Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-11
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

Lost Valuable Plates-Children,s Day In the Oh hurch es-Woolsey Baseball Nine Victor1ous-Photez the Class of'94-A Tall Flag Staff. The thieves who stole the phaeton be- longing to E. 8. Culver of South Quinnipi- ac street took along about $50 worth of nurseryman's plates, which Mir. Culver
 used in his business, necessitating him to procure another get.
 Smith Bradley will soon build an addi- tion to his green house, necessitated by an extending business.
 John N. Rowe of the annex presided at the banquet of the Letter Carriers Base
 ball association held at Deibel's cafe Satur- day evening.
 Children's Sunday was observed in sev- eral of the churches yesterday. In the morning at the Grand avenue Congrega-
 tional church there was baptism of in fants by the pastor, Rev. J. Lse Mitchell, and @ presentation of Bibles to members of
 the Sunday school who have attained 8
 certain age during the present year. The church was handsomely decorated with flowers and vines.
 The services for the children of the Sec end church were held at 4 p. m. Members
 of the Sunday school were present in large numbers, and the exercises were very in-
 teresting and consisted of singing, recita- tions and addresses. Here the floral dis. play was also fine.
 large congregation assembled at the East Pearl street M. E. church yesterday morning to listen to the exercises for the
 children of the Sunday school. There was music by the choir and Sunday school, re-
 citations by the Sunday school and brief address by the pastor, Rev. J. H. Hand.
 At the Grand avenue Baptist church Children's day was observed at both morn-
 ing and evening services. In the morning
 the pastor. Ray. E, O. Sage, preached
 sermon about children, in which he al-
 luded to tho present century as the chill dren's century, and spoke of the laws to
 protect children in factories, children's
 books and magazines and organfz ations
 for the children as proofs that this century
 is more than any other interesting itself in
 the welfare of children. He also said that
 in Clark university and elsewhere children are being studied, and predicted that the study of child-life would become more of 8 feature of educational institutions.
 In the evening a children's day program
 was rendered by the Sunday school under the direction of Superintendent F. B. Smith. The church was crowded and banks of flowers were tastefully arranged around the platform. The infant department was seat cd on the platform and gave some very pleasing songs and recitations. The gen. eral subject of the whole exercise was "Christ Our King" The chorus choir of T. Reynolds earg ''The New Kingdom" and at the morning service B. Fl. Palmer ,direc- tor of the choir, sang "Be Thou With Me-" Miss Kate Darby sang a solo, "Room for the Flowers," and duet was sung by Nora Sage and Charlie Lee. There were other recitations and songs, all of them very cred | itable. A collection was taken for the Bsp- tist Sunday school mission work. The at- I tendance was large at both services.
 The creation of a new school district by | the Woolsey district, which has | been growing rapidly, and naming 1t for the late Mojar H.H. H.Strong.is 6 fine tribute | greatly interested in educational work and l who served many terms in the board of l education.
 The base ball nine of the Woolsey school | is in the field prepared to play any team of lads not over sixteen years of age, in the oity. Any challenge can be sent to Ernest A. Lowe, $40 Grand ave- nue. The team played the Winchesters on the grounds of the latter on Saturday and were victorious in score of 31 to 22. The feature of the game was the pitching of O'Brien and Jones.
 The pupils of clsss '94, Woolsey school, about fifty, have been photographed in group while standing on the steps of the building.
 G. G. Hart of East Haven recently found In his garden an English penny with the date 1723 plainly visible.
 W. P. Bostwick has contracted to build 3 two story house for Edgar Hemingway, near the junction of Middletown avenue and North Quinnipiac street.
 Probably the tallest flag staff in this is that which has been erect sd on the tall iron smokestack of the Quin- nipiac brewery.
 It is expected that Woolsey school will lend large class to enter the high school, although some of the boys contemplate at ending the manual training school.
 Mrs. R. T. Warner and her oldest son nave gone to Watertown for the benefit of heir health.
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