Morning journal and courier., 1889-10-02
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

The Hemingway Company Buying Ice
In PIainville-ROugh weather on the
oyster beds Yesterday-Old Shingles
Well Preserved-The output At she
Clock Shop-An Approaching mar.
rfase-Forming n Military Company
ofLads-Dissolusion OF the Boys' Club
Misfortune-A Hunting Camp In tho
North Lyme woods.
The old Ice at the Hemingway houses Ia
nearly exhausted and the company Is receiv-
ing two or three car loads of ice from Plain
Vile every week.
The southerly gale of yesterday kicked up
such sea on the oyster beds that the dredge
boats worked with difficulty and the catches
were small. There is good demand for
opened stock, particularly from Boston, and
shippers have difficulty in filling all their
orders. In some of the shops there is a
scarcity of shockers. This Ia partly due to
the fact that the stock is 80 small that
openers cannot make as good wages as for
merly.
Artie Reeves, twenty years of age and son
of George Reeves of East Pearl street, is very
low with typhoid fever.
f, B. Gum, who for eighteen years has run
. fish and oyster route to Waterbury, has sold
his business to Arthur Hall, who has been
running a bakers route.
Charley Cook the barber and family have
returned from fortnight's stay In the Cats
kills. They return very much recruited and
have enjoyed their outing very much.
Charley Jones, engineer of the road roller,
has not been on the machine for a week.
Owing to short appropriations it is doubtful
If the road roller is used any moro this sea-
son, although it Ia usually employed until
December l.
Rowe & Hemingway's business block on
the east side Is being reshingled for the first
time since it was built, forty-nine years ago,
and many of the shingles are perfectly sound
although worn thin by the rain.
Fred M. Brown has joined the New Haven
Bicycle club.
Captain William Orossley of the schooner
Robert Morgan, now in port with coal, was
home yesterday.
The Fair Haven employees of the clock
shop are working only five days each week,
but there is a prospect that the works will, in
few weeks, run on full time. When in
full operation the factory can turn out three
thousand movements and two Thousand fin.
ished clocks per day. Some of the employees
say that the South American visitors should
by all means be shown the clock shop, at
they will find no factory that will interest
them any more than these extensive works.
The delegation from the Baptist church tt
attend the New Haven County Baptist con-
vention at Branford will leave in four.
horse barge from in front of the church this
morning at 8 O'Clock.
Miss Sadie Beckwith of 81 Exchange street
and Samuel ]. Lata of 1872 Spring street, {
machinist In the consolidated road shops
will be married on the evening of Wednes
day, October Is, at the BRIDES house. Mis-
Beckwith is daughter of Captain John D.
Beckwith of the sound tugboat Governo
Hoyt.
Thirty five lads have formed military
company, with Frank Chapman as captain
and Frank Edgar secretary, which meets on
| night each week in the rink for drill. Th,
name of the organization has not beer
select0 as yet. It is intended to increas,
the membership to sixty.
The boys club that finished Its meeting
June will not be resumed this fall, as tn
| financial support was insufficient to warrsn
| its continuance. The maintenance cos
| 81 200 per year, and while the responses wer
| liberal at first the support gradually slack
| ened. The failure of this enterprise is locke,
| upon as public loss. The club was enable,
to instruct and amuse from 100 to 1876 boy
each weekday evening, keeping them fron
the street or questionable places. John 7
Sloan, treasurer Of the club, says there shout,
| be at least dozen of these clubs in the city
| N. Combellaok, superintendent of the club
has charge of the boys club in the old Wash
ington building opposite the precinct.
Mrs. VIM. Fl. Moore, accompanied by he
sister-in-law, Mrs. Marin, and her niece
Mrs. Ida Babcock, have gone for an EXTENDED
visit to Washington, D. G. They will ais
visit Harpers Ferry and Gettysburg.
William 81. Huntley has completed a can
vass for the Southington directory for Price
Lee & Adkins. He says business is dull II
SouthinRton and there are fewer names thai
usual for the directory.
s. M. Bronson has opened a saloon In tn
building on the East side that he recent,
purchased of e. NJ. Woodward.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Edward w. Easter, Mr.. AM
Mrs. Earl A. Daniels, Mr.. and Mrs. Edwar'
Fields and Hiram Finch are occupying tw
small houses in the wilderness of North Lynn
for two weeks hunting season. Mr.. caste
has been down there in October for the pas
five years. This season the party built
second house. John II. Linsley has returne,
from visit to the camp and says the part
| are having a splendid time. Owing to lacl
of feed squirrels were fewer than usual. !
is very wild place and one of the best il
the State for game, including foxes, cats
mounts and raccoons, and there is good feb
ing in the ponds.