Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-15
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

Clearing Snow From Grand Avenue
 Officers of WOolsey Lodge Installed
 The Eieanora Sails-The Lenten
 Services-Worst Walking of the Son.
 son-Made Sick by Eating Pumpkin
 Pie-It Was . Big COllection-T0
 Have a Glass Front-Valenttnes
 Distr1buted-He Shot Forty-sevcn
 Ducks.
 The Fair Haven and Westville Railroad company had one hundred men and forty teams at work yesterday carting snow from Grand avenue.
 District Deputy Dickinson of Meriden installed the officers of Wooster lodge, No. 1,856, Knights of Honor, Monday evening. He afterward gave an earnest address, in which he pointed out many benefits of the order and of the great work it is perform l ing. The new officers are as follows: Die tator, Charles H. Hendrickson; vice dicts- tor, William Sheffield; assistant dictator,
 William A. Warner; reporter, Henry D. Russell; financial reporter, o. D. Cook; treasurer, Ezra Healy; guide, 8. Lloyd Salisbury; chaplain, James P. B. Rickstts; | guard, s. Wilbur Scranton; Sentinel, I Dwight E. Merchant.
 Postmaster Moore, who has been i'll for
 several days, was able to walk out yester. ! day.
 The oystermen report many ducks flying | down the harbor in the neighborhood of | the jetty.
 Captain John G. Hervey came up from been staying this winter with his son, who is customs inspector in the barge office 1 at New York.
 Councilman Conrad Hein of the Twelfth ward gets the chairmsnship of two con- mittees of the board of councilmen. The schooner Eleanora sailed yesterday for Virginia after nearly six weeks' deten- tion in the Quinnipiao river ice. The ves- gel will load with 2,500 bushels os oysters at Chinconteague.
 The schooners bound here with oysters put into Norwslk harbor in Mondays storm, but ought to arrive to-day. The first of the course of united Lenten services, in which the people of St. James and Grace churches will join. will be held in the latter church Thursday evening. The sermon will be delivered by Rev. MT. Birdsall of the Church of the Ascension. The Parish Aid society of Grace church will give supper at the rectory on Blatch. ley avenue early Thursdsy evening,
 The Young Peoples guild of Grace church cleared $20 at thelr recent parlo, l entertainment.
 l During Lent the service of morning prayer will be held in Grace church or Wednesdays at o'clock, and there will b;
 evening prayer each Friday at 5 o'clock. | The walking Monday night and yester
 day morning was the worst of the winter
 Some of the crossings were six inche
 under water and even temporary plenl
 bridges did not keep pedestrians from wet
 ting their feet.
 Three members of the family of Walter D. Al l len of South Front street were made very il l Monday night from the effects of eating pumI r kin pie made from canned pumpkin. Dr. Ha
 was called est eroay morning and at noon tn | illness.
 ! At the Grand avenue Congregational churc 1 Sunday morning, after the address of Rev. Nil | Puddefoot, the collection taken for the America | Home Mission society amounted 70 SIT. l Fred Allen of East Pearl street has made yer | handsome shell case for Henry I. B.rIes, tn
 east side marketman. The fox, which is for sto ! ing cartridges used on a duck hunt, is made ! w. A. Warner Brothers are to put in a fro1 l Of plate glass at the store, corner Of Grand av l nue and Fl ont street, early in the spring. Hugh Wilson on recent duck hunt at Bra
 ! ford, secured forty seven birds.
 Yesterday and the day before the ice gathere
 ! of the Consumers Ice company began wol
 | again at Hemingwey's pond, to complete u
 ! housing of ice, only little more being necessal | inches in thickness. but it was difficult and W l work to house the blocks with several inches | slush on the pond.
 There were many valentines mailed at u
 ! local postoffce Monday night and yesterda
 | and carriers had goodly number to deliver
 the young people.