Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-22
Fair Haven,

l cause deep regret to his many friends.
 The funeral will take place from St. Mary's | church on Tuesday morning at half-past 9 o'clock.
 \ Eair Haven.
 Captain Samuel Potter bought on Saturday
 of Ami Luddington the sharpie Annie Bell
 Joseph Bradley and Issaac Bradley caught
 on Saturday at the lake twenty large pickerel
 and one large perch, and pretty ''bunch of fish" it was, too.
 George Diamond had one of, his fingers cut
 off Saturday afternoon while at work at Hans
 combs ship yard.
 Ava Judd, George Auger and John Parker
 killed seven skunks on Friday under the barn
 which Major u. H. Strong is having repaired.
 Mrs. Barbara Mcdonald and her daughter province of Nova Scotia where they will spend the summer.
 At the Second church yesterday the Rev.
 MT. Edward Moves Ca son of Rev. Gurdon ! w. Moves, 8 former pastor of this church)
 preached at both the morning and afternoon
 service. Both discourses were very fine, and l were listened to with much attention by the
 
 The remains of the late Mrs. Mary Vince Ter, who died in Syracuse on Thursday the l 18th inst, were brought here for interment. The funeral ceremonies were held on Satur- day at the house of Mr. Horace Chase (the ! father of the deceased) on Grafton street, the Rev. Dr. ". E. Vibbert officiating Mir. and Mrs. Captain Henry R. Hayden and their daughter, Miss Alice, of Brooklyn, L. l., visited over Sunday with Jared We'd mores people.
 A. w. Brown, assistant foreman of engine company No. 26 of the Boston fire depart ment, who has been visiting here for several days, will return to Boston this afternoon. MT. Charles Chase, of Baltimore, Md, who came to Fair Haven to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Wheeler, returned to Balti- more last evening"
 Mir. Edgar Page is building large barn in the rear of his residence on South Quinnipiac | street.
 1 Edward E. Spencer, an estimable young man aged twenty years, died on Saturday at the residence of his aunt, Mrs. Jerome, on North Quinnipiac street. The body will be taken to Manchester, Conn.,, for interment on Tuesday morning via the Hartford rail- road at half-pa ten o'clock.
 1 Two city chaps with livery team owned I in the city by their careless reckless driving near the ''Four Corners" yesterday, over- turned, breaking the carriage pretty we'll up l and bruising the horse considerably. Yesterday will long be remembered in the annals of the Methodist society of Fair Ha- ven, the occasion being the fftieth anniver- sary of the organization of that church. The decorations were very fine and showed much taste and skill by the committee who ar ranged this part of the affair. A beautiful large blue banner, trimmed with silver lace, was hung in the rear of the choir gallery with 1 the names of all the pastors of the church in scribed thereon, beginning at the head with Noah Levings. the first pastor of the church, and so on down, ending at the foot with the name of s. W. Hammond, the present pastor; also the year 1882 over all was displayed, l when the church was first organized and oc- cupied the building on Exchange street. now used as dwelling house then the left side of the column the year 1885, when a larger church on the corner of Enchange and East Pearl streets was built then on the right side the year 1873, when the present building was occupied then below the col umn the present year 1882. The floral dis play was perfectly beautiful. All in front and the rear of the choir gallery were pretty flowers of different hues and colors, all nicely arranged. The chancel was one mass of ele | gant foliage of plants with splendid colored buds and blossoms and rare flowers inter spersed therein, completely hiding the pastors desk from the audience. Of the twelve pastors that are living there were eight present.. Burton Beach, pastor in 1841-2, superannuated, liv ] ing In Middl Ira Abbott in 1S43-4 | superanuated and living in Southbury; H. D. Latham, in 1845 preaching in Madison; George A. Hubbell, in 1S50-51, again in 1872, now pre- | siding elder of this district; J. w. Horne. in 165s-9, preaching in Southport | R. H. Loomis in 1865-6-7 and again in ! 1876-7-8, now in Hartford; A. s. Graves in 1970-1, now in Brooklyn, N. Y; 0. W. Galla- I gher in 1873-4-5, now in Taunton, Mass. The first service, general love feast, was | held at 9:15 a, in. and was presided over by | Rev. R. H. Loomis. The morning service began at 10:30 The opening prayer was by Rev. MT. Gallagher. There was singing and l then prayer by Rev. Mir. Horne; reading of l the Scriptures by Rev. MT. Latham, singing, | and preaching by the Rev. Mir. Graves. His subject was sThe Church, Groweth.'' Re marks were made by Rev. MT. Gallagher and | 8 collection was taken up, the proceeds to go toward a parsonage, which resulted in four teen hundred and sixty dollars being raised. The benediction was pronounced by the pastor, s. W. Hammond, after which the Sunday school was addressed by Rev. MT. Gallagher. The afternoon meeting was re- union and memorial service and began at 3:15 o'clock. It was presided over by Rev. J. Burton Beach and opened by the choir's singing the hymn "Welcome Prayer was offered by the Rev. Mir. Gallagher and his- l torical sketch of the church was read by the pastor s. w. Hammond Remarks were made by the ex pastors of the church whe were present in the following order J. Burton Beach, Ira Abbott, Henry D. Latham, J. W. Horne, R. H. Loomis, A. s. Graves and c. W. Gallagher The ser vices closed with the benediction of the pas tor, S. w. Hammond. During this service the older residents of Fair Haven who con tributed towards building the church in 1885, and some of the former residents who had come to attend this event, occupied the front seats Mir. Hammond, during his sketch showed coppar box which was laid with the corner stone in 1885. The contents were copy of the Methodist Journal, published in New York; 8 short sketch of Fair Haven at that time, the names of the members and officers of the church that year, also the namas of tha original members of the church 1