The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-03
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ITEMS or INTEREST FROM BOTH
SIDES OF THE RIVER.

Work on the Neutrality-suspicious. of Re
ngious Interest-To Sue West Haven for
Damages Workers Entertainment
Personal Mention.
1t is expected that work on the new
drawbridge will be resumed Thursday
or Friday. Contractor Geary was
obliged to suspend operations about a
week owing to the weather. Inc
schooner John Gilmore has sailed for
Leete's Island to bring another cargo
of granite. The second caisson is built
and will be towed to the site where it
is to be sunk as soon as the river bot
tom is levelled off. This pier will be
built 100 feet east of the draw pier.
Conductor O'Brien Of the East Chapel
street line, who has been i'll with rheu-
matism for two weeks, is again on
duty.
There will be two meetings at the
Grand avenue Baptist church this week
w CullCSNGty anu Il ildoy CNSAtihSo. ~Ae
the East Pearl street M. E. church
services will be held Friday evening.
During the past year the sum of
$4,000 was collected in the parish of
st. Francis church. For the past two
years the church has been under recon-
struction and the present Indebtedness
is about $4,000. The priests drew no
salary for the year.
Edward Barnes of Montowese pro-
poses to bring suit against the town OF
New Haven for damages resulting
from a recent runaway on North Quin-
nipiac street. He claims the town is
liable for leaving a -idge of snow on
both sides of the street, which caused
his sleigh to be capszed.
The Secretary, published at Hartford
in the current number, contains story
entitled 1.-TWO Battles in the Snow,
written by Mrs Fl. M. Thompson, for
merly of Fair Haven.
James d. Farren Of East Haven, who
has been i'll for six months, is now able
to be out of doors.
Superintendent F. B. Street of the
Sunday school connected with the East
Haven Congregational church has pre-
| scented each of the scholars with a
handsome calendar
The Little Workers." assisted by
older friends, will give an entertain.
ment at the Grand avenue Congrega-
| tional church this evening at o'clock
Following is the program: THE Sleep
| ing Princess'-an operetta. Dramatis
| personae: King Somnolenisus, Pau
| Shipley; Queen Dormina, Ida Kesse1
Princess Arabella, Jessie Fowler, Prince
Charming, Harold Butler; Chamber
| lain, Kenneth Fowler; Titania, queen o.
fairies, Edna Sims; Malicina, the wick
ed fairy, Isador Goldberg; courriers
| ladies, pages, fairies, ETC.; recitation;
and singing, Visa Huntley and Rutf
Seeley; Whistling solo, Lawrence
Blinn. A comedietta, Our Aunt Rob
ertina." Characters: Mr.. Aspen
Dwight Chamberlain; Gladys, nj
daughter, Ethel Prince; Emily, tn,
maid, Eta Sparks; Aunt Robertina
Maud Kelley; Phibbs, the man servant
Storrs Sumner; Robert Aspen. tn,
nephew, Charles Baldwin; a tramp
Harry Pierce. A Good Night drill, par
ticipated in by Ethel Flint, Marion
Flint Ida Kessel, Jessie Fowler, Alic,
F'arnam Grace Nettleton, EIanch
Bowe, Alta Waters, Isador Goldberg
Marjorie Crossley, Edna HILL and Edns
Fosdick. Recitation, Margaret Good
year Smith. The entertainment will b.
followed by court reception, to which
all are invited, and cream will be solc
under royal patronage
AT ST. JAMES CHURCH.
The entertainment which was to hav
been given by the Young Peoples chap
ter of st. James church, Fair Haven
| last Thursday evening, will be civel
this evening in the parlors Of tn
church
/ QU1NNIPIAC CHANNEL KEEP,
OPEN.
The ice on the Quinnipiac river il
Fair Haven is about eight inches thick
A channel has, however, been KEEP
open in the center of the stream by tn
heavy ice breaking steamer Ruel Rowe
This steamer goes down the channe
each morning, followed by the oyste
steamers, and in this way the channe
has been kept open for oyster an
other business ever since the freeze u
began.