The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-19
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
STRAWBERRY TEA AT EAST PEARL STREET CHURCH THIS EVENING.


 New Haven Harbor Shipped Yester-
 day-At the Annual May Breakfast at Montowese Baptist Church $sO Was
 CIeared-PersonaI Items.
 The three masted schooner Harold c. Beecher of the Hanscom fleet, is at Palmer's shipyard, Noank, being re- planked where needed, recaulked and new decked,
 Dentist Meyers is enlarging his Mor- ris Cove cottage and improving the grounds.
 Linus Bradley, who has been i'll sev- eral weeks, is improving and expects to be out next week.
 The ladies' aid society of the East Pearl street M. E. church will give a strawberry tea in the church parlors this evening at 6 o'clock.
 Miss Blanche H. Barbegat and Paul Hummell were married last week by Dr. Mitchell.
 The East Haven Congregational church will give an entertainment and supper at the town hall In that place this evening for the benefit of the church. The Young Woman's guild of Trinity church, this city, who gave such an excellent musical, literary and dramatic entertainment at Trinity par ish house short time ago, have kind- ly rendered their services for this oc- casion. Among those who displayed such dramatic ability and will again appear this evening, are Mrs. Robert Dewell, Mrs. Lillian Hull, Miss Ida Hendee, Wilfred Mott and Harold Hen dee. Walter Lowenstein, soprano so- loist, and Edward Woodstock, tenor, both of Trinity church and who were so thoroughly appreciated at the af- fair of the Woman's. Guild will sing this evening at the East Haven enter tainment. Extra electric cars will be run. The entertainment will com mence at 8 o'clock. Supper will fol- low the entertainment.
 Rev. D. M. James, formerly pastor of the Second Congregational church,
 
 Kane, Penn., is visiting here for a few days. He attended the commencement exercises of the Yale divinity school yesterday.
 Miss Moss Rose, daughter of MT. and Mrs. O. A. Rose, is able to be out after two weeks illness.
 Adolph Karish recently purchased the John Deloy farm, near Totoket. It is vegetable farm of about eighty acres.
 Charles Palmer, the Ice dealer, has put a new wagon on his route, made by MT. Allen of East Haven. The wa gon weighs about 5000 pounds, and is one of the finest ice wagons in the city. He recently purchased of Ed Rowe a pair of heavy horses for the new wagon and also new harness. MT. Palmer re- gently purchased 1500 tons of ice at the house located at the Perry pond to add to the stock housed by himself.
 LeGrand Cannon, F. A. Alderman, H. I. Barnes and F. Miles Brown went on fishing trip to Lake Saltonstall yes- terday.
 O. A. Rose shipped yesterday 1000 pounds of dynamite for the mines down the harbor, the last of the 5000 pounds lot purchased by the government. The shipment yesterday was taken in a sharpie to the mouth of the harbor, but the earlier shipments were delivered by MT. Rose on board the government ten der at Belle dock. The boatment are not afraid to transport the dangerous stuff. The 5000 pounds of explosives furnished by MT. Rose Is sufficient to blow up the entire Spanish navy, but it is not believed any of the fleet will venture within range of the New Ha- ven mines.
 pr. Edwin c. M Hall of Fair Haven has been elected secretary of the Con- necticut Homeopathic society. H. w. Storrs is busy saving railroad ties and posts in East Haven. At the annual May breakfast given by the people of the Montowese Bap- | tist church the receipts amounted to over $S0.
 The wife of Superintendent c. G. Ames of the rubber shop has been quite | i'll for three weeks but is now better The Ames family expect to occupy their I | cottage on the Branford shore in a few | days.
 William F. Morgan of Grand avenue | has been reappointed assistant quarter master general of the Connecticut de- | partment, G. A. R. He held the office | several years ago.
 | Two electric lights are now used 1T | lighting the Grand avenue drawbridge l Captain James N. Coe, formerly o1 | Fair Haven, superintendent of the sol diers' home, Noroton, Is visiting in this | city.
 | Harry F. Woodstock, organist of the Grand avenue Congregational church designed the cover for the souvenir programme of the Music Teachers as sociation.
 There was a fire at the Adaman Plaster company's plant yesterda, morning which was caused by the boil ing over of a kettle of tar It set fir, to barrel of tar which was very clos, 1 to the building of the company and still alarm was sent to steamer No. 5 Before it arrived, however, the em