Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-20
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

To Erect a Saw Min-Oyster Shells
From tho South-UnloadingH Heavy
Girders-HIgh Standards at the
Gymnasium-Were Scattered In tho
Shower.
Bostwick & Rowe in the early spring
will erect saw mill on their wood land
in East Haven and will begin saving lum-
Der.
E. Houeeworth, opticisn, will be at the
jswelry store of W. s. & E. q. Rowe, to-.
morrow.
DR.. ]. 81. Bushnell and his bride have
arrived home from their bridal tour
During most of their stay in the south
they were at the Hygeia hotel, Old Point
Comfort.
On the evening of Wednesday, February
%, three candidates will be initiated into
Polar Star lodge, I. o o. F.
There were four schooners moored at the
lower South Front street wharves yester-
day and several smaller craft.
Several teams were engaged in removing
the snow piles from Grand avenue, east of
James street. yesterday.
When the shower came up yesterday,
the Italians by the score quit work at the
railroad cut and walked home in the rain
At the temperance meeting held in the
Grand opera house Sunday evening the
recitations of Miss Nellie Boucher of Fair
Haven were greatly applauded.
The heavy Orders to be used In tn .
North Qatnnipiac railroad bridge were un-
loaded from the cars on Sunday because
the road would be FIRE. from trains. The
girders weighing twenty tons each are now
lying at the side of the track near the Gen.
ter street crossing.
The members of the physical class o. at
the Y. N. O A. have mad. records "a fol-
lows: Standing broad jump, Henry Hunt
ley and @. NJ. Rexroth, each feet, 3
inches; running broad jump, g. NJ. Rex
Goodyear, 6 feet, inches: climbing the
bar, Harry W. Crawford. 16 times.
Two echooners have arrived from Balti-
more with oyster shelle for the lime works
of 81 A. Stevens-the Zsmbra s. Wallipg
lord with II 900 bushels and the Venus
with 1000 bushels. Both are thiee-mast-
ers. The Venus was loading in the Rap
pshsnnock when Captain John G. Hetvey
was there in the Garry P. Wright. The
Venus after taking . load of oysters to
Baltimore then loaded with shells for this
port.
Captain Henry Palmer of Ludington 4
Palmer got his finger cut to the bone by
having 1t caught in door. 1t was very
painful wound.
The sudden and heavy shower last even
ing caught many people without sn UNI
brells and there was great running for
shelter. On Grand avenue many teams
were temporarily abandoned by the drivers
until the shower went over.
Yesterdays rain thinned the ice down
to thickness of only n inches Charles
Palmer says his houses are pretty we'll
filled and he has housed more ice than any
ter. He Gays there is likely to be another
freezs sufficient to cut ice. The Consum-
era company have the houses at the Hem
ipgwsy ponds about half filled.
The presentation of the illustrated leo
ture on Bunyan's "Pilsrim's Progress" be-
fore the minister's meeting yesterday was
attended by Rev. DR.. Sage, Rev. H. Hand,
Rev. D. n. James and Deacon o. J. Hull.
At the meeting of the conference on March
8. the poem IL to be read by Rev. J. 81.
Hand It IL expected that Rev. Mr..
Chambers will give his illustrated lecture
in Fair Haven some time this season.
Miss May Douglass is visiting in Middle
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Norton of At
water street are rejoicing over the birth of
. fine boy.
Many Fair Haveners will attend the pa
triotic celebration of Washington's birth
day at the Hyperion Thursdsy at $50 D.
M W. DEF. Dickinson, principal of the
Grand avenue school, is the prime mover
in the enterprise.
The proposed entertainment for the ben
eft of the Y.N.C.A. has been deferred un-
til next month.
The Second church people will observe
the week beginning March II e. . week of
prayer.