Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-10
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

In Far-Of OakIand-Stin Cher1shes l
 Memories of Ills Old Fair Haven
 Home-Death of Mrs. E. 0. Daniels |
 Great Sale of Reserved Seats-Inter. |
 est in the Yacht Race-Personal l
 Mention.
 Mrs. Gray, wife of Rev. John Gray and sister of Daniel Rowe, the former Fair Ha- ven druggist, is enjoying excellent health l in her California home, as her many friends ! here will be glad to hear. Her husband, Rev. Mir. Gray, is rector of the Church of the Advent at Oakland. He has been rec tor there for the last eight years. His salary is $s,000 per annun. Previous to accepting a call to San Francisco he was stationed over Denver, Colorado, church. Among his parishioners at Oakland is an | old and much esteemed prominent sx Fair Havener, Washington Granniss, the wealthy gentleman by whose generous gift of $5, 900 the beautiful and artistic gateway to Fair Haven cemetery was erected. Ar. Granniss retains warm affection for the home of his boyhood, Fair Haven, which forty years of residence and brilliant busi- ness success in California has not effaeed. ! LII tact, nls ASse AoI tue olo noue oL HIS youth Is perpetual. Mrs. Gray has been
 visited in her beautiful Oakland home by
 a number of our prominent Fair Haven people in the last few years.
 The Debating club of the Y. M. O. A.
 has elected these officers: President. M. A.
 Farren; vice president, W. W. Wright;
 secretary and treasurer, F. R. Manville.
 The other members are Ernest Ohipmsn,
 Edward Farren, Charles Parmelee, Robert
 Q. Hart, Henry Huntley, Lucius F. Dem
 ing, W. A. Hemingway and 0. E Steele.
 A mixed crew of Yale men rowed out in
 their shell on the Quinnipiao river yester- \ day afternoon. Postmaster Moore says he
 never before saw crew on the river so late
 in the season.
 l Another cargo of ties for the State street
 electric road is being discharged.
 At one of the coal wharves near Barnes
 vile bridge yesterday three coal boats were
 lying abreast, taking up the entire chan
 nel. Business Is rapidly increasing at
 these wharves and ere long 1t will be neces-
 sary to widen the channel.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles O. Francis leave
 on Thursday for the worlds fair.
 Only about fifty reserved seats are left | for the peoples course of entertainme nts
 at the Grand avenue Congregational | church.
 Mrs, Jeannetta Holloway of e15 Lloy d
 street ts visiting with friends in New Lon l don.
 Miss Grace M. Thompson of 93 Quinni-
 piac street has gone to Yarmouth, Me-
 Mise Minnie P. Goodssll of 42 Clinton avenue is visiting in Windsor.
 The annual meeting of the Fair Haven W. Q. T. U. will be held in their hall, cor ner Grand avenue and North Front street,
 this afternoon at o'clock. It is particu. larly desired that all members of the union be present.
 The Consolidated road presented a peti
 tion to the board of selectmen last week tc , l change the layout on Grove street in the . | Annex 30 as not to interfere with theil
 proposed new route. The subject WAS re | ferred to the committee on railroads enc bridges, and the residents who ara likely
 to be affected by the change have beer 8 | summoned to appear bsfore the body a I l their next meeting and be heard. The friends of Mrs. Earl 0. Daniels wer, ! pained yesterday upon learning of hel , death, which took place at Lyme on Sun
 day. She had been for long time euf ferer from heart disease, and a few day z ago her husband, upon the advice of he, physician, took her away, hoping thu change might prove beneficial. Ar. Dan | iels, with few other friends and thei . wives, goes away every autumn to th D North Lyme woods on @ hunting excur U sion, living in a comfoi table cabin abou six miles from the railroad station. Tn . l change did not help Mrs. Daniels and sh . died few days after her arrival She va sister of Frank Johnson, who, with MT z Daniels, was employed as painter in tn . ! shops of tue Fair Haven and Weatvill railroad.
 The reserved seats for the peoples cours 70 of entertainments to be given under tn e auspices of the Grand avenue Congregs II 'ional church, were selected yesterda morning. At an early hour quite thron
 of people stood in front of the church wait ! ! ing to secure good seats. In the city seat . | were given out at John c. Bradlsy's office
 The large number of people holding sea
 son tickets Is evidence of the great inter
 est taken in these entertainments. Tn first will be given on Thursday evening 8 y o'clock and will consist of concert b B. the famous Dudley Buck quartette an ,e Miss Hettis Bradley.
 O Great interest was manifested in tn Vfgilant-Valkyr race, and the bulletin put out were eagerly scanned yesterday. t. One of the best talks ever given befor y the Y. M. O. A. was that of Sunday after m noon by Judge Dsming. His subject wa ,n "My Sunday Experiences in the WsAt, th 'o South and Central America"
 n The debate Saturday evening at the
 N. O. A. rooms on the subject: "Shoul o Man Without heans, Contemplating v Business Life, Take a Classical Course o was decided in the affirmative. WiIlial
 W. Wright and E. D. Chipman spoke 1 ,e the affirmative and Henry Huntly and Et ,a ward Farren took the negative side.