on the
Shore Line railroad that leaves New Haven
| at 8 o'clock have been from sixteen to
| twenty one hours on the road each trip this
| week.
Surveyors on the Shore Line railroad have
| been at work the past week driving stakes
all along the track on the east side Of the
| river.
Mr.. Will B. Parker of Geneva, N. Y, WIS.,
tied over Tuesday night and Wednesday with
his brother Mr.. John Parker on North Quin-
nipiac street.
A feed and grain store will soon open in the
Todd block. Mr. Nell Hoadley will have
charge of the business.
| Yesterday afternoon at the Granniss corner
in Foxsn district in East Haven will be an
occasion long to be remembered by the citi-
zens in that locality, and an event that will
always be referred to in after years with
pride and pleasure flagstaff over sixty
feet in length, straight an arrow and fine
proportions, had been raised few days ago,
and yesterday at three o'clock p. m a
beautiful new American flag, size 10 by
10, was hoisted to the top of the
staff by Miss Julia Granniss and
Miss Hattie Thompson and unfurled to the
breeze for the first time, amid the firing OF
cannon, music by the band and the cheers OF
goodly numbers present. H.: W. Hunt, q
theological student in Yale College, and who
| has charge of the services held at the Foxen
chapel, made the speech of the occasion
| which was very eloquent and quite appro
| pirate for the time. The remarks were
listened to with great attention, and the
| speaker was heartily and enthusiastically ap
| by S. W. T. Andrews and Lyman Granniss
!, citizens of the town. County Commits
| sioner Jacobs, who resides near by
was present, and was called upon by
the assembly for few words, but he most
quietly declined with thanks. After these
| oil ia to
lation (of which there was plenteous sup
| Ply that had been prepared for this gather
ing. The Foxen drum corps furnished the
music and the gun used for this celebration
was the little howitzer that formerly belonged
!, on the east side, and, as it always has done
did Justice to the occasion. The principa
committee of arrangements were Cornelius
| Thomson and Frank M, Sperry, and righ
, well did they Go their work, and great credit
should be given them for their generous ser
| vices.
) The large schooner Cyrus Chamberlain, o.
Camden, N. j., arrived yesterday Afternoon
| with load of ash shoots at the key factory
8 wharf for that concern, to be used in making
tubs, kegs, etc.
The parish and social of the ladies of St
{ James Episcopal society held last evening
, | was pleasant and agreeable occasion anc
| we'll attended.
barge loaded with starch feed for cattl.
, from the Glen Cove starch works was un
loading at A H. Stevens coal wharf yester
, day.
While the salutes were being fired at tn,
1 flag raising at Foxen yesterday several horses
were frightened, starting off suddenly, max
! ing things lively for few moments, but for
tunately not much damage was done, ths
horses being stopped in the nick of time.
The M. V. BIS, of North Branford, viii
give a sociable at Montowese Hall, North Ha
I ven, next Thursday night. Some few o
our young people have been invited to b
present.
A number of people attended the flu
3 neral OF the Rev Mr.. Olmstead, of Branford
yesterday. There was large attendance
, and the services were very solemn and i'm
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