Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-19
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

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 l Down By she saIs Sea Captain Thompson,s Diseouragemens Rev. MT. James' Vacation - An old Shore Line Conductors Welcome To Camp on Ono Of she Islands Of Lake George-The Busy Smelling Season- She Narrowly Escaped Breaking Her Neck.
 Prosecuting Attorney W. P. Niles and family are at their summer cottage at Pine Orchard. MT. Niles has pleasantly situated summer home and says there is no cooler spot on the coast
 carried a load of oysters to the grounds of the Stony Creek Oyster company on Thurs day.
 Mrs. William s. Green is visiting with her daughter in Haddonsville, N. J.
 Patrick Murray of Lloyd street has sailed for Ireland, where he will spend the next few weeks.
 John Cain, the letter carrier, has returned from vacation visit to Montgomery, N. r.
 Captain Thompson of the schooner wm. Nicely, which sailed for Norfolk on wednes- day, experienced considerable difficulty in getting started, two of his crew having de- 5oIt01s 1ucso m6u WoEo bulppcu III NoH York and after being paid e small sum in advance wages they skipped out. The men obtained permission to go ashore while the schooner WAS anchored in this harbor, and they failed to return. Their places were sup piled by two additional men brought from New York.
 Rev. D. N. James will leave for northern Virginia for a months vacation about August 1. MT. James is interested with a brother in lumber and milling property in that section.
 The stone crusher has been moved to 6 lot near the Ice houses in the Annex and is near ly in position ready for work. Next week | the work of stone crushing will begin, and the broken stone will be used on the roads in | the Annex, some of which are very much in need of repairs.
 Miss Mamie LeRoy of Albany is visiting friends on Perkins street.
 Mrs. L. J. Bristol, 1s1 Exchange street, has gone to Fitchburg, Mass, to visit her sister, Edward s. Fowler, for SO many years con- ducter on the Shore Line, is visiting in the east. His friends are very numerous. For several years, or since the decease of his wife, he has made his home with his dsugh. ter, Mrs. Breed of Gainesville, O. For the past few days he has visited a daughter in Norwich. Yesterday he went to Hartford. Mr. Fowler is in excellent health. He has been warmly greeted by his many friends, I who wish for him continued health and hap | piness after so long an active life.
 W. s. Robinson, the key manufacturer, leaves for Agness Island, Lake George, next Monday to meet Rev. A. H. Ball of Elgin, | Ill.,, formerly of Fair Haven. For several seasons these two friends have enjoyed camp fife on beautiful Agness Island, catching fish | and healthing in the splendid air. MT. Rob- inson has been compelled to take these trips for his health, although at present he is very we'll.
 The work of improving the school houses ard putting them in order for the begin ming of school in September has begun. Painters have painted the outside portion of the Grand avenue school house.
 Planting of oyster shells is just booming and almost all the Fair Haven craft arc em. | ployed. Several small two-masted schoon- CTS from away are in use, having been char | necessary to load very early in the morning and late at night so as to bring the decks of the transports even with the dock. The shells are wheeled from the dock to the vessel l in barrows, usually two persons work ing together. one shoveling the shells, the other doing the wheeling. This work brings into employ large number of laborers. An active man can load two hundred bushels a day. The pay is about sixty cents per hun- dred bushels. Among the craft employed is | a lumber barge from the North river. Mrs Austin Fl. Potter of "A Woolsey | street, wife of the superintendent Of the
 Boys club. is recovering from the effects of
 fall at her home this week. In going down
 stairs Mrs. Potter caught her shoe and fell
 nearly the entire length of the stairs. As
 she alighted she struck on her head and her neck was badly wrenched. It is c wonder
 her neck was not broken.
 The family of J. D. Ludington will re.
 main in Fair Haven several weeks. NIT.
 Ludipgton has returned to Albany.
 Mrs. Frank Herold of Terryville Is visiting here.