Morning journal and courier., 1891-12-25
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.
Tho Christmas Season-Festfvfttes
 Held in Many Places-Funerals of Yesterday-The Unity Cemmandery
 At tho Home of the Friendless-

The Christmas Season-Festfvtt1es | Held in Many Places-Funerals Of Yesterday-The Unity Commandery At tho Home of sthe Frtendiess- Five Interments This Week-The New Council of American mechan- ics-Shopping in the Rain.
 The Fair Haven postofice will close to- day at noon, and the carriers will make only one delivery.
 The funeral of the late Matthew Lawlor, of Ferry path, occurred yesterday morning at St. Xavier's church.
 John H. Coleman, the South Front street oyster dealer, has been presented by his employees with handsome rocker.
 There were Christmas festivities for the children at the Grand avenue Baptist church last evening. Despite the bad weather it was 8 very enjoyable affair. There were interesting exercises and dis tribution of gifts.
 | The entertainment at the Methodist church will occur this evening. There | will be an interesting program, and gifts will be taken from 8 house built on the | platform, and distributed to tue children.
 The entertainment for the children of the St. Xavier's parochial school, in rooms | 1 to 6 inclusive, occurred on "Wednesday, At the kindergarten school of Miss Car rie M. Chapman on Ferry street, a sants claus put in an appearance yesterda.v v after noon and distributed gifts to the children l The teacher was also the recipient oE sev eral gifts.
 At the Grace and St. James, Epi .co pa churches there will be the usual Chri struai morning services. The churches have 1 been prettily decorated.
 1 The Unity commsndery, which includes in it's membership fifty Fair Haveners, wil give an entertainment to continue te I evenings, beginning January 29. Ere Siebert of this place, chairman of the bal committee, has hired the old Union armory, at the corner of Chapel and Union streets.
 A Christmas tree entertainment was given at the Home of the Friendless yes terday afternoon at o'clock. Every in l mate received handsome gift through the kindness of Mrs. Justus S. Hotchkiss. The big tree was loaded with gifts and with it's decorations and illumination fl looked very pretty. Each boy and girl received doll among their other gifts Refreshments were also served and the children sang Christmas songs. The ladies of the home were also remembered Mrs. Latham, the matron, received large framed picture.
 There have been five interments in thu Fair Haven cemetery so far this week Sexton Siebert says that SO large numbe for five days isssvery rare.
 Forty members have been enrolled fo the new camp of American Mechanics soor to be started here. The final meeting be fore organization will probably be helt next week, and the camp is to start witt fifty members. There are about thirt, Fair Haven members enrolled in Wash ington camp, which will soon move iron the present G. A. R. hall in the Bensdic building to the Masonic hall on Churel l street.
 sIt has not seemed at all like Christ mas," is the general exclamation of tn people this week. This is due in part t. the fact that there are so many peopl ill and the wretched weather ha much to do with it. Fai Haven people, who had lat holiday purchases to make yesterday il the rain were anything but happy people But they shoppA'd nevertheless. The car riers who came out in the rain loads' down with Christmas packages for Fai l Haveners had the commiseration of al their friends.
 The bearers at the funeral of the lat Mrs. John T. Riley of 409 Blatchley ave nue, held from St. Francis church yeste, day morning, were Henry Boucher, Johl Delaney, Patrick F. Delaney, James Toole Thomas Higgins and Martin Marinan. 4 solemn requiem mass was conducted b l Rev, Father Mulholland.