Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-20
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

The Oyster Shuckinx-Fell Into q
Trench-Prohibition Addresses-mr. |
Tuttless Southern oyster Farm-As.
sisted at the Postoffice for Fifteen
Years-Many Fair Haven Veterans
Off for Warrington.
About half of the oyster dealers have
begun shocking oysters. The poor condi-
ton of the oysters and the warm weather
have delayed the opening of stock longer
than usual. The Lancraft Bros. expect to
begin opening next week and will start in
with fifteen openers. Their maximum
number IL forty-fve.
A deep sewer excavation was made un-
der the horse railroad tracks in front of
the Grand avenue school house yesterday.
| In the forenoon when the cars approached
on the north track the horses were unlock
ed from the car and driven around the
trench. One team, however, was driven
too near and one of the horses slipped into
the trench, remaining nearly half hour.
He was got out, however, without serious
injury. During the delay the cars were
jumped from the track and dragged around
the obstruction. A big crowd gathered to
I
On Wednesday evening Rev. D. N.
Griffin of Hamden will deliver an address
on prohibition at the Morris Cove school
house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hezekiah Tuttle, who have
been spending the summer with their son,
John G.. futile of Quinnipiac street, ar
| rived at their home on York river, Vir-
ginia, Saturday Mr.. Tuttle will immsdi-
ately look out for his oyster interests, Sthe
season for which is now beginning. He
owns seventy-fve acres of fine oyster
ground, which is supplied with seed from
the Rappahannock and James rivers. he
sends most of his oysters to Baltimore, but
several winters ago he shipped two cargoes
of fine stock to Fair Haven.
Frank D. Ludington addressed the Pro-
hibition club last evening.
The cost of laying the temporary track
in Grand avenue in use while the sewe,
was building and the expense of removing
] the came reached about 81, 400. Several
teams with q gang of shovelers were al
work yesterday carting away the eartt
that was filed In to form bed for thu
temporary track. This filing in is being
used in levelipg up lot in the rear of the
| horse railroad stables.
Miss Grace Bradnack of Blatchley ave
nue., who has been quite i'll, is now con
: valescent.
. Eugene Smith is on duty at the post
Office in the absence of Mr.. Moore. Mr.
Smith has assisted at the postofice off ant
on for the past fifteen years.
T. The largest number of veterans that eve
. left here for one of the G.. A. r. enoamp
u ments went away yesterday afternoon
: Among the number were w. n. Pierpont
q T. g. W. jefferson, L. F. Barnes, B.
% Bradley, A. K. Brown, Giles W. Clark
Leverett P: CLARK, Charles Dayton, orri
!; Potter, A. 81. Forbes, William n. Moore
d Hurlbut, John Turner, Moses Jones, Josep
:, Rice, Noah Allen. Matthew Duffy, J. 3
Thorpe, Friend Francis, Daniel Grannist
j. Some of the party were accompanied b
q their wives. Those who went from tn
l. east eide included Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
a Bradley, Mr.. and Mrs. George Foote,
+ P. Bates, Nathaniel Bradley, Merwin Pa
II mer, Mrs. John g. Tuttle and Miss Lilli
d Lanfair. Past Commander William T
st Saturday night.
l. Arthur F. Hemingway and Miss Mimi
l. Hemingway arrived home from the Whit
n mountains last evening, having sper
1t several weeks at the Sinclair house, Betl
n lehem, N. a.
y The board of relief of Fair Haven Ea
le completed it's work on the assessment lis
% and it has been turned over to Assessor
Of W. Hemingway, who will put on the a.
70 ditional assessments on new property sim
,g November, and then prepare the IA
book.
At the school election yesterday
l. very light vote was thrown in tt
Fair Haven wards. Many did not kno
It, that an election was in progress, othe
%, | forgot about it, and the larger continge
r. did not care enough about it to go to Il
~ polls. The voting places were located
no follows Eleventh ward, barber shop
1t Grand avenue; Twelfth ward, barber sh,
er 100 Poplar street; Fourteenth ward, engi
ar house Grand avenue; Fifteenth ward, sto