The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-28
FAIR RAVEN,


Under the $4,000 appropriation made
by the town meeting yesterday there is
a prospect that Townsend and Middle
town avenues will be repaired this sea-
son.
Mrs. Vibbert, widow Of the late Rev.
DR.. Vibbert, has purchased the house
of James Veader on Orange street.
Samuel II. Doolittle has war bounty
claim, with interest amounting to ST.
600, which he will prosecute against the
town of East Haven.
Miss Kittie Laden, daughter of Thorn
as Laden, died at her home on Ferry
street, of consumption, at the age Of
nineteen years, on Saturday. Another
of Mr.. Laden's daughters died of the
same disease several months ago.
Two contractors have been looking
over the route where it is proposed to
lay the Saltonstall water main in the
Quinnipiac river below the Grand ave-
nue. bridge. They state that the SER
vices of divers will be required to lay
the big pipes. Before this is done it
will be necessary to dredge out the riv-
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to thirty feet, and it may be necessary
to drive piles for foundation. The
work will take about three months,
and the operations will begin about
May Is.
Hiram Camp division, S. of t., Will
hold public temperance service IN
the Grand avenue Baptist church next
Sunday evening at 1880. The speaker
of the evening will be Rev. j. M. James
of Rockville, secretary of the Connectl-
cut Temperance union.
A lavender tea will be held at the
home of Mrs. M. A. Perry, los Wolcott
street, under the auspices of the Sons
of Temperance, Friday evening. Sup
per will be served from to p. M
John Brown is the new driver on
Cooks Home bakery wagon.
Ex-Judge Charles A. Bray, who is
very i'll at his home in the annex, is
gradually growing weaker. He remains
in an unconscious condition most of the
time. He suffers much pain and NOR
phine is administered.
w. M. King, managing owner of the
schooner Van Name & King. goes to
Jersey City to-day to look after the re-
pairs on the vessel, which are now
nearly completed. The schooner, it will
be remembered, was recently blown out
to sea and towed into Boston by Brit
ish steamer.
The funeral of Mrs. Harriet N. Lewis
will take place at the home of her son,
L Albert r. Collins, on Woodward avenue
this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The in
terment will be in the East Haven GEM
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ty-third year of her age.
Horace Smith of East Haven has been
entertaining F. w. Smith, his son and
his family, from Great Darlington,
Mass
CALUMET CLUB.
The Calumet club will hold special
meeting this evening at 8 o'clock at
their club rooms, corner of East Pearl
street and Grand avenue. The club
will elect officers for the ensuing year,
FAIR HAVEN MAN BADLY HURT.
Edwin r. Shattuck, a teamster en-
ployed at N. Boughton, who does much
4 trucking for the Candee Rubber COM
pany, was painfully injured yesterday
noon at the corner Of State and Chapel
streets. He was on a truck heavily
loaded with paper and was proceeding
down State street. when the wheels
caught in the frog of the street railroad
tracks causing a sudden jolt which
threw him from his high seat into the
street One leg was bruised and
strained by the fall. 1t was at first
thought his leg was broken.
Shattuck was taken to his home on
! Blatchley avenue. A little boy who
| went to look at Shattuck as he lay in
| the street was overcome by the sight
| and tainted away.