Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-12
FAIR HAVEN. .

Roadway to be Repaired.SundaY Night Addresses-PersOnal Notes-TO Go to sweden-General Notes of Interest. MT. and Mrs. Fred F. Clark have returned from their wedding tour. Mrs. E. A. Farren of Maltby street is quite i'll.
 The oration at the West Haven Memorial day exercises will be delivered by Rev. P. S. Evans of the Baptist church. Mrs. William Comstock and daughter of Essex have been visiting Mrs. F. M. Wiser of Exchange street.
 Mir. James Johnson of North Front street, who has been i'll for some time past is get ! ting better rapidly. Miss H. A. Rowe, who has been spending | the winter in Madison, is now visiting her | brother, Deacon Lucius Rowe of 21 Clinton | avenue.
 The road near Lewis bridge, which has | been frequently impossible on account of the ! tide, is to be raised two or three feet for the ! distance of nearly mile. This improvement | as before stated will cost $6, 900. Charles Brandt of D. M Welch d Sons will
 start for Sweden on May 20 to be gone three | months.
 The Ivy club will play its opening game of
 lawn tennis on the new Blstchley avenue court to-day.
 | The local fishermen are now looking for
 bass well as shad.
 The horse railroad company has replanked
 between the rails on the Grand avenue 1 bridge.
 Charles Cameron, president of the Good
 Samaritans, will address the temperance 1 meeting to be held by Anchor Temple of
 Honor in Central hall tomorrow evening.
 Bicyclists say that the roadway from here | to Guilford is now in hrst-class condition.
 Lieutenant John U. Rhodes is at present
 stopping with his brother, TIedwell Rhodes 1 of West Madison.
 There will be no more cargoes of oysters | fr0Ta
 MT. and Mrs. Hamilton w. Scranton, who
 recently celebrated their fftieth wedding
 anniversary, were formerly residents of Fair ! Haven.
 Miss Ida 0. Clothier, State superintendent of temperance work in Massachusetts, will
 address the gospel temperance meeting at
 the East Pearl street Methodist church on
 Sunday afternoon, May 13, and also speak
 in the same place in the evening at 7:30,
 under the auspices of the Y. w. c. T. U.
 Miss Clothier is very pleasing speaker, and ! a large audience, especially of young people, | is desirable. Afternoon service at three | o'clock.
 The new iron bridge over the Hartford l and Air Line railroad track is in position and
 many people of that section have been out to
 view it. The approaches are yet to be com | pleted. It is fine structure and gives the | people of the locality much satisfaction. l With the bridge completed Blstchley avenue | is extended from State street, Cedar Hill, to ! the harbor at Grapevine Point. l The St. Ignatius T. A. B. society is growing so rapidly that larger and permanent quarters l are necessary. The majority of the members | favor the purchase of some centrally situated | land in Fair Haven and the erection of @ suit able building to be used exclusively by the society. A committee consisting of Frank Carroll, Thomas Maher, Joseph Patton, Frank Maloney, James Connors, John Kane ! and John Leyden- has been appointed to de. I i1n iNoh1 Ia 1v7k rok have arrived at no definite conclusion. | The proposed edifce will be fitted up with | 6 club room for meetings, etc., reading | room and suitable gymnasium. It will be
 two stories in height, probably constructed