Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-06-05
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

FAIR HAVEN NEWS.
Many New Members Added Yester- |
day - Congregational Club-Child-
ren,s Jubilee-The Season Mt Lake
Saltonstall-Sale OF oyster Grounds
Deserving of an Increased Pension
Fair Haven Boys win Athletic
Prizes-Sunday Services.
Thirteen new members were added to
the Grand avenue Congregational church
yesterday at the communion service, young
and old, and O. N. Hubbard was made
deacon. Mr.. Hubbard In a much esteemed
member of the church, and Is q resident of
Lloyd street. He Is foreman of the wheel
department at the Henry Hooker carriage
mandatory.
Next Monday evening the Congregational
club meets at the Grand avenue Congre-
gational church, and q very interesting
program is anticipated. The ladies of the
church are actively engaged making all
the necessary arrangements on their part
in connection with the affair. Mrs. Mitchell,
wife of the pastor is chairman of the com-.
mittee of arrangements. Next Saturday
afternoon the children's festival will take
place. The scene will be the lawn on the
church premises. A very attractive pro-
gram of games, ETC., is being arranged and
refreshments will be served.
The season at Lake Saltonstall has
opened briskly, the number of passengers
carried by the pleasure boats being largely
in excess of the quota at this time last
year. On Decoration day there was great
throng of people who visited this favorite
excursion spot.
The bostmen have ceased to search for
the bodies of the two young men drowned
down the hsrbor two weeks ago. Many
believe the bodies have Eeen carried out to
sea, while some say that they will yet be
found.
Captain Charles d. Seelsy has sold two
and one-ha1f acres of oyster ground near
Norwalk for about $500, the oysters bring
ing $500 additional.
Sigmund Bauer has been visited by a
special pension examiner with a view of
securing an increased pension. AT Fort
Fisher he was badly wounded by a frsg-
ment of shell, and has submitted to sew
eral surgical operations. He is incapaoi-
tated from hard work, and is deserving of
bigger pension, in which his friends hope
he will be successful.
If anyone wants evidence in favor of the
extension of the Morris Cove railroad along
the cove front heshould witness the crowds
that are transported on the road every Sun
day and see the present Inconvenience of
the terminal. When Is the promised COM
pletion of the electric road to be an accom-
plished facta
Tickets for the concert of the Yale Glee
and Banjo clus are selling rapidly. These
| clubs gave concert out of town last week
and the tickets were quickly bought up at
dollar each. The prices of the concert
| Thursday evening are only twenty. five and
| thirty-fve cents. The Grand avenue Bap-
fist church is the place and the hour of the
| concert Is 8 O'Clock.
Several of the buildings have been clear
| ed away from Hanscom's shipyard on the
| portion sold to the electric road, and the
| erection of the railroad buildings will soon
| begin. Extensive improvements are to be
made there.
| Fair Haven high school students won in
several important events at the Yale field
Saturday. Ed II. Farren was successful
in the mile walk, which he accomplished
| in 8 minutes and Al seconds, winning g
medal Fred Beck broke the record of the
high school in putting the shot, the dis.
lance being 80 feet II inches.
| Ernest Chapman is expecting to spend
his vacation at the Rangelsy lakes, putting
in much of his time trout fishing.
l 1neTe nave Deen some good strings OF
| yellow perch caoght at Lake Saltonstall the
past season. Isaac Bradley caught one
Weighing one and half pounds and
Charles Lowe secured one weighing 6
pound.
Wallace Hurtburt of Woloott street, who
was injured by one of the electric cars or
Memorial day is able to be out on crutches
In waiting for one car at the green he was
struck by another, his knee having beer
badly sprained.
At the Baptist church yesterday morn.
Ing two persons received baptism and a,
the communion service which followed
three persons were added to the church by
receiving the right hand of fellowship. In
the evening Rev. DR.. Sage preached ser.
mon to the p. s. g. E. on "vows, o,
How to Keep Them"
"Righteousness,t the Condition of Peace, u
was the subject of Rev. D. M. James, ser
mon at the Second Congregational church
yesterday morning, and in the evening he
| preached on delayed Till the Clock
| Strikes"
Mark Pitman, principal of the Fair Ha-
ven schools, attended the annual meeting
of the Connecticut Council of Education,
which was held Saturday.
Each of the derrick gangs at the cutoff
is getting out about IT'S car loads of debris,
mostly stone, daily.