The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-06
FAIR HATEN.

Rev. MT. Reed of Deep River supplied
 the desk of the Grand avenue Baptist
 church yesterday.
 On the evening of Wednesday, May
 20, the St. Ignatius T. A. B. society l will give a sociable in Central hall. There will be music by the Second
 Regiment orchestra.
 On Arbor day the children of East Haven arranged the flower beds be- | fore their schoolhouse and planted a tree on the green, that Green twice Identified with the visits of Lafayette, The able-bodied men turned out III a mass and contributed their services, their teams and also a good deal of hired labor, to a certain much needed improvement in the topography of the ancient cemetery. It was the filling of pond that had once been used as d campling place and bathing tank by the Indians The material was ob- tained by the heavy grading down of an exterior road alongside; drives were also laid out in the cemetery. The credit for all this praiseworthy activity Is due to an association of the ladies u I1dSL IItNGllt IllclllbNiG Ol lllt V IT. lage Improvement society. The strengthening up and cleaning of the hundreds of old tombstones is to fol- low.
 Mrs John s. Edwards and children of Amagansett, l.. I, are visiting the parents of the former, MT and Mrs. John Manwarring, PIP Exchange street.
 Mrs. s. J. Bennett and her son, Els worth Bennett, who have visited here, returned to their home in Georgetown yesterday
 John McGregor of Hartford visited here on Saturday.
 The funeral of Mrs, Eliza J., wife of Captain John D. Becl1with was attend ed from the Grand avenue Baptist church Saturday at 2:30 D. m., after prayers at her home 20 Shelter street The services were conducted by Rev. J. H. Mason of the First Baptist church, who read appropriate selections of scripture. This was followed by singing of the hymn. Gathering Home" by quartet consisting of Miss Nellie Scranton, Miss D. Gertrude Duell Frank Ronald and Bartlett Paulmier MT. Mason then made some appropriate remarks, referring to the high Chris tian character of the departed and of the loss sustained by her family and of the church to which she belonged. Misses Scranton and Duell sang the duet, "Light After Darkness" and as the funeral party were leaving the church the quartet rendered Rock of Ages" There were a number of beauti- full floral offerings. The husband and daughters contributed a pillow with the word, Rest; pillow from the brothers in Boston with the word Sister; an anchor from the Grand avenue Baptist Sunday school, cluster of Easter lilies, James Stevens and family; cluster of lilies, Mrs. Freder- ick Williams; bunch of roses, Mrs. Sage and Miss Sage; bunch of callas and pinks, Moses Jones, and callas, pinks and roses, MT. and Mrs. Milo Stevens. The bearers were Henry Barnes, John Santry, John w. Hill, Henry A. Keech. Sylvanus Stevens and David Hansel- packer The interment was in Ever green cemetery. Captain Beckwith, the husband of the deceased, who was taken with convulsions upon the death of his wife, is now much better, but was unable to attend the funeral He in dazed condition until the afternoon of the funeral when he was permitted to see the remains of his wife, which seemed to arouse himself to his natural condition and it is now hoped that he will soon regain his for mer health and strength.