Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-18
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

A Pulpit Exchange-Prof1ts OF the
Jubilee Concert-Rev. Joseph Cooks
Lecrures-A6a1rs of the Borough
Electric Lights Must Come-No
Money In Raising Texan Bronchos-
Reception to Y. M. @. A. Omcers-
Martha Washington Supper-Horse
Guardsmen to Dance-Mr. Forbes
Ancestors.
Next Sunday Rev. J. L. Mitchell of the
Grand avenue Congregational church will
exchange pulpits with Rev. DR.. Joseph
Anderson of Waterbury.
The profits of the concert by the jubilee
singers were about $40. One-half will be
used for the Sunday school library of the
Second church and the remainder for the
Home Missionary association of the Con-
gregational churches.
Rev. Joseph Cook, son-in-law of Deacon
Willis Hemingway, is delivering series of
six lectures in fremont temple, Boston, on
Monday moons, the third in the series hav-
ing been delivered day before yesterday.
Afterward Mr.. Cook will start on lecture
tour in the west.
The borough fathers hold their meet
ings once each month over in Fair Haven
east, but little business out of the ordinary
comes before them. This years. tax is
four and one-haf mills, an increase of half
mill, collecting about 81 800 or an in
crease of say $500. It is found that the
finances were being run too close and that
the increased requirements of the borough
demanded more money. The present tax
will give small surplus which will be
used toward extinguishing the debt. 1t is
very likely that at the next annual meet
ing of the borough, the voters will take up
the electric lighting question. The streets
are fairly well lighted with about 100
kerosene lights, but in a few central local
tiles there is need of electric lights. Those
in favor of the more powerful lights, say
that they would vote for only
very few, enough to try the
experiment. The locality where one of
| these lights is most needed is at the corner
of Farren avenue and Meadow street, where
| the approach to the Quinnipiac drawbridge
| begins. The second light should be erect
ed at the corner Of East Grand avenue and
| Quinnipiac street. That would allow four
or five kerosene lights to be discontinued.
These two lights would afford a very fair
trial of the new light and would show the
taxpayers that the increased expenditure
would not be great. If the taxpayers
would vote for these two lights at the next
annual meeting they would not be break
ing over healthy, conservative ideas nor
entering upon policy of undue expend-
iture.
The stockholders of the Fair Haven
Stock company, who recently sold out and
wound up the company, seem well pleased
with their move. It is said that the rails
ing Of horses in Texas is not as good a
business as it was when the company be
gan business. Only the small bronche
horses are used there, and they are chiefly
available for saddle horses, with occasion
ally one broke to harness for light driving
A good broncho is worth $25 in Texas, and
costs when delivered in New England
about $40. They can be sold for from $50
to $40 when there is a good demand fol
them, and for a smaller price when the de
mand is small, so that the profit is no
very great. Then the northern market il
just now pretty well supplied and but few
bronchos are sold, so under all the circum
stances the Fair Haven stockholders wise
ly decided that they had no business to b.
dealing longer in broncho horses.
: Rev. D. NJ. James took part in the in
, stallation of Rev. G. A. Dinsmore owe
the Congregational church in Willimanti
last evening.
Thursday evening the ladies of tn
Grand avenue Congregational churcl
: will give reception to the officers an,
: committees-some twenty in all-of tn
, Y. M. G. A.
7 At the church parlors this evening an
Thursday evening the Ladies' Aid societ
of the East Pearl street NJ E. church wi
> give Martha Washington supper and er
J tertainment.
, The annual concert and reception {
the Second Company Governors Hors
Guard at Union armory this evening, wi
be attended by the Fair Haven member
and their ladies.
Benjamin F. Forbes of Branford, VIII
4 met with an untimely death last week b
, the falling of large willow tree upo
r him, left many relatives in East Have1
l He was the son of Levi Fowler who ws
), born March IA, 1885, in the house the
0 standing very near to the site of tt
= dwelling now occupied by Mrs. Eliza 1
n T. Street on Townsend avenue. Later
removed from East Haven to Branford I
what was then called the Alps, but no
known as Forbesville.