The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-23
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
UNION THANKSGIVING SERVICE OF
 BAPTIST CHURCHES.

It WiII bo Held in the Grand Avenue
 Baptist Church This Evening-Death
 of Thomas Coleman Yesterday Norm
 mg-Funeral of Two Prominent Resi-
 dents Held Yesterday other Items. Thomas Coleman died Monday at his home, A Rowe street, at the age of eighty-eight years. The funeral will be held at St. Francis church this morn ing at o'clock. The deceased leaves brother, Daniel Coleman. Another brother was the late Michael Coleman, ex-commissioner of the board of public | works.
 A union Thanksgiving service of the New Haven Baptist churches will be | held in the chapel of the Grand avenue | Baptist church this evening. The ser \ mon will be preached by Rev. MT Elder composed of members of the various Baptist churches of the city will sing. All are invited to attend.
 MT. and Mrs. Joseph w. Oviatt of | Milford are visiting MT. and Mrs. Hen ry Barnes of 50 Houston street. l The barge Massasauga yesterday was | loading one thousand barrels of cement in Jersey City for w. A. Warner & Brother, and the boat is expected to ar | rive here to-day.
 | The schooner Emily is loading fire brick and clay for the same firm. 1 Services will be held at Grace P. E. ] church Thursday morning at 10:30 Rev. | F. R. Sanford will preach.
 | Edward Murphy, better known as 1 Med" Murphy, who lectured on tenn perance in Fair Haven several years ago, is suffering from nervous prostra- l tion in Johnstown, Pa, and has been advised by his physician not to go on the lecture platform this winter.
 August B. Miller, who has been in the milk business over twenty years, has sold his route to MT. Houston and has accepted position with the Mer- l win Provision company.
 Mrs. Brown of Westfeld, Mass, has been visiting her daughter, the wife of Rev. G. B. Cutten of Montowese.
 The funeral of Alfred Somers was | lIClQ SCotSluoiy cllCl llOOll II Olli blIC cOi | diers' Memorial chapel in the Fair Ha- ven cemetery. MT. Somers died on Sun- day at his home on Quinnipiac avenue at the age of eighty-two years. He | was born in Virginia and claimed to | have been slave before the war. He 1 enlisted in a Union regiment in the War | of the Rebellion and at the close of the
 war settled in Fair Haven, where he
 since resided. He was the father of
 nineteen children. He was very patri-
 otic and participated in every Memo
 rial day celebration until old age pre-
 vented During the latter years he was
 unable to march with the veterans and rode with the disabled comrades. Funeral services over the remains of
 Harriet A. Austin, daughter of the late
 Thaddeus Austin and widow of the late
 George H. Morgan, were held yesterday
 afternoon at the home of Wr. H. Rob-
 inson in East Haven. The interment
 was in the East Haven cemetery. Mrs
 Morgan died in Middletown, N. Y.
 Mrs. Cornelius H. Conway is presi-
 dent of the guild just formed in the parish of St. Francis church to aid poor
 families. There are one hundred and fifty charter members.
 few evenings ago Bishop Brewster went to the Home of the Friendless and
 confirmed Miss Mary Ann Carstairs
 one of the aged inmates, who is blind Miss Carstairs has been a we'll known nurse in New Haven and has been en- ployed in many of the older families of
 the town. few years ago she was ob- liged to go to the home, blindness com
 ing on. She has been quite feeble fol
 several years.
 The inventory on the estate of the late Michael Eagan of Ferry street
 shows the amount of property to be
 $20, ,6SO. The estate will have to pay the
 collateral inheritance tax.