The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-27
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWs.

Four of the former inmates of the Homo of the Friendless, who were boarded elsewhere while the new build Ing was under construction, have re- turned and ate their Thanksgiving dinner there Thursday. They seemed much pleased to return. The number included Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Osborn and Miss Doolittle. The wing that was built several years ago is being re- paired, and some changes made, includ- ing the construction of bath room on each floor. A mother and two chill dren have come to the home, and sev- eral more people will be received as soon as the wing Is ready to be again occupied. Twenty-four new iron bed steds with beds and mattresses have been purchased for the new rooms, and 119 shades for the windows The home is still In need of supplies for the new sleeping rooms, dining room equip ment, etc.
 Engineer Thomas G. Hinckley, for merly of Fair Haven, has returned to his home after hunting trip In Maine. MT. Hinckley shot a large deer and sent down a good supply of venison to his son-in-law, Engineer Fred Willis of Woolsey street.
 Among the pleasant family gather ings Thanksgiving was one at the home of MT. and Mrs. Henry Barnes, 50 Houston street, sixteen of the relatives being present. Included in the party were Joseph Oviatt of Milford, broth oS Do pI 1,je vi was MT. and Mrs. Oviatt's twenty-fifth | anniversary, having been married at | the Barnes residence by the late Rev. | S. M. Whiting, the first pastor of the l Grand avenue Baptist church. Rev. Wm. Robert of Four Corners will preach at the Second Congregation | al church tomorrow morning.
 The newpastor of St. Francis church,
 Rev. P. M. Kennedy, Of Norwich will | officiate for the first time in the church | tomorrow. The mourning decorations | placed in the church at the death of
 Father Mulholland were removed yes terday.
 The funeral of George Gordon of
 North Branford took p1ace Thursday
 afternoon and Undertaken Crawford had charge of the burial. Rev. Frank Countryman off1ciated at the funeral.
 Mir. Gordon was S2 years of age. | The fair and bazaar to be held un- der the auspices of Polar Star lodge,
 No. 77, I. o. o. F., will be opened in | Polar Star hall on the evening of Fri | day, December 3. The entertainment
 for that evening will include songs
 and recitations by w. Manning Key
 holds.
 Mrs. Ruel Andrews of East Haven 1 has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. N. w. l Bradley in Saugatuck. Mrs. Bradley
 is intending to spend the winter with
 her brother s. W. F. Andrews of East | Haven.
 l E. A. Paddock of Weiser, Idaho, who was announced to speak at the Grand avenue Congregational church Sunday l evening, will speak Sunday morning
 MT. Paddock is an exceptionally enter
 taining speaker, as well as thoroughly | infused with great there.. Rev. MT | Mitchell will preach in the evening as | usual
 The committee on the supply of the
 pulpit of the Second Congregational l
 able trouble in selecting a pastor to | succeed the Rev. D. M. James, when
 they come to decide, as there are a
 large number of candidates. About seventy-ive clergymen have applied for | the position of pastor, and if one appli-
 cant preached on trial each Sunday, it
 would require about a year and a halt
 to hear them all. MT. James was enti- tied to months vacation when he
 left, and the church is supplying the pulpit for that period, which closes to- 1 morrow. No action has been taken by
 the committee, but it is understood the
 church will soon begin to hear candi-
 didates preach. There seems to be nc
 hurry on the part of the church to set
 tie a pastor just yet.
 | GOUEENJ MEN1, ADppnyro