Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-04-22
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

Pastoral Call Declined-The Big April
Tide - Entertainment for Sunday
School Children-Slippers OF ITO
To Collect Seven Hundred Assess
ments-Death OF Mrs. Foy.
The heavy wind Thursday evening drove
in the heaviest tide of the season, and
there was quite shaking up of boats and
of other property along the wharves.
Several oyster shops were flooded, but
very little damage resulted.
Blackstone & Pond have begun to re-
ceive round CLAIMS from New Jersey ports.
They have leased T. Thomas shop at the
foot of East Pearl street.
An entertainment for the children of
st. James church Sunday school, was held
in the parish rooms Thursday evening.
The storm had some effect upon the at
tendance, although q goodly number of
juveniles were present. After the enter
tainment a supper was served. It Ia in
tended to hold these entertainments once
In three months.
Patrick Griffin and Margaret McQueeney
who were married on Wednesday, have
gone to housekeeping on Poplar street,
where they entertained a throng of their
friends.
A pair of brocaded satin slippers that
to the worlds fair, were worn by the great
grandmother of Mrs. Sizsr of the annex,
when che was bride in 1770.- This lady
was a niece of Colonel Seth Pomeroy of the
revolution.
Mrs. Willis Hemingway has just oele-
brated her seventy second birthday ami
versary at her home on North Quinnipiac
street. She was assisted in entertaining
her friends by her daughter, Mrs. Joseph
Cook.
Richard Christopher, for several years
open shop to. day in a portion of Buah's
cigar store, Al Grond avenue.
Several cargoes of oysters, including the
lading of the Bonita and the Grace Bailey,
have arrived this week from Virginia. The
Bailey brought 2, 500 bushels of stock for
@. D. Parmelee, Mansfield & Son, Norris
Hemingway and e. A. Hamilton. Several
other cargoes are nearly due here.
o. W. Cook, collector for the Fair Ha-
ven cemetery, has made out the annual
bills of 700 lot owners, whose assessments
fall due May 1. The assessment is for
81 per lot, and tho money raised ia for
maintainence and improvement of the
cemetery grounds. Collector Cook travels
many miles in making his collections.
Rev. DR.. Sage has received an offer to
become the pastor of the Baptist church In
Bloomington, Ill, but has declined 1t.
The church has o membership of 700, has
q fine edifice and pays salary of 81, 200
per annum. DR.. Sage's practitioners in the
Grand avenue Baptist church are greatly
pleased that he Is to remain with them, as
he is q popular and much beloved pastor.
Mrs. Mary Foy died at her home, No. 6
Lewis street, yesterday morning at the age
of seventy-nia years. She was the widow
of the late Benjamin Foy, and was one Of
the oldest residents of Fair Haven. Her
son, Franklin Foy, an engineer on the
Consolidated road, died early in the win
ter. Mrs. Foy's funeral will take place in
the chapel of the Grand avenue Oongrega-
Honal church at Q p. m.
East Rock lodge initiated two new mem-
bers Thursday evening.
Robert W. Roman Of Atwater street,
superintendent for Farren Brothers, who
has been Ill from the effects of muscular
rheumatism, left yesterday for Long Isl-
and for the benefit Of his health.
Last fall the hardening of Grand avenue |
was pushed forward from GAINESVILLE |
bridge to Ferry street, whore the building |
of the sewer prevented completing the |
work. Yesterday the road roller began at |
Ferry street to break up the roadway pre-
paratory to the laying down Of broken
stone and the rolling of tho surface. The |
probably VIII be continued
TO Quinnipiac river. |