Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-08
Fair Haven Items,

The borough street lamps are to be re- l painted.
 Whortleberries are getting 10 be very plenty.
 The farmers are cutting their hay on the salt meadows. Orders for opened oysters are increasing every day.
 | Miss Nellie Lathrop returned to her home ! in Norwich yesterday. An unusually large number of country peo- pie in town yesterday. | No special business before the borough officers Monday evening. The fruit pickers say that blsckberries are l very. scarce.
 Hobart Hotchkiss and family have recev- cred from their late illness. | Merritt Farren, eldest son of Wyllis Far ren, of Providence R. l., is visiting hero a short time.
 Mir. John Hurd and family returned on Monday from their visit to Winsted, and John was on the route again delivering the morning papers yesterday. Captain William Mallory has bought the Weeks wharf property and buildings there on on South Front street. He will use it for his oyster business.
  the oyster house moved and refitted, and 8 large new building put up adjoining on the 1 land on South Front street, recently pur- 1 chased Invitations for the grand opening of the new sewing machine works in Wallingford on | to morrow evening, have been received by some of our peoplef and a few of them will accept and will attend the great reception. 1 It will be an event worth attending, and those who go will be amply repaid. MT. James B. Parsons, in the Yale Nation al bank, and wife, who reside on the east side, accompanied by Miss Gertie Sanford, who resides on West Chapel street, corner of | York, left on Monday last for Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, where they will sojourn | for two weeks. The latest petty thieving on the east side | is the stealing of garden hose from the lawns where the hose has been accidentally left out over night. Some four or more families have | lost from fifty to one hundred and fifty feet each. No clue of the thieves has been found yet.
 In the Yacht clubs cruise from Greenport, L. l., to New London yesterday, the yacht Happy Thought beat the whole fleet and dropped her anchor first in New London harbor, some time before any of the other boats arrived. The cruise of the club so far | is grand success. Mr. George A. Bradley and family are stopping at Danby, N. Y., few miles from Ithia Lake They are having a very nice time. They will visit Watkins Glen this week, and attend the great temperance meeting which is to be held there Last Friday night the Danby Cornet band gave fine serenade where MT. B. is stopping The band was invited in. The occasion was heartily enjoyed, The tourists receive the COURIER every day the morning after it's pub lication.
 MT. and Mrs. Bridge and daughters re- turned to their home in the city of churches, Brooklyn, L. l., yesterday. They have been visiting few days at Mir. John Kingsbury's on the heights.
 Several went over to Lake Saltonstall on a fishing expedition yesterday. All returned early, having each caught fine string of fish
 The salmagund club will go on a meon- Iipht excursion on the steamer Gurdon Rowe next week at their gathering. A little change from the former meetings of the club.
 There are several of the descendants of the Tuttles residing here, and many of them will attend the family reunion at High Rock Grove August 18th.
 Yesterday morning about daybreak as George A. Iinsley had just got into his sharpie, preparatory to making trip down the harbor after oysters, while in the act of casting off the line from the wharf. his foot caught in the rope which threw him over- board into the water with much force. Mr. rubber boots which dragged him down into the water-pretty well, but he being power- fuI man and a good swimmer, after much ex- ertion gained dry land all right excepting pretty good drenching. After changing his clothes he started again down the river and brought up the load of oysters all right the second time.