The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-07
FAIR HAVEN.

MT. Moody Recovering Ice Carting- Rats--stone Crusher-"Ma Sweet and Her
 Eight Charming Daughters"-General | News.
 l.. w. Moody of the annex, the well known insurance agent, who has been i'll for several weeks, is able to be out again, but Is not sufficiently strong to attend to business. He will leave for the south next week, purposing to be away for several weeks.
 The members of the Young Peoples guild of the Grace Episcopal church are arranging an entertainment to be given in Central hall on the evening of February 20.
 | A season, of special meetings was be- gun in the Grand avenue Baptist church Tuesday evening. There will be anoth- CT meeting tomorrow evening. Rev. W. G. Fennell of Merden, who is assisting in carrying on the meetings, preached an excellent sermon on Tuesday even ing.
 Selectman Ludington was at the state capitol on Tuesday.
 The teams which have carted ice from the Hemingway ponds to the ice houses of Sperry & Barnes on Long wharf have finished putting in the 2,000 tons, and are now filling the houses of Strong, Barnes, Hart & Go. In few days all the Fair Haven ice houses will also be filed There are from seventy-five to 100 men employed in the ice harvest in the annext at the present time. The quality of the ice was never finer, some of the second crop being over ten inches in thickness.
 C. A. Howard of Exchange street, who has been greatly annoyed with rats around his barns, has succeeded in rid ding the place of them having caught eighty-seven in all. He has trap that never fails, having caught fifteen of the little animals in one night
 This evening Hiram Camp division, S. of T., will give another of, their en- tertainments. It will be under the di- rection of one of the companies, which is competing in these entertainments
 The newly elected officers of the East Haven grange were installed into office Tuesday evening.
 The stone crusher has been taken from the annex to Westville. The trans portation of this heavy weight across the Grand avenue bridge was pretty good test of it's strength. It Is heavier than the electric cars, which the city engineer said would be unsafe to run across.
 Mr. and Mrs. William P. Hemingway have gone to Norfolk, Va, to visit their son, and will remain south about three weeks.
 At the Grand avenue Congregational church this evening Ma Sweet" and her large family of eight charming daughters will entertain their friends. During the evening Mrs. Sweet is sup posed to give party to introduce her daughters to society, and those present will be treated to an exhibition of all their varied accomplishments. The characters will be "Ma Sweet" which will be taken by Miss Bishop, and the daughters are Miss Georgie Hardy Miss Gertrude Bradley, Miss Josephine Brad ley Miss Clara Ford, Miss Hattie Gris- wold, Miss Lucy Griswold, Miss Louise Johnston and Miss Harriet Denison. MT. Willis will give mandolin solos. The Ladies' Union society of St An drew's M. E. church, corner of Forbes and Townsend avenues, annex, gave their annual sale last evening. Useful and fancy articles were on sale The | ladies also gave generous supper at | l5 cents. Patrick Dugan, laborer living at 137 | James street, called at ex-Selectman | Michael Eagan's residence on Ferry | street recently, and informed MT. Eagan | that he was indebted to the es- tate of the late James Kendall to the amount of nearly $500. | MT. Eagan is executor of the es- tate, and he informed his visitor that he | mad no bills against him. Dugan ex- ,lained that Kendall entrusted him with | he money, and although there were no papers to show that such a transaction | lad taken place the money was due the | lead mans heirs and he was prepared | 70 pay, which he did on the spot.
 FOR A DRAwBRIDGE.
 Colonel Henry M. Roberts of the United States corps of engineers will lold hearing in city hall next Tuesday Afternoon at 1 o'clock for the purpose of nearing persons for or against the | project to construct drawbridge across he Quinnipiac river at Grand avenue. The secretary of war has decided the bridge to be fit place for a draw, and ] las given notice that one shall be erect d before December 31, 1895, at 1 o'clock ). m. unless otherwise ordered.