Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-23
Fair Haven.

| Personal MatterG-Yacht1ng Interests-
 ermons and Pnsters-Dr. Thompson ImprOvinG-Ratd On Starhsh. Mrs. Jesse Luddington and family, of Bal l timore, Md, arrived on Saturday. They will spend the summer here. Miss Etta Lancraft is home from school She will remain here through the vacation.
 Rev. H. c. Hovey, of Minneapolis, was the guest of Deacon Luoius Rowe over the Sabbath.
 Ex-Mayor W. w. Wheaton, of Detroit, Mich, is sojourning for short time at his old residence on Clinton avenue.
 The Rev. MT. H. o. Hovey will be present at the ladies' social at the chapel of the Sec ond church next Thursday evening.
 Saturday afternoon about o'clock was the hottest so far this season, thermo meter standing 95 in the shade.
 Mrs. Hobart Hotchkiss and daughter vis- tied last week in HoIyoke, Mass. This week they will go to Brattleboro, Vt., for g visit of some weeks.
 George Graves yacht, the Happy Thought" has been hauled ont and raised up about ten inches on the deck. It is ex- pected she will be launched to-day at high water. The friends Of the Happy Thought predict that she will show some of the fastest sailing this season ever seen in this locality.
 At the evening service held at the Second church last evening the former pastor, Rev.
 Mir. Hovey, was present and assisted in the l service, and the pastor. Rev. MT. Erastus BIakeslee, preached the sermon. The Rev. Edwin Potwine oflciRted at St. 1 James, church yesterday morning and even- ing. The Rev. Mir. Burdett Hart, of the First church, preached to his people very inter- l sstinR sermon at yesterday mornings ser- | vice.
 The legion of friends of Dr. William H. ! Thomson will be grst1fed to hear that yes- | terday he was much better, and the prospect ' of his getting well soon again is very fatter- l ing.
 | Some of the Second church. people think that there should be dividend declared as I quite surplus wa- left over from the fund 1 for cleaning the church. | MT. H. 0. Rowe caught over one hundred | bushels of starfish on his grounds in one
 day last week, with dredges, by one of his
 steamers, while trying to see if he could not
 rid his beds of oysters from these des- ! troyeru.
 The Sunday services at the Home of the ! Friendless yesterday were under charge of 1 the Second church society. There was I fair attendance.
 The many friends of MT. William Way, l ~ho lives on Exchange street and who has l been in the employ of the Consolidated rail 1 road for ten years past, will be pleased to
 hear of his promotion to the foremauship of 1 the motive power department of the road. 1 Mir. Way is faithful in all his doings and is 1 well worthy of his advancement. The picnic party on Hemingway Mountain on Saturday was as pleasant could be de- ! sired. Refreshments were carried with the party, and they took their dinner and SUD- per on the top of the mountain and returned l home about dusk, each ana every one highly
 elated at the days enjoyment. On Saturday Captain Luddington, of the
 dredge steamer H. A. Stevens, took down on 1 partner, William c. Case, and Conductor ! ing the guests how to catch oysters, the party set the lines for bIack6shing. They were quite successful. Mr. Case selected a few of 1 the best and the largest fish and carried them
 to his home where he gave his friends fish
 supper from the supplies he had caught him l self
 At the Second church yesterday morning
 there was good attendance. The pastor, Rev. MT. Blakeslee, was present and con- ducted the services. The Rev. H. c. Hovey the former pastor of the church, but now | located in Minneapolis, who has come East l to be present at Yale commencement preached. The discourse was highly inter | esting.