Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-01-12
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.
Rev. DR.. Beach to Preach-PO1tcemel
and Car Drivers-Some People VIII

II ev. DR.. Beach to Preach-POltcemen
and Car Drivers-Some People Who |
Are Sick-HaPpy School Children
Rev. Joseph Cooke - Allie KNAPP
mans NIisfortunes-FfneC oastiDg-
The Frozen River Few Oysters
Caught This Week-Columbia Castle
Officers Installed-An Aged Oyster
man Very Ill.
Allie. the thirteen year-old son of Ed
ward J. Knspman, 81 Atwater street, fell
from his sled yesterday, breaking his leg
below the hip. Allie has been almost
cripple from birth, and has had his limbs
strengthened with braces. Yesterday he
threw off his braces to go sliding. and
broken hip is the result. Great sympathy
is expressed for the poor little fellow. DR..
E. K. Roberts attends him.
Postmaster Moore and wife and Mrs.
Charles Reutz went to Harper's Ferry
yesterday to attend the funeral of the late
Thomas 8. Smith.
The coasting was fine yesterday, and
many of the young people were out, especi-
ally in the evening. The little hills lead
ing from East Pearl to South Front street
and Gaylord's hill, were favorite resorts.
Mrs. Nelson Prentiss, who has been
visiting her sister Mrs. James 81. Thorpe
of Exchange street, started for De Land
Springs, Fla, yesterday, and will remain
until the last of May. Her two sisters,
Mrs. Thorpe and Mrs. W. v. B. Lamb, ac-
companied her as far as New York.
James A. Thorpe is improving his house,
so Exchange street, by putting in steam
heating apparatus.
D. NJ. Smith, the grocer of Pierpont
street, who has been very i'll for the past
week is improving.
William A. Warner of William A. War
ner & Brothers, sold a horse to Morris
Hermann, yesterday.
Rev. DIR. Beach, presiding elder of the
New Haven district, will preach in the
East Pearl street NJ. E. church Sunday
morning.
The letter carriers found some of the
letter boxes frcze up yesterday morning.
policemen and horse car drivers, to say
nothing of the poor fellows working in the
Fair Haven cut off.
George Woolmaker, who resides with his
uncle, Henry Cornell, and who has had
scarlet fever, is now very ill with mem
braneous Group.
Ed. W. Easter, who has been confued tc
his home since Christmas and recently had
| surgical operation performed, is improv.
| ing. He is the chief of construction at the
car shops of the Fair Haven and Westville
| railroad.
Rev. Joseph Cooke, son-in- law of Deacon
Willis Hemingway, who has been on 6
lecture tour in the west, Ia now filing
| weeks engagement in Washington, D G..
| and vicinity. He will begin his famou,
| Monday lectures in fremont temple, Bos
ton. the 1st of February.
Yesterday afternoon the Ladies' Ait
society of the Grand avenue Congrega
tional church met in the parlors. At
o'clock tea was served and s O'Clock tn
Parish Echo WAS read.
About forty members of room No. IL
Woolsey school, went on a sleigh ride t.
North Haven in a four horse barge Tues
day evening.
| For being an incorrigible truant Tholna
| Keyes, ten years of age, of Pierpoint street
was sent to the reform school yesterday.
Frank j. Mansfield has been nominate
for superintendent of the Sunday school Q
the East Pearl street NJ. E church to sue
coed L Moody, who declined re-eiec
ton. The officers of the school will b
elected at meeting of the quarterly cor
ference to be held next Saturday evening
at which Rev. DR.. Beach, presiding eide
will preside.
The west side Chautauqua circle ms
Tuesday evening.
w. Ii Warner & Brother are paintip
mp their signs to be placed in the countr
Districts in the spring.
Two thirds of the river between OUR
nipisc and the railroad bridges is froze
| solid, SIS ia the river above the railroa
bridge. Not in many winters has SO niue
solid ice been seen in the Quinnipiac. Th
ice il also firm in the Quinnipiac draw an
| none of the oyster steamers went throug
yesterday.
w. G. Lambert, ex- chief of Rock castl'
installed the officers of Columbia castl,
Knights Of the Golden Eagle, Tuesda
evening. -Four new members were in
| tiated.
Joseph Ames, upwards of eighty yea,
| of age and a retired oysterman of Sout
Quinnipiac street, is very i'll.
Very few oysters were caught yesterda
as there was hardly steamer that wei
down the harbor. If the cold snap col
tinues much longer oysters will be vel
scarce.
AT GRACE P. E. CHURCH.
!, The Young Peoples guild of Grace P. ]
church will hold an old fashioned Ne
Eogland supper, consisting of baked bean
ham, etc at the residence of Miss Nam
i joiner, 1875 James street, on Thursday evel
7 ing between 5 and s p. M, after whie
there will bs a parlor entertainment.
SURPRISE PARTY.
: A very pleasant surprise party was tel
, dered Alfred Keast at his residence, No. {
. Wolcott street, last evening by about thirt
of his friends, it being his eighteenth brit
. day. The evening WAS spent in play il
, games and dancing, after which they pa
took of fine collation.. The party brul
up in the wee hours of the morning.
oU1NNIPIAc STREET BRIDGE HEARING.
The railroad commissioners will give
hearing at the Union passenger static
l January 13, at 9:45 a. NJ, on the petite
for a wider bridge over Quinnipi
J. street. The petition calls for forty nil
! foot bridge. The railroad company wan
= = to build u bridge forty feet between Il
J. abutments
MaaQue Carnival.