Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-16
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

In she OhUrC1es-HoVs Mrs G0O0e.
 nough Attends . Bridgeport Church
 Dedication-Prepar for Christmas
 Entertainments - sAunt Dinah's
 Husking Beess to be Repeated To.
 NighI-The FIrst Church Pastorate-
 Royal ArcaAum Elecslon-Keminders
 Of the BIixxard-Travel on tho Horse
 RailrOAd-A Purse for an Unf0rtu.
 nate Family-N. A. Ludington's New
 Residense-Sneak Thieves and Bur-
 glars strike Fair Haven.
 "The Son Revealing the Father" was the topic of 8 fine discourse preached by Rev. A. H. Goodenoueh at the East Pearl street ME. church yesterday morning. The text was in St. John: ssNo man hath seen God at any time, etc." MT. Goodenough preached the same sermon in the Summerfield church, Bridgeport, in the evening. This church has been repaired x and improved at an ax- pense of q, ,000, and the service was sort of re-dedication. Rev. Mir. Jeffers, a warm friend of MT. Goodenough, is the pastor. At the East Pearl street church in the evening Rev. John Morse of the Trinity M. E. church preached. The new Y. P. s. 0. E. held its first regular evening service yesterday, Chas. Chipman conducting the meeting. The Christmas entertainment for the Sunday school will be given Christmas night. There will be a big Jacobs ladder containing a present for each of the 475 pupils, and there will be programme of interest. For the eighty pupils of the primary department the Christmas festivities and distribution of gifts will occur the day before, Tuesday, at 3 p. m. Next Sunday evening a Christmas praise service will be given by the quartette choir.
 w. A. Trow of the Divinity school filled the vacant pulpit of the First Congregational church yesterday morning and evening, preaching in the morning on "The Resurrec- tion.n There was largely attended meeting morning, when 1t was decided by unanimous vote to amend tho call recently extended to Gerald H. Beard to become "the settled pas tor" and to invite him to accept the acting pastorate May 1. If the call is accepted Mr. Beard, now in the Divinity school, and to graduate in the spring, will be ordained to the pastorate carly in May. This evening the society will meet to take action in calling MT. Beard.
 ttAunt Dinah's Husking Bee" will be re- peatsd by the young people of this church in the chapel this evening. There are to be sev- eral additions to the programme that was given with 70 much excellence Tuesday even ing, including new chorus and new solo by Miss Bradley.
 At Grand avenue Baptist church Rev. Mir. Sage delivered another in the series of ser. mons on .'The Prophecy of Hsggai" yester- day morning. In the evening four young persons were baptized. A large delegation from the congregation will attend the meet ing of the New Haven Baptist Social Union at Calvary church tomorrow evening. Fri day evening instead of the regular weekly prayer meeting there will be . missionary meeting, and O. J. Hull, former mission- ary in the home Aeld, will deliver an ad- dress.
 Thomas R. Thompson addressed the w. 0. T. U. meeting in the East Pearl street M. E. church yesterday afternoon.
 Live Oak council Royal Arcanum has elected officers as follows: Regent, G. D, | Bishop; vice regent, L. L. Bradley; orator, E. R. Slater; past regent, Frank K. Hull secretary, J: c. Deadly, jr.; collector. Georgs olassh. oiss 1 srs'sa5ss aSsns w. vs.san e. montagH Davis; sentry, o. J. Root. This council has | enjoyed a prosperous year, the increase 1T membership being larger than in any pre- vious year. There has been one less assess
 mont than last year. l The s'beautiful snow" brought out the bif snow blow on the horse railroad Saturday
 night, Driver Mcclure in charge. It started
 at 2 o'clock. and after going over the rout'
 was housed at Il o'clock. The last ca |
 despite the storm. Yesterday the cars ral l every 24 minutes. Driver Gser went owe the road with the four horse scraper and pu the tracks in good condition. Quite . goo'
 many sleighs were out, but the sleighing wa poor.
 The employees of the horse railroad ar
 making up purse for the family of NIT Hurley, the veteran track cleaner, who die l from tho effects of accident last week. Al
 ready $40 has been collected. MT. Hurle left . small insurance.
 Three or four days ago early in the ever ing sneak thief entered the house of Dr. K. Roberts in Grand avenue and disarrange the furniture while hunting for booty, bu nothing was missed.
 l The ladies of Grace church will give ye
 low tea in Central hall Tuesday evening.
 The lecture on Rome and the Romans
 the time of Augustus, ]" which R. Eston Phy1 has delivered before several city audience will be given in the East Pearl street shurc ALT Y. \ f~>~.