Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-10
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

Ine AnstaIntlOn or Rev. Wfs Mitchell
 -Prcparlng for the Annual Borough
 Eieotion-nev. MT. miller Seriously
 Iil-PromotiOnst to WooIsey school
 A Very Successful Entertainment.
 The installation. of Rev. J. l.. Mitchell, the new pastor of the First Congregational church, promises to be e very interesting ecclesiastical gathering. Next Thursday at 3 p. m. the council of churches will gather to examine the candidate and prepare for the installation in the evening. The fifteen or SO churches in the New Haven East con. sociation will send pastors and delegates, and the Church of the Redeemer, the Humphrey street church and the Dwight Place church have also been invited to rep- ressntation. At the recent installation of Rev. MT. Shirley (formsrly of this place) at Lyme, the First church was represented and Rev. Dr. Hart took a prominent part. In reciprocation an invitation has been sent to the church in Lyme to representative in the common council in Fair Haven. Rev. Dr. Little of Boston will preach the sermon of installation. At @ meeting of the First church society held Thursday evening O. s. Bushnell and Arthur H. Smith were appointed to confer with a committee from the church to make arrange. msnts for the installation services. At meeting of the voters in the borough of Fair Haven East held in the engine house Thursday evening the following ticket was nominated.
 Warden, W. A. Wright.
 R. c. Davis, Bay J. Stone, Daniel
 H. aranniss, Henry NJ. Shannon; clerk,
 Charles E. Bray; treasurer, o. A. Rose; assessors, Charles w. Hemingway, Martin
 Allen and A. L. Chamberlain; bailiff, 0. N. Mack. The election will be held next Monday and the polls will be open from a. m. until noon. There will be no other ticket in the
 field. In borough matters the east side
 people are now partizan; They have good | officers and can do no better than re-elect them. But 1t is required to go through the forms of 8 regular election just the same as l if there were three tickets in the field. The many friends of Rev. A. D. Miller, the new rector of Grace Episcopal church, will regret to learn that he is seriously i'll. He was unable to preach last Sunday owing to indisposition and he has steadily grown worse the present week. He has carbuncles
 on one arm and erysipelas has set in. Dr. Francis Bacon was called in to consult with
 the local physician this week. His case is considered quite serious.
 At St. James, Episcopal church an enter-
 tainment consisting of musical and literary | selections will be given next Wednesday | evening. A supper will be served; also strawberries and cream, and there will be a
 sale of useful articles by the ladies. From the Grand avenue school six pupils
 have just entered the Woolsey school. They
 are as follows: Gertrude Rowe, Clara Jacobs | Nora Bishop, Jesse Bauer, Burton Futile and
 Nathan Eldredge.
 | The latest report from the whist contest
 between members of the Crescent Bicycle | club shows that the score stands 206 to 185 | points in favor of Dennison and Dudley
 against Austin and Newton. The game if 500 points. As the game proceeds the inter.
 est is deepening and much expectancy Is
 evolved concerning the final result. John Clark, who recently married Miss | Buckingham, and which event has been
 likened to union of December and May, | purposes to go to his old homo in New Mil. | ford ere long to consult the town records | concerning his age. He says the old Clark homestead was burned twenty years ago. | and the family Bible was lost in the flames. Ia making up the new family record he be- lieves his age was made too high, and that he
 is now only sixty-eight instead of seventy four.
 "Japan" was the subject under consider ation at the meeting of the Woman's Foreign mission circle of the Baptist church held with Mrs. s. w. Hammond, 24O Exchange street, Thursday afternoon. Tomorrow evening Rev. D. M. James at the Second church will preach on "Thoma,, tho Discouraged" one of the series of ser- mons on the apostolic twelve. The efforts of the members of the Y. P. S. | 0. E,. In their entertainment given in the Baptist church Thursday evening were
 crowned with success. There was large at
 tendance in the irst part of the evening tc
 listen to the entertainment proper and the
 attendants were we'll entertained and were
 surprised that so fine an entertainment
 could be given for fifteen cents. The pro
 gram was as follows:
 | Selection Orchestra.
 | Reading -Mrs. Sadie Latta.
 Soprano solo Miss Amy Hubbard
 | Selection Orchestra.
 Recitation-Mrs. Merton Putney.
 | Beebe.
 l Soprano solo--Nflss Stella Dockham.
 | Musical tro-Mr. Bertram,
 Soprano solo-Miss Dockham.
 Piano solo-Miss Bernice Chase Selection-Orchestra.
 The orchestral music wes by Stevens or
 chestra. All the performers were encoreG
 and the vocalists responded. After the enter.
 tainment cake and cream was served. Rev. Dr. Horton of Cheshire Is expected tc preach in Grace church tomorrow.