Morning journal and courier., 1890-11-15
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

WsCs IT, Us New HOme-Ded1c0te0 To-
 Morrow-Brisk Business in Oysters
 A Rhode Island Report Criticised
 ssField Day.. at the Second Church
 MT. Aspinwall,s Read1ngs-Bazaar
 and Entertainment.
 There is brisk oyster trade just now and demand for all the oysters that are caught. The larger share of the Virginia plants are taken up. The plant last spring was smaller than usual, owing to the high price of stock This will make necessary heavy drafts on the native stock, and earlier than usual By the first of next week the shippers will open stock for the Thanksgiving trade, as shipments to the more distant points will then begin. Some of the shipments for nearer points are de- layed until the first par of Thanksgiving week. The annual trade for the great holiday is very large and oystermen and shuckers are very busy in the preceding days preparing for it. The Newport (R. I.) Observer had very flattering article recently about the Long Island sound oyster business. Planters and shippers hereabouts wish that all the statements were true of beds in this vicinity. Unfor- tunately they are not. But here are the Rhode Islanders observations;
 ssThe Long Island sound oyster dealers and fishermen were never happier, for the oyster 'SoG Ill &louS tAo 6Aoi0 1S Won dsrfu1ly large, fine and thrifty. Every bed is thick with young oysters, which are growing, some of the dealers say faster by great sight than we can catch them. A remarkable thing about the crop, too, is that there are no starfsh to strangle it, and the only enemy that confronts the young oysters this season is the drill. These pests are numerous and are doing some havoc, but their destructive ability is not to be compared with that of the starfish. This fall and winter will be a wonderful season for oysters; epicures have already noted that the flavor is better than it has been for many years" The new quarters of the w. c. T. U. at the corner of Grand avenue and East Pearl street have been very pleasantly and con- l fortably furnished, and tomorrow after noon there will be 8 sort of dedication ser | vice. Rev. Phebe Hanaford of this city 1 and Mrs M. c. Noble of Atlantic High | lands, N. J., will speak. There will be solos by Miss Emma Davis and other mu- ! sic The audience room with the annex l will seat about 200 people. Heretofore | the Sunday afternoon meetings have been 1 held in the churches or at the rink, and l the providing of 8 permanent audience room at the union headquarters, is an oc- casion of rejoicing for tho members. On 1 Wednesday afternoon there was 8 sort of preliminary opening of the new head l quarters. The union provided fifteen cent supper which was partaken of byla goodly company. J. P. Morrow, good friend of the union, made some pleasant congratulatory remarks. The annex, which opens out of the audience room, is fitted up for the holding of the business meet ings and the weekly prayer meetings of tho union. Opening out of the annex is a small kitchen containing a stove and cul- mary utensils for preparing suppers and
 lunches. Altogether the new rooms and
 their appointments are very creditable to
 the enterprising Fair Haven W. c. T. U. Tomorrow at the Second Congregational church will be field day" in the interest of the work of the American board of mis- sions. The secretary for the middle dis trict, Rev. c. H. Daniels, and Rev. J. E.. 1 Tracy of Madura, India, will be present and will speak in behalf of the board. The
 services morning and evening will be on
 different phases of missionary work.
 The three-masted schooner J. & H. .Scu1l,
 now at Providence discharging 100, ,000 feet
 of lumber loaded at Newberne, is well
 known here. The vessel some five years ago brought cargo of lumber here and
 was then placed in winter quarters at a
 wharf near Quinnipiac bridge until the
 following spring.
 The schooner Van Name Ss King, one of
 Hanscom's fleet, has just cleared from
 Providence for Baltimore after dischargine
 coal at the former point. This is the yes
 sel whose topmasts touched the Brooklyn
 bridge on her trial trip.
 The series of entertainments and lee lures at the Ferry street church are prov
 ing very interesting and instructive Thursday evening there were readings and recitations by Charles H. Aspinwall, [
 student of the National school of Elocu,
 tion and Oratory of Philadelphia "Ths | First Settlers Story" and "How Ruby ] Played" were rendered with especial ex | cellence.
 Upon the return from the wedding tri] MT. and Mrs. John F. McAvoy will resid l at 235 Poplar street.
 On the evening of December 9 tn young ladies of the First church will holt 6 bazar and entertainment in the parlor
 of the church.
 The new justices of the peace of Eas Haven are as follows: Democratic-C Charle T. Hemingway, Charles W. Bradley Grove J. Futile, Leveret s. Bagley, Rue s. Thompson. Republican-Dwight w
 Futile, S. W. F. Andrews, c. c. Kirk
 ham, Horace Woods.