Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-11
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

Flagmen for Grade Crossings-The Porgie Boats-Surprfse Party-The
 Yale Crews Missed-Golden We'd
 ding Postponed - Transplanting
 Oyster Seed-Back From Florida
 Canvassing for the New Directory
 Entertained Convention Delegates
 Smashed His Foot-Ten New Houses
 in the Twelfth Ward.
 The railroad commissioners have ordered the stationing of fagmen at the Shore Line railroad crossings at Blatchley avenue, Fillmore, Poplar and Monroe streets.
 R. B. Farren, grand master workman of the A. O. U.W. of the New England juris- with the order.
 Fair Haven is we'll supplied with DOT sies, the fish being retailed from two sloop smacks.
 A pleasant birthday surprise party was tendered Miss Libbie Willis at her resi- dence, 334 Exchange street, Monday even ing. The guests were entertained by vo- cal and instrumental music and were treated to bountiful collation. by Caterer Pickett, after which dancing was in order and then the sixty or more young people departed in the wee hours of the morning, voting the hostess many happy returns of the occasion. Among those present were Misses Florence Santry, Jean Ronald, Rowena Keast. Edith Porter, Miss Reyes, Mise Bartlett. Bina Common, Hattie Con verse, Daisy Duell and Jennie Davison of Westville and Frank Ronald, Dr. Ripley, Fred Williams, Wilfred Keast, Bert Rus sell, Frank Edgar and Sam Bishop. The Yale crews which practiced on the Quinnipiac river so frequently early in the season are seldom seen there now, the har- bor waters being so smooth that the osrs- men prefer that course, as the river is too full of oyster stakes. In practising on the river the oarsmen are also obliged to row under three bridges, the abutments of which are a source of difficulty and some strong. Sometimes the boats go up to Lewis bridge. The Yale oarsmen are con- sidsrably missed, as their practice spins | are always watched with pleasure. Mrs. w. H. Moore was intending to go | to Harper's Ferry this week to attend the | golden wedding of her ptrents, MT. and | Mrs. T. s. Smith, but owing to sickness l in the family of the latter the celebration, which was to have been held today, is | postponed.
 Many oyster boats were seen on the Qu1nn1p1ac rlver yesterday, the Oyetermen being engaged in transplanting oyster l seed.
 | Mrs. E. E. Hart of 86 Woolsey street arrived home last evening after @ three months sojourn in Florida. | John Price is capvassing in the Elev. enth, Twelfth and Fourteenth wards, the business places for the new city directory | to be issued the last of June. He says he finds many changes of business places ir
 the Fair Haven wards.
 T. G. w. Jefferson & Son are painting
 tho new cottage of A. H. Kellsm at Shor
 Beach.
 Ten new houses for MT. Gay, located or
 Ferry and Peck streets, are nearly com
 pleted. They are two story tenemen
 houses, and present a very tasty ant
 creditable appearance and are handsome
 improvements.
 | T. G. w. Jefferson Is hobbling around
 with slippered left foot, a heavy pape
 weight having fallen on his big toe ant
 considerably damaging ths same. Andrew Jackson and Gilbert s. Stone
 good old democrats from Durham, attend
 ing the democratic convention, wer
 guests of Charles O. Francis yester day.