Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-10-11
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

Big Tide OF Travel-Vfrginfa Oysters
Are Fine This Season-Caught Many
Fish-ShOt Many YeuOwhammers-
The Gospel Temperance Meeting.
There will be great tide of travel on
the horse railroad to- day and three minute
cars will run portion of the time. All
the extra men will be at work.
Luzerne Ludington is in Philadelphia.
Clifford Hemingway, who has been visit
ing at his home all summer, starts for Col
orado Springs to-day. Later in the season
he will go to California to remain through
the winter.
Henry Fowler, who has been laid up for
two weeks with lame leg caused by q
strained muscle, will resume work to-day.
He was confined to his bed for five days,
unable to move.
Hezekiah futile of York River, Va,
writes that the oysters are unusually fine
this fall and the prospect is good for the. car
goes that are to be shipped to this port. It
is expected that there will be arrivals from
the south in season for the Thanksgiving
trade.
Mr.. Dickinson of the Grand avenue
school has drilled his boys 80 that they
march very well. They were out yesterday
and the Improvement in drill was notice
able.
Euule AdlluauSo anu JOHN thompson OF
East Haven caught twenty-six blackfsh
and twenty-five cunners at the favorite
fishing ground known as Israe1's rocks,
near the mouth of East Haven river.
Mrs. A. E. Arnold of 8 Grand avenue
has given up the bakery business and gone
to Hartford to reside. The business is
being conducted by Mrs. E. M. Loveland
George Borst, relief conductor on the
horse railroad ,fs away on a weeks vaca-
| ton visiting friends on Long Island.
Driver Martin is substituting in his place
The Dayton Hook and Ladder company,
headed by Bunnell's drum corps, will
march to town this evening leaving from
the east side at 9 O'Clock. They will par
tioipate in the parade of the fremen, and
| then leave on the steamer Richard Peck for
| New York, where they will take part on
| Wednesday in the great Columbian parade,
marching in the division of firemen. They
| expect to turn out with full ranks
Mrs. John g. Tuttle has returned from
| a visit to her husbands parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hezekiah Tuttle of York River, Va.
During her stay south she has also visited
Washington and Richmond.
Robert Wilson had very. good luck shoot
| ing yellowhammers yesterday morning,
bringing down seventeen birds out of nine
| teen shots fred.
The gospel temperance meeting, con-
Quoted by thirty members of Hiram camp
division 8. of T., at the Seamen's bethel,
was of great interest On Sunday, October
% these members will again have charge
of the meeting.
There are very few hickory nuts this
season, chestnuts are in moderate supply,
but they are small, owing to the prolonged
dry weather.
The committee which is to canvass for
funds with which to purchase new
carpet for the Grand avenue Baptist
church, consists of the teachers of the
primary department of the Sunday school,
The members of the Ladies' Aid society
| of the Grand avenue Congregational
| church have refurnished the church parlor
with antique oak and willow furniture at
an expense of about $40.
To accommodate the car that has been
| used temporarily as station since the
Shore Line depot was burned, side track
has been laid from Clinton avenue to Per-
kins street.
James Cooper of East Chapel street ehot
twenty yellowhsmmers In Guilford. Very
few have exceeded this number any morn
ing this season. Yesterday morning was
favorable time for this sport, and the
aggregate number of birds killed was
quite large.