Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-06
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

The Open Horse Cars-Hiram Camp,s Visit-To Reside In Waterbury-The
 Smelling Season-East Haven veter.
 ans-To Dedicate a Lodge Room
 MT. Huri's old Horse to be Retired
 -Forbes Avenue Building Line.
 When the two open cars now building are received, the entire main line will be equipped. It was intended to put open cars on the depot branch this summer, but this improvement will now be delayed until another season. Owing to the varia ble weather this week, it has been neces- sary to frequently shift from open to closed cars and vice versa.
 The Water company is pushing the work of extending it's water mains to Morris Cove. Already the work has progressed down to the Mitchell place, and it is ex- pected that the main will reach the Cove by the time that the season actively opens. Already there are several families occupy | ing cottages at the Cove.
 Hiram Camp, in company with D. l.. 1 Moody, the evangelist, went to Northford, :, Mass, Thursday, in the interest of the 1 school of which MT. Camp is one of the | trustees. MT. Camp gave $20, 900 towards the endowment of one of Moody's great schools, and he takes keen interest in the prosperity of the same.
 Edwin F. Eggleston of Waterbury and Margaret A. Logan, sister of Mrs. Keech, 336 Exchange street, who were married this week by Rev. E. c. Sage, Ph. D., will l reside at Waterbury. They received a number of very pretty gifts.
 Big shell heaps are accommodating on the wharves in the vicinity of the oyster shops, and in few weeks the work of sending the shells down on the oyster beds will begin. It is expected that more shells will be planted this season than were laid down last summer. The oystermen are hoping for good oyster set this fall, and ! so they will take the risk of planting large quantities of shells on which the almost everything in the line of boat that can carry many shells will be impress ed into the service of the smelling feet. ! The shelling season gives an air of activi- ty along the water front.
 The names of veterans whose graves were decorated last week in the East Haven cemeteries are as follows: Old cemetery Captain Henry G. Garrish, Company K, l Sixth regiment, 0. V.; First Lieutenant Edward L Smith, Company G, Tenth regiment, Q. "; Isaac B: Thompson, Jerre H. Thompson, Company c, Thirty third regiment, N. J. V.; George F. Bradley, Company F, Tenth regiment, c. "; Robert H. Billbrough, Company E, Seventh regiment, c. V.; David L. Smith, Company A, Tenth regiment, c. V.; Ed ward J. Doolittle, Company D, Fifteenth regiment, c. V.; Theron B. Hotchkiss, Benjamin Street, Robert G. Morris, Her bert H. Moulthrop, George R. Woodward, Henry Burr; Green Lawn cemetery Elijah H. Futile, sergeant, First Light Bat tery, c. V.
 Mrs. M. F. Green, president of the Fai1 bury on Wednesday, responded to the vel come by Mrs. w. P Elsdon.
 Hiram Camp division, Sons of Temper. ance, has fitted up new lodge room in l Central hall, and there will be dedicatory exercises next Thursday evening. There will be program of interesting exercises which are being prepared.
 John G. Hurd, the newspaper agent has bought fine fve-year-old Vermont colt of the Morgan breed. The animal
 weighs 1,200 pounds and promises to make fine horse for the paper delivery
 business. "John" has driven the coli l several times on his route and he works
 we'll The old horse that has faithfully
 carried the newspapers for the Fair Have1
 reading public the last twelve years, ha l earned the right to be retired He is st
 trained that he knows just where to stol
 to deliver papers to the customers of hi
 owner. He is seventeen years old and ii
 getting too slow for MT. Hurd's big de
 livery business. If the colt makes as goot
 horse as the old animal, he will hav l done well indeed.
 Next Monday the board of selectme,
 will go down to Forbes avenue in tn
 annex with view of deciding upon tn proper width for building line. Som
 favor sixty feet and others sixty-six.