The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-10
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM BOTH
 SIDES OF THE RIVBR.

Funeral of Patrick Eagan-Grading of East Grand Avenue-Many Items of Personal Interest.
 The Quinnipiac H. and H. and L. Go. has taken in half dozen new members recently. The present membership is 3S.
 l.. P. Mallory and daughter Miss Jen- nie Mallory, have returned from Win sted. Mrs. Mallory will remain away for few days longer.
 Mrs. Merriman of Fair Haven Heights l has visited at her former home in | Brunswick, Me-, the past month, and | will return in few days. She has just erected In one of the Brunswick ceme- teries a fine monument to the memory of her late husband, Captain Benjamin s. Merriman.
 William R. Hemingway has returned from the Hemingway cottage at Morris ! Cove; the remainder of the party will 1 remain another week.
 Miss Nellie Meickel has returned from New Jersey, having visited rela i tives there for the past two months.
 Paul Andrews of East Haven has se- cured a position in the purchasing de- partment of the Consolidated road.
 Rev. MT. Clark of East Haven has returned from his vacation and has re- stunned his preaching at the Old Stone church.
 About October 1 Charles w. Bradley will remove to the residence in this city purchased of Mrs. Stephen Thomp- son. MT. Bradley is secretary of the East Haven board of education.
 Former superintendent of the Fair ] Haven branch postoffice, William H. Moore, has returned from Buffalo. N. Y. His mother, Mrs. Sarah Moore, eighty-four years of age, came from her home in Cold Water, Mich, to visit her son and her daughter, Mrs. w. F. O'Rourk.
 The work of grading the hill exten- sion of East Grand avenue, from the point where the old Shore Line tracks were formerly located to the crest of the hill opposite l.. w. Moody's resi- dence, will be completed next week
 
 fifty-seven men at one time employed on the improvement, which is to cost about $40O0. The roadway has been cut down and graded and the gutters are now being cobbled The heaviest cut was through a rocky ledge at the crest of the hill seven feet deep. The original plans called for the heaviest cut to be made at depth of sixteer feet and many believe those plans should should have been adhered to ir order to give much easier grade but the present improvement, when the walks are laid will be a most import ant work
 N. Irving Harrison and family have moved to their new house. 62 Atwatel street. H. E. Lowe is preparing the cellars for two new houses on the ad. joining lot They are to be 40x24 fee and two family houses.
 The funeral of Patrick Eagan of 2. Fillmore street was largely attended from St. Patrick's church yesterday morning. Rev Fathers Shanley Rren nan and O'Connell of St. Francis church and Rev. Father Russell of St Patricks church officated Fathe Shanley paid high tribute to th' memory of the departed, referring tt his sterling worth and to the great los sustained by the family and tn, church. The choir rendered several SC !, lections and solo was sung by Mis- Lizzie c. Gaffney. A long procession of carriages followed the remains to St Bernard's cemetery. The bearers wer John and Patrick Kane, M Ward, F Mcclure, P. Murray and James Caul field The remains rested in a heav, oak casket with rich silver trimmings 7 Resting upon the casket were severa , beautiful palms. Undertaken Sisk ha charge of the funeral