The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-03
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
ITEMS or INTEREST FROM BOTH
 SIDES OF THE RIVER.

SIDES OF THE RIVER. Officers of East Rock Lodge, A. O. U. w., Nominnted-Acciden to Ten Year old Ethel FInt-Drama Entitled "OId District school With Modern Teacher" Given i'm Ferry Street Com gregntional Church.
 Ethel Flint, the n-year-old daughter of MT. and Mrs. Harry w. Flint of ST East Pearl street, fell yesterday morn ing and broke her leg below the knee. She was running to the fire in Lom- bard street and slipped and fell on the walk. She was attended by pr. Hall.
 The letter box at the corner of. Fair mount avenue and Fulton street, which was carried away by the storm of Sun day, will be re-established to-day. George G. Hitchcock set new post at
 
 postoff1ce department.
 The members of East Rock lodge, No. 3S, A. O. U. w., at their meeting Thursday evening nominated officers as follows: Master workman, .Iufln l.. Wetherwax; overseer, William G. Hu- genduble; foreman, Mr. Turner; f1nan-  cier, Ezra Healy; recorder, F. w. Prince; receiver, F. H. Francis. The election will take place at the next meeting.
 Fort Hale lodge, N. F. o. F., met last evening. Officers were nominated and the election will take place at the next meeting.
 Beginning Monday next and continu- ing until after the holidays the store of w. S. & E. H. Rowe No. o1 Grand avenue, will remain open evenings.
 Louise H. Schneider has purchased of Adeline J. Goodrich forty feet of land on the Lighthouse Point road.
 Schooner Grace Seymour, Captain  at Providence Thursday.
 A letter received from Baltimore states that there is fine sleighing there this week.
 F. B. Street, of the firm of J. D. Dew ell & Co.,, and now residing in East Haven, will soon remove to this city for the winter.
 The sacrament of the Lords Supper will be celebrated at the Grand avenue Congregational church Sunday after noon at o'clock.
 At the East Pearl street M. E. church tomorrow the services will include the holy communion at 1O:3O a. m., service for men only at 3 D. m.; vesper ser vice under the auspices of the Epworth league at 6:15 p. m.
 A very pleasing and unique drama entitled "The old District School" with modern teacher" was given in the Ferry street Congregational church on Thursday evening under the auspices of the Y. P. S. c, E. The attendance was very large, all the seats being talk en quarter of an hour before com- mencing time, and large number were obliged to sit on banquet tables ana OLnor lIlpFONlSeu SedlS.
 The programme was under the direc- tion of James Parsons, who wrote the drama. Mr. Parsons impersonated a dude teacher to perfection and deserves great credit both for the interpretation of his part and for the whole scheme of the school" which was replete with witty sayings and bright actions. All who participated are deserving of great praise for the skillful manner in which they performed their work. Among those deserving special mention were Miss Alice Kellogg, as the favorite scholar; F. c. c. Read, who is hard of hearing; A. N. Mcintyre, as the dunce; Mrs L. c. Goodrich of Irish accent; Benjamin Basett, who gets blamed for everything, and Bert Bush, right from the farm The afternoon session is the one giving the best chance to the schol- ars as orations, solos, compositions and various other exercises are rendered for the benefit of the school committee, who are attending the session. It ends in the dismissal of the student teacher by the committed Doubtless the enter tainment will be repeated in a short time, as many desire to see it again. and others could not get out on account of the bad condition of the walks
 FIRE ON LOMBARD STREET.
 The fire shortly before noon yesterday for which an alarm was rung from box S23 was at 34 Lombard street, a house owned and occupied by Miner $. Story. The fire originated from overheated furnace pipes in contact with wood- work in the cellar. The fire department apparatus was greatly delayed in get ting to the fire on account of the streets being clogged with snow. The damage caused by the fire amounted to about $300