Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-16
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

BaIl of Dayton Hook and Ladder
 Company-A Promfsing Colt-Meet-
 ing of ward Registrars Pastor
 Handss Vacation.
 On the evening of December 13 the Day. ton Hook and Ladder company will give their annual ball in Central hall. Members of the West Haven companies, the Dicker- man Hose company, Quinnipiac Hose com pany and fremen from Birmingham and other towns will be invited. The commit tee will spare no effort to make this ball great success.
 The topic, Resolved, That the appoint ments to government positions should not be affected by party politics" ]" discussed by members of the Y. N. O. A. debating club, was decided in the affirmative. Robert O. Hart and Lucius F. Dsming spoke for the affirmative and Ernest Chipman and Ed Manville for the negative.
 Frank Clancy had out Jacob Friede's colt yesterday afternoon, giving it little exercise and accustoming 1t to the horse cars. It Is quite 8 promising animal. O. A. Rose, the east side grocer who has been very ill for g week with quinsy sore throat, was much better yesterday.
 The oldest daughter of H. Lee Mallory of Brooklyn, formerly of Fair Haven, who has been very i'll with typhoid fever, is now improving. Charles W. Hemingway, the east side boot and shoe dealer, has been very i'll with dysentery and is just beginning to sit up. as health officer for the town of New Ha- ven, will include in his territory the Four teenth and Fifteenth wards. The assistant registrars will be in ses- sion to-day from g a. m. till p. m. in the Eleventh ward at the store of E. A. John son 88 Ferry street. In the Twelfth ward st 265 Grand avenue; Fourteenth ward at O. W. Hemingway's store, and Fifteenth ward at the store of J. N. Rowe. They will receive names ito be made" and re- wise the voting list.
 Rev. J. Fl. Hand of the East Pearl street M. E.. church has left on @ three weeks va cation. MT. Hand did not take any rest in the summer, preferring to wait until later. He is accompanied by Dr. Hammond of Freeport, L. l., where he was formerly settled. MT. Hand will visit his mother in Philadelphia and visit other places in the south.
 The group picture of the members of the Dayton Hook and Ladder company Is being framed and will be hung on the walls of | the compsny's headquarters. Tho Ladies' Aid society of the East Pearl l street M. E. church will meet this after noon in the church parlors for work, and
 supper will be served as usual from to o'clock.
 The big raft made up of hard pine tim
 Der to be used in bridge building along the
 Shore Line cutoff, attracted much atten
 tion as it foated up Quinnipiac river witt
 the tide on Tuesday. A tug brought it ai far as Grand avenue and then the incom 1 ing tide furnished the sole motive power l Rev. D. M. Jsmes and Robert 0. Hart o
 the Second Congregational church will rep
 resent that body at the installation of Rev
 MT. Luther ss pastor of the Congregations
 church at North Haven, this afternoon
 MT. James will give the address to thu | church.
 The Ladies' guild of the Second Congre 1 gational church will meet this afternoon
 and serve supper in the evening.
 Jeweler Prescott's business Is increasing
 finely, and has necessitated his adding t.
 his staff Charles D. Strain, jeweler o
 years of'experience, and for the last fou
 years with one of the leading jewellers a
 Amsterdam, N. Y.