Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-24
FAIR HAVEN.

Improvements on the Fair Haven and WestviIle ROad-The Quinnipiacs' BaIl-Newsy Hits of Information. The Fair Haven and Westville railroad company have been laying couple of the Bangs patent frogs on the switch at Barnes vile bridge These frogs are universally acknowledged to be the best ever invented and give excellent satisfaction. The cars in passing do not jolt and there is no possibility ! of their getting off the track, as the frog opens to allow the cars passing one way and | immediately closes when the car from the opposite direction strikes it. The Quinnipiac base ball club intend to | give another ball in Central Hall the middle ! of next month. The men were much en- l couraged by the success of their last venture l which netted them over thirty dollars in spite of the bad night they had. There were for | ty couples on the floor, although two omnl- | bus loads that were expected from Branford | did not arrive.
 The sociabls given by the ladies of the Second Congregational church, Thursday | evening, was quite successful affair. The old-fashion Fair Haven clam chowders which have threatened to become thing of the past are about to be revived this winter, l a club of. gentlemen having been formed which has agreed to pay all the expenses of | first-class old fashioned chowder every Satur- | day night. They have made arrangements | with Albert Grannis to make it, and they | SOASSNoAOA1 ! his restaurant.
 Frank Crawford is visiting friends in 1 Washington, D. O.
 Cranberries are more plentiful this year | than they have been for several seasons | past. They are almost drug on the mar l ket.
 | Albert Thomas, an old Fair Havener, but | now travelling with Boston wholesale house, | has been visiting in town. H. Lee Mallory of Winsted, who was for so many years engaged in the dry goods bus l mess here, was in town yesterday | Ex-Mayor Wheaton of Detroit, who has been visiting his sisters, the Misses Wheaton | on Clinton avenue, has returned home. The wire mill strikers will give 8 sociable | at the Union armory next Monday evening. The Grand street Baptist church has as yet received no reply to the call recently extend ed Rev. MT. Evans of Amesbury, Mass. They | expect favorable answer soon. If MT. Evans | should accept he would be sure of a cordial 1 reception, as everyone in the church IS much | pleased with him.
 A Miss Garter of New York, who is con | nected with the woman's auxiliary to the l board of missions, will address the congrega- | ton of St. James, church tomorrow evening. 1 Her subject will be missions. The address | will dwell principally on the work of the | women of the church. The services will
 commence promptly at o'clock ana cor, i dial invitation is extended to the general l public to attend.
 The Fair Haven division No. 36, Sons of l Temperance, will hereafter hold meetings every Monday evening in Central Hall. It is
 requested that all interested in temperance | work attend.
 Builder Thorpe is materially improving his | residence on Exchange street.
 | Rev Henry Thompson of Iowa Falls, la., l will preach at the Baptist church tomorrow. 1 He has just come from Vermont, where he and his wife have been visiting her parents Charles Barber, a conductor on the Union Pacific railroad from Chicago to San Francis co, has been visiting friends in town for the past few days. MT. Barber was formerly 8
 conductor on the Shore Line railroad and l was a member of Lieutenant Henry w. Loo l mis- company of the First Connecticut Heavy
 Artillery: He returned to the West last
 night.
 Mr and Mrs Henry Tyler, of Avon, are
 ] visiting relatives in town.